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Personal. I was born in 1986 in northern Minnesota, a cold and strange land nicely captured by the film and TV show Fargo. I moved states when I was 14, and attended a public school and university in Iowa City, a special place that I miss; to the right is an amusing picture from high school. As an undergraduate, I acquired the name 'Kurt Ludwig Sylvan', lived in the basement of a bookshop, and worked in several bookshops, the Iowa Law Library, a Procter & Gamble factory, and the Iowa Law, Health Policy, and Disability Center. I moved to New Brunswick, New Jersey in 2008 for graduate school at Rutgers. When I wasn’t working on philosophy, I went to New York City to take bad pictures, imagining at first that it was the New York in which the Velvet Underground flourished, but eventually realizing it was instead the New York of American Psycho. Since 2014 I’ve lived in Southampton, England.
My brilliant and wonderful partner Kate Sylvan is a dual UK/American citizen who was born in Southampton (though we met in New Jersey). In late September 2016, we were thrilled to bring home our first kid, Edward ('Teddy') Felix Sylvan. At present, his favorite things are stories, small animals, rocks, imagining himself performing everyday adult tasks ('I'm going to Sainsbury's to pick up blueberries for baby Al'), and asking 'Why?' in odd cases which end up making me sound anti-philosophical. (Example Dialogue. Me: 'That's a chair.' Teddy: 'Why?' Me: 'It has a certain function, namely, [blah blah blah].' Teddy: 'Why?' Me: 'That is its nature.' Teddy: 'Why?' Me: 'It just is its nature!') On May 12th 2019, we had our second kid, Albert ('Baby Al' or 'Bertie') Ernest Sylvan. So far his favorite thing is sleeping and his least favorite thing is being changed. In due course, I'll have an equal number of pictures of him, but for now you can see two, one from September (bigger), and one from late May (very small). We also have a cat (Seneca) from the New Jersey street. We are trying our best not to relegate him to the margins of the household, though he has fallen to the bottom of this page. 
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