Friday, September 20, 2013

Wartenburg and how films can do philosophy

Here's a nice little article that discusses Wartenburg's (mentioned in chapter 6 of Sinnerbrink) view that The Matrix does philosophy by actively engaging its viewers in a thought experiment, thus upholding the view that if philosophy can do thought experiments, and those experiments are conducive to one's "doing philosophy," then a film that enacts these experiments is thus doing philosophy itself. He adds some other qualifications but that's the basic view that I take from it.

http://www.inessentials.com/2011/06/06/film-as-philosophy-a-skeptical-thought-experiment/

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