Publications
English Publications in Philosophy and Religion
Books
1. Minimalism: A Bridge between Classical Philosophy and the Bahá’í Revelation, Juxta Publishing Limited, Hong Kong, 2002, 128 pages; 2nd edition, 2004.
2. Love, Power, and Justice: The Dynamics of Authentic Morality, Bahá’í Publishing Trust, Wilmette, 1998, xvii+155 pages; 2nd edition, 2002, xxii+165 pages.
3. (With Vadim Nomokonov and Leonid Osokin) The Ethics of Authenticity, International Moral Education Project, Axios, 1997, vi+104 pages; 2nd edition, 2001, Images International, Chattanooga, 117 pages.
4. (With John S. Hatcher) The Law of Love Enshrined: Selected Essays, George Ronald, Oxford, 1996, xv+285 pages.
*5. Logic and Logos: Essays on Science, Religion and Philosophy, George Ronald, Oxford, 1990, x+147 pages.
**6. (With Douglas Martin) The Bahá’í Faith: The Emerging Global Religion, Harper & Row, San Francisco, l985, xvii+228 pages; 1st softcover edition, 1989; 2nd revised edition, Bahá’í Publishing Trust, Wilmette, 1998, xviii+253 pages; revised and republished 2002, Bahá’í Publishing, Wilmette, xvi+253 pages.
Articles
1. “Epistemological Implications of the Gradated Claims to Divine Authority in the Bahá’í Writings,” Journal of Bahá’í Studies, 17; 1 (2007), 69-84.
2. “Reflections on Infallibility,” Journal of Bahá’í Studies, 17; 1 (2007), 85-100.
3. “Universal Values,” in The Science of Morality: Collected Papers, Royal College of Physicians of London, 2007, 117-124.
4. “Love, Power, and Justice,” Sixteenth Hasan M. Balyúzí Memorial Lecture, Journal of Bahá’í Studies, 9; 3 (1999), 1-23.
5. “Author’s response to Commentary on ‘A Scientific Proof of the Existence of God’,” Journal of Bahá’í Studies, 8; 1 (1997), 73-86.
6. “Paradigms of Revelation: the Embrace of East and West,” in Revelation and the Environment AD 95-1995, (1997), World Scientific Publishing, 152-156.
7. “The Philosophy of Spirituality: A Bahá’í Viewpoint,” Dialogue and Universalism, 11-12 (1996), 137-144.
8. “A Scientific Proof of the Existence of God,” Journal of Bahá’í Studies, 5; 4 (1993-1994), 1-16.
9. “The Kitáb-i-Aqdas: The Causality Principle in the World of Being,” The Bahá’í World 1993-1994, World Centre Publications, 1994, 189-236.
10. “Scholarship: A Bahá’í Perspective,” Journal of Bahá’í Studies, 1; 2
(1988-1989), 35-46.
11. “Human Nature and Human Society: A Bahá’í Viewpoint,” in The Bahá’í Faith and Marxism, Bahá’í Studies Publications, 1987, 27-34.
12. (With Muhammad Afnán) “Note on MacEoin’s ‘Bahá’í Fundamentalism’,” Religion, 16 (l986), l87-l92.
13. (With Muhammad Afnán) “Western Islamic Scholarship and Bahá’í Origins,” Religion, 15 (1985), 29-51.
14. “The Concept of Spirituality,” Bahá’í Studies, 11, Association for Bahá’í Studies, Ottawa, 1982, iii+25 pages.
15. “The Science of Religion,” Bahá’í Studies, 2, Association for Bahá’í Studies, Ottawa, 1980, iv+45 pages.
16. “Science and the Future of Mankind,” Bahá’í Studies Notebook, 1; 1 (1980), 105-112.
17. “Science and the Bahá’í Faith,” Zygon/Journal of Religion and Science, 14 (1979), 229-253.
18. “The Quest for the Metaphysical Jesus, a review of Udo Schaeffer’s ‘The Light Shineth in Darkness’,” World Order, 12; 4 (1978), 35-42.
19. “Science and the Bahá’í Faith,” Bahá’í Studies 1, Canadian Association for Studies on the Bahá’í Faith, London (Ontario), 1976, 52-85.
20. (With Hossain B. Danesh) “Errors in Jensen’s Analysis,” World Order, 11; 1 (1976), 52-60.
21. “The Unity of Religion and Science,” World Order, 9; 3 (1975), 22-38.
