Does your philosophical nature show in your lyrics?
In your philosophical writings you are very sensitive to power, to issues of justice and equity.
How has your legal training shaped your philosophical thinking about the problem of speaking for and about others?
How did we get to the point where something that's spelled out in our Constitution and guaranteed to us, but something that isn't spelled out specifically in our Constitution is? Would you give me your philosophical answer?
Q: In Freedom and Neurobiology as well as some of your other work, you borrow from the natural sciences to further your philosophical inquiries.
We're going to talk about your music in a moment, but one other point that emerged in your philosophical writings is this notion of a circle of empathy.
It is scientific researchers who got us here, not you; those outmoded ideas you are sneering at as having come from incorrect preconceptions came from your philosophical ancestors, not ours.
For "Winds and Strings of Change," a concert mixing indigenous Japanese hogaku pieces and contemporary works for traditional instruments on Thursday evening, the Miller Theater at Columbia University was either half full or half empty, according to your philosophical bent.
