The dozen or so folks involved in this focus group literally surprised me with their level of engagement, thought-provoking ideas and ambition to help AARP develop a program that would truly support and benefit our generation.
Cognitive engagement: Thinking deep thoughts and then being able to explain them to others is one area where academics are likely to have an overabundance of practice.
And it suggests, as do the crowds lined up in front of the museum, the degree to which conceptual-type art defines the popular notion of contemporary art, because it reduces so easily to a catchy or pretentious sound bite, demanding little active engagement or thought.
"Engagement with thought leaders is as important to AOL as our engagement with our contributors, audiences, publishers and advertisers, and TechCrunch's conferences and websites will give us a promising, additional springboard to join and amplify these conversations.
Bento's Sketchbook is a characteristically sui generis work, combining an engagement with the thought of the 17th-century lens grinder, draughtsman and philosopher Baruch Spinoza with a study of drawing and a series of semi-autobiographical sketches, through which Berger attempts to explore the world around him and his place within it.
Though far better known in Israel than in the English-speaking world, the publication in English translation of a collection of his writings in 1992 Judaism, Human Values, and the Jewish State opened the way to a growing critical engagement with his thought beyond those oft disputed borders.
Nonetheless, almost all of Foucault's works can be fruitfully read as philosophical in either or both of two ways: as a carrying out of philosophy's traditional critical project in a new (historical) manner; and as a critical engagement with the thought of traditional philosophers.
Asked what the AI can't do well, he says this boils down to interactions that are transactional vs relational — with the former category meshing well with automation, but the latter (aka interactions that require emotional engagement and/or complex thought) definitely not something to attempt to automate away.
Feminist economists also examine early economic thinkers' interaction or lack of interaction with gender and women's issues, showing examples of women's historical engagement with economic thought.