22. “The Relative Conception of Good and Evil,” Zygon/Journal of Religion and Science, 10 (1975), 446-448.
23. “Economics and Moral Values,” World Order, 9; 2 (1974) 14-27.
24. “A Logical Solution to the Problem of Evil,” Zygon/Journal of Religion and Science, 9; 3 (1974), 245-255.
25. “Science and Religion,” World Order, 3; 3 (1969), 7-19.
26. “Power to Renew the World,” with Winston Evans and Thomas L. Thompson, Bahá’í Publishing Trust, Wilmette, Illinois, (1965), 6-10.
*A descriptive and analytical résumé of this work has been included in Volume III of the Encyclopédie Philosophique Universelle, Presses Universitaires de France, 1992.
**This work has been designated by the Encyclopaedia Britannica as one of ten recent books “that have made significant contributions to knowledge and understanding” in the domain of religion (see 1986 Britannica Book of the Year, pages 62-64).
French Publications in Philosophy and Religion
Books
1. (Avec J, Douglas Martin) La foi bahá’íe: L’émergence d’une religion mondiale, traduction par Françoise Saux, Maison d’éditions bahá’íes, Bruxelles,1997, 315 pages.
Articles
1. (Avec Lyne-Andrée Mathieu et Élizabeth Wright) “Le Báb, Bahá’u’lláh et la foi bahá’íe,” dans Le Livre des sagesses, Bayard, Paris, 2002, 778-783.
2. “Une preuve scientifique de l’existence de Dieu,” Association d’études bahá’íes (Europe francophone), Génève, 2001, 26 pages.
3. “La foi bahá’íe, un humanisme contre les fanatismes,” Le Monde diplomatique, Paris, juillet 1999, 25.
4. “La foi bahá’íe contre les fanatismes,” Le Monde diplomatique, Manière de voir 48, novembre-décembre 1999, 70-72.
5. “Autonomie dans un monde interdépendant,” dans Vers une éthique de l’interdépendance mondiale, Association d’études bahá’íes du Québec, 1993, 53-60.
6. “Les valeurs économiques et les valeurs morales,” Journal of Bahá’í Studies, 1; 4 (1988-1989), 41-58.
7. “L’avenir des peuples minoritaires: une perspective bahá’íe,” La Pensée bahá’íe, Nyon (Suisse),104 (1988), 12-22.
8. “Perspectives bahá’íes de la paix,” dans Approche pluridisciplinaire de la paix,
Association européenne francophone pour les Études bahá’íes, 1986, 4-16.
9. “La Foi et la méthode scientifique,” La Pensée bahá’íe, Nyon (Suisse), 56 (1976), 7-19.
10. “Christ et Bahá’u’lláh,” La Pensée bahá’íe, 9, Genève (1964), 1-16.
Scientific Publications
Books and Monographs
1. (With Michel Hébert) Preservation Theory, Université Laval, 1994, 42 pages.
2. The Logical Foundations of Mathematics, Pergamon Press, Oxford, l982, x+320 pages.
3. (With S. Whitney) Absolute Algebra, Teubner Texte zur Mathematik l7,
Teubner, Leipzig, l978, x+126 pages.
4. Foundations of Mathematics, W. B. Saunders and Co., London and Philadelphia, l968, xiii+327 pages.
5. Theory and Applications of a Syntactical Notion of the Equivalence of Formal Logical Systems, L. A. Monnier, Neuchâtel, l964, 83 pages.
Articles
1. “Causality, composition, and the origin of existence,” in The Law of Love Enshrined, George Ronald, Oxford, 1996, 19-42.
2. (With Marc Bergeron) “Models of linear logic,” Proceedings of the Steklov Mathematical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, Vol. 9, 1995, 23-35.
3. (With M. Tonga) “Pairings on lambda algebras,” Zeit. Math. Log. Grund. Math.,
37 (1991), 343-352.
4. (With M. Tonga) “Pairings on lambda algebras,” Proceedings of the First International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology, University of Iowa, 1989, 125-128.
5. “A certain measure of importance,” in Pensée naturelle (refereed collection of articles in honor of Jean-Blaise Grize), Droz, Genève, 1987, 61-73.
6. “Caractérisations algébriques des hyperréels R* et des hyperentiers N*,” Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, 305 (l987), Série I, l55-l57.
7. (With P. Scott) “Lambda algebras and C-monoids,” Zeit. Math. Log. Grund. Math., 32 (l986), 415-430.
