LOGICAL PHILOSOPHY (entire book)

THEOLOGY, 2008

THEOLOGY is about God and Creation, or more precisely perhaps about our ideas of them, how they are formed and somewhat justified, although it is stressed that they can be neither proved nor disproved. This book is a thematic compilation drawn from past works by the author over a period of thirteen years. A new essay was added in 2022.

THE SELF, 2008

THE SELF is an inquiry into the concepts of self, soul, person, ego, consciousness, psyche and mind – ranging over phenomenology, logic, epistemology, ontology, psychology, spirituality, meditation, ethics and metaphysics. This book is a thematic compilation drawn from past works by the author over a period of eighteen years.

BUDDHIST ILLOGIC, 2002

BUDDHIST ILLOGIC engages in a critical analysis of Nagarjuna's arguments. The 2nd Century CE Indian philosopher Nagarjuna founded the Madhyamika (Middle Way) school of Mahayana Buddhism, which strongly influenced Chinese, Korean and Japanese Buddhism, as well as Tibetan Buddhism. His writings include a series of arguments purporting to show the illogic of logic, the absurdity of reason. He considers this the way to verbalize and justify the Buddhist doctrine of “emptiness” (Shunyata). The present essay demonstrates the many sophistries involved in Nagarjuna’s arguments

RUMINATIONS, 2005

RUMINATIONS is a collection of sundry notes and essays on Logic. These complement and enrich the author’s past writings, further analyzing or reviewing certain issues. Some important new insights are included here, such as the inductive understanding of negation.

LOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS, 2008

LOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS is a collection of six shorter philosophical works, including: Hume’s Problems with Induction; A Short Critique of Kant’s Unreason; In Defense of Aristotle’s Laws of Thought; More Meditations; Zen Judaism; No to Sodom.

PHENOMENOLOGY, 2003

PHENOMENOLOGY is the study of appearance as such. It is a branch of both Ontology and Epistemology, since appearing is being known. By an ‘appearance’ is meant any existent which impinges on consciousness, anything cognized, irrespective of any judgment as to whether it be ‘real’ or ‘illusory.’ The evaluation of a particular appearance as a reality or an illusion is a complex process, involving inductive and deductive logical principles and activities. Opinion has to earn the status of strict knowledge.

INDUCTIVE LOGIC, 2018

INDUCTIVE LOGIC is a ‘thematic compilation’. It collects in one volume many (though not all) of the essays, that the author has written on this subject over a period of some 23 years, which all demonstrate the possibility and conditions of validity of human knowledge, the utility and reliability of human cognitive means when properly used, contrary to the skeptical assumptions that are nowadays fashionable. A new essay, The Logic of Analogy, was added in 2022.

MEDITATIONS, 2006

MEDITATIONS. A meditation is a voluntary exercise intended to increase awareness, sustained over some time. The main purpose of this book is to inspire and assist readers to practice meditation of some sort, and in particular ‘sitting meditation’.

General history of western metaphysics is given (Section 1.1) first then the history of dual-aspect monism is elaborated (Section 1.2). Western metaphysics is summarized in Section 2 along with the speculative comparison with eastern metaphysics. In western metaphysics, we categorize all entities in just two categories: mind and matter. All theist metaphysics, have built-in separability hypothesis between 'soul' and 'body/brain' at the time of death, i.e. mind and matter are NOT inseparable, rather mind and matter can be separated by the process of death and interact by the process of birth and the interaction is maintained during whole life (behaves as if mysteriously inseparable). Thus, they have 7 problems of interactive substance dualism. It is concluded that the 'dual-aspect monism framework with dual-mode and varying degree of dominance of aspects depending on the levels of entities' has the least number of problems compared to all religions and all types of metaphysics.