LSR Contents

1. Hume’s “problem of induction”
2. The principle of induction
3. Causation, necessity and connection
4. The psychology of induction
5. The self or soul
6. Freewill
7. The is-ought dichotomy
8. Hempel’s paradox of confirmation
9. Goodman’s paradox of prediction
10. The induction of induction
11. Descartes’ mind-body dichotomy
12. Some further remarks on causal logic

Book 2. A Short Critique of Kant’s Unreason

1. Kant’s transcendental reality
2. The analytic-synthetic dichotomy
3. Theory of knowledge
4. Experience, space and time
5. Kant’s “categories”
6. Ratiocinations
7. How numbers arise
8. Geometrical logic

Book 3. In Defense of Aristotle’s Laws of Thought

1. Logicians have to introspect
2. The primacy of the laws of thought
3. The ontological status of the laws
4. Fuzzy logic
5. Misrepresentation of Aristotle
6. Not on the geometrical model
7. A poisonous brew
8. The game of one-upmanship
9. In Buddhist discourse
10. Calling what is not a spade a spade
11. Buddhist causation theory
12. A formal logic of change
13. Buddhist critique of change
14. Different strata of knowledge
15. Impermanence
16. Buddhist denial of the soul
17. The status of sense perceptions
18. The status of dreams and daydreams
19. The status of conceptions
20. The laws of thought in meditation
21. Reason and spirituality

PART II: SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS

Book 4. More Meditations

1. Go directly and keep going
2. Breath and thought awareness
3. Self awareness
4. Meditation on the self
5. Various remarks on meditation
6. Mental health
7. Behold the mind
8. The four foundations and the core practice
9. Transcending suffering and karma
10. Behold the soul
11. The Buddhist no-soul theory
12. Buddhist historicity
13. About Buddhist idolatry
14. Buddhist messianism
15. Assimilating Buddhism

Book 5. Zen Judaism

1. God and Creation
2. Torah and faith
3. Bible text and commentary
4. Tradition vs. innovation
5. The rabbinical estate
6. Judaic illogic
7. Jewish meditation
8. Enlightenment without idolatry
9.Good people
10. A world of mercy
11. Understanding injustice
12. Forgiveness
13. Actions and reactions
Appendix 1. Round numbers in Torah statistics
Appendix 2. Prayer in uncertainty

Book 6. No to Sodom

1. Picking up the gauntlet
2. Homosexuals defined
3. Homosexual tendencies
4. The biological role of sex
5. Non-reproductive sex
6. Deviance and suffering
7. Some probable causes
8. Changing rationalizations
9. It is freely chosen
10. Sensuality and perversion
11. Spiritual impurity
12. The essence of sodomy
13. A social revolution
14. The defenders and promoters of homosexuality
15. Some legal issues
16. A call for recovery
17. (ANNEX) The Rabbis must ban homosexuals from Judaism

LOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL REFLECTIONS