Robert C. Solomon (1942 - 2007) |
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Written by <a href='/community/profile/68-danieleaton/'>danieleaton</a>
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Tuesday, 09 January 2007 21:27 |
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Austin Statesman:"Once a month or so, Robert Solomon and his friend James Pennebaker would meet for beer and conversation at a Guadalupe Street watering hole, the Dog & Duck. Most of the time, Solomon, a philosophy professor at the University of Texas, and Pennebaker, a UT psychology professor, would talk about what people usually talk about at bars: "The nature of emotions, from both a philosophical and a neuroscientific perspective," Pennebaker recalled Thursday.
Beer and neuroscience — they could almost be the watchwords of a life that Solomon's friends and colleagues say was marked by a passion for intellectual seriousness and a love of fun. One former student, the filmmaker Richard Linklater, cast him in a cameo role as himself in the 2001 film "Waking Life." Solomon's own life ended suddenly this week in Switzerland. Solomon, 64, an internationally known scholar who had taught at UT since 1972, died Tuesday morning in the Zurich, Switzerland, airport. " more
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