Justin Dohoney
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Andy Perez Illustration
- Denis St. John's MONSTERS AND GIRLS
- I Have Other Things to Do, but Here I am Anyway
- Jordan DeLong's Multidimensional Carnival
- North of Reality
- Project Reach: A Writer's Blog
- Random Verse
- Randy Pease in Indy...
- The Potable Curmudgeon
- thundersaid's Xanga
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Graduate Assistant |
| Location | Central, South Carolina, United States |
| Introduction | I am a second-year Master's candidate in the History department at Clemson University. After receiving my Bachelor's degrees in English and History from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 2004, I worked as a research editor and educator in Louisville, Kentucky, and East Lansing, Michigan, respectively. My primary academic interests include the intellectual and cultural history of late medieval and early modern Europe, the history and philosophy of late medieval and early modern science, the relationship between science and religion (of all eras, but most specifically, the relationship between the institutional Church and Scientific Revolution-era natural philosophers as well as the epistemological relationship between reason and faith), the history of proto-sciences such as astrology and alchemy, Jungian psychology, and synchronicity. I think I have a paradoxical personality: I'm introverted yet social, analytical yet intuitive, rationalist but with a keen interest in spirituality. I'm confused more often than not, but I think that's because I think too much about everything all the time. Sometimes, I like questions more than answers. This blog is about questions... |
| Interests | History, Medieval studies, Late Antiquity, the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, Kuhnian paradigm shifts, Medieval Nominalism v. Realism, Late Antique syncretism, Carl Jung, Synchronicity, the Collective Unconscious, the Appropriation v. Marginalization theory of medieval Islamic science, the Pirenne thesis, the refutation of the Draper/White Conflict thesis of medieval science and religion, Falsificationism, Anarcho-syndicalism, the role of Hermeticism in the Scientific Revolution, hiking, metaphysics, writing (occasionally), grammar, cooking |
| Favorite Movies | Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Star Wars Trilogy (original), Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Indiana Jones Trilogy, The Fifth Element, The Shawshank Redemption, Minority Report, Gladiator, Patton, Willow, The Princess Bride, Dodgeball, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Syriana, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Jurassic Park, Road to Perdition, Snatch, Hoosiers, Lost in Translation |
| Favorite Music | Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, Tool, Rush, Muse, 311, Soul Coughing, Incubus, Radiohead, Balkan Beatbox, Mars Volta, Gorillaz, Queens of the Stone Age, The Who, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Mahavishnu Orchestra, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, James Horner, Danny Elfman, Blue Man Group, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Pearl Jam, Samuel Barber, Gustav Holst, Copland, Toadies, Air, Of Montreal, Ozomatli, Alice in Chains, A Perfect Circle, Protricity, Ashley MacIsaac, Robert W. Smith, Shostakovitch, Pat Metheny, Puccini, Music City Mystique, dredge, The Shins, Kenji Yamamoto, Beethoven, Mozart, Dvorák, Blind Melon, Drum Corps, Beck, Cake, Carl Orff, CCR, The Doors, DMB, Chopin, Jack's Mannequin, God Lives Underwater, The Cars, The Anniversary, Mew, Michael Giacchino, Nobuo Uematsu, Nirvana, Spacehog, Rachmaninoff, STP, Yoko Kanno, Prokofiev, TMBG, Allman Brothers Band, Mono, Apocalyptica, Eric Clapton, Flaming Lips, Dandy Warhols, Flogging Molly, Green Day, Frank Zappa, Jethro Tull, Bach, Koji Kondo, Weezer, Mogwai, Graham Preskett, Tyler Bates, John Coltrane, Kronos Quartet, Queen, REM, The Smashing Pumpkins, Rasputina, Sponge, Sufjan Stevens, Todd Mark Rubenstein, Pavement, Rossini, Zebrahead, Vivaldi, Bush, Steppenwolf, Blur, Cracker, Live, Steve Miller, The Police, Bizet, Gershwin, Sublime, Frou Frou, Remy Zero, Bad Influence, The Band, Beta Band, Throwing Muses, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Section, Marsalis Bros., 3 Dog Night, Santana, Marco d'Ambrosio, oh so many more... |
| Favorite Books | Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card), The Years of Rice and Salt (Kim Stanley Robinson), The Dispossessed (Ursula K. Le Guin), really anything by the previous three writers, Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad), The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien), Guns Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond), The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell), Glory Road (Robert A. Heinlein), Starship Troopers (Robert A. Heinlein), A History of God (Karen Armstrong), A People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn), Quicksilver (Neil Stephenson), The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), Man and His Symbols (Carl Jung), The Undiscovered Self (Carl Jung), Alchemy (Marie Louise von Franz), The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas Kuhn), The Beginnings of Western Science (David C. Lindberg), The Discoverers (Daniel J. Boorstin), The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edward Gibbon), Dune (Frank Herbert), 2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke), To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), 1984 (George Orwell), Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury), Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), Dr. Faustus (Christopher Marlowe), The Tao of Physics (Fritjof Capra) |