8. “Elementary extension and the hyperreal numbers, Mathematical Logic and Formal Systems,” Marcel Dekker, New York, l985, 205-219.
9. (With S. Whitney) “Characterizing categories of algebras,” Algebra Universalis,
19 (l984), 231-242.
10. “Clone embeddings and the hyperreal numbers,” Recent Trends in Mathematics, Kurke, Mecke, Triebel and Thiele, Ed., Teubner Texte zur Mathematik 50, Leipzig, l983, 164-173.
11. (With Claude Laflamme) “On the order structure of the hyperreal line,” Zeit. Math. Log. Grund. Math., 29 (l983), 197-202.
12. “Calculus is algebra,” Amer. Math. Monthly, 89 (l982), 362-370.
13. (With B. R. Hodgson) “Complexity bounds on proofs,” The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 46 (l981), 255-258.
14. “A language for type-free algebra,” Zeit. Math. Log. Grund. Math., 24 (l978), 385-397.
15 (With T. Rus) “Context-free algebras,” Journal of Cybernetics, 6 (1976), 65-77.
16. (With A. Shafaat) “Categorical languages for algebraic structures,” Zeit. Math. Log. Grund. Math., 21 (1975), 433-438.
17. (With G. Coray) “A logical framework for large file information handling,” Information Sciences, 8 (1975), 27-38.
18. “A semantic basis for program verification,” Journal of Cybernetics, 4 (1974) 61-69.
19. “Les identités dans les catégories,” Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, Série A, 275 (1972), 495-496.
20. “Foundations as a branch of mathematics,” Journal of Philosophical Logic, 1 (1972), 349-358.
21. (With J. Corcoran et J. Herring) “Variable binding term operators,” Zeit. Math. Log. Grund Math., 18 (1972), 177-182.
22. (With P. E. Réthier) “Une application du langage APL au problème de démonstration de théorèmes par ordinateur,” Colloque APL, IRIA (1971), Paris, 433-443.
23. “Quasiprimitive subcategories,” Mathematische Annalen, 190 (1970), 93-96.
24. “Birkhoff subcategories,” Revue Roumaine de Math. Pures et Appliquées, 15 (1970), 1421-1423.
25. “Sur un système de da Costa,” Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, Série A, 268 (1969), 1443-1446.
26. “Remarques sur l’équivalence des systèmes logiques,” Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, Série A, 267 (1968), 529-530.
27. “Logical truth and logical implication,” Journal of Symbolic Logic, 31 (1966), 561.
28. “Systèmes formels et catégories,” Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, 260 (1965), 3525-3528.
29. “La notion d’équivalence entre systèmes formels,” L’Enseignement Mathématique, 10 (1964), 314-315.
30. “La notion d’équivalence entre systèmes formels et une généralisation inductive du système dit «New Foundations» de Quine,” Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, 256 (1963), 563-566.
Russian Publications in Philosophy and Religion
Books
1. Mimimalism, translated by Vadim Nomokonov, Axios, St-Petersburg, Russia, 2003, 119 pages.
2. (With Vadim Nomokonov and Leonid Osokin) The Ethics of Authentic Relationships, translated by Vadim Nomokonov, Axios, St-Petersburg, Russia, 1999, 155 pages.
Articles
1. “The Kitab-i-Aqdas: The Causality Principle in the World of Being,” translated by V. Zadikian, Axios, St-Petersburg, Russia, 1998, 48 pages.
2. (With Vadim Nomokonov and Leonid Osokin) “The Ethics of Authenticity,” Chapter 1, translated by Vadim Nomokonov, Axios, St-Petersburg, 1998, 80 pages.
3. “Ethics of Authenticity, A Course of Integrated Ethics for Youth and Young Adults” (in English), Axios, St-Petersburg, Russia, 1997, Book 1, 45 pages, Book 2, 56 pages.
4. “Talks on Religion, Science and Morality,” translated by Youli Ioannesyan, Axios, St-Petersburg, Russia, Part 1(1996), 30 pages; Part 2, (1996), 40 pages; Part 3,(1997); Part 4, (1997), 48 pages; Part 5, (1998), 48 pages.
5. “A Scientific Proof of the Existence of God,” translated by G. Litviak, Phoenix Press, Kiev, 1992, 18 pages; reprint, Kiev, 1994.
6. “The Concept of Spirituality,” translator unknown, Phoenix Press, Kiev, 1992, 72 pages.