Ruminations: Publications

With Epoché (author page here)

On The Validity of Normative Life: Habermas' Discourse Ethics

Music, Art for the Soul

Inverting Philosophy: A Commentary on Henri Bergson’s ‘An Introduction to Metaphysics’

Rebel Without a Cause – Reconstructing Free Will in Bergson

Recollection & Life: Bergson’s Metaphysics of Memory (Part II)

Creative Recollection: Bergson’s Theory of Memory (Part I)

A Transcendental Reading of Heidegger’s ‘What is Metaphysics?’

Can We Make Objective Judgements of Taste?

From School

The Primordial Event & The Eternal Present (My Master's Thesis)

To The Reader

Reader, thou hast here an honest [blog]; it doth at the outset forewarn thee that, in contriving the same, I have proposed to myself no other than a domestic and private end: I have had no consideration at all either to thy service or to my glory. My powers are not capable of any such design. I have dedicated it to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends, so that, having lost me (which they must do shortly), they may therein recover some traits of my conditions and humours, and by that means preserve more whole, and more life-like, the knowledge they had of me...I desire therein to be viewed as I appear in mine own genuine, simple, and ordinary manner, without study and artifice: for it is myself I paint. My defects are therein to be read to the life, and any imperfections are my natural form, so far as public reverence hath permitted me.

Thus, reader, myself am the matter of my book: there’s no reason thou shouldst employ thy leisure about so frivolous and vain a subject.

Therefore, farewell.

- [Rowan] De [Anderson], "To the reader"