Robert Trundle’s Homepage
(Robert C. Trundle)
Email trundle@nku.edu
PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder
Full Professor, Philosophy &
Religious Studies
Department of Social Sciences and
Philosophy
Specialization
Positions
Awards,
Recognition
Memberships
Books
Published
Journal
Publications
Philosophical
Views
Sources
Noting My Work
Notes
Specialization
Areas of scholarship include the History of Philosophy,
Phenomenology, Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics. These are applied
creatively to art, aesthetics, business ethics, ethics elsewhere, film,
literature, logic, medicine, politics, science, theology, theological
/scientific considerations of extraterrestrial intelligence etc.
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Positions
High school teacher, state certification in
mathematics and English, Department of Education, Toledo Public Schools,
Toledo, Ohio, part time 1972-74; University
of Colorado at Colorado Springs, instructor, 1982-84; Regis College at Colorado
Springs, adjunct assistant professor, 1982-86; Northern Kentucky University at
Highland Heights, assistant professor starting in 1987, awarded early tenure
and early promotions to both associate and full professor.
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Awards,
Recognition
University of Toledo Teaching Assistantship,
1972-1974; Rice University Fellowship, 1975; Outstanding Junior Professor in
the College of Arts & Sciences for Scholarship and Teaching at Northern
Kentucky University; Invited referee for the following journals — Philosophy of Science (Philosophy of
Science Association), Laval Théologique
et Philosophique (Laval Université), and Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review (official journal of the
Canadian Philosophical Association); Elected to Advisory Board of Sensus Communis: An International Quarterly
for Research on Alethic Logic; Invited as an evaluator for Canada’s most
prestigious scholarly award, the Killam Research Fellowship (directed by
the Canada Council for the Arts).
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Memberships
(past and present)
Include but not limited to Scientific
Research Society of Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, New York Academy of
Sciences, American Philosophical Association, Society for Medieval and
Renaissance Philosophy, Federation of American Scientists, American Association
for the Advancement of Science
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Books
Published
* Beyond
Absurdity: The Philosophy of Albert Camus, with Ramakrishna Puligandla
(1986) Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ISBN
978-0819152268 (hc), ISBN-10 0819152269 (pb)
* Ancient
Greek Philosophy: Its Development and Relevance to our Time (1994) London:
UK, Ashgate Publishing — Avebury Series in Philosophy, ISBN 1-85628-978-8
* Medieval Modal Logic and Science: Augustine
on Scientific Truth and Thomas on its Impossibility Without a First Cause
(1999), University Press of America ISBN 0-7618-1398-5
* From Physics to Metaphysics: The
Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Philosophy (2001, 2nd edition
2003) Transaction Publishers, Rutgers – The State University, 2nd
edition ISBN 0-7658-0901-X
* UFOs: Politics, God and Science — Philosophy
on a Taboo Topic (2001), Florence, Italy: European Press Academic
Publishing (EPAP) ISBN 88-8398-007-7
* Camus’ Answer: “No” to the Western Pharisees
Who Impose Reason on Reality (2002) Eastbourne, UK: Sussex Academic
Press ISBN 1-902210-98-0 (hc), ISBN 1-902210-99-9 (pb)
* Is E.T. Here? No Politically But Yes
Scientifically and Theologically, Victoria, Canada: EcceNova Editions; 1st
edition (2005), ISBN 0-9735341-2-5
* A Theology of Science: From Science to Ethics
to an Ethical Politics (2007, 2nd edition 2009), BrownWalker
Press ISBN-10: 1599424266, ISBN-13: 978-1599424262
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Journal Publications (including but not limited to):
*Logique et Analyse – Belgium
National Centre for Logical Investigation,
*Bulletin
Ind. Institute of the History of Medicine,
*Thought:
A Review of Culture and Idea, *Science and Method: Journal for the Empirical Study of the
Foundations of Science (The Netherlands), *Res Publica – Belgium
Institute of Political Science, *Philosophy in Science
– Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Specola
Vaticana (Vatican Observatory) Papieska Akademia Teologiczna (Pontifical
Academy of Theology) Kraków and Pachart Foundation Tucson,
*Aquinas:
Revista Internazionale di Filosofia (Pontificia
Università Lateranense), *Diálogos: Las Revistas Editadas Por
Universidad de Puerto Rico, *Idealistic Studies: An International
Philosophical Journal, *Studies in Conflict and Terrorism,
*The
Modern Schoolman: A Quarterly Journal of Philosophy, *The National Forum, *Review Journal of Philosophy &
Social Science, *Laval Théologique et Philosophique, *Ethics & Politics / Etica &
Politica, *Sorites
(Σωρίτης): Journal of Analytic Philosophy
– Ed. Lorenzo Peña, Spanish Academy of Sciences Logic-and-Law
Research Group, *Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and
Axiology, *Christian Perspectives on Science and
Technology – The Institute for the Study of Christianity
in an Age of Science and Technology (ISCAST), *Filosofia: International Journal of
Philosophy, *Sensus Communis: An International
Quarterly for Studies and Research on Alethic Logic,
*Augustinus:
Revista Trimestral Publicada Por Los Padres Agustinos Recoletos, *Darshana International,
*Epistemologia:
Italian Journal for the Philosophy of Science, *Journal of Business Ethics
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Philosophical
Views
According to several reviewers (some
noted below), my views tend to be novel, provocative and diverse — ranging in
articles from “Women’s Fashion: Function of Sex or Social Construction?” in Cultura 6.2 (2009) and one on “Global Ethnic
Conflict” in Studies in Conflict and
Terrorism 19 (1996) to “A First Cause & Causal Principle” in Philosophy in Science X (2003) and “Unidentified
Flying Objects in Northern Kentucky” in The Encyclopedia
of Northern Kentucky (University Press of Kentucky, 2009). I have authored
approximately sixty professional articles and books. In regard to books, my first, Beyond Absurdity: The Philosophy of Albert Camus,
written with R. Puligandla, relates Camus to Eastern thought, especially to Nâgârjuna. While the Nâgârjunian element
continued in my next book on Camus, Camus'
Answer: “No" to the Western Pharisees Who Impose Reason on Reality,
the latter sought both to render compatible a realism with Eastern thought and
to preserve an account of Camus’ rebellion against murderous ideologies of
Western intellectuals. A Choice
magazine book review stated, "A fine explanation of the various meanings
of Camus' concept of the absurd. A useful introduction to Camus'
thought."[1] And a scholarly reviewer for Paragon House publishers praised
the book by noting, “it is rather unique and represents a kind of scholarship that
very view even try to, let alone succeed at, engage in. On the whole, the
discussion of Camus is informative and is nicely connected both to Western
philosophy and Eastern accents.”[2]
My book Ancient Greek Philosophy: Its Development and Relevance to Our Time
addresses a logical continuity of developing ideas of many Pre-Socratics,
including Thales, Heraclitus, Parmenides, the Sophists and Atomists, through
Plato and Aristotle. It considers how their ideas bear on perplexing ideas and
dynamic events of our time. Today’s controversies, from ethics ignoring human
nature to gender roles in the military and relativism in science, are discussed
in sidebar columns. The columns consider enduring questions that relate, if not
suggest prolific responses to, the controversies by Pre-Socratic notions of how
metaphysics and physics interface, Plato's moral theory and Aristotle's unique
insights on how ethics, art and politics are rooted in our psycho-biological
nature. Dr. Ralph McInerny, Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at
the University of Notre Dame, stated, “The high level of historical and
philosophical discussion is admirable, yet eminently accessible."[3] And
Professor Konstantine Boudouris, Chair of Philosophy at the University of
Athens and Editor of The Greek
Philosophical Review, who reviewed the book (below in Greek) stated that
the book is “very important.”[4]
In my next
book Medieval Modal Logic and Science,
I draw on the history of philosophy and philosophy of science to consider St.
Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine in terms of modal logic. Having its roots in
Aristotle, this logic came to include modalities of necessity and possibility
other than strictly logical ones. But due to cultural traumas of the scientific
revolution and Reformation, I argue, those modalities were ignored at the dawn
of modern philosophy. In their absence philosophers were unable to articulate
how "truth" is ascribable to scientific theories, much less to a
presupposed causal principle that, strictly implying a first cause, may render
sound a cosmological proof. I seek to show how this proof and science are
related logically — revealing that today’s creationism-evolution debates tend
to commit a straw man fallacy by addressing a supernatural God as opposed to a
God of Nature, although the two are compatible in my findings. My findings are
applied to a revitalized naturalistic ethics, theology, science and politics.
In regard to the politics etc being considered modally, my work was
acknowledged by Dr. Julian Deahl, a notable European logician and Senior Editor
at Brill, who stated "you need no introduction as I had come across some
of your articles on scholastic logic (my own field)."[5] And profound
implications of the book were noted both by J. Roland Ramirez, PhD – Institut
Catholique de Paris, who said “The many questions raised by Trundle are matters
from which any present-day thinker…
concerned with the present or future of any philosophy or of any science could
seriously benefit” and by Dr. David Lamb of England's Birmingham Medical School
who asserted that the book’s "range of case studies from geology and
medical science to biology and physics... is first rate philosophy of
science.”[6]
In my book From Physics to Politics: The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern
Philosophy, this philosophy is related to political ideology. The ideology
stems in part from later Greek and medieval modal truths being confused with a
truth-less metaphysics by modern philosophers, Yale University logician Ruth
Barcan Marcus noting sardonically “No metaphysical mysteries.”[7] The mysteries
were exacerbated by modern philosophy since it tended to either replace
"truth" by notions such as "verisimilitude" (Sir Karl
Popper) or, earlier, hold that “truth” originates in superior men (fascism) and
dominating classes (Marxism). Given an ensuing skepticism and predictable
stress on practical applications of philosophy in order to avoid knotty
epistemological problems (Marx famously stating that philosophy should not
merely interpret the world but change it), "truth" was largely politicized
via naked political ideology and a surreptitious political correctness. Popper,
I note, did himself express grave concern about this irrationality leading to
relativism. With respect to the relativism Peter Redpath states that I show how
these events, which left over 100 million persons dead in the twentieth
century, had the net effect of subordinating logic and science to ideological
dreams: "Fascism, Nazism, Marxism, political correctness, and moral
relativism are actually essential acts, not historical aberrations,"
adding that my work “is groundbreaking and daring with widespread
ramifications. [Trundle’s] argument transcends the domains of logic and
scientific method,” extending “to metaphysics and the history of
philosophy.”[8]
My most provocative works are those on
extraterrestrial intelligence and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), including
the book Is ET Here: "No"
Politically But Yes Scientifically and Theologically. Nonetheless, Chair of
the Philosophy Department at Tulane University (now Professor of Philosophy and
Director of Humanities at the University of Colorado), Dr. Michael Zimmerman,
stated, “With his knowledge of the philosophy of science, epistemology and
logic,” Trundle erodes “the justifications used by many mainstream scientists,
journalists and opinion-shapers when they ignore or attack credible testimony…
of artificial flying objects not produced by human beings.” He adds, “This
well-written book will appeal especially to those interested in a
philosophically and technically sophisticated treatment."[9] Indeed, the
treatment relates to astonishing scientific advances, such as light-pulse
experiments by NEC physicists at Princeton, that may soon bear on interstellar
space travel in a relatively short time. If this timely travel may be feasible
for us, the feasibility proceeds pari
passu for more advanced non-human craft as well — rendering plausible
reports of reliable witnesses and films of the phenomena that some leading
scientists acknowledge, if not many major G8 governments.[10] Taken with a
Principle of Pessimistic Induction in the philosophy of science whereby
reasoning inductively from past scientific theories indicates that superseding
theories rendered possible alleged impossibilities, a reasonable pessimism is
warranted about the absolute truth of any current theory that excludes the
travel. In terms of the travel this principle does not mean that the theories
are false but rather that their truth is restricted to various domains, as a
domain of Newton is restricted to phenomena not approaching the speed of light
and where Planck’s constant is negligible. And so due to a limited domain of
Einstein's theory (not that it necessarily excludes the travel possibility),
pessimism is reasonable about the truth inter
alia of a supposed speed-of-light barrier that excludes ET's presence.
