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...
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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...
Surveying the Integral Cosmos: A Review of ‘Physics & Vertical Causation’
John Trevor Berger According to the experts of standard cosmology, we live in a universe which is uniformly egalitarian, a homogeneous mass of subatomic particl...
Physics & Vertical Causation: Available Now
Continuing our in-house publishing venture to bring you the Collected Works of Wolfgang Smith, the third, revised edition of Physics and Vertical Causation: The...
Subcorporeal Physics and Vertical Causation
Wolfgang Smith and John Taylor With the discovery of quantum mechanics in the early decades of the twentieth century, it seemed that physics had at last discove...
Restoring Sense to the Universe: A Review of ‘The Vertical Ascent’
Michael Dominic Taylor With this new book, Wolfgang Smith cements his reputation as a profound and original thinker whose proposals do not admit indifference. W...
The Philos-Sophia Vlog | Introducing ‘The Vertical Ascent’
In the first of a series of talks with PSI President Rick DeLano, Dr. Wolfgang Smith addresses the sweeping themes and breakthrough insights now available in hi...
The Vertical Ascent: Available Now
We are incredibly excited to officially announce the availability of Wolfgang Smith’s magnificent final work: The Vertical Ascent is available in a deluxe...
From the Prologue to ‘The Vertical Ascent’ (II)
Bruno Bérard Editor’s Note: The following is the second of a two-part preview of M. Bérard’s Prologue to Wolfgang Smith’s forthcoming book...
From the Prologue to ‘The Vertical Ascent’ (I)
Bruno Bérard Editor’s Note: The following is the first of a two-part preview of M. Bérard’s Prologue to Wolfgang Smith’s forthcoming book,...
Causal Emergence and Vertical Causation
John Taylor In reference to the then current scientific paradigm Nikola Tesla once said, “One can think deeply and be quite insane.” The spirit of this prof...
Vertical Causation and Wholeness
Wolfgang Smith Editor’s Note: This article is also available in Spanish and Portuguese. Vertical causality made its appearance in the context of the mea...
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...
Wolfgang Smith & Muzaffar Iqbal on Evolution
In this recent interview, Wolfgang Smith and Muzaffar Iqbal discuss the problems of classical and theistic evolutionism, the emergence of new Muslim evolutionis...
‘Physics: A Science in Quest of an Ontology’ Now Available
For some months we have been promising something big coming off the press from the still-active pen of Wolfgang Smith, and this is it! Wolfgang Smith resolves ...
Cosmic vs. Measurable Time: From Physics to Cosmology
Wolfgang Smith There is a categorical distinction between space and time conceived, on the one hand, as cosmic bounds, and on the other, as variables x and t to...
Astrology: The Science of Wholeness
Wolfgang Smith It needs first of all to be understood that the “wholeness” to which we allude is none other than the “tripartite wholeness” previously d...
The Tripartite Wholeness
Wolfgang Smith The universe presents itself as extended in space and changing in time, and its spatio-temporal locus can be represented mathematically in terms ...
‘Vedanta’, Second Edition: Available Now
The second edition of Vedanta in Light of Christian Wisdom—at lower cost than the first edition, and featuring a brand new cover—is now available. In this u...
Theistic Evolution – The Teilhardian Heresy: Available Now
Continuing our in-house publishing venture to bring you the Collected Works of Wolfgang Smith, the third, PSI edition of Theistic Evolution: The Teilhardian He...
Ancient Wisdom & Modern Misconceptions: Available Now
Continuing our in-house publishing venture to bring you the Collected Works of Wolfgang Smith, the fourth, PSI edition of Ancient Wisdom & Modern Misconcept...
Wolfgang’s Weekly
It is time to break the confines of the Cartesian Weltanschauung: time to rediscover the integral cosmos, the world which cannot be measured in light-years. Our...
‘Physics’, Revised & Expanded Edition: Available Now
Earlier this year we brought you Physics: A Science in Quest of an Ontology—not realizing, at the time, that the book was yet incomplete. The book was divide...
The Quantum Enigma: Available Now
Our in-house publishing venture to bring you his Collected Works now presents the fourth, PSI edition of Wolfgang Smith’s 1995 classic, The Quantum Enigma: Fi...
Science & Myth: Available Now
Continuing our in-house publishing venture to bring you the Collected Works of Wolfgang Smith, the third, PSI edition of Science & Myth: With a Response to ...
On Philosophy and the Meaning of Schola | Prof. Ann Hartle
In Ep. 5 of the Project Schola Podcast, host John Trevor Berger welcomes Ann Hartle—Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Emory University—for an intriguing dis...
Toward an Ontology of Economics | Prof. Waleed El-Ansary
In Ep. 4 of the Project Schola Podcast, host Brian Murphy welcomes Waleed El-Ansary—economist and University Chair of Islamic Studies at Xavier University—f...
