The Religion & Culture Web Forum
October 2006
Contributor Biography
Improvisation And Ethics:
Improvising Music, Improvising Ethics
Daniel Groll is a 5th year Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He received a B.A. in Philosophy and a B.Mus. in Jazz Performance from McGill University and has played in several jazz groups in Montreal, Prince Edward Island and Chicago, including the University of Chicago’s Jazz X-tet. Daniel also hosted a jazz show for three years on WHPK 88.5 FM, the “Pride of the South Side.” He is currently taking a break from jazz and performing with Chicago singer/songwriter John Lennox (www.johnlennox.com). While he remains interested in the nature of improvisation and its connection to various areas of life, Daniel’s dissertation concerns the interrelation of autonomy, choice, and practical reason. For more information on this and other work, see here.
Carl Joakim Gagnon is a student in the Ph.D. program
in history at Columbia University and an amateur penny-whistler, flutist
and ex-saxophone player. He holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge
and a BA in history and philosophy from McGill University, where he published
a piece on philosophical aesthetics.
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