Coupled with witnesses, film, radar data, government documents released by the
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other evidence, a reasonable belief in
the possible, if not likely, presence is supported. In virtue of
this support’s influence, Fate
magazine (published since 1948) named me one of the 100 most influential people
on the subject in 2005.[11]
My varied and provoking research is illustrated also by A Theology of Science: From Science to Ethics
to an Ethical Politics which suggests that a liberal epistemology and
ontology of natural theology, if not a theology of traditional Judeo
Christianity, creatively fosters novel ways for defending a strong scientific
realism, not a mere reality of many theoretic entities but also for true laws
or theories in terms of which the entities are understood. In understanding
theories as conjunctive propositions composed of laws to which “truth” is
ascribable, the ascriptions are initially rendered tenable by an epistemic
modality whereby, despite Popper’s truth-functional conditional for alone
falsifying theories, theories that make systematically true predictions in
given domains strictly imply a truth of the theories: How can theories be
entirely false when they systematically predict the phenomena? Unless the
phenomena were reflected with approximate truth by the theories, how in
principle could the theories predict the phenomena? And a notion that phenomena
are theory-dependent wherein observational predictions cannot imply a theory’s
truth since predictions presuppose theories (per Feyerabend, Kuhn, Popper etc)
is avoided by a phenomenology of consciousness wherein we have a non-epistemic
/ non-conceptual consciousness of phenomena. Thus although observed phenomena
may be theory laden, this does not obviate a limited observational truth by
which the reasoning is tenable. Several tenable insights inspired by theology,
permitting paradox or contradiction, bear on the philosophy of science in terms
of an Underdetermination-of-Theory-by-Data (UTD) Thesis. The Thesis, used to
undercut scientific realism, specifies that data afford logically inconsistent
but empirically equivalent theories that equally predict or explicate the data.
But this appeal to data is a false dilemma. For just as theology has
perennially acknowledged logically inconsistent realities by virtue of there
being no contradiction in saying that reality need not abide by the principle
of non-contradiction, such as God being One and not One (Triune) or our
existence being triune and not triune (one) per St. Augustine [12], the data
may be composed of inconsistent predicates, as light may be a wave and non-wave
(particle) per Victor de Broglie’s particle-wave equation [13]. The point is
that scientific realism mandates reasoning from reality to our ideas and not
imposing ideas, even principles of logic, on reality. This realism is related
to ethics. In The Review of Metaphysics
(Sep 2008) Tom Michaud said, “This book is one of those exceptional works which is both
challenging in its philosophical sophistication and edifying in its moral
argumentation,” adding that “[Trundle] logically dismantles the problems, and
then offers a strategy for correcting the course of science so that it can
properly establish ethics and inform politics. His strategy succeeds
brilliantly.”[14] The strategy includes reasoning from a true causal principle,
expressed as an alethic modality, to a first cause or creator who creates our
psycho-biological nature as it should be. Leaning on scholars such as Peter
Kreeft for this normative relation of a first cause to our nature, a
naturalistic ethics may be inferred for fulfilling our nature with no
naturalistic fallacy. The fallacy, accepted axiomatically by academics who
construe Hume’s rants against religion as part of his “critical thought,” may
not only be averted but also obstacles to inferring a moral politics that
institutionalizes the ethics (ethical and political claims being as true as
scientific descriptions of our psycho-biological nature that inform those
claims). After praising the book, Peter Redpath cautions that it is bold and
daring: “It is not for the
faint-hearted. It pulls no punches. Trundle is not Dale Carnegie. Many
academics will not like it since it accurately exposes them as charlatans in
ways that are difficult, if not impossible, to refute.”[15]
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Sources
Noting My Work (Partial List):
National
Center for Biotechnology Information (NCIB), A Service of the US National Library
of Medicine and National Institutes of Health
(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17154115) lists my article and abstract,
coauthored with Michael Vossmeyer, M.D., “Sex revolution and psychosocial
disorder,” Bulletin Ind. Institute of the
History of Medicine 33(2): 129-148.
Ella Christopherson (Ed),
“The ‘Female’ Question,” Omnivore 19 Jan 2010
(New York, Artforum International per http://www.bookforum.com) cites and
includes a PDF of my article “Women’s Fashion: Function of Sex or Social
Construction?” Cultura: International
Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology 6.2 (2009) 46-67.
Claudia von Collani’s Biography
of Thomas Aquinas, encyclopedia/en/ thomasAquinas, 2009, lists my book Medieval
modal logic & science: Augustine on Scientific Truth and Thomas on Its
Impossibility Without a First Cause (Lanham: UPA, 1999).
Fifty
Years of Philosophy: A Select Bibliography, 1955-2005 (Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2007) by Andy F. Sanders & Kristof De
Ridder, lists my articles “Cosmological Proof: Integrating Theology,
Science, Ethics and Politics,” Sensus
Communis 3/3 (2002) 185-208 and “Thomas’ 2nd Way: A Defense by
Modal Scientific Reasoning,” Logic et
Analysis v.146 (1994) 145-168.
Thomistica.
An Internat. Yearbook of Thomistic Bibliography, Bonn 2006 (2007) ff. lists my article “St. Thomas
and modal logic: On Wittgenstein's and Heidegger's Possibility," Aquinas 38 (1995) 223-248. See http://wissen.spiegel.de/wissen/dokument/50/44/dokument,
2009.
PhilPapers
– Online Research in Philosophy, by
D. Bourget and David Chalmers of the Center for Consciousness (http://philpapers.org,
2009) lists my book Medieval Modal Logic & Science
(1999).
Reetta
Eiranen’s “Absurdin Filosofiaa: Albert Camus’n Käsityksiä
Inhimillisestä Olemisesta,” Hybris:
Esseistis – Asiallinen Historialehti 1/2009 (Tampere University,
Department of History & Philosophy) cites my book, with R. Puligandla, Beyond Absurdity (1986).
National
Criminal Justice Ref. Service, Administrated by the Office of Justice Programs,
US Dept. of Justice (2008), http://www.ncjrs.gov, lists and summarizes my article
“Has Global Ethnic Conflict Superseded Cold War Ideology?” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 19.1, 1996.
Tom Michaud’s
“Critiquing Politically Correct Justice”
(7th International Congress on the Future of Western Civilization, 16
April 2008, at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) cites and
quotes my book A Theology of Science:
“As Robert Trundle explains, ‘when truth is politicized, there is a political
correctness whereby what is correct may be false in respect to empirical
reality…’ [His] explanation of PC exposes its pernicious epistemological
implications…”
The Review of Metaphysics 62 (2008) #245, review of my book A Theology of Science by Tom Michaud,
states: “one of those exceptional works which is both challenging in its
philosophical sophistication and edifying in its moral argumentation… [Trundle]
offers a strategy for correcting the course of science so that it can properly
establish ethics and inform politics. His strategy succeeds brilliantly.”
Dr. Rolando
Gripaldo’s “Religion, ethics & the meaning of life” Asian Journal of Humanities 15 (2008) 27-40 (http://myais.fsktm.um.edu) cites my article “A
scientific proof of God and its import for society” Sophia (Σοφία): International Journal of Philosophy 28 (1998-99)
1–130.
Dr. John Haas’
“Christian Apologetics and Science,” The
American Scientific Affiliation (2008) www.asa3.org/asa/topics/Apologetics/index,
includes my article as a pdf: "A First Cause and the Causal Principle,” Philosophy in Science X (2003) pp.
