Shabda Press: 12 books
Mystic Universe
An Introduction to Vedic Cosmology
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2016
Unlike previous works on Vedic cosmology, which discuss the model of the universe without describing its connection to a theory of nature, this book discusses the theory before it describes the model. A deep understanding of the theory is essential if the model has to be understood, because...
by Ashish Dalela
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
The topic of emotion is of deep interest to many people, but its relation to reason and cognition, when emotion controls reason, and why emotion can be controlled by reason, are not well understood. Similarly, when situations change our emotions, should we attribute the emotion to the situation, or...
Godel's Mistake
The Role of Meaning in Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
Gödel's incompleteness theorem is a foundational result in mathematics that proves that any axiomatic theory of numbers will be either inconsistent or incomplete. Turing’s Halting problem is a foundational result in computing proving that computers cannot know if a program will halt. Gödel’s...
Sankhya and Science
Applications of Vedic Philosophy to Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
The dominantly materialist outlook of modern science leaves a lot unexplained. This includes the nature of sensation, concepts, beliefs and judgments, and an understanding of morality. Science was developed by evicting all aspects of the subject from its theories, and this has now become a hindrance...
Six Causes
The Vedic Theory of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
In Vedic philosophy, creation is modeled as the creative activity of consciousness. Just as an artist creates a painting by first thinking about it and then embedding his ideas into matter, so the creator of the universe creates the world of objects by expressing meanings in His consciousness into...
Quantum Meaning
A Semantic Interpretation of Quantum Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
The problems of indeterminism, uncertainty and statistics in quantum theory are legend and have spawned a wide-variety of interpretations, none too satisfactory.The key issue of discontent is the conflict between the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds: How does a classically certain world emerge...
Signs of Life
A Semantic Critique of Evolutionary Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
This book challenges the fundamental ideas in the Neo-Darwinian theory of evolution from the perspective of mathematics, physics, computing, game theory, and non-linear dynamics.
It argues that the key ideas underlying evolution—random mutation and natural selection—are based on notions...
Moral Materialism
A Semantic Theory of Ethical Naturalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Modern science describes the physical effects of material causes, but not the moral consequences of conscious choices. Is nature merely a rational place, or is it also a moral place? The question of morality has always been important for economists, sociologists, political theorists, and lawmakers....
by Ashish Dalela
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Cosmic Theogony describes the Vedic trinity comprising the deities Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahma, which reflect the three aspects of the soul in Vedic philosophy, namely, cognition, emotion, and relation. The trinity initially led to the worship of the sun, the moon, and the stars, and then to the three...
Uncommon Wisdom
Fault Lines in the Foundations of Atheism
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
The rise of militant atheism has brought to fore some fundamental issues in our conventional understanding of religion. However, because it offers science as an alternative to religion, militant atheism also exposes to scrutiny the fundamental problems of incompleteness in current science.
The...
Is the Apple Really Red?
10 Essays on Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
The clash of ideologies between science and religion - this book argues - is based on an incorrect understanding of matter, disconnected from consciousness, and an incorrect notion of God, disconnected from matter, space and time. The ideas of soul, morality, God and afterlife can also be scientific,...
by Ashish Dalela
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Why did I choose to name this collection “Western Questions, Eastern Answers”? Philosophy and science in the West have largely been practiced with the aim to understand the present world. A number of theories have been propounded, none of which are free of problems. Philosophy and science in the...