Richard Grego - Infinite Discoveries

Mathematics, Science, Self-awareness, and the Spurious Promise of Certainty

By Richard Grego World Philosophies & Religions

An interesting recent Templeton Foundation commentary, "Is There a God-Shaped Hole at the Center of Mathematics", observes that since the inception of western philosophy in Plato’s thought several millennia ago,…

TED Talks and the Disenchantment of the World

By Richard Grego World History

January 27th, 2023 In a fascinating article that summarizes an important theme from his recent book, journalist Curtis White laments a particularly ominous aspect of contemporary post-modern, bourgeois, technocratic, scientistic,…

The “anti-realist” Quandary of Contemporary Physics, and Panpsychism to the Rescue

By Richard Grego World Philosophies & Religions

Bjorn Ekeberg’s book “Metaphysical Experiments” presents an interesting “anti-realist” perspective on current physics and cosmology. The author points out how subatomic physics posits models of reality (described in terms of…

Zionism’s Hostility Toward Postmodern Thought as Another Example of Contemporary ‘Moral Panic’?

By Richard Grego Cross Cultural Traditions, Conflict Resolution

A recent article by a scholar at the National Library of Israel, offers some important commentary on the influence of “postmodernism” in contemporary religion, literature, art, and the social sciences,…