August 7, 2026
Welcome
My name is Norbert.
I was born on September 5, 1970,
and I live and work in Vienna, Austria.
Philosophy is my passion.
I write almost every day.
This website serves as the central
publication platform for my writings.
Stylistic note: When discussing historical topics, I deliberately employ the historical present and, correspondingly, the present perfect.
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Table of Contents
- Principles
- Definitions
- Methodology
- Metaphysics
- Ontology
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Religion
- Miscellaneous
Norbert's Reflections
A weekly short essay on a philosophical topic that is on my mind.
- Norbert’s Reflections: A Critique of Philip Goff's View that Experiencing Pain Constitutes the Essence of Pain
- Norbert's Reflection: Do All Mathematical Statements Require a Frame of Reference Smaller Than the Universe? Is Platonism, as a Comprehensive Metaphysical View of Mathematics, Philosophically Falsified?
- Norbert's Reflection: I Am Not a Great Fan of Philip Goff's 'Self-Experiment' with Drugs
- Reflection: The Enhancement of Human Beings Through Genetic Engineering?
Principles
Definitions
- Stipulative Definition: Cognition and Detection
- Stipulative Definitions: Comprehensive Metaphysical View and the Metaphysical Fundamental
- Stipulative Definition: Epistemological System
- Stipulative Definition: Essence
- Stipulative Definition: Fundamental Principle
- Stipulative Definition: Metaphilosophy
- Stipulative Definitions: Metasystem and Overall System
- Stipulative Definitions: Perceptual Input, Actual and Potential Perceptual Object, as well as Extrinsic and Intrinsic Perