Our guest today is Lisa Miracchi. Lisa is a philosophy professor at the University of Pennsylvania . She’s presently teaching a seminar entitled “Yoga and Philosophy’ in which she argues that yoga is philosophy in physical form and this will be the topic of our discussion.
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A very interesting interview. It’s fascinating to see someone working in the ambiguous territory between an embodied practice like yoga and philosophy, though interestingly (I found with some relief) this was much more about the implications of yoga than it was about philosophy! I get the impression that she’s beginning to question various aspects of the analytic/ naturalistic philosophical tradition on the strength of her practice, but hasn’t quite worked out the full implications yet. For example, she expressed openness around the fact-value distinction but didn’t follow through any of the implications, given how much the entirety of the analytic approach depends on the fact-value distinction. Her practical valuing of the Middle Way doesn’t seem to have led her to question atheism and materialism, or other metaphysical assumptions, either. But it’s all a process. I hope she will continue to think further about the philosophical implications of the practical perspective she has developed, and be willing to push the boundaries!
A very interesting interview. It’s fascinating to see someone working in the ambiguous territory between an embodied practice like yoga and philosophy, though interestingly (I found with some relief) this was much more about the implications of yoga than it was about philosophy! I get the impression that she’s beginning to question various aspects of the analytic/ naturalistic philosophical tradition on the strength of her practice, but hasn’t quite worked out the full implications yet. For example, she expressed openness around the fact-value distinction but didn’t follow through any of the implications, given how much the entirety of the analytic approach depends on the fact-value distinction. Her practical valuing of the Middle Way doesn’t seem to have led her to question atheism and materialism, or other metaphysical assumptions, either. But it’s all a process. I hope she will continue to think further about the philosophical implications of the practical perspective she has developed, and be willing to push the boundaries!