Title Reference - 'Boogie Philosophy' by De-Phazz


My Name is Adam Chess
I am a 22 year old Graduate Student of Philosophy at Fordham University.
I often come up with ideas related to philosophy which are either ill-formed, not coherent, not expressed properly, or simply 'out there.'
In an effort to spare my professors the wailing and gnashing of teeth associated with these ideas, I am going to put them here.
Not that everything on here will be mine, or philosophy for that matter, I'll be using it in a regular Tumblr sense as well; re-blogging stuff that I like and that sort of thing, but the main focus (if all goes according to plan) will be on Philosophy, and particularly my ideas involving it.
Philosophy stuff:

I consider myself to be an Analytic-towards-Continental in terms of the current schools. I find myself thinking, understanding, and expressing, fundamentally in an analytic fashion, but I find that that which I am most interested in, at base, is primarily continental. I am, Philosophically, interested in the creation and construction of systems of thought, but I find my ways of thinking best suited to dissection, critique, and simplification. For better or for worse.

my #1 guy is Alfred North Whitehead
my #1.A guy is Hegel

Other crowd favorites include, but are not limited to;

Nietzsche
Schopenhauer
Dewey
Pierce
Nelson Goodman
Spinoza
Leibniz
Berkeley
Sartre
Deluze
Badiou

My main areas of interest include, but are certainly not limited to:

-Process Philosophy
-Meta-Philosophy
[this, and it's subdivisions are largely defined in my own terms]
----Philosophical Method
----Artistic Philosophy
----Mechanical Philosophy
-Philosophy of Science
-Philosophy of Mathematics

One important thing; I do not consider myself to be a Philosopher, I feel that a Philosopher is defined as such by way of his contributions to the field, and is characterized by his way of living life through his philosophy. I do not do this, and I have not yet seriously contributed to the field in any way, I am a student of Philosophy; I am learning, not doing, or living, Philosophy - at least not one purely of my own creation.

About me:
I live in Connecticut.
I do a bit of Graphic design as a hobby.
I smoke, quite a bit. I smoke a pipe, not due to pretentiousness, but simply due to the fact that it tastes better, smells better, is less harmful, and is much cheaper, than cigarettes.
I occasionally have trouble speaking like a normal human being when I am immersed in understanding a philosophy.
I occasionally recommend books for people.
I have trouble understanding literature and often just don't 'get it.'
I listen to music for the music, seldom for the lyrics.
Boogie Philosophy, the song, is how I would like to live my own life.
I am agnostic-functionally-atheist
I am liberal, and probably a democrat by most standards.
I hope, someday, to be a professor of Philosophy, and learn through teaching, which I have found to be the very best way that I go about learning.
I have worked as a rehabilitation aide in Brooklyn working with the mentally ill.
I am currently working for a healthcare company owned by my dad. I do marketing, yes, I am a little ashamed of that.

I obviously welcome any and all comments, though I know enough about these sorts of things not to expect any.

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