My homepage, www.robertmwallace.blogspot.com, is entitled "Philosophical Mysticism Blog." Philosophical mysticism is the doctrine that we have direct knowledge of a higher reality or God. I find this view in Plato, Hegel, Whitehead, Wittgenstein, Michael Polanyi, J.N. Findlay, and others. I explain and defend this tradition in my Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and in my forthcoming Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019). In its most worked-out forms, especially in Hegel, philosophical mysticism addresses a wide range of problems in logic, meta…

Read more