Pedro Gómez-Egaña, The Great Learning, 2015. Mana Contemporary, New Jersey. Copper rod, microfilament strings, and industrial weights. Photo: Erin Lee Smith
Graduate Student Talk: Félix-Antoine Gélineau
April 10, 2025
Join Félix-Antoine Gélineau, a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, for a conversation around Pedro Gómez-Egaña: The Great Learning.
Through the lens of Gómez-Egaña’s The Great Learning, Félix-Antoine Gélineau will examine a question at the confluence of epistemology and the philosophy of art: how does an artwork’s ability to enrich our perspectives relate to its artistic merit? Gélineau will explore how artists, performers—such as the exhibition’s “Orchestrators”—and audiences collaborate in learning and sense-making through art. Along the way, Gélineau will also discuss whether the idea that artistic merit is influenced by what and how we learn from art is compatible with the view that art is valuable for its own sake.
This will be a hybrid event with a live video that can be streamed here at 5:30 PM.
About the Speaker
A PhD candidate in philosophy at MIT, Félix-Antoine Gélineau explores questions at the intersection of epistemology, ethics, and meta-ethics. His dissertation starts from the question: in what sense does truth matter? and proceeds to examine how our understanding of the value of truth interacts with our conceptions of the norms we ought to follow when forming and revising our beliefs. Before turning to philosophy, he studied music performance, an experience that sparked a lasting interest in aesthetics and the philosophy of art.
Graduate Student Talks
MIT graduate students explore current exhibitions at the List Center through the lens of their own research, background, and interests. Join us for this interdisciplinary lecture series where we dive into how art and research are overlapping on MIT’s campus.
