Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 24.262 (Spring 2004) 
• Course Title:
• Feeling and Imagination in Art, Science, and Technology 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate / Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Linguistics and Philosophy 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Irving Singer 
• Course Introduction:
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  24.262 Feeling and Imagination in Art, Science, and Technology
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2004

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features several video lectures.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course is a seminar on creativity in art, science, and technology. We discuss how these pursuits are jointly dependent on affective as well as cognitive elements in human nature. We study feeling and imagination in relation to principles of idealization, consummation, and the aesthetic values that give meaning to science and technology as well as literature and the other arts. Readings in philosophy, psychology, and literature are part of the course.

  
  
  

  Special Features

  
  
  

  • Sample video lectures

  
  
  

  Technical Requirements

  
  
  

  Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .rm.