The Reality of Visual Perception | John Taylor
In Ep. 3 of the Project Schola Podcast, host John Trevor Berger welcomes John Taylor—currently studying philosophy at University College London—for a discus...
Wolfgang Smith at Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
In this landmark interview, popular podcaster Curt Jaimungal welcomes Wolfgang Smith to Theories of Everything. Curt and Wolfgang discuss a wide range of topics...
The Purview of Quantum Physics | Prof. Raphael De Paola (Part 3)
In the concluding segment of Ep. 2 (Part 3 of 3), co-hosts Brian Murphy and John Trevor Berger continue their discussion with Prof. Raphael De Paola (Dept. of P...
Physics, Culture, and Philosophy | Prof. Raphael De Paola (Part 2)
In this segment (Part 2 of Ep. 2), co-hosts Brian Murphy and John Trevor Berger continue their discussion with Prof. Raphael De Paola (Dept. of Physics, PUC-Rio...
Physics and the Nature of Matter | Prof. Raphael De Paola (Part 1)
In this segment (Part 1 of Ep. 2), co-hosts Brian Murphy and John Trevor Berger welcome Prof. Raphael De Paola (Dept. of Physics, PUC-Rio) for an absorbing disc...
Introducing the Project Schola Podcast
We hope you enjoy the pilot episode of our latest endeavor—featuring co-hosts Brian Murphy and John Trevor Berger—the Project Schola Podcast! We’ve ha...
Wolfgang Smith at The Bryan Callen Show
Popular comedian and podcaster Bryan Callen recently visited Wolfgang Smith to talk Einstein and atoms, visual perception and philosophy—not a show you want t...
Wolfgang Smith at Asking Anything with Jack
Wolfgang Smith discusses the quantum measurement problem, his latest research, visual perception and more with Jack Ophof at Asking Anything with Jack. Also fe...
Wolfgang Smith at Coast to Coast AM with George Noory
A great discussion between Wolfgang Smith and George Noory the other night on Einstein, ontology, India, and Physics: A Science in Quest of an Ontology. VISIT C...
New Review from Innovation & Tech Today
Another great review of Physics: A Science in Quest of an Ontology from Innovation & Tech Today by Aron Vaughan—check it out! READ REVIEW ORDER THE BOOK &...
An Interview of Wolfgang Smith at Authority Magazine
A fantastic interview of Wolfgang Smith by Savio Clemente on Physics: A Science in Quest of an Ontology for Authority Magazine! READ INTERVIEW ORDER THE ...
An Excerpt from Dr. Smith’s New Book
Read an excerpt from Wolfgang Smith’s new book, Physics: A Science in Quest of an Ontology, courtesy of Science and Nonduality! READ EXCERPT ORDER THE BOOK &...
Wolfgang Smith at Footnotes2Plato
An insightful exchange between Dr. Wolfgang Smith and Dr. Matthew Segall, host of Footnotes2Plato. Wolfgang and Matt discuss A. N. Whitehead’s critique of...
Book Review at Innovation & Tech Today
See below to read Betsy Chasse and John Trevor Berger’s review of Physics: A Science in Quest of an Ontology published by Innovation & Tech Today. Dr...
Wolfgang Smith & John Vervaeke at The Meaning Code (II)
Karen Wong had us back once again on The Meaning Code for a second meeting with John Vervaeke. In this probing philosophical discussion, Dr. Smith and Dr. Verva...
Wolfgang Smith & Jonathan Pageau at The Meaning Code
Karen Wong, host of The Meaning Code, welcomed us back for yet another fascinating dialogue. Wolfgang Smith and Jonathan Pageau discuss various aspects of symbo...
Wolfgang Smith & John Vervaeke at The Meaning Code (I)
The first of a fascinating exchange of ideas between Wolfgang Smith and John Vervaeke at Karen Wong’s The Meaning Code the other day. Dr. Smith and Dr. V...
The Philos-Sophia Vlog | Mendacity in Science
In this special extended finale episode, Wolfgang and Richard discuss some very timely issues about the role and function of the scientific establishment, how t...
The Philos-Sophia Vlog | Dead End Particle Physics
In the penultimate episode of our series of interview segments featuring Dr. Wolfgang Smith and Dr. Richard Smith, Wolfgang explains—following upon the key on...
Introducing ‘Vedanta in Light of Christian Wisdom’
Wolfgang Smith In a sense this book originated in remote parts of India when a young man from the West sought the counsel of sādhus in quest of spiritual wisdo...
The Philos-Sophia Vlog | The Corporeal and the Physical
In Episode 10 of our continuing series of interview segments—which we rebooted in late March, following its original premiere in late 2020—Dr. Wolfgang Smit...
