Blind Man Looking For A Black Cat In A Dark Room

A blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat which isn t there and finding it.

Blind man looking for a black cat in a dark room. With his obscure and uncertain speculations as to the intimate nature and causes of things the philosopher is likened to a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that is not there. Contemporary art museum st. For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn t there book. September 11 2009 january 3 2010 ica london.

James mentioned the black cat expression in the first chapter of some problems in philosophy. For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn t there starts with the premise that art is not a code that needs cracking. You re like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn t there. Read reviews from world s largest community for readers.

December 3 2009 january 31. Ernest gellner referred to an east european joke about science philosophy and marxism as looking for a cat in a dark room with various consequences. A mathematician is like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn t there. A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn t there.

Celebrating the experience of not knowing and unlearning the artists in this exhibition understand the world in speculative terms eager to keep art separate from explanation. Philosopher theologian and lawyer. Also in 1942 a book reviewer in the cornell law quarterly extended the humorous passage by contrasting three professions. With science the cat is present with philosophy absent and with.

The show curated by anthony huberman took its title from a line attributed to charles darwin. For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn t there will travel to an additional american venue and a slightly modified version of the exhibition will simultaneously travel to three european venues.