Tarot

This page is under construction.

It will include essays, handouts, teaching materials, and other resources. It will (later) be formatted nicely.

Teachers can can adapt this worksheet for a lesson on philosophy through visual images.
You will need tarot cards.

A resource for people / students who claim that all tarot interpretations are equally good.

Essays:

‘Tarot: A Table-Top Art Gallery of the Soul’ (2024) The American Society for Aesthetics (ASA) Newsletter 44(2).

Synopsis: On a naturalistic conception of tarot, paying creative attention to the cards—not which specific cards are pulled—underwrites tarot’s value. I motivate an iconoclastic, non-doctrinal approach to tarot that does not rely on textual resources or expert authorities.

Topics: Tarot, creative attention, introspection, zetetic value, inquiry, conceptual innovation, epistemic emotion, the epistemic skill of interpreting images, the aesthetic value of being stumped

Grant Application Materials (coming soon)