Marvin Eli Kirsh
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| Born | March 21, 1950 |
| Residence | Palmdale, CA, United States |
| Nationality | USA |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University, City University of New York, California State University, Los Angeles |
| Known for | Relativity |
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| Fields | Biochemistry, Anthropology |
Marvin Eli Kirsh (born March 21, 1950) is an American biochemist, anthropologist and independent philosopher of science. Trained originally in the natural sciences and biochemistry, he later turned to anthropology and the philosophy of science, and is affiliated with the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles. His writings draw connections between physics, biology, anthropology and metaphysics, exploring themes such as uniqueness, emergence, parallelism and the nature of space, motion and relativity.
Biography
Kirsh earned a Bachelor of Arts in natural science from Johns Hopkins University in 1972 and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the City University of New York in 1986. He subsequently pursued graduate study in philosophy and anthropology, entering the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles in 2006. He resides in Palmdale, California.
Work
Kirsh's writing spans peer-reviewed papers, essays, poetry and books that bring together his background in biochemistry with philosophy of science and anthropology. His stated research interests include the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of the physical sciences, the cognitive sciences and the social and natural sciences. Recurring subjects in his work include the concept of uniqueness and "self-belonging" in nature, the notion of "parallelism" between the individual and the universal, emergence, and reinterpretations of ideas drawn from Einstein and Euclid concerning space, surface, mass and motion. Much of this material is collected in his book Uniqueness, Self-belonging and Intercourse in Nature (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010) and in numerous abstracts and papers archived by the Natural Philosophy Alliance, PhilPapers and the Social Science Research Network.
Abstracts
- 2013 - "Determining the Determined State : A sizing of Size From aside/the Amassing of Mass by a Mass" (Read in full)
- 2013 - "A Cliff Note for Reading My Works" (Read in full)
- 2012 - "A Live Wire : Machismo of a Distant Surface" (Read in full)
- 2012 - "Science, the virtual and the Actual : A Real Stand-off " (Read in full)
- 2011 - "Evolution at the Surface of Euclid: Elements of a Long Infinity in Motion Along Space" (Read in full)
- 2011 - "Where the Shape of the Egg Comes From?" (Read in full)
- 2010 - "Mind, Matter and Surface: A Two Timing Nature or a Whole Concept" (Read in full)
- 2010 - "Space: Negative Selection, Physical Constraint, and Symmetry " (Read in full)
- 2009 - "Anthropology and Parallelism : The Individual as a Universal (final journal version)" (Read in full)
- 2009 - "Apparency and Actuality" (Read in full)
- 2009 - "The Bend: A Speculation on History and Science" (Read in full)
- 2009 - "Einstein and Mythology: The Lengthier the Relations in a Myth the Greater Its' Mass" (Read in full)
- 2009 - "What Happened? Are We Asking or Telling?" (Read in full)
- 2009 - "Physical Contiguism (revised, expanded)" (Read in full)
- 2009 - "A Plane Economy of Space Surfaces From The Concepts of Einstein and Euclid" (Read in full)
- 2009 - "Uniqueness, Self Belonging and Intercourse in Nature - new version" (Read in full)
- 2009 - "[[Uniqueness, Self Belonging and Intercourse in Nature [Revised]]]" (Read in full)
- 2008 - "Induction, Space and Positive Ethics" (Read in full)
- 2008 - "A Model for Reinterpretation in Physics: Applied to the Michaelson- Morley Experiment" (Read in full)
- 2007 - "Incompleteness and the Romance With Science" (Read in full)
- 2007 - "Motion" (Read in full)
- 2007 - "Parallelism and Relativity" (Read in full)
- 2007 - "Science and the Liars Paradox" (Read in full)
- 2007 - "The Universe Framed With Respect to Paradox : Is Memory Physically all That Exists?" (Read in full)
- 2006 - "Form Generates Form: Time as a Second Order Oscillation From Indecision Between Einstein Legality and Heisenberg Uncertainty" (Read in full)
Books
- 2011 - "Cosmological Tendencies : A Changed Complexion at the Menches Convention" (Read in full)
- 2010 - "Uniqueness, Self belonging and Intercourse in Nature" (Read in full)
External links
- Marvin Kirsh at PhilPeople
- Marvin E. Kirsh at Academia.edu
- Marvin Kirsh at ResearchGate