Richard Grego - Infinite Discoveries

Moral Development, Delayed Gratification, and WEIRD Psychology

By Richard Grego Cross Cultural Traditions

July 1st, 2022 Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel’s famous and oft-referenced “marshmallow experiment” (1960’s --1990) appeared to confirm a very valuable and common sense intuition about the nature and development of…

Descartes, Foucault, and Confucius on Individual and Relational Identity: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

By Richard Grego Cross Cultural Traditions, World Philosophies & Religions

May 21st, 2022 The idea of self-identity as ‘relational’ (inseparable and indistinguishable from the many psycho-social roles, forces, and interactions which comprise it), rather than independent or individual, may seem…

Fitting the Square Peg of Free Will and Personal Responsibility into the Round Hole of a Deterministic Physical World?

By Richard Grego World Philosophies & Religions

April 28th, 2022 Physicalism (also called “materialism” in contemporary western philosophy of mind), a philosophical theory which contends that reality consists entirely of physical entities and forces understood exclusively in…

Guru Gobind Singh and Sikhism’s Philosophical Bequest to Modern Political Values

By Richard Grego World History

April 1st 2022 The advent of Baisakhi (celebrated in mid-April and one of my favorite holidays) commemorates, among other things, the life and achievements of Gobind Singh, the Tenth Guru…