Wolfgang Smith at The Meaning Code
Karen Wong of The Meaning Code discusses The Vertical Ascent and the Philos-Sophia Initiative with Wolfgang and fellow guest Richard Smith—great interview! O...
The Philos-Sophia Vlog | Visual Perception
In Episode 9 of our continuing series of interview segments featuring Dr. Wolfgang Smith and Dr. Richard Smith—which we rebooted this March, following its ori...
The Philos-Sophia Vlog | Bifurcation
In the eighth episode of our continuing series of interview segments featuring Dr. Wolfgang Smith and Dr. Richard Smith—which we rebooted last month following...
The Philos-Sophia Vlog | Ad Hoc Hypotheses II: Astrophysics
In the seventh episode of a remarkable series of interview segments—which we rebooted last month following its original premiere in late 2020—Dr. Wolfgang S...
The Philos-Sophia Vlog | Ad Hoc Hypotheses I: Evolution
In the sixth episode of a remarkable series of interview segments—which we rebooted a couple weeks ago following its original premiere in late 2020—Dr. Wolf...
The Philos-Sophia Vlog | Corporeal World
The Philos-Sophia Vlog returns! We’re very excited to introduce the continuation of this series—which first premiered in late 2020—featuring Dr. Wolfg...
Cosmos and Transcendence: Available Now
Last year, the Philos-Sophia Initiative proudly inaugurated our in-house publishing venture to bring you the Collected Works of Wolfgang Smith with the author&#...
On the Passing of Rick DeLano
Philos-Sophia Initiative It is with great sadness that we report the passing of our Fearless Leader, Rick DeLano. He departed on Sunday morning (Jan. 23), after...
Composing the Score to ‘The End of Quantum Reality’
Rick DeLano Necessity being the mother of invention, I am happy to admit right off the bat that my mission in scoring The End of Quantum Reality was essentially...
‘The End of Quantum Reality’ Soundtrack: Now Available
The long-awaited documentary film soundtrack is finally here! The End of Quantum Reality documents the life and work of Professor Wolfgang Smith,...
Pondering the Brave New Particle Physics
Wolfgang Smith Following the epochal discovery of quantum mechanics,1 foundational physics has gradually morphed into the forbidding discipline of “particle...
Irreducible Wholeness and Dembski’s Theorem
Wolfgang Smith We have become conditioned to think of wholeness in inherently set-theoretic terms, which is in effect to reduce the whole to a sum of parts. The...
A New Year at the Initiative
Happy New Year! Almost exactly a year ago, The End of Quantum Reality premiered at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh: We all knew it was coming. Every p...
The Tale of Tati
Wolfgang Smith Editor’s Note: The following is the reprinted Foreword to A Priest and His Dog: The Tale of Tati published by Angelico Press in November...
The Wisdom of Wolfgang Smith | The Starting Point
In a sense the starting point and main emphasis in my work has been to discredit what I term the scientistic worldview. “Scientistic” rather ...
The Philos-Sophia Vlog | Theory and Reality
The fourth in a series of interview segments featuring Dr. Wolfgang Smith and Dr. Richard Smith, this remarkable interview ranges over a broad array of subjects...
The Philos-Sophia Vlog | The Measuring Problem
The third in a series of interview segments featuring Dr. Wolfgang Smith and Dr. Richard Smith, this remarkable interview ranges over a broad array of subjects,...
The Philos-Sophia Vlog | What is the Quantum Enigma?
The second in a series of interview segments featuring Dr. Wolfgang Smith and Dr. Richard Smith, this remarkable interview ranges over a broad array of subjects...
The Philos-Sophia Vlog | Welcome to Wolfgang Smith & Introducing Richard Smith
We’re very happy to share the first in a series of interview segments featuring Dr. Wolfgang Smith and Dr. Richard Smith. The remarkable interview ranges ...
EQR Review in Quest Magazine
A new review of The End of Quantum Reality by Dhananjay Joshi recently printed in Quest Magazine. {Click to enlarge} The Philos-Sophia Initiative’s featur...
Reflections on Top-Down Causation
John Taylor Editor’s Note: This is a revised version of the article—which includes footnote #26—republished 8 March 2021. Recently I penned an article...
The Wisdom of Wolfgang Smith | Know Thyself
The teaching of the Delphic oracle—”Know thyself”—is a question of supreme Wisdom, which has been very largely forgotten in modern times....
The Wisdom of Wolfgang Smith | New Oracle
Imagine a father or mother hugging their child in the belief that it is an aggregate of “quantum stuff”! I mean, it is really horrible even t...
The Wisdom of Wolfgang Smith | Utterly Dehumanized
When you stop to reflect upon this discrepancy between what we believe in our “scientific” moments, so to speak—when we consciously accept ...
The Wisdom of Wolfgang Smith | Illusion
When it comes right down to it nobody believes this fully, because most of the time during the day the grass is green. I mean, even a physicist will see ...
