Although most songwriters are philosophers of sorts, Dave Nachmanoff earned his doctorate in the subject.
Which may explain why Nachmanoff, who comes Saturday to Topeka to perform a Last Minute Folk concert, titled his current album “Spinoza’s Dream” and filled it with tracks whose lyrics reference the likes of Kant, Camus, Sartre, Kierkegaard, Aristotle and Leibniz, among other great thinkers.