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Systems engineer, philosopher, writer.
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Quantum Mechanics: Wave-Particle Duality and Uncertainty
Following the intellectual bread crumbs of Albert Einstein, let’s try to understand how his revolutionary ideas and theories of universal gravitation, the notion of spacetime, the establishment of the equivalence of mass and energy, the necessary condition of the existence… Read More ›
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Albert Einstein: Spacetime and Relativity Theory
As we trace the intellectual developments through beyond Middle Ages into and beyond the Enlightenment Era, we find that reason and logic, referred to more specifically as rationalism and empiricism, become the predominant intellectual building blocks of scientific inquiry, what had been… Read More ›
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The Metaphysics of Morality: Kantian Cognitive Ontology
The Enlightenment no doubt represents one of the most transformative periods in the history of civilization. While it was primarily an intellectual (really philosophical) movement, with a locus in 8th century Europe, it is rooted in intellectual developments that took… Read More ›
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Chasing Ghosts. The real story…
A conversation about my work with Susan Sherayko. New medium, podcast. Listen here. Book available at Amazon (and also Kindle format) here.
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The Age of Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Science
Ever since the dawn of civilization mankind has created mythological, semantic and metaphysical paradigms within which the nature of existence and knowledge itself, along with the underlying order of the heavens and the earth and all its creatures within it,… Read More ›
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The Beginning: Charlie and the Dream
He was on this monstrous bridge. It didn’t connect one place to another place though, as bridges normally do. It just existed in space. In this magnificent, neverending sky. A sky that surrounds the bridge. A sky that surrounded everything…. Read More ›
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Islamic Philosophy: Allāh as the Final Cause
One cannot properly explore the evolution of metaphysics and theology in Western civilization and its metamorphosis into science, without having some level of understanding of its development and evolution after the so-called fall of the Roman Empire through the Middle Ages,… Read More ›
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Early Christian Theology: Jesus, Gnosis, and Logos
With the Hellenic philosophic tradition and culture firmly planted in the Mediterranean in the last few centuries BCE and the first century CE, we see a drastic shift in theological and philosophical thought as sages, mystics and philosophers alike try to… Read More ›
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The Seeds of Christianity: The Hellenization of Judaism
Two of the most influential Greek philosophical traditions in antiquity, in both the Hellenic period as well as the period of Roman influence and domination, were Stoicism and Epicureanism, the former of which exerted considerable influence on early Christian theology, which in… Read More ›
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Stoicism: Naturalism, Corporealism and Logos
In the period of philosophical development that arose as the influence of the Greek culture bled into the period of Roman/ Latin dominance in the Mediterranean and Near East, both the Stoic as well as the Epicurean philosophic schools rose… Read More ›
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Aristotle’s Metaphysics: Causality and Theology in Antiquity
Aristotle is arguably one of, if not the, most influential philosophers in the history of Western civilization, outlining in painstaking detail not only a fully formed and comprehensive system of reason and logic, but also a comprehensive system metaphysics, what some… Read More ›
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Hellenic Theo-Philosophy: From Mythos to Logos
So from what intellectual and socio-political and cultural context did the works and schools of Plato and Aristotle emerge? Where did their ideas come from, even if they are altogether unique in their language, tenets and ideas and even if… Read More ›
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The Indo-Europeans: The Grandparents of Philosophy
There has been and continues to be much scholarly debate as to what extent the classical Greek philosophical tradition, what we call Hellenic philosophy herein, which classically begins with a study of the so-called “Pre-Socratics”, the bulk of which are… Read More ›
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Logos from Mythos: The Heart of Eurasian Philosophy
At some level, a religious tradition can be thought of as distinguished by, or even defined by, its creation story – i.e. its cosmological narrative – and the Hindu/Vedic tradition is no different in this regard although it has many… Read More ›
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Indo-European Philosophy: On the Soul
There are many parallels that can be drawn between early Hellenic and Upanishadic philosophy. In particular, we find many similarities between the philosophy presented by Plato in his Middle Period as he developed and fine-tuned his theory of forms – in particular… Read More ›
