Robert Trundle
American philosopher
Robert Christner Trundle, Jr. (born 1943) is an American philosopher, author, and college professor. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Fate Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in Ufology in 2005 based on his book Is E.T. Here? and an article published in Science and Method in the Netherlands.
Background
He is a Fellow at the Adler-Aquinas Institute and a former professor at Northern Kentucky University in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Program.
He specializes in History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, and Metaphysics.
Trundle's philosophical views are an Aristotelian-Thomistic perspective, using scientific inquiry to improve the objective truth, based on contemporary modal logic and a phenomenology of observational consciousness. In this, scientific truths about human psychology and biology form the basis for naturalistic ethics and then truths of politics.
Published works
Beyond Absurdity: The Philosophy of Albert Camus with Ramakrishna Puligandla (1986), Univ Pr of Amer, ISBN 0-8191-5225-0 (hc), ISBN 0-8191-5226-9 (pb)
"Is there any ethics in business ethics".
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