“The End of Quantum Reality” Now Available on Prime & iTunes
Great news! The End of Quantum Reality is now available on Amazon Prime Video and iTunes! Please help us spread the word about this remarkable film to your frie...
The Wisdom of Wolfgang Smith | Scientism and Ideology
A great deal of what we call science is scientism, which is to say that it’s ideology driven. What we are facing here is not “science,”...
Gnosticism Today
Wolfgang Smith Based upon the almost universally overlooked distinction between scientific fact and scientistic belief, I have had much to say in recent years c...
The Wisdom of Wolfgang Smith | The Famous “Measuring Problem”
We do perceive the external world—the grass is green, roses are red, mountains have a beautiful view which you can hardly describe. This is not just in...
The Wisdom of Wolfgang Smith | A Completely Skewed Worldview
We have been educated in a completely skewed worldview. We have an upside-down view of almost everything because, as I say, we are officially persuaded t...
Rick DeLano Interview at Finding Genius Podcast
At the Finding Genius Podcast, Rick DeLano critiques the widespread belief that the world is composed of atoms or fundamental particles, tackling the question b...
The Wisdom of Wolfgang Smith | We Are Born for Wisdom
One is then open to learn—and there is a great deal to learn—and it is possible. Every human being can learn. Every human being, to some degree or ot...
An Interview with Wolfgang Smith at Sacred Web
In this interview for Sacred Web—generously shared with the Initiative by the journal’s editor, M. Ali Lakhani—Samuel Bendeck Sotillos elicits from W...
The End of Quantum Reality: Now on Disc & Digital
The Philos-Sophia Initiative is pleased to announce that The End of Quantum Reality—our feature documentary on the life and work of Dr. Wolfgang Smith—is no...
The Mystery of Visual Perception
Wolfgang Smith Editor’s Note: This article is also available in Portuguese language translation. Lord Kelvin made a crucially important point when he declar...
The End of Quantum Reality: Theatrical Update
CONFIRMED BOOKINGS PITTSBURGH: Opening January 11 Carnegie Science Center Rangos Giant Cinema 1 Allegheny Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15212 ADVANCE TICK...
Preface to the Persian Edition of ‘Ancient Wisdom and Modern Misconceptions’
Wolfgang Smith Editor’s Note: The following is a reproduction of Prof. Smith’s preface to Sa’id Tehrani-Nasab’s translation of Ancient...
Four Ideas of Nature and the Vindication of Aristotle
Ali Sebetci The late English philosopher R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943) argues in his influential book, The Idea of Nature, that there have been three periods of...
To Be or Not To Be an Apple
Wolfgang Smith A Brief Response to Dr. Alec MacAndrew The title already of Dr. MacAndrew’s article—“When is an Apple Not an Apple?”—alludes to the...
Evolutionist Scientism: Darwinist, Theistic, and Einsteinian
Wolfgang Smith It may be well to begin by reminding ourselves that science is closely allied with a variety of credenda which are not “scientific” at all, a...
The EQR Vlog | Guest Wolfgang Smith
Join us for a very special conversation with Wolfgang Smith about the making of The End of Quantum Reality. A rare glimpse of the man engaging topics outside th...
The EQR Vlog | Guest Katheryne KTEE Thomas
Join us for this week’s vlog with guest Katheryne KTEE Thomas, director of both The End of Quantum Reality (coming to select theaters January 10) and The ...
From Cosmos to Multiverse: The Ominous Descent
Wolfgang Smith We have spoken at length of the “tripartite cosmos” as envisaged in the sapiential traditions of mankind,1 which relegates the corporeal wo...
Pondering Bohmian Mechanics
Wolfgang Smith As if the bewilderment over quantum theory were not formidable enough in itself, the Bohmian Ansatz—which purportedly returns us almost to clas...
Do We Perceive the Corporeal World?
Wolfgang Smith From time immemorial mankind has presumed that we do look out upon the world: that the objects we perceive are not in fact “mental,” but “r...
Science, Scientism, and Spirituality
Wolfgang Smith What distinguishes science from scientism, in my terminology, is the fact that scientific tenets are based upon empirical evidence—and are more...
Lost in Math: The Particle Physics Quandary
Wolfgang Smith A golden age of physics, one can see in retrospect, commenced around the year 1900: the dazzling era of quantum mechanics had begun. That golden ...
Does Physics Admit a Teleology?
Wolfgang Smith Our question—“Does physics admit a teleology?”—proves, first of all, to be incurably philosophical inasmuch as it has no meaning whatsoev...
Do We Know the Electron?
Wolfgang Smith In August of last year, Eahab Ibrahim—a friend of the Initiative—posted a fascinating question, to which I would like to respond. It asks wha...
“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 ...
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...
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...