neuroscience

Art/Archaeology, Blog, Epigraphy/Papyrology

The Neuroaesthetics of Word and Image: A Valid Approach?

“What is art?” “What does art reveal about human nature?” Alva Noë, a philosopher at CUNY’s Graduate Center, posed these rhetorical giants among several others in a New York Times Opinionator blog, “Art and the Limits of Neuroscience,” in December, 2011.[1] With a critical eye toward theorizing these… Read more

Art/Archaeology, Blog, Epigraphy/Papyrology

Mental Images

In this post, I will address directly the question I first posed: What do ancient Greek inscriptions and a chiropractor’s cerebral hemorrhage have in common? To do so, I’ll gloss the story of former chiropractor Jon Sarkin and his current artistic oeuvre. This topic is of great interest to me… Read more