(1) Sapere Aude (Dare to Know): An Executive Summary of The Trilogy Naturalistic Reason

(2) Naturalistic Reason - Vol. I: Unification of Physics

(3) Naturalistic Reason - Vol. II: Unification of Science

(4) Naturalistic Reason - Vol. III: Unification of Science and Philosophy

 

(1) Sapere Aude (Dare to Know): An Executive Summary of The Trilogy Naturalistic Reason

Introduction

Part One Plausibility of the Prediction

Chapter 1: Completing the First Enlightenment

Chapter 2: The Second Enlightenment

Part Two   Summary of the Argument

Chapter 1: Unification of Physics (Volume I)

(1) Nature of Mathematical Truth

(2) Reduction of Quantum Physics to the Inertial system

(3) Reduction of Gravitational Physics to the Gravitational System

(4) Mathematical Disparity of Quantum and Gravitational Physics

Chapter 2: Unification of Science (Volume II)

(1) Ontological Reduction of Quantum Physics

(2) Geometrical Action

(3) Origin and Nature of Life

(4) Stages of Evolution

(5) Spiritual Life

(6) Civilization

Chapter 3: Unification of Science and Philosophy (Volume III) - Theoretical Reason

(1) How Consciousness is Part of the Natural World

(2) How Consciousness Helps Cause a Stage of Evolution

(3) Ancient Metaphysics

(4) Modern Metaphysics

(5) The Aftermath of the Enlightenment

(6) The Discovery of the Identity of Mind and Brain

(7) The Second Enlightenment

Chapter 4: Unification of Science and Philosophy (Volume III) - Practical Reason

(1) The Nature of the Morally Good

(2) Practical Offspring of the First Enlightenment

(3) Theoretical Identification of God and Nature

(4) The Perfection of Practical Reason

Conclusion

Part Three: Tables of Contents of the Trilogy

Chapter 1: Unification of Physics (Volume I)

Chapter 2: Unification of Science (Volume II)

Chapter 3: Unification of Science and Philosophy (Volume III)

