Turner Tales, Essays, and Quatroons

About the Book

The tales in this collection are those of an inveterate insomniac. The characters, and their predicaments, come on stage when the lights are not quite focused, the cues still muffled from the curtains of fantasy. Perhaps it is fitting. My pretensions to competence, if such there were, are in the philosophy of science, where the debate was and continues to be: how much is invention and how much is real. ’Tis no different in my insomniac excursions.Those characters that come into focus? Some are invention, some are real.

About the Author

Merle Turner (1917-2005) enjoyed an academic career teaching Psychology and the Philosophy of Science. He styled himself a "romantic realist" and he loved language. He held degrees from Willamette, Stanford and the University of Colorado, Boulder and was Professor Emeritus of San Diego State University. He took early retirement from SDSU to sail his Garden Ketch to New Zealand. But he never retired from yachting or writing. He is the author of Philosophy and the Science of Behavior, Psychology and the Philosophy of Science, Realism and the Explanation of Behavior, Knot of Not: The Mind Body Problem, Celestial and the Cruising Navigator, Tornado and other Tales of Quandary, How we Lose Friends and Alienate People, and two collections of Quatroons (quatrains illustrated y a cartoon).