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I write about what we know but do not believe.
—David J. Frost
I’m David J. Frost. If you came here after reading my Missouri Review essay on free will, WELCOME.
That essay belongs to an overarching project—that I call Armchair Vertigo—which is about truths we know but do not believe. It’s about the dizzying gap between what we know in theory and what we can actually believe or live by. We know the sun does not set, but “sunsets” remain our lived reality. We may deny free will, but still blame, praise, apologize, and resent. We know we will die, but mostly live as if we will not. That is the space where I write.
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Of all the David Frosts, I am the David Frostiest.
I teach philosophy, write literary nonfiction, and live on the Oregon coast with my dogs, Fritz and Lou Salomé. My essays have appeared in the Missouri Review, The Smart Set, SLAB literary journal, Philosophy Now, and elsewhere. I went to Columbia for undergrad and lived in New York City for ten years. I have a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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