Authors :: Studia Humana

Bruce Foltz

Professor of Philosophy at Eckerd College (USA), where he is also Director of the Senior Honors Program.

Fabien Schang

Fabien Schang is doctor in philosophy and Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Goiás (Brazil).
Co-author of two books and a number of international scientific papers, his works are centered on logic and epistemology. His research program of formal philosophy consists in applying logical tools to philosophical problems, including a formal semantics of oppositions or partition semantics.

Sergey S. Tarasenko

Independent researcher. Holds PhD in Informatics from Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan).

The main research interests include artificial neural networks and brain modeling,

reflexivity related research and Reflexive Game Theory (RGT). Main research results are
experimental discovery of Golden ratio in human guessing performance (Blind Choice),
solution of inverse task of RGT and concept of emotional Reflexive Games,
general framework for development of the cortex-like visual object recognition system.

George Kiraz

George Kiraz was born in Bethlehem to a Syriac Orthodox merchants family. He learned Syriac at the St. Mary’s Church in Bethlehem and St. Mark’s Monastery in Jerusalem. In 1983 he emigrated with his family to the United States. He obtained a master’s degree in Syriac Studies from the University of Oxford under Dr. Sebastian Brock and a doctorate in Computational Linguistics from the University of Cambridge. He came back to the US in 1996 where he worked as a research scientist at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. He founded in 1992 Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute (formerly The Syriac Computing Institute). In 2001 he founded Gorgias Press, an academic publisher of books and journals covering a range of religious and language studies that include Syriac language, Eastern Christianity, Ancient Near East, Arabic and Islam, Early Christianity, Judaism, and more. He is the author of many works on Syriac studies including a six-volume Concordance to the Syriac New Testament (1993), a four-volume Comparative Edition of the Syriac Gospels (1996), etc.

Semen Kutateladze

Russian mathematician who has continued and enriched the scientific tradition of Leonid Kantorovich. He works at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Novosibirsk State University and known for contributions to functional analysis and its applications to vector lattices and optimization.