About the Author

(2) Naturalistic Reason - Vol. I: Unification of Physics

Trilogy Introduction: Science Becoming Reason

  1. Empirical Lawism

  2. Empirical Ontology

  3. Unification of Physics

  4. Unification of Science

  5. Unification of Science and Philosophy

  6. natReason

Preface

Introduction: The Reduction of Physics to Ontology

  1. Empirical Lawism

  2. Modern Physics

  3. The Language of Nature

  4. Empirical Ontology

Part One: Ontological Causes

Chapter 1: Appropriateness of Mathematics

  1. The Pre-Socratic First Cause

  2. Classical Physics

  3. Spatio-Materialism

  4. Reduction of Physics to Spatio-Materialism

Chapter 2: The Inertial System

  1. The Principle of Least Action

  2. Two Parallel Systems

  3. Charged Particle at Rest: Rest Matter

  4. Charged Particle in Motion: Kinetic Matter

  5. Charged Particles Interacting: Acceleration Fueling

  6. Electromagnetic Waves: Unbound Magnetic Field Matter

  7. Lorentz Deformations

Chapter 3: The Gravitational System

  1. Gravitational Field Lines and their Effect on Matter

  2. The All-Inclusive Ontological Mechanism

  3. Non-Newtonian Gravitational Regularities

  4. Black Holes

  5. The Ergosphere

  6. Gravitational Waves

Chapter 4: Cosmology

  1. Big Bang Cosmology

  2. The Minkowski Mathoscope

  3. Big Shrink Cosmology

  4. Little Big Shrinks Cosmology

Part Two: Quantum Physics

Chapter 5: Quantum Mechanics

  1. The Doubling of Momentum in the Mechanical System

  2. Bound-particle Interaction

  3. Interactions with Waves of Magnetic Field Matter

  4. Free-particle Interaction

Chapter 6: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics

  1. The Michelson-Morley Experiment

  2. The Lorentz-FitzGerald Contraction

  3. Deformation of Inertia and Energy in the Mechanical System

  4. Deformation of Energy and Inertia in the Electromagnetic System

  5. Time Dilation and the Weakening of Transverse Forces

  6. Lorentz’s Problem about Mass

Chapter 7: The Standard Model

  1. Correspondence of Quantum Field Theories to the Inertial System

  2. Charged Leptons and Weak Bosons: Rest Matter

  3. Neutral Leptons: Motor Matter Waves

  4. Neutral Bosons: Acceleration Fuel

  5. Quarks and Gluons

Part Three: Gravitational Physics

Chapter 8: The Lorentz Transformations Equations

  1. Constructive Explanation

  2. Relative Reference Frames:

  3. Asymmetry of the Relative Reference Frame

  4. Auxiliary Reference Frames

Chapter 9: The Special Theory of Relativity

  1. Einstein’s Compound Mathoscope

  2. Einstein’s Derivation of the Lorentz transformation equations

  3. What Einstein’s Compound Mathoscope Filters Out

Chapter 10: Minkowski Spacetime

  1. Minkowski’s Equation

  2. Minkowski Spacetime Diagram

  3. Geometrical Structure of Flat Spacetime

  4. Reduction of Minkowski’s Geometrical Explanation

Chapter 11: The General Theory of Relativity

  1. Einstein’s Approach to Gravitation

  2. The Stress-Energy-Momentum Tensor

  3. The Einstein Tensor

  4. The Geodesic Equation

  5. Equations of Motion

Chapter 12: The Schwarzschild Solution

  1. Schwarzschild’s Metric Equation

  2. X-ray Vision of the Inertial System Velocity Field

  3. Quantitative Adequacy of Gravitational System

Conclusion: Physics Becomes Ontology

Appendix 1: Ontological Equations

Appendix 2: Lorentz’s Constructive Argument

  1. Lorentz’s Stipulated Transformation Equations

  2. The Inexact Theorem for Optical Phenomena

  3. The Exact Theorem for Static Phenomena

  4. Digression on Weakening of Transverse Forces

  5. The Exact Theorem for All Phenomena

  6. Poincaré’s Lorentz Transformation Equations

Selected References

Index

About the Author

(3) Naturalistic Reason - Vol. II: Unification of Science

Preface

Introduction: The Reduction of Science to Ontology

  1. Disillusionment with Science

  2. The Ontological Unity of Science

  3. Progressive Evolution

Part One: Efficient Causes

Chapter 1: Physical Causes

  1. The Inertial System

  2. Charged Particles

  3. Interaction of Free Particles

Chapter 2: Geometrical Causes

  1. Bound-particle Interactions

  2. The Hydrogen Atom

  3. Quantitative Adequacy of the Ontological Model of the Atom

  4. Geometrical Power of Matter

Chapter 3: Geometrical Action

  1. Thermodynamic Regularities

  2. Ideal Heat Engine

  3. Thermodynamic Equations in Physics

  4. Chemical Reactions

  5. Statistical Mechanics

Part Two: Life

Chapter 4: The Origin of Life

  1. The Reproductive Mechanism of Evolutionary Change

  2. First Double-action Geometrical Causes and Reproductive Cycles

  3. The Origin of Prokaryotes

Chapter 5: Life and Goodness

  1. The Behavior Guidance System

  2. The First Form of Life

  3. The Origin of Eukaryotes

Chapter 6: The Edifice of Life

  1. Two Kinds of BGSs

  2. The Origin of Animals

  3. The Origin of Spiritual Organisms

Part Three: Animals

Chapter 7: The Neural Behavior Guidance System

  1. Four Levels of Neural Organization

  2. The Bilateral Animal BGS

  3. Physical Imagination

  4. Geometrical imagination

Chapter 8: The Spiritual Behavior Guidance System

  1. Non-Physical Nature of the Social

  2. Ontological Nature of the Social

  3. Naturalistic Spiritual Organisms

  4. Psychological Spiritual Organisms

Chapter 9: Civilization

  1. The Gradual Evolution of Nomadic Spiritual Organisms

  2. The Nature of Civilization

  3. The Nature of the Self

Conclusion: A Puzzle About History

Appendix to Chapter 2: Equations for Ontological Mechanisms

Selected References

Index

About the Author

(4) Naturalistic Reason - Vol. III: Unification of Science and Philosophy

Preface

Introduction: The Reduction of Philosophy to Ontology

  1. The Trilogy

  2. Biography of Reason

  3. Volume III

Part One: The Pseudo-Efficient Cause

Chapter 1: The Ontology of Consciousness

  1. Unity of Consciousness

  2. Ontological Cause of Consciousness

  3. Efficacy of Phenomenal Appearances

  4. Extent of Consciousness

Chapter 2: Ontological Mind-Brain Identity Theory

  1. Physicalist Mind-Brain Identity Theory

  2. Panpsychism

  3. Property Dualism

  4. Knowledge of Consciousness

  5. Mind-Body Dualism

Chapter 3: Metaphysics

  1. The Metaphysical Stage of Spiritual Evolution

  2. Possibility of Intuitionistic Metaphysics

  3. The Phenomenal Subject

  4. Two Kinds of Intuitionistic Metaphysics

  5. Two Views of Objects of Rational Intuition

  6. Functionality of Intuitionistic Metaphysics

  7. Naturalistic Metaphysics

Part Two: Western Philosophy

Chapter 4: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

  1. Ancient Philosophy

  2. Marriage of Reason and Faith

  3. Medieval Philosophy

Chapter 5: Modern Philosophy

  1. Natural Philosophy

  2. Modern Intuitionistic Metaphysics

  3. Ontological Problems

  4. Anti-Metaphysical Intuitionism

  5. Late Modern Philosophy

Chapter 6: Enlightenment

  1. Science

  2. Political Order

  3. Economic Order

Chapter 7: Disillusionment with Reason

  1. Darwin and the Good

  2. Freud and Moral Autonomy

  3. Marx and Freedom

  4. Einstein and the True

Chapter 8: Endarkenment

  1. Romanticism

  2. Nineteenth-Century Idealism

  3. Anglo-American Philosophy

  4. Continental Philosophy

  5. Popular Culture in the 21st Century

Part Three: Reason

Chapter 9: Will Reason Prevail Now?

  1. Endarkenment and Censorship

  2. Theism and Sympathy

  3. Physics and Heresy

  4. Philosophy and Possibility

  5. Science and Curiosity

  6. Physics and the Basic Branch of Science

Chapter 10: The True

  1. Knowing Reality

  2. Knowing Consciousness as Part of Reality

  3. Knowing Reality behind Appearance

  4. Knowing Reality with Certainty

Chapter 11: The Good

  1. The Good as Part of the True

  2. Free Will and Autonomy

  3. Freedom of Action

  4. Equality and Justice

  5. Globalization and Its Obstacles

  6. Short-Term Goals

Chapter 12: The Beautiful

  1. Fine Art

  2. Beautiful Lives

  3. Natural Beauty

Conclusion: Why We Exist

Personal Postscript

Selected References

Index

About the Author