107-135.
Dr. John Haas’ “Current Ethical Issues in Science,” The American Scientific Affiliation (http://www.asa3.org/asa/topics/ethics/default,
2008) includes my article as a pdf: "Sex Revolution and Psychosexual
Disorder” in Bulletin Ind.
Institute of the History of Medicine 33 (2003).
Abstracts index: Sociology & social work (http://www.faqs.org,
2008) lists and abstracts my
article “Has Global Ethnic Conflict Superseded Cold-War Ideology?” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
19(1996) 93-107.
Verlag T.
Bautz’s Biographisch-Bibliographisches,
WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig Jose Johann (http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/w/wittgenstein_l_j_j,
2008) lists my article “St. Thomas and modal logic: On Wittgenstein's and
Heidegger's Possibility", Aquinas
38.2 (1995) 223-248.
Verlog T. Bautz’s
Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, THOMAS VON AQUIN O.P. (www.bautz.de/bbkl,
2008) lists my article “Thomas’ 2nd and 3rd Ways by Modern
Science,” Aquinas: Revista Internazionale
di Filosofia, Vol. 42.3 (1999) 541-548.
“Promise and Problems of Modern Science” in The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. (Columbia University
Press, 2007) lists both my book A Theology of Science: From Science to
Ethics to an Ethical Politics (2007) and its review in The Review of Metaphysics.
“Naturalistic
Fallacy” in Encyclopedia Britannica | Date: 2007, (www. encyclopedia.com/doc/1B1-373129)
cites the Fallacy’s criticism per a review of my book A Theology of Science (2007) in The
Review of Metaphysics (1 Sep 2008) by Prof Thomas Michaud.
Michael
S. Jones’ The Metaphysics of Religion: Lucian
Blaga and Contemporary Philosophy (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
2006) notes on page 65 that Lucian Blaga, a 20th-century
European philosopher who was suppressed by the Romanian Socialist Republic,
states that “for humans, metaphysics is unavoidable” and that “This seems to be
one of the main points of Robert C. Trundle Jr’s recent book From Physics to Politics: The Metaphysical
Foundations of Modern Philosophy (Transaction Publishers, 1999 ).” See
books.google.com, 2008.
Stuart Brown, Diané Collinson and Robert Wilkinson’s One Hundred Twentieth-Century Philosophers (Routledge, 1999) cites as a source my book Beyond
Absurdity (1986), coauthored with R. Puligandla.
Augustine
Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia (Wm.
B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1999) by A. D. Fitzgerald, OSU — Augustinian Patristic
Institute, Rome, and Editor of Augustinian
Studies at Villanova University, lists two of my articles on pages 59
and 885: "St. Augustine's Epistemology: Ignored Aristotelian Themes and
Their Intriguing Implications," Laval
Théologique et Philosophique 50 (1994) and "St. Augustine's On Free
Choice of Will: Prologue to 20th Century Meaning," Augustinus 38 (1993). See
books.google.com, 2008.
Michael John’s Moral
Philosophy Lecture: Philo 12 (University of Santo Tomas) cites my book
Ancient Greek Philosophy: Its Development
and Relevance to our Time (tamayaosbc.files.wordpress.
com/2008/07/moral-philosophy-lecture-i.doc)
Sarah Mahinthan et al’s Existential
Questions Raised in Never Let Me Go (Copenhagen: Roskilde University, 2008) http://rudar.ruc.dk/ handle, cite my book Beyond Absurdity: The Philosophy of Albert
Camus (UPI, 2006) written with R. Puligandla,.
Wabash Center For Teaching & Learning in Theology & Religion
(funded by Lilly Endowment Inc.) Wabash College, 2008, lists my book A
Theology of Science: From Science to Ethics to an Ethical Politics (2007).
C.H. Hu et al’s “The Role of Abductive Reasoning
in Cognitive-Based Assessment” Elementary
Education Online 7.2 (2008) 310-322, cite my book Ancient Greek Philosophy: Its Development and Relevance to Our Time
(1994).
Modern Greek Philosophy Research Centre (2008), University of Ioannina, Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy & Psychology (Director:
Konstantinos TH. Petsios), lists my book Ancient
Greek Philosophy: Its Development & Relevance to Our Time (1994).
Scientific
Commons at Switzerland’s University of St. Gallen (2008), Institute for Media & Communications
Management, makes reference to my PhD Dissertation Scientific Realism and Existential Phenomenology (1984) at the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
BioInfoBank
Library (lib.bioinfo.pl/auth:Trundle,R
- 2008) lists my article with Michael Vossmeyer, M.D., “Sex revolution and
psychosocial disorder: a historical perspective on the delusion of medical
neutrality,” Bulletin Ind. Inst. History
of Medicine 33.2: 129-48 17154115 (P,S,E,B).
“First Cause Argument,” New World
Encyclopedia, Ed. Frank Kaufmann et al, Managed by Paragon House Publishers
(2008), lists my book Medieval Modal
Logic and Science (1999) as a reference.
Logic
Bibliography Up To 2008 –
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, by Dr. L. Geldsetzer, under the category Scholastics, lists my article “St. Thomas’ Modal Logic: Did
Wittgenstein and Heidegger Embrace it?” Idealistic
Studies 26 (1996) 79-99.
Dr.
William Huitt (Department of Psychology at Valdosta State University), Becoming A Brilliant Star: Philosophy of
Education (http://chiron. valdosta.edu,
2007) recommends my article “Paradoxes of human nature” Etica & Politica IX (2007) 181-186.
W.J. Hankey,
Carnegie Professor of Classics and Editor of Dionysius at Dalhousie University, “From Metaphysics to History” (delivered to the Collège de France,
Oct. 12-13, 1992: La Réception de la pensée d’Étienne Gilson dans la
philosophe contemporaine en France), cites my article “Twentieth-Century
Despair & Thomas’ Sound Argument for God,” Laval Thêologique et philosophique 52 (1996), online Sept 2007.
William
Huitt’s “Human Nature” Educational
Psychology Interactive, (August 2007) recommends my article
“Paradoxes of Human Nature,” Etica &
Politica / Ethics & Politics, IX (2007) 181-186. See http://chiron.
valdosta.edu/whuitt/brilstar/brilsphl.html.
“Intentional Robots: Design of a Goal-Seeking
Environment-Driven Agent,” by Dr. R. Manzotti (Computer System Sciences at
Genoa University, Italy – research supported by The Italian Space Agency and
European Union) cites my article “Existentialism & Phenomenology:
The Overlooked Bases of Scientific Realism,” Epistemologia: Italian Journal for the Philosophy of Science XIII
(1990) 279-302.
The Korean Bio-information
Center, affiliated with the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and
Biotechnology, cites my book Ancient Greek Philosophy (1994) in its
discussion of “Abduction” (bvio.com/index.php/ Abductive_reasoning, 2007).
Joseph
Tiangco’s “Sûnyata, Postmodern Self and the Great Satori,” International
Conference on Unity and Diversity in Religion & Culture (Organized by the
UNESCO Chair on Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions) www.networkforpeace.org, 2007, makes three
citations to my book Camus’ Answer: “No”
to the Western Pharisees (Sussex Academic Press, 2002).
Transparency
International of the Czech Republic (TIC), a Non-Governmental Organization to
Monitor Corruption, online 2007 at Odborná Literatura a Prameny (www.Transparency.CZ/Vivaetika/Infocen
trum/Prameny/T.htm) – lists my article “Is There Any Ethics in Business
Ethics?” The Journal of Business Ethics
8 (1989) 261-269.
John C.
Attig’s John Locke Bibliography: A Comprehensive Listing of Publications by and
About John Locke (Pennsylvania
State University, 2007) lists my article "St. Augustine's
Epistemology: Ignored Aristotelian Themes and Their Intriguing
Implications," Laval Théologique et
Philosophique, Université Laval
50.1 (1994) 187-205.
CNRS - Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique (Institute
for Scientific & Technical Information - France), 2006, lists
my résumé and article “First Cause & Causal Principle: How the principle
binds theology to science,” Philosophy in
Science X (2003) 107-135.
Yves Le Juen’s Readings for Existentialism at the Sussex
Language Institute (University of Sussex), 2006, lists my book Beyond Absurdity (1986) coauthored with
R. Puligandla.
Dr. Daniel
Remenyi’s “So You Want to be an Academic Researcher in Business and Management
Studies! Where Do You Start and What are the Key Philosophical Issues to Think
About?” Henley Research 9531 (1995) 1-28, www.wlv.ac.uk/PDF/ (2006), Henley Management College
and Dept. of Information Systems, Witwatersrand University, Africa, cites
my book Ancient Greek Philosophy
(1994).
Raymond
Gay-Crosier’s Selective and Cumulative
Bibliography of Recent Studies on Albert Camus [2006], Dept. of Romance
Languages & Literature (University of Florida), lists my
book Camus’ Answer: “No” to the Western
Pharisees (2003).
Dr. Omid
Nodoushani’s “The Problems and Prospects of Postmodern Management Discourse,” Management Learning 27.3 (1996) 359-381, cites my
article "Business, Ethics and Business Ethics: 2nd Thoughts on the
Business-Ethics Revolution," Thought
66.262 (1991) 297-309, per http://mlq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/27/3/359,
2006.
Nelson
Phillips’ “The Sociology of Knowledge: An Existential View of Business Ethics” Journal of Business Ethics 10 (1991)
787-795, cites my
article “Is There Any Ethics in Business Ethics?” Journal of Business Ethics 8(1989), www.springerlink.com.content/t820859442839r00/,
2006.
“Abductive
Reasoning,” About, Inc. (New York
Times Co) refers to my book Ancient
Greek Philosophy in the main body of its discussion at its online
Encyclopedia (http://experts.about.com, 2006).
Dr. Chong Ho Yu’s
“Abduction, Deduction & Induction: Applications in Quantitative Methods,” The
American Educational Research Journal (AERA), Washington DC, Vol. 43 (2006)
cites my book Ancient Greek Philosophy:
Its Development and Relevance to Our Time (1994).
Joseph
Tiangco’s “Intellectual Schisms in Philippine Psychology are Schisms of the
Self: Meditations from an East-West Comparative Stand-point,” Asian
Journal of Social Science 33.2
(2005) 295-318, cites and quotes my book Camus’ Answer: “No” to the Western Pharisees who Impose Reason on
Reality (2003).
Dr. M. Becht
and Dr. A. Raffelt (Universität Freiburg), “Martin Heidegger,” Sekundärliteratur (Zeitschriftenaufsätze
und Buchbeiträge) 1990ç-1999 (www.ub.uni-freiburg.de/referate) list
my articles “St. Augustine's on free choice of the will” in Augustínus 38–1993 and “St. Thomas on
Wittgenstein and Heidegger” in Giornale
di metafisica 17–1995 in its publications on Heidegger.
The Center for
Process Studies — Process Thought and Philosophy of Science (www.ctr4process.org 2005) lists my article, and its
abstract, "Quantum Fluctuation, Self-Organizing Biological Systems, and
Human Freedom." Idealistic
Studies 24, no. 3 (Fall 1994): 269-81.
Systematic Theology (2. God Acting/Working
and Laws of the Universe/ Miracle/Natural Sciences) by Prof. Herbert Frohnhofen (Dr. phil. and Dr. theol.) at
the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Germany,
lists my article, coauthored with Glenn Bramble, “If Miracles are Caused
by Nature's God, Can there be Scientific Truth?” in Aquinas 48 (2005) 443-455, at
www.theologie-systematisch.de/gotteslehre (2005).
Institute of
Scientific and Technical Information at services.inist.fr/cgi-bin/public/views_doc,
2005, lists several of my articles.
Psycho-help:
Secrets of Counseling and Psychotherapy Revealed Through Literature (http://www.psychohelp.co.uk/, 16 April 2005) notes
both of my books Camus’Answer and Medieval Modal Logic.
Current News
of the Department of Anthropology at Texas A&M University, website at www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html (2005)
notes my book Is ET Here? “No”
Politically but “Yes” Scientifically.
Dr. George
Manning’s syllabus, Humanistic Psychology
PSY 370, at NKU, lists as a reference my book Beyond Absurdity: The Philosophy of Albert Camus (1987), written
with R. Puligandla.
Prof. Dr. Enrique
Moreno’s Select Bibliographia Thomistica (2005)
at Universidad de Navarra, Spain, www.corpusthomisticum.org,
lists my articles «St. Augustine's Epistemology: An Ignored Aristotelian Theme
& Its Intriguing Anticipations» in Laval
Théologique et Philosophique 50 (1994), «St. Thomas and Modal Logic: On
Wittgenstein's & Heidegger's Possibility» in Aquinas 38 (1995), «St. Thomas on Wittgenstein & Heidegger: The
World's Possible Nonexistence» in Giornale
di Metafisica 17 (1995), «St. Thomas' Modal Logic: Did Wittgenstein &
Heidegger Embrace It?» in Idealistic
Studies 26 (1996), «20th C. Despair & Thomas' Sound Argument
for God» in Laval Théologique et
Philosophique 52/1 (1996), «Thomas' 2nd & 3rd
Ways by Modern Science» in Aquinas 42
(1999), and my book Medieval Modal Logic
and Science (1999).
Journal
of Indian Philosophy & Religion, www.indology.net
(2005), recommends my book From Physics
to Politics (2003) in virtue of its discussion of Eastern philosophy and
critique of the West.
Dr. Dimitris
Papadimitriou’s The European Union as an International
Actor, syllabus for a module of international students, 2005,
University of Manchester, England, lists as a reference my book Ancient Greek Philosophy: Its Development
and Relevance to Our Time (1994).
Abductive Reasoning, AbsoluteAstronomy.com (AA Reference), 2005,
bases a claim about this reasoning on my book Ancient Greek Philosophy: Its Development and Relevance to Our Time (1994).
Tim
McSweeney’s “The Death of Metaphysics,”
Internet Tendency (Ohio University) http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu (2005) quotes several pages
of my book From Physics to Politics
(2003).
Dr.
Jay Stevenson’s The Idiot’s Guide to Philosophy (Alpha Press, 2005) lists as a
reference my book Ancient Greek
Philosophy: Its Development and Relevance to Our Time (1994) in its
Bibliography, in the latest edition of the popular “Idiot Series”.
“Greek
Philosophy”, Encarta Encyclopedia and
World Atlas, England (uk.encarta.msn.com, 2005) describes my book Ancient Greek Philosophy: Its Development
and Relevance to our Time (1994) as “accessible and useful as an
introductory study.”
Katie Walker’s
“Professor’s Book Explores Space, UFOs,” The Northener, Northern Kentucky
University (5 Feb 2005) both discusses my book Is ET Here? (2003) and includes an interview of me.
Richard
Pearlstein’s Fatal Future? Transnational Terrorism and the New Global Disorder (University
of Texas Press, 2004), on pages 105 and 179, cites my article “Has Global
Ethnic Conflict Superseded Cold War Ideology?” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 19 (1996).
Aristotle
on Truth (Cambridge
University Press, 2004), by Paolo Crivelli of Oxford University, cites my book
Medieval Modal Logic & Science
(1999) on page 60 in his discussion of Aristotle’s modal logic. See www.cambridge.org/catalogue and
9780521823289_index.pdf and
National
Public Radio, invitation to be interviewed on UFOs, 2 Oct 2004, for
the nationally syndicated Jeff Rense Program (declined).
Gesellschaft
für Philosophie und Wissenschaft e.V,
2004, at www.philosophie.de/default.asp,
cites and discusses my interview by David Wecker in the Cincinnati Enquirer, July 2003.
A.L. Webre’s Exopolitics:
Politics, Government & Law in the Universe, June 2004, notes my
work and an interview in the Cincinnati
Post.
Doug Arrell’s “Teaching Aesthetics to Artists,” American
Society for Aesthetics, http://www.aesthetics-online.org/articles/index.php?articles_
id=5, cites my article “Business, Ethics and Business Ethics” Thought: A Review of Culture and Idea,
Vol. 66 (1991) 297-309.
Dr. Rolando
Gripaldo’s Filipino Philosophy: A
Critical Bibliography 1998-2002 (Manila: De La Salle University Press,
2004), http://www.
scribd.com/doc/7254564/Filipino-Philosohy-a-Critical-Bibliography-19982002,
lists my article “Camus on a Disquietude that Cannot be Distilled,” Filosofia: International Journal of
Philosophy, V. 31 (2002).
Michael Foley
(University of Notre Dame), “Augustine,
Aristotle and the Confessions,” The
Thomist 67 (2003) 607-22, cites my article "St. Augustine's
Epistemology: An Ignored Aristotelian Theme and its Intriguing
Anticipations," Laval théologique et
philosophique 50 (1994).
Light Blue: Criticism
of World of Literature, Poetry and Philosophy, www.littlebluelight.com, 2003, lists my book Camus’ Answer: “No” to the Pharisees Who
Impose Reason on Reality
Eastman et al
(Eds.), Physics and Whitehead: Process,
Quantum and Experience (SUNY Press,
2003) www.ctr4process.org/publications/
PSS/ResourceGuide-corr3.pdf, cites my article “Quantum Fluctuations,
Self-Organizing Biological Systems, and Human Freedom” in Idealistic Studies 24 (1999) 269-281.
New Course
*The Philosophy of St. Augustine*, University of Akron,
http://www3.uakron.edu/provost/proposal/2002/, lists as a reference my book Medieval Modal Logic and Science: Augustine on
Scientific Truth & Thomas on Its Impossibility without a First Cause
(1999).
Recent Works
in Continental Philosophy – 2002 (State University of New York at Stoney Brook) lists my
book Camus’ Answer: No to the Western
Pharisees who Impose Reason on Reality (2003).
L.J. Mattila
and L.C. Larsen’s In Search of Innovation (2002) Graduate Business School, School of
Economics & Commercial Law at Göteborg University (www.handels.gu.se/epc/archive), cites my book Ancient Greek Philosophy: Its Development
& Relevance to Our Time (1994).
“Relations of
Science to Literature & the Arts,” Configurations, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2001)
266-353 – Johns Hopkins University Press and Society for Literature &
Science, cites my book From Physics
to Politics (1999)
Suzi Adams (La
Trobe University), “The Enduring Enigma: Physics and Nomos in Castoriadas,” Thesis Eleven: Journal of Critical Theory
& Historical Sociology 65
(2001) 93-107, cites my book Ancient
Greek Philosophy: Its Development and Relevance to Our Time (1994).
Troelstra
Archive Index, 2000-2001, Mathematical Institute of the University of Amsterdam
— Archives of Anne Sjerp Troelstra, Prof of Mathematics (University of
Amsterdam), Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science and Winner of the F.
L. Bauer Prize for internationally outstanding contributions to Computer
Science (15 Nov 1996), cites correspondence with me, per “R. C. Trundle
(Medieval Alpha and Omega of logico-scientific reasoning),” from my book Medieval Modal Logic at www.illc.uva.nl/Publications/ResearchReports/
X-2003-01.text.doc:.
The essay “Re:
Abstract Art and or Painting” at www.1Art.com
(2000) by the notable philosopher of art in the analytical tradition, Prof
Emeritus George Dickie, University of Illinois, (aka Dickie
Wayne?) cites my article "Business, Ethics and Business Ethics," Thought: A Review of Culture & Idea,
66.262, (1991) 297-309.
Prof. D.
Collins’ “Quest to Improve the Human Condition: The First 1500 Articles
Published in the Journal of Business Ethics,” Journal of Business Ethics 26 (July 2000) 1-73, includes my
article “Is There Any Ethics in Business Ethics?” Journal of Business Ethics (1989).
Karl Gwiasda, Relations
of Science to Literature, 1999 (muse.jhu.edu/
journals/configurations/v009/9.2bibliography.pdf) lists my book From Physics to Politics: The Metaphysical
Foundations of Modern Philosophy
Herzog
August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel,
research center, publisher and library, directed by Prof Helwig
Schmidt-Glintzer in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, lists my book Medieval Modal Logic and Science (1999)
under its references for “St. Thomas Aquinas”.
Dr, Julian
Deahl, European logician and Senior Editor at Brill emailed me
(Tuesday, September 22, 1998 1:53 AM), acknowledging my publications on logic,
stating, "you need no introduction as I had come across some of your
articles on scholastic logic (my own field)."
Richard
Carrier’s Bibliography of Skepticism in the Ancient
World, 1998, lists my book Ancient
Greek Philosophy (1994)
Thomas
Feehan’s Critical Thinking: A Practicum, 1997, College of the Holy Cross lists my article "Applied Logic: An Aristotelian
Organon for Critical Thinking” in Philosophy
in Science (1993)
C.
Cassell, P. Johnson and K. Smith’s “Opening the Black Box: Corporate Codes of
Ethics in Their Organizational Context,”
Journal of Business Ethics 16
(July 1997) 1077-1093, cites my article “Is There Any Ethics in Business?” Journal of Business Ethics 8 (1989)
261–269.
John Coakley et al, “Developments in West European
political science journal and electronic literature during 1996,” European
Journal of Political Research, 31.4
(1997) 533-55, cites my article “Cold-War ideology: an apologetics for
global ethnic conflict?” Res Publica -
Belgium Institute of Political Science 37 (1996) 61-84.
Lancaster
Index to Defense and International Security Literature, Military Policy
Research lists my article “Has Global Ethnic Conflict Superseded
Cold-War Ideology?” Studies in Conflict
& Terrorism (1996) www.mpr.co.uk/scripts/sweb,
referenced also at US military libraries.
World Affairs
Online (WAO) 1996, Internationale
Beziehungen und Länderkunde cites my article on “Ethnic Conflict”
in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
(1996) per SB05 International political/militaryconflicts, SG02.03
Nationalities/ Minorities, and RQ World wide at
http://einiras.coe.int/cgi-bin/egwedn.
The
Greek Philosophical Review 38 (1996),
pp. 206-207 – review of my book Ancient
Greek Philosophy (1994) by Dr. Konstantine Boudouris, Chair of Philosophy
at the University of Athens, who stated in a letter 3 Oct 96 that the book was
“very important”. See http://www.kenef.phil.
uoi.gr/dynamic/prometo.php?Letter=T.
CNRS - Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique (Institute for Scientific & Technical
Info, France), 1995, lists my résumé and article “St. Thomas and Modal
Logic: On Wittgenstein/Heidegger's possibility,” Aquinas - Pontificia Università Lateranense, V. 38.2 (1995) pp.
223-248.
Universität
des Saarlandes Saarländische Universitäts und Landes-bibliothek, refers to my
book Ancient Greek Philosophy (1994)
My colleague
Prof Joan Ferrante at NKU, in an article in Sociological Viewpoints (1994), refers to a discussion with me
in which I distinguish theory from applied scholarship.
Jutta
Biedebach et al, “Bibliography Zeitschriftenschau,” Journal
for General Philosophy of Science (Historical Archive), Vol. 24, 2 (1993)
361-396, list my article "An Existential-Phenomenological Approach to
Scientific Realism," Explorations in
Knowledge IX (1992) 38-65.
S.R. Premeaux
and R.W. Mondy’s “Linking Management Behavior to Ethical Philosophy,” Journal
of Business Ethics, V. 12 (May
1993) 349-357, cites my article “Is There any Ethics in Business Ethcs,” JBE.
Christopher
Herrera’s “Metaphysics and Walter’s ‘Pragmatic Version of Natural Law’,” Journal of Value Inquiry 27, nos. 3-4
(1993) 535-538 cites my article “Value and Scientific Theory” in the Modern Schoolman 50: 85-100.
A. Bauermeister,
J. Biedebach and B. Buldt, “Zeitschriftenschau,” Journal
for General Philosophy of Science, Vol.
23, No. 2 (Sep 1992) 363-402, cite my work on existentialism and
phenomenology
Kenneth Bond‘s Bibliography
of Business Ethics & Business Moral Values (Arcata, CA: Humboldt State University School of Business, 1992) www.humboldt.edu/~kmb2/frame.html, cites my
article “Is There any Ethics in Business Ethics?” in The Journal of Business Ethics (1989).
CNRS - Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique (Institute
for Scientific & Technical Information - France) lists my résumé and
article “The Cases For and Against Theological Approaches to Business Ethics,” Laval théologique et philosophique, V.
47 (1991) no2, 241-259.
Nelson
Phillips (Imperial College London, Tanaka Business School), “The Sociology of Knowledge: Toward an Existential View of Business
Ethics,” Journal of Business Ethics 10 (1991) 787-95, cites and
discusses my article "Is There Any Ethics in Business Ethics?" Journal of Business Ethics Vol. 8, Nos.
3-4 (1989) 261-269.
Richard T. De
George’s “There is Ethics in Business Ethics – But More As Well” in the Journal
of Business Ethics 8 (1989)
responded to my article “Is there any ethics in business ethics” in JBE 8 (April ‘89), to which I replied in
“Business, Ethics, & Business
Ethics” in Thought: A Review of Culture 66,
No. 262, (1991) 297-309.
John
Locke Bibliography, 1994, –
Roland Hall’s complement to Lock Studies,
Penn State University (http://www.libraries.psu.edu)
lists my article “St. Augustine’s epistemology: an ignored Aristotelian theme
and its intriguing anticipations,” Laval
théologique et philosophique 50.1 (Fev. 1994) 187-205. Abstract: PhI 1994: 719.
Revue
D. Histoire Litteraire De La France—review of my book, written with
Ramakrishna Puligandla Beyond Absurdity (1987).
