Cosmo Frenning, Ph.D
Professor of Philosophical Arts and Sciences
Cosmo was born ironically to hateful parents during the tumultuous summer of love. He received his PhD in Vulgar Philosophies in 2000 from the prestigious International School of Impervious Studies at Western States University.
His undergraduate major in the post modern literature of dead languages had failed to lead him to reasonable employment in the private sector. So after working for several years outside of academia in his own home pharmaceutical sales concern, he returned to school to complete his education and then sought work as a professor.
He joined the university after completing post doctoral work here as a research assistant during the well known experiments in modes of accidental learning, which he later serendipitously discovered were highly flawed. His own personal motto is: Ad astra per absurdo - "to the stars by the absurd"
Among the Publications of Professor Frenning are two books: "Getting Your Head Around the World" & "Self Proofs and Party Tricks for Existentialists".
He has also published numerous scholarly articles, a partial list of which includes:
- Experiential Learning in Alternative Realities, Journal of Applied Self Reference (2000)
- Emotional Deficit Spending, Journal of Cultural Finance (2000)
- Enlightenment – Knowing the Plural Through Knowing the Singular, Dharma Handbook Autumn Edition (2001)
- Truthfulness and Reliability of Certain Shades of Blue, Journal of Abstract Personification (2004)
- Actualization of the Absurd, Journal of Applied Serendipity (2005)
- Probabilistic Understanding of Potential Sciences, Monthly Future Review (2006)
Among the classes which have been taught by Professor Frenning are:
- Pluralist Angst in Existential Paradigms
- The Use and Usefulness of Gender Studies
- Everything is One Thing – sections I, II and III
- Query, Response and Dispute Systems Analysis
- Impassioned Stoicism
- Life vs. Death vs. Other – Studies in Possible Realities
- Descriptive Calculus of Probabilistic Occurrences
- Motivations in Humanist Theology
- Rhetoric in Polyauthoritative Paradigms
