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MuSeeker Home Page

Welcome to the Home Page of the Muse-Seeker,

aka Roger Bissell

 

Revised May 18, 1998

 

Welcome to the Internet home of the Muse-Seeker, which is dedicated to the pursuit of inspirations! For an essay that explains Muse-Seeking in the context of technical issues regarding personality and temperament, please click on this link:

 A New Look at Keirsey's Temperaments

 

Here are (or soon will be) links to other areas from which I derive enjoyment and inspiration. (The list is by no means exhaustive!)

 

  • Mathematics. Coming soon: "Confessions of a Would-Be Mathematician," "A New Method for Generating Pythagorean Triples," "Speed Math."

 

  • Politics. Coming soon: "The Moral Majority vs. God," "What is 'the New Right'?," "A Calm Look at Abortion Arguments," "The Case Against Libertarian Baby-Starving."

 

  • Psychology. Coming soon: "A Higher Power for Atheists and Agnostics," "Temperament Theory--Old and New," "Dueling Personality Theories and the Myers-Briggs Toolbox," "When Attitudes Go Bad," "Achilles Tendencies," "Lend Me Your EARs," "Personality Type, Cognition, and Motivation."

 

  • Music and Art. Coming soon: "Unforgettable Musicians," "Advice to Would-Be Professional Trombonists" (with Rex Peer), "Ayn Rand on Meaning in Art," "A Critical Analysis of Ayn Rand's View of Musical Perception," "The Essence of Art," "Thoughts about Plot and Characterization in Dramatic Music." For now, click on this link: Music, Music, Music

 

  • Philosophy. Coming soon: "Beyond Disbelief," "Exegesis on Pegasus: an Essay on the Need to Clarify One's Predications," "Sea Serpents, Socrates, Shiny Dimes, Square Circles, and Such: an Essay on Existential Import and the Square of Opposition," "Duplex Units and Measurement Re-introduction: how Ayn Rand should have explained the nature of propositions," "What's the Deal with 'Standard Propositional Form'?!" For now, click on this link: Mind Matters

 

  • Family. Coming soon: "Why I Like Genealogy" by Ayn Rand (parody), "Reflections on 20 years as an Amateur Genealogist," "Survival, Flourishing, and Generativity--the Three Necessary Components of a Full Life." Also coming soon: a new website, Bissell Histories and Mysteries, devoted to research into the Bissell families of Connecticut (est. 1630) and Rhode Island (est. 1709). For now, click on this link: VanBoskirk

 

 


Eventually, there will be a lot more material on this web site. By all means, however, feel free to click on the email link and let me know what you think of this material.

 

Thanks for your interest.
Roger Bissell, Muse-Seeker

 

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