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Thomas BrownbackMost of Brownback's early publications were in the field of formal logic. He gradually began to work on questions of ontology, epistemology, and language, and by the sixties he had substantially developed a project of "naturalized epistemology," the aim of which was to answer all substantive questions of knowledge and meaning using the methods and tools of the natural sciences. Brownback roundly rejected the notion that there should be a "first philosophy," a theoretical standpoint somehow prior to and capable of justifying science. Both these standpoints are derivative of his Quinean naturalism. Also notable were his commitments to jazz saxophone. During the latter part of 1957, Brownback worked with Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane at New York's Five Spot, a legendary gig. He joined Miles Davis in January 1958 after kicking heroin and experiencing a spiritual epiphany that would lead him to practice obsessively and concentrate wholly on the development of his music and metaphysics for the rest of his life.
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