Comments on: Free Play http://veritutors.com/blog/free-play/ The holistic approach to education Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:39:20 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Andrew http://veritutors.com/blog/free-play/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Andrew Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:37:23 +0000 http://veritutors.com/blog/?p=3#comment-93 Omar, I read that Rolling Stone article. A tear-jerker for sure. Here's another great article... bit of a plot spoiler for Infinite Jest, but excellent nonetheless: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/09/090309fa_fact_max?currentPage=all Omar, I read that Rolling Stone article. A tear-jerker for sure. Here’s another great article… bit of a plot spoiler for Infinite Jest, but excellent nonetheless:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/09/090309fa_fact_max?currentPage=all

]]> By: Omar http://veritutors.com/blog/free-play/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Omar Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:19:00 +0000 http://veritutors.com/blog/?p=3#comment-2 It is also important to note that legal and political philosophy has taken note of the basic nature of this dimension of human engagement in the world: play has been proposed to be a human necessity under some recent formulations of human rights, as in the capabilities approach to rights developed by the philosophers Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen. Its unlikely that this formulation (in the 1990's) was in response to scientific research on play, but rather was independently proposed based on intuitions derived from keen but ultimately anecdotal observation (a comparatively fallible form of knowledge acquisition, but in this case, happily convergent with experimental results.) Also, an in depth profile of the end of David Foster Wallace helps contextualize his remarks, quoted above. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23638511/the_lost_years__last_days_of_david_foster_wallace It is also important to note that legal and political philosophy has taken note of the basic nature of this dimension of human engagement in the world: play has been proposed to be a human necessity under some recent formulations of human rights, as in the capabilities approach to rights developed by the philosophers Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen. Its unlikely that this formulation (in the 1990′s) was in response to scientific research on play, but rather was independently proposed based on intuitions derived from keen but ultimately anecdotal observation (a comparatively fallible form of knowledge acquisition, but in this case, happily convergent with experimental results.)

Also, an in depth profile of the end of David Foster Wallace helps contextualize his remarks, quoted above.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23638511/the_lost_years__last_days_of_david_foster_wallace

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