Philosophy of Life: Some Propositions
A narrow-minded person always finds faults in others and indulges in blame games.
Descartes, Foucault, and Confucius on Individual and Relational Identity: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
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?
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…
Irreconcilable Differences: Western Materialist Science and the Attempt to Naturalize Asian Religion
March 1st, 2022 Speaking on behalf of the popular current movement among (mainly western) intellectuals to ‘naturalize’ Buddhism, renowned philosopher and apologist for a scientistic, ‘materialist’ approach to western metaphysics,…