“Progress” in Retrospect: Part III
Wolfgang Smith Editor’s Note: The final installment of a three-part critique of modernity, the following was originally published in Cosmos & Trans...
“Progress” in Retrospect: Part II
Wolfgang Smith Editor’s Note: The second installment of a three-part critique of modernity, the following was originally published in Cosmos & Tran...
“Progress” in Retrospect: Part I
Wolfgang Smith Editor’s Note: The first installment of a three-part critique of modernity, the following was originally published in Cosmos & Transc...
Ontological Dimensions of Causation
Ali Sebetci It is well known that the modern conception of science is fundamentally different from the traditional. What makes science modern, moreover, is its ...
Vertical Causation (III): Vertical Causality and the “Limit Theorems”
Raphael De Paola According to Wolfgang Smith, modern physics has discovered a unique, hitherto unknown ontological plane, namely the aforementioned “physical...
An Interview with Wolfgang Smith
Dr. Wolfgang Smith discusses his most recent insights on physics, cosmology, philosophy, and his new critique of the physics of Albert Einstein. The Philos-Soph...
Vertical Causation (II): Corporeal Strata and The Distinction
Raphael De Paola All corporeal beings can be classified in one of four levels of the following hierarchical order: mineral, vegetable, animal, and human (i.e., ...
Vertical Causation (I): Matter and Form
Raphael De Paola The subject of change and motion has always baffled the human mind, arousing many seemingly unanswerable questions. Depending on the answers gi...
On the Scientific Implications of Vertical Causality
Wolfgang Smith Following Galileo, Descartes and Newton, Western civilization succumbed to the spell of what I have termed horizontal causation. From the publica...
What is a “Proof” of God?
Wolfgang Smith Editor’s Note: In response to Richard Carrier’s recent review of Edward Feser’s Five Proofs for the Existence of God, Dr. Smith pres...
Unmasking “AI”
Bruno Bérard A—perhaps non-accidental—failure to distinguish linguistically between reason (dianoia, ratio) and intelligence (noûs, intellectus) has given...
The Distinction and the Priority of Philosophy
John Trevor Berger A key element of Wolfgang Smith’s thought—failure of which to grasp will forever inhibit one from understanding what makes his work so gr...
From Schrödinger’s Cat to Thomistic Ontology
Wolfgang Smith Editor’s Note: Originally presented as the Templeton Lecture on Christianity and the Natural Sciences at Gonzaga University in 1998, and ...
Welcome to Philos-Sophia
Rick DeLano Welcome to the online home of the Philos-Sophia Initiative, and thanks for coming! The Initiative exists to foster the wider dissemination of, and e...
“The End of Quantum Reality” Now in Production
In preparation for his first-ever extensive on-screen appearance, mathematician / philosopher / physicist extraordinaire Dr. Wolfgang Smith will be granting a s...