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I am currently in my fourth year of PhD study - a PhD candidate - in University of Delaware's School of Education. I specialize in the philosophy and history of education (most of my work falls into a hybrid discipline called "intellectual lhistory.") I am currently the Graduate Assistant at UD's Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning, where I help graduate teaching assistants and junior f… Read moreI am currently in my fourth year of PhD study - a PhD candidate - in University of Delaware's School of Education. I specialize in the philosophy and history of education (most of my work falls into a hybrid discipline called "intellectual lhistory.") I am currently the Graduate Assistant at UD's Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning, where I help graduate teaching assistants and junior faculty with instructional issues.
I love reading, as you can see, and have a pretty diverse 'palate': mostly non-fiction but in many areas and disciplines including, but not limited to, education.
I am a real jazz buff, namely soul jazz (Kenny Burrell, Lou Donaldson) to West Coast jazz (Chet Baker, Shelly Manne).
I have also been quite into fitness over the past two years, working out at the gym two to three times a week and becoming a (mostly vegan) vegetarian.
Politically, I am a pro-market libertarian roughly sympathetic with the public choice school. It is not that government cannot do good, but that when it tries, it either doesn't stay good for long (results don't match intent) or what it is attempting would better be performed by private actors. I'm not dogmatic about this, but it is my starting point.
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Like many other 'minimalist' works, 'Drumming' is an amazingly delicious blend of subtlety and complexity; of static patterns and forward motion. For those unfamiliar with 'Drumming' here is a brief synopsis. The process comprising the 'method' of this peice is called 'phasing.' There are about six percussionists (tuned drums, marimba, glockenspiel) that start off playing the same two bar pattern. While some of the musicians keep the pattern at a steady tempo, one or two others graudually speed up, getting ahead of the others. This happens untill the 'sped up' musicians are exactly one quarter-notes-pace ahead of the others; then they sync back up. Now what was once a unison pattern is a… Read more
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Drs. Talisse and Hester have here written a very good introduction to a very worthy thinker - American philosopher William James. These two writers, of course, had their work cut out for them. James, after all, wrote what would be known as 'classics' in no less than three fields: psychology [Principles of Psychology], religious anthropology [Varieties of Religious Experience] and, of course, philosophy [Pragmatism]. Considering that anyone writing a 90 page book on such a prolific thinker has a lot to deal with, our authors' focus almost exclusively on James' philosophical, rather than psychological, essays. And they succeed beautifully in breaking James's amazingly pluralistic and… Read more
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I am one who has always been critical of our reasons for going into Iraq and, further, how we've conducted the Iraq 'war.' But I am equally uncomfortable when around my anti-war friends who, to me, always seem to oversimplify the issue by suggesting absuridities like (a) we should have given Iraq more time (as the UN has for 10 years, to no appreciable avail); (b) Saddam Hussein posed little threat to the international community (ignoring that even Clinton knew this wasn't true); or worst of all (c) that the war in Iraq will encourage Islamic anti-americanism even more (as if this wouldn't have happened anyway). So as an opposer of the Iraq war, I appreciate reading books like Hitchens'… Read more
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