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by Morten Fastvold

How Dewey's View on Aesthetics is Relevant to Philosophical Counseling

The object of this paper, which I have co-written with Gabrielle Aruta, is to counter the misguided view on aesthetics as something superficial, residing at the top of a Maslowian pyramid of needs. Instead the aesthetic dimension is profound in human life, as John Dewey shows in his book Art as Experience. The paper was printed in the journal Philosophical Practice, vol 7 #2, July 2012.

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Socrates versus Peter Pan: The Difficulties of Thinking Critically

Thinking critically does not come naturally, but is a culturally developed faculty that has to be learnt. Socrates is the protagonist of such a useful, but unnatural activity, while Peter Pan incarnates our natural tendency to jump from one thought to another, without dwelling with anything at all.

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Designing Exercises with a Wittgensteinian streak.
Some reflections upon the La Chapelle workshop July 7.–13. 2008

In this paper I discuss the notion of speaking in or outside "context" in the Socratic terms of the philosopher Oscar Brenifier, and compares this with the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's investigations on language and "language games". May exercises for doing philosophy in schools be made more interesting by looking to Wittgenstein?

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Conversation or interrogation:
Two different approaches to philosophical counseling

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Wish you were here, where you don't want to be:
On the aristocratic Nature of philosophical consultations, Oscar Brenifier style

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Beyond Method, Anders Lindseth Style:
The Quest for Opening up the Philosophical Space in the Consultation Room

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Rooting Philosophy in Lived Experience:
Some Notes on Petra von Morstein’s Lecture and Workshop in Oslo, March 2005

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On Serious Games and the possible Reshaping of a Philosophical Paradigm:
Some Reflection on the Sessions of Oscar Brenifier

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On Getting Beyond Idle Talk –
Some Additional Reflections on Oscar Brenifier’s Sessions

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The Policeman Approach to Philosophical Counseling

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