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Buch, Englisch, 80 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Crichton

Twin Earth

47 poems
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-943324-92-1
Verlag: KIENER Verlag

47 poems

Buch, Englisch, 80 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

ISBN: 978-3-943324-92-1
Verlag: KIENER Verlag


In a thought experiment devised by the philosopher, Hilary Putnam, a “Twin Earth“ is identical to the earth except for one thing: water on twin earth looks and tastes just like water on earth, falls from the sky and comes out of taps, but has a different chemical structure. People on twin earth refer to it as water, but it is a different substance (XYZ-water, not H2O-water). This was taken by Putnam to show that „meanings ain’t in the head“ but involve external reality.

„Twin Earth“ can also be interpreted as a representation of earth which simultaneously resembles it and differs from it. In this much wider sense, poetry itself can be seen as a twin of the world.

This collection of poems refers to reality. Its themes include space, time, illness, loss, the North, Mozart, Thucydides, Homer and Kafka. This is poetry which moves lightly from the cosmic to the personal, from the sardonic to the compassionate, from the comic to the grief-laden, from the mock-pretentious to the brutally direct.

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The Letter

I thought I heard you laughing in another constellation.
Travelling from silence to silence, the train stopped near a forest.

I got out and read your letter on the platform.
The blanks between the words were cold and white.

I looked up and saw across the track, where the train had been,
red fields burning without fire, the horizon, the sky.


Crichton, Paul
Paul Crichton is a consultant psychiatrist, who did an MA in Latin and Greek Language and Literature, Philosophy and Ancient History at Oxford, did his medical studies in Munich, Germany, and his specialist training in neurology and psychiatry in London, and did a BA and PhD in philosophy at London University. - He wrote a book based on his PhD for the general reader and called Self-Realization and Inner Necessity – Thinking about How to Live (Kiener Press; see Kiener-Press.com). He has been writing poetry for several years and this is the first publication of a selection of his poems.

Paul Crichton MA (Oxon), MD (Munich), FRCPsych, PhD (London). Dr. Crichton is a Consultant Psychiatrist working for the Ministry of Justice in London.

His first degree was in Classical Studies (Latin, Greek, Ancient History and Philosophy) at Oxford University.

His medical training was at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. He worked for two years in neurology, at the Klinikum Großhadern in Munich and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, before doing his psychiatric training, first at Charing Cross Hospital and then at the Maudsley Hospital in London. He worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry at Guys Hospital in London and then as Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Royal Marsden Hospital, doing liaison psychiatry and cognitive behavioural therapy with people with cancer. He now sits on Mental Health Review Tribunals in London for the Ministry of Justice.

In 2003 he completed a BA and then in 2010 a PhD in philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. His PhD was entitled “Self-Realization An Exploration” and his supervisors were Prof. Miranda Fricker and Prof. Susan James. It formed the basis of his book Self-Realization and Inner Necessity Thinking about How to Live (London: Kiener Press, 2013). He has also written papers and articles for scientific and literary journals, including the British Journal of Psychiatry, the Lancet and the Times Literary Supplement.

His main interests lie in the borderline areas between psychiatry, psychology and philosophy, including, for example, psychotic phenomena, rationality and cognitive distortions, the mind-body problem, autonomy, social justice and political freedom, the social identity of individuals, ethical and non-ethical values, and self-realization. The thinkers who have most inspired him include Aristotle, Plato, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein, Rawls, Freud, Kahneman, Williams, Taylor, Nussbaum and Frankfurt.



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