Varadaraja Raman
Bio
Varadaraja V. Raman is an emeritus professor of physics and humanities at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has also taught at the Saha Institute for Nuclear Physics in Calcutta and the Université d’Alger in Algiers. He is the author of Indic Visions in an Age of Science, published by Metanexus.
Recent Essays
- Molecules
- Atoms
- Heat
- Indic Visions in an Age of Science
- Light
- Sound
- Waves
- Energy
- Force
- Motion
- Matter
- Time
- Space
- Theories of Mind and Consciousness
- Future Science in Past Visions
- Epistemology in the Hindu World
- Discussions and Debates on Indic Science
- Traditional, Modern, and Post-Modern
- Mythos: Origins and Ends
- More than Cinematic Entertainment in Three Dimensions: Thoughts Provoked by James Cameron’s Avatar
- Empedocles
- Reflections on Darwinian Science Part III: Manifestation of the Divine in an Evolutionary Metaphor
- Reflections on Darwinian Science – Part I
- The Discovery of Fire
- On the Founders of Religions
- On the Founders of Sciencis
- Cosmic Connection
- Introduction to Gnosis and Sciencis
- Concluding Thought: On Convictions, Persuasion, and Sharing
- Reaction of Working Scientists to Postmodernist Criticisms
- Postmodernism and Anti-Science Movements
- Postmodern Physics and More
- More on Postmodernism and the Non-Universality of Science
- Postmodernist View of Science as Colonialist Creation
- Feminist Critiques of Science
- Sociology of Science
- Postmodernist Theses
- Prelude to Post-modernism
- Review of The Spiritual Brain
- Mathematics and the Dynamic Aspects of the Physical World
- Qualitative and Quantitative
- Role and Relevance of Classification and Data
- Types of Experiments
- Experiment in Science
- Observation
- Two Meanings of Why
- Explanations in Science
- The Goal of Science
- The Internalization of Science and Technology
- Toleration of Unorthodox Ideas
- Ancient Science and Diseases
- The Occult
- The World of Magic
- Astrology
- Worldview shapers: Roots of worldviews and beliefs
- More Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion
- Continuing Legacies of Ancient Science
- Three Types of Errors
- Science in the Ancient World
- Agnosticism
- Analyzing Believers and Unbelievers
- On a Typology of Beliefs
- Contextual Relevance of Faith and Doubt
- Faith in Science and in Religion
- Doubt in Religion
- Doubt and its Variety
- More on the Scientist’s Faith
- More on Religious Faith
- Three Types of Faith
- Doubt in Philosophy and in Science
- Review of Christopher Hitchens’ God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
- The Criterion of Simplicity
- Source of Theories
- The Doctrines and Dogmas of Science
- Hypothesis and the So-What Criterion in Science
- Theories in Science
- Logical Limitations of Physical Laws
- Empirical and Theoretical Laws
- Review of David Sloan Wilson’s “Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s theory can change the way we think about our lives”
- Laws of Nature: modern science
- Laws: Ancient Science and Religion
- Hypercomplexity and Omniscience
- Shades of Determinism and Levels of Reality
- Prediction in physics
- Prophesy: Religious and otherwise
- Fatalism: Practical aspects
- Knowing the Future
- Predetermination
- The Chosen Few
- Poetry and the Reality of Sacred History
- Poetry Transmission and Vision of Reality
- Poetry as Revelation of Human Nature
- Poetic Visions
- Scientific Biogenesis and Some Religious Reaction
- Designer Cosmology
- Religious and Scientific Views of Cosmogenesis
- Interpretation of the Time Frame
- Genesis according to Hindu visions
- More on Middle-Eastern Genesis
- Bereshith: Judeo-Christian Genesis
- Ancient Cultural Visions of Genesis
- Science as Theology
- Theology as Science
- Analytical and Traditional Approaches to Sacred History
- A Descriptive View of Religion
- Some Characteristics of Science
- Science and God
- The Great Divide and Pseudosciences
- Reactions to Mixing Metaphysics and Modern Science
- Theology and Science
- Science-Religion Interface: New Initiatives
- Science-Religion Interface: The Warfare Model
- Science-Religion Interface: Introduction
- Science & Religion: Before and Now
- Reductionism and Holism: Two Sides of the Perception of Reality
- Perceived Reality: Force
- Perceived Reality: Motion
- Perceived Reality: Matter
- Reflections on a Thanksgiving Day
- Reflections on Totalizing
- Perceived Reality: Time
- Perceived Reality: Space
- Why Religion Matters and How Religion Should Matter
- Review of: Margaret Wertheim’s “The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace”
- Gravitation and Love
- Why Huston Smith Matters
- The veil of unpredictability: Our shrouded future vision.
- Science without the Enlightenment?
- Report from the Parliament of the World’s Religions: Notes From a Participant’s Journal
- Teaching Evolution: Perhaps Unnecessary After All
- Descartes’ Triumph
- Sectarian Religions and Universal Sciences
- Review of Susan Blackmore’s “The Meme Machine”
- On Scientific and Religious Truths
- Review of Goodenough’s: The Sacred Depths of Nature
- Review of Richard Dawkins’ “Unweaving the Rainbow”
- Reason and Revelation
- Goals and Purpose, External and Intrinsic Cosmological Interpretations
- What difference would it make?