Books are listed below by their volume number. See the Exploring the Gap Concept Map for how these volumes relate conceptually.
- Exploring the Gap between Science and Religion
Describes our how we conceptualize the science and religion using language. It is the Philosophical foundation for the rest of the volumes. - My Prodigal Son Story
This is an analogy using the Biblical story of the Prodigal Son. It is an account of my personal journey from my early Christian education into a Philosophy-based mindset, and from faith-centric thinking to logic/reason-centric thinking. - Truth Analysis: Developing a Logic-centric Mindset
This volume provides a set of exercises for training to develop a logic and critical thinking bias. As a part of this learning, one comes to understand the Nature of Truth; how one’s “personal truth” is true, but such truth lacks the scope of a broader Truth trending towards the Universal. - Trusting Truth: A values-based Analysis of America’s Gun Violence
Logical Proposition: Allowing Children to be gunned down in schools reflects the values a moral society. True or False. This volume reviews America’s fixation on the Second Amendment through the bias of a ethical/moral standards. - Reconceptualizing Free Will and Determinism Using Fuzzy Logic
The age-old Philosophical issue of freewill versus determinism is, as stated, is re-conceptualized. How?
To date, this dichotomy of choice is 1) using a binary logic of true or false and 2) within a given representation (aka model). This volume uses the logic representation developed as a part of the AI technology known as fuzzy logic. - Faith-centric versus Reason-centric Thinking
This volume depicts a scale moving from faith-centric thinking to reason-centric thinking. It draws from volume 3, Developing a Logic-centric Mindset. - Who We are as People
This volume was originally named “An Observer-centric Philosophy of Science”. Research into Cognitive Psychology, neuroscience, Semantics, and representation of neural nets (aka AI), it became clear that this work is treatise on our nature as people. The work ends with a philosophical expose how our nature as bearers of meaning is both our strength and the source of many of the previously-unsolved philosophical questions. It maintains the insight of us as Observers Observing within the process of our interaction with the universe in which we find ourselves. During our brain’s cycle of Observation we find the mechanism by which we bear meaning. - The Art and Philosophy of Photography
This volume completes the Exploring the Gap Series with Photography-enabled aesthetics. An alternative title is An Observer-centric Aesthetics. With mindful targeting of the camera and a post snapshot alteration, an artist with a camera freezes a moment in time, inviting contemplation of the universe in which we find ourselves. See Philosophy and the Art of Photography