About
derbis.org takes, as its point of departure, the place where the concerns of education, philosophy, and aesthetic experience coalesce. These concerns may be discussed singularly, but the belief behind this project is that they will always converge, whether by explication or by resonance. And the space of this convergence is the dwelling place of what one might call one’s “ethical character” or, to borrow from Wittgenstein, one’s form of life.
I am currently a PhD student in Philosophy & Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. I live in Brooklyn with my amazing wife, our dog, and our pet hedgehog. The hedgehog does not much like to be touched, and I can’t say that I blame her.
My hope is that this project will give me a virtual space to fiddle with ideas I find rattling around and, if Zeus wills it, to make something enjoyably philosophic of them. If I should fail in this, well, such is the tragedy of human endeavor.
Best,
Alex