CARL PETER KLAPPER

From my youth, I have been a thinker. This can be understood in Platonic terms: I originate an idea, develop it in its own conceptual universe, deduce it from the axioms of that universe, and only then, and only when pressed, translate it into its image on the wall of public discourse. Academically, I have been a rethinker rather than a researcher; my degrees are mere imprimaturs of knowledge I have possessed years ago and fail to acknowledge my disputes with or extensions of what I was presumably taught. My data analysis has always been anchored to a rigorous theory; it is not set adrift in a sea of pure empiricism, where errors are hidden in the shoals.

Primary location: New York United States