Ram neta biography for kids

Ram Neta, Philosopher, on James Turrell’s Danae (1983)

GB Tell me why you find this beautiful.

RN First of all, it feels like magic.

Ram Neta is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

It includes classic and contemporary pieces from the most influential philosophers from Descartes, Russell, Quine and G.E. Moore to Richard Feldman, Edward.

Together with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong of Duke University, he teaches a Coursera course on reasoning to hundreds of thousands of students.

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I remember walking into the room and seeing what looked like nothing more than a simple, homogeneous rectangle of purple light on the wall. I wondered how the light was being projected, and why the hue was so striking. I started walking towards the rectangle – but once I got maybe half a metre away from it, it became clear to me that it wasn’t at all what I thought it was: in fact, it was a rectangular opening in the wall, through which another room was visible.

That felt like magic because it was hard for me to imagine that I could have been subject to such an illusion at a distance of a metre. Even when I was right up close to it there was still some kind of ambiguity that I didn’t manage to resolve until I put my hand into the rectangle.

The magic was part of what made it seem beautiful to me and another part was the sim