We Begin With The Hypothesis That Any

We Need To Conceive Of Ourselves As "agents" Impelled By Self-generated Intentions.

Being Able To "go Beyond The Information" Given To "figure Things Out" Is One Of The Few Untarnishable Joys Of Life.

The Agentive Mind Is Not Only Active In Nature, But It Seeks Out Dialogue And Discourse With Other Active Minds. And It Is Through This Dialogic, Discursive Process That We Come To Know The Other And His Points Of View, His Stories. We Learn An Enormous Amount Not Only About The World But About Ourselves By Discourse With Others.

We Are Storytelling Creatures, And As Children We Acquire Language To Tell Those Stories That We Have Inside Us.

There Is A Deep Question Whether The Possible Meanings That Emerge From An Effort To Explain The Experience Of Art May Not Mask The Real Meanings Of A Work Of Art.