Tuesday, February 3 11:45 AM - 12:35 PM
Lo Schiavo Science — 104 - Getty Study
Professor Brian Pines will be speaking at this exciting Brown Bag Philosophy Seminar Series event.
As we survey what sorts of philosophical problems emerge in our cultural landscape, it is worth looking as far as possible into the horizon of the past. Issues we might consider as emerging only with the era of digitization have often been described by thinkers who still used quill pens to write. For example, there have been commentaries made about our ’decreasing attention spans’ for centuries. However, this does not indicate that it is an illusory phenomenon, just a perennial complaint the old make of the young, rather this ’increased time sampling’ is a very real change occurring in humanity with significant consequences for the manner in which we will live in the future. This talk will take the problem of increased time sampling, situate it historically and scientifically, and link it with long term trends which are transforming the essence of what it means to be a human being.
Contact Information: Program Assistant for the Philosophy department, Brandon Marsh 415-422-6543 or at bmarsh@usfca.edu