POPc presents A Night With Nelson Goodman at Gallery 817 University of the Arts, Philadelphia featuring Resident Philosophers Dr. Noël Carroll, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, aesthetician of film and David Post, former clerk for Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Dr. Lindsay Fiorelli, aesthetician discussing Nominalism.

Resident Philosophers discuss Nominalism with gallery viewers at University of the Arts (Philly) in a room next to the gallery exhibition of Dena Shottenkirk's artwork at this first exhibition for talkPOPc. The topic nominalism was examined through the eyes of Nelson Goodman who was a mid-20th C. analytic American philosopher. This project focused on how his aesthetic theories – made famous by his book Languages of Art – were ultimately the result of his metaphysical theories, particularly his anti-platonist nominalism. For that, the starting point was his notion of qualia: those individual, discrete instances of experience. The individual quale was defined as a particular thing: a particular color, at a particular place, at a particular time.

Distinguished Philosopher Noël Carrol gives a Gallery Conversation on Norminalism at University of the Arts Philadelphia for A Night with Nelson Goodman