*Interview conducted October/November, 2024.*

Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Who is your favorite philosopher?

Rick Rosner: That I have one? What Wittgenstein’s or Kierkegaard’s or most people’s most famous philosophers’ philosophy was, I don’t know. I can say one sentence about existentialism. I started taking a grad-level course in phenomenology when I was at CU, but I quickly quit going to class. My favorite philosophers are physicists or metaphysicists. What about you?

Jacobsen: In a lot of ways, when I listen to a lot of physicists, they do sound like philosophers. They talk about the structure of the world in a quasi-philosophic way. But my favorite philosopher…

Rosner: Hold on, before you do that, I wish there were more philosophizing in physics. Trying to answer the big questions is somewhat frowned upon as being beyond the realm of science. Yes. But, anyway, your favorite philosopher?

Jacobsen: Jordi Savall who is a musician.

Rosner: What’s his philosophy?

Jacobsen: It’s not a structured thing. It’s more commentaries on music, and I find his certain philosophy about life that comes out of that. It’s not an epistemology or an ontology about reality. It’s more certain takes on life.

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Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, www.rickrosner.org

Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, www.in-sightpublishing.com

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