Nathan is 24 and the son of Michael J. Coppedge, associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.
He was born in New Haven, CT and for the most part has remained there.
His interest in philosophy has various roots. He was raised for a number of years in a Unitarian Universalist church, where different religious traditions were presented together as equals.
Without much in the way of a spiritual foundation for the process of growing up, symbols as the ones used to represent each religious tradition gained a certain significance. Yet the correspondence between them was not exactly spiritual, yet it was certainly metaphysical.
As he matured, philosophy seemed important to him as a means of finding a relationship between symbols.
Yet many of the philosophies he found were completely opposed to the use of symbols as a form of meaning, believing spiritualism to be madness (existentialism), weakness (empiricism), a simple means to an end (utilitarianism), or something unattainable, or not the right province, like recent language philosophy, deconstructivism, etc.
He could relate with Humanist trends, but they seemed foggy as an ideology. Continually he felt that what was lacking was a system for creating meaning.
Where is the point where Truth and Fact connect? It seemed important. How do symbols relate categorically? What is a formula for profound truth-statements?
These are the sorts of questions he continues to grapple with, his most adequate solutions to which he has put in his nearly completed book, A Free-Thought Manifesto.
Main Page
Essays Main
*About N.Coppedge
* Conc. & Abs.
* Iterative Philos.
* Unity Intro
* Imperfection
* Occam Dispute
* Nominal Mech.
* Res. Paradox
* Metamorphosis
* Essent. Principa
* Meta-Extension
* Meta Precis
* Meta Wrinkles
* Relevantism
* Relative Dispute
* Symbolism
* Wisdom Walks
* Pragma Temp.
* World consists
* Program. Antith
* Body Real Estate
* Four Corners
* Schizo def
* Moral 2d
* Eating Acrobats
* Fork Analogy
* Sloppy Thinking
Book of Indra
Unity Philosophy
Trans Ethics
On Systems
About Writing
Quotes & Slants
Intellectualia
I'm doing my best to
put my
"Free-Thought
Manifesto" into print.
More about that at
My Blog (Oct-Jan)
I'd be happy to speak
to anyone who would
consider publishing it,
or representing me as
an agent. Its currently
about 150 pages, all
included.
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Iterative Theory
Philosophical Dictionary
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