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Monday, March 31, 2025

About Me

walto: I've published articles in the areas of epistemology, metaphysics, value theory, democracy, religion, and aesthetics (in such journals as JP, PPR, and Perspectives of New Music), and have edited a book on the philosopher Everett Hall, whose work I've championed for over 40 years. I've provided research and expert testimony to both the legislative and executive branches of Mass. government, and have been an occasional philosophy professor since 1978, when I received my Ph.D. from Brown University. Some of my papers can be downloaded from academia.edu and philpapers.org. I've written a book on democratic theory and review democracy books for 3:16 AM Magazine. I studied music composition in college but these days mostly improvise on synths, alone or with others. I have released improvised and composed music on such labels as Leo Lab, Tzadik, and Ogre-Ogress with talents like Gary Lucas, Mat Maneri, and Glenn Freeman. I used to interview musicians and review recorded music and books on music for Cadence Magazine, Signal to Noise, Bagatellen, and Paris Transatlantic. Some of my compositional and keyboard output can be heard on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube.

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