Dr. J. Neu’s
“109th Critical Bibliography of the History of Science,” ISIS: International Review Devoted to the
History of Science and Its Cultural Influences, Department
of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin, Vol. 75 (1984) p. 23,
lists my article "Value and Scientific Theory" in The Modern Schoolman: A Quarterly Journal of
Philosophy, V. 60, 1983 (online at http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/ histcomp/schacter-dl_w-citing_or/node/92)
A. A. Bell and
J. B. Allis, "SECTION ON MODAL LOGIC," Resources in Ancient Philosophy (London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc,
1991), contains an abstract on my article "De Interpretatione IX:
[Aristotle's] Problem of Future or Infinite Past Truth?" in The Modern Schoolman: A Quarterly Journal of
Philosophy, Vol. 57 (Nov 1981).
***
Notes
1. See reference to the Choice
review of my book Camus’ Answer at http://www.amazon.com/Camus-Answer-Western-Pharisees-Reality/.
My scholarship in existential phenomenology stems from both my publications and
having had the famous existentialist scholar and translator of Jean-Paul
Sartre, Professor Emerita Hazel Barnes, as an advisor for my doctoral
dissertation (Scientific Realism and
Existential Phenomenology) noted in my book Camus’ Answer, p. 161, n. 21
2. Email to Robert Trundle from Paragon
editor Rosemary Byrne Yokoi with a reviewer’s comments that recommend
publication (per Rosemary Byrne Yokoi rby@paragonhouse.com,
Tuesday, October 9, 2001 7:46 AM). The offer of publication was declined since
Sussex Academic Press had already accepted my book.
3. Letter from Prof Ralph McInerny to
Robert Trundle, 1 Feb 1994, on Ancient
Greek Philosophy: Its Development & Relevance to Our Time, used in
Trundle’s university performance review.
4. Letter to R. Trundle on 3 Oct 1996,
used in his performance review, from Prof Konstantine Boudouris — Editor, Greek Philosophical Review and Chair of
Philosophy at the University of Athens. Boudouris’ review of the book can be
viewed via “102. Βουδούρης,
Κωνσταντῖνος
Ἰωάν., «Trundle Robert C., “Ancient Philosophy”,
Avebury Press, 1994, 328 p. » , Ἑλληνικὴ Φιλοσοφικὴ Ἐπιθεώρηση,
13, 38 (1996), σσ. 206-207” at http://www.kenef.phil.uoi.gr/dynamic/prometo.php?Letter=T
5. Email to Robert Trundle from Julian
Deahl, Senior Acquisitions Editor of Brill Academic Publishers (Tuesday,
September 22, 1998 1:53 AM).
6. J. Roland Ramirez and David Lamb,
Forewords, Medieval Modal Logic and
Science, pp. ix-xii.
7. Ruth Barcan Marcus, Modalities:
Philosophical Essays (NY: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 69.
8. Peter Redpath, Foreword, From
Physics to Politics, pp. ix and x. Dr.
Redpath is Professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University, a member of the
Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Philosophical Research, a
panelist for the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, and a
participant in the International Conference on Religious Liberty at the U.S.
State Department by invitation of Secretary of State Elliot Abrams — to note
only a few of his honors.
9. Prof Michael Zimmerman in an email to author on 6/4/04 2:51
PM ("Michael Zimmerman" michaelz@tulane.eduquoted) and quoted in Trundle’s book Is ET Here? following the copyright
page.
10. Besides Princeton and Stanford University scientists
Robert Jahn and Peter Sturrock who support UFO investigations, among others,
per reference to their publications by professors A. Wendt (Ohio State
University) and R. Duvall (University of Minnesota) in “Sovereignty and the
UFO,” Political Theory 36.4 (2008)
607-33 (http://ptx.sagepub.com/
cgi/content/refs/36/4/607), see also "UFO
Researchers & People” by Bernard Haisch, PhD, DIRECTOR: California
Institute for Physics and Astrophysics (1999-2002) and SCIENTIFIC EDITOR:
Astrophysical Journal (1993-2002), http://www.ufoevidence.org/Researchers/Detail76.
11. Fate magazine, May
2005. See the top 100 researchers at http://www.
fatemag.com/2005_UFOSpecial_Top100. These 100 include retired nuclear physicist
Stanton Friedman; Senior Research Scientist at NASA Dr. Richard Haines (ret)
who worked on the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab and Space Station; NASA consultant
Richard Hoagland; Engineer and Editor of Aviation
Week & Space Technology Phil Klass; Optical Physicist and research
scientist Dr. Bruce Maccabee who worked at the Naval Surface Warfare Center;
and the 6th man to walk on the moon — Apollo Astronaut and Founder
of the Noetic Sciences Institute, Edgar Mitchell (PhD in Aeronautics &
Astronautics from MIT).
12. St. Augustine, Confessions, Tr.
R.S. Pine-Coffin (NY: Penguin Books, 1984), pp. 318, 319.
13. See, for example, Israeli
physicist Saul Youssef who states in the Proceedings
of the New York Academy of Sciences that we must still conclude that light
both is and is not a particle (wave) in “Is Quantum Mechanics An Exotic
Probability Theory?” Fundamental Problems
in Quantum Theory: A Conference Held in Honor of Professor John A. Wheeler,
Ed. by D.M Greenberger and A. Zeilinger (NY: Annals of the NYAS, 1995), p. 904.
Youssef is augmented by S. Afshar, E. Flores, K. McDonald and E. Knoesel’s
“Paradox in Wave-Particle Duality,” Foundations
of Physics 37.2 (2007) 295-305, who refer to recent experiments whereby
light at all times has both wave and
non-wave (particle) aspects. Whether or not these aspects obtain, the point is
that a liberal ontology and epistemology of theology/Scripture may inspire
imaginative solutions in science — Einstein asserting famously that imagination
is more important than knowledge, not to mention Harvard University physicist
G. Holton et al in “How a Scientific
Discovery is made,” American
Scientist—Scientific Research Society of Sigma Xi 84 (1996) 36475, who found extra-scientific influences
such as theology and religion “to be essential… in major advances
throughout the history of science” —
from K.A. Müller’s codiscovery of high-temperature superconductors being guided
by a religio-philosophical symbol to virtually all others; Columbia University
scientist R.K. Merton calling this influence the “Matthew Effect” (per the Book
of Matthew 25:29).
14. Tom Michaud, The Review of Metaphysics 62 (2008) #245, 162-4, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3545/is_1_62/ai_n28572389/?tag=content;col1.
15. Peter
Redpath, “Foreword” in A Theology of
Science, p. xi.
Northern Kentucky University – Philosophy Program
Updated: 19 February 2010