My Life and My Work, in Brief

History of my life and work

■ Born in Indonesia in 1930, as a small child I already exhibited an interest in animals, perhaps stimulated by my first conscious observation. When I was 3 or 4 years old our gardener unearthed a nest of young black snakes, then told me to leave. So at my 6th birthday my parents presented me with Huey’s book De dierenwereld in een notedop 1935. This book became my bible and determined my futur...

My Life

In my life.

One of the things I’ve had to adjust to in the past 25 years is the often transitory relationship with people in my work place. At the end of every year a group of residents whom I’ve worked with for 4 years and a group of fellows whom I’ve worked with for 1–2 years leave to begin their professional careers. Nurses, technicians, and colleagues from other services also oscillate to and from my w...

Themes in My Philosophical Work

This paper is an overview of my philosophical work. It follows closely the structure of the handout I used as the basis for a talk on this topic at the 2000 meeting of the Austro-Slovene Philosophical Association. The section-headings mention major themes, and various key concepts are indicated by boldface terms in the text. I invoked the notion of supervenience in my doctoral dissertation, Mic...

painting and essay competition: my city, my neighborhood

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