Huenemanniac

Getting distracted by ideas


October 2010

  • Not minding no meaning

    Recently I came across two items that have caused me to reflect on what makes me want to keep living. The first was an article by Galen Strawson, “Why I have no future,” published in The Philosophers’ Magazine (12 October 2009). Strawson’s first sentence says it all: “If, in any normal, non-depressed period of life,… Continue reading

  • A tale of two concerts

    Maybe my favorite thing about living in Logan is our Chamber Music Series, and the fact that we have an in-house string quartet, the Fry Street Quartet. We heard them play last Tuesday, and on the program were Beethoven, Dohnanyi, and Tchaikovsky. Our 9-year-old son joined us, since he loves classical music and is a… Continue reading