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Troy

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About Me

I'm married to the most wonderful, beautiful woman on earth (sure, lots of people say that, but I can back it up), named Anna, and I have a daughter, born Dec. 11, 2006 named Melina Keridwen. I am an adjunct professor in the Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies at UT-Arlington. I'm an interdisciplinary scholar, a poet, a fiction writer and an essayist. I read everything.

My Interests

poetry, fiction, philosophy, science, art, plays, music, opera, linguistics, economics

I'd like to meet:

Milan Kundera

Music:

rock, classical, opera

Movies:

Stranger Than Fiction, Adaptation, The Departed (okay, pretty much everything by Scorsese), Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Lord of the Rings, Casablanca, On the Waterfront

Television:

Fraser, Friends, The Simpsons, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Gray's Anatomy

Books:

anything by Nietzsche, Milan Kundera, Frederick Turner, and Camus, everything by Dostoevski after and including Notes from Underground, THomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Heraclitus, The Iliad, The Odyssey . . . so much, so much

Heroes:

1) my father, 2) my wife, 3) Nietzsche (who is more of a tragic hero), 4) Frederick Turner

My Blog

Publication, Potential Publication, Potential Production

A bit of personal good news.1) My book "Diaphysics" -- what in philosophy would be called a work on metaphysics -- has been accepted for publication. It will be a while before it's out on the shelves,...
Posted by Troy on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:02:00 PST

Libertarian Culture, Libertarian World

I'm reading a book on art by the critic Danto titled "The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art," in which he observes that philosophy has treated art as "superstructure" rather than a "base" activi...
Posted by Troy on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:54:00 PST

The Emerson Institute for Freedom and Culture -- Mission Statement

My wife, Anna, and I will be setting up a nonprofit organization we are tentatively calling "The Emerson Institute for Freedom and Culture" -- a think tank to promote the creation of a naturally class...
Posted by Troy on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:21:00 PST

Synopsis and Characters of REFLECTIONS

Here's a synopsis and character list for my new play "Reflections." What do you think? Sound like anything you might want to see? I would love to get together with a musician and choreographer to add ...
Posted by Troy on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:44:00 PST

"Common Genius" by Bill Greene -- A Review

The only thing more annoying to me than anti-intellectualism are intellectuals themselves.Of course, this depends upon your definition of an intellectual. One of the things that always annoyed me abou...
Posted by Troy on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:33:00 PST

Leftism Is a Psychopathology

"Is there someone in your life who takes credit for your successes? Is there someone who is constantly telling you how to do everything? Do you know someone who constantly invades your privacy?""it is...
Posted by Troy on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:36:00 PST

Free Trade in Ancient Greece

Over on EconLog, Arnold Kling repeatedly claims that there was no trading of produced goods in the ancient world (or before the Modern Era), but only of plundered goods. While there is little doubt th...
Posted by Troy on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:57:00 PST

Greed vs. Covetousness

When my wife was on spring break, we went to Kentucky to visit family. We went and had dinner with the pastor of my church growing up -- Maranatha Baptist Church -- and his wife more because I was clo...
Posted by Troy on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:43:00 PST

Prometheus Institute Blog

Everyone should go to The Prometheus Institute website at www.theprometheusinstutute.org and read my blog posting there. I'll be posting there every Tuesday.
Posted by Troy on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:30:00 PST

Reason and Property

It's been a while, but I did manage to finally get the time to answer the second part of Shawn Darling's question, below:"Now, on to Heidegger. His critique of metaphysics, of Western "reason" (to be ...
Posted by Troy on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:36:00 PST