Dani Bassett

Dani Bassett, PhD

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Dani Bassett's Interviews

Twins Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn are curious. Their work, individually and together, gives new conception and language to what curiosity is, the work that it does in the world. These are human beings of intelligence and integrity and deep care, and their reification of curiosity might just be a generative narrative of

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Michael Garfield & Dani Bassett + Perry Zurn 25 Jan 2023 • EN

Dani Bassett & Perry Zurn on The Neuroscience & Philosophy of Curious Minds

This is a podcast by and for the curious — and yet, in over three years, we have pointed curiosity at nearly every topic but itself. What is it, anyway? Are there worse and better frames for understanding how desire and wonder, exploration and discovery play out in both the brain and in society? How is scientific resea

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Perry Zurn + Dani Bassett 12 Jan 2023 • EN

Perry Zurn & Dani Bassett || How Curiosity Connects Us

Today we welcome Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett.  Dr. Perry Zurn is Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University. He is the author or coauthor of more than 75 publications in philosophy, political theory, trans studies, and network science and has given hundreds of talks at local, national, and international v

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It’s easy enough to proclaim that we are curious creatures, but what does that really mean? What kinds of curiosity are there? And how does curiosity arise in our brains? Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett are a philosopher and neuroscientist, respectively (as well as twins), whose new book Curious Minds: The Power of Connect

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Galina Limorenko & Perry Zurn + Dani Bassett 03 Nov 2022 • EN

Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022)

Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of know

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Dani Bassett + Perry Zurn 06 Sep 2022 • EN

Dr. Perry Zurn & Dr. Dani Bassett Interview

Matt Crawford speaks with authors Dr. Perry Zurn nd Dr. Dani Bassett about their book: Curious Minds. What is curiosity and how do we define it? Is it just the simple act of accumulating information to share at parties. Zurn and Bassett delve into what makes us all curious and how science, philosophy and even spiritual

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