Attending in the evening

The fascination with attention hasn't gone away. Instead, I may be planning a little course on the subject. I need to work out how it might "look", as it were.

So maybe the first session would be about what attention is - the psychology of it. The session would be an interview with or presentation by a psychologist in that area. As preparation for the session, there might be a few readings. Papers, chapters from books, and so on.

The second session might be an interview with or presentation by a philosopher working in this area - to consider Simone Weil's and Iris Murdoch's views on attention and how applying those can impact our behaviour. the problem here, is that I know of three philosophers who could talk about this - and I'd like to ask all of them and see if we could make three distinct sessions (or two distinct ones). Again, readings. Oh and after all of the sessions a few written exercises and practical exercises.

Then someone to add phenomenology into the mix.

Finally, someone who takes it to a more spiritual level - Buddhism, non-duality.

What would be required is a sign-up process, with people getting sent the readings the week before the talk and the zoom link reminder the day before. The day after the talk, they'd get sent a recording of the talk plus additional resources for optional study suggested by the speaker and the questions, which they need to answer by a month after the end of the series. Then some kind of marking or assessment process. That's perhaps the hardest part.

Yes, I think that's how it would work.

Anyway, here's my practical exercise in attention!