During grad school days in Austin, the wife and I befriended a young philosopher and his wife. He was an expert at a tender age in phenomenology, specifically the ideas of the modern-day French savant, Paul Ricoeur.
Today, you can learn much more about phenomenology than I could tell you by checking with Encyclopædia Britannica. EB [...]
When I bump up against excessive ideological zeal, particular among theorists purporting to tell me how they want to change me to better fit their special vision of how the world ought to work, I once again take solace and insight from naturalist John Muir’s experience with Ralph Waldo Emerson.
In May, 1871, Emerson came west [...]
Dudley Lynch stepped off the curb of normal expectations some years ago and has never managed to get back on the sidewalk. He observes, opines, writes and sometimes lectures (usually the dog) on the serious consequences of being alive in the 21st Century from Gainesville, Florida, where he is president of Brain Me Up.
