Idealism Versus Realism

Modal idealism represents the philosophical position known as idealism, interpreted through the system of thought called modal logic. Modal logic is formal reasoning that rationally identifies the necessity, contingency, possibility, or impossibility of entities. In this context, idealism is most effectively understood in contrast to the opposing philosophical position known as realism. From a modal […]

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What Is Your True Purpose?

Theistic religions typically define your true purpose in the context of your unique contributions to the divine plan of their Gods. Science asserts that you have no intrinsic purpose. Its physicalist orthodoxy posits that all you have are the—sometimes extrinsically purposeful—effects of your conscious behaviors that occasionally diverge from dictates emerging from your genome as […]

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I Am What I Am

I am not a religious person in the traditional sense. This is because, as a knowledgeable inhabitant of the Information Age, I do not need to have the meaning of life explained to me by divergent dogmas that can be traced back to the Bronze Age. Thus, I choose not to depend upon these faith-based […]

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Why No Physics PhD?

My derivation of an alternate form of Einstein’s theory of special relativity expanded my intuition to where I could grasp both how theoretical spaces curve in non-Euclidean geometries, and also, how physical spacetime curves in Einstein’s theory of general relativity. This trigonometric reformulation also proved to be a fertile ground for new, if unorthodox, cosmological […]

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The First Milestone

The first major milestone along the path to writing a book with a grandiose title like: A Concise Theory of Truly Everything, is believing in one’s capacity to do so. My societal identifier says I am an American Untouchable; I was born in a Chicago housing project unit, and raised there along with three older […]

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The End of My Catholicism

So, what turned a “reasonably responsible Catholic boy” into the hypothetical heretic who wrote A Concise Theory of Truly Everything? For starters, my Catholicism survived several years after the resurrection of my existential curiosity from the tomb it embodied, and ended abruptly, not with a bang or a whimper, but with a resounding Crunch. Over […]

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Sample Chapters

Chapter 1 of A Concise Theory of Truly Everything examines the current ontological, teleological, and eschatological landscape and explains why as distinct disciplines philosophy, science, and spirituality/theism cannot rationally address our existential ignorance. Chapter 2 discusses what philosophy, science, and spirituality/theism have to say about the Seven Theory of Truly Everything Questions that embody our […]

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About the Competition

In terms of making deep existential concepts comprehensible to broad audiences, the contemporary trade competitors of A Concise Theory of Truly Everything are the bestselling books written by respected scientists such as, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Brian Greene, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku, Frank Wilczek, Lisa Randall, and Paul Davies. Their popular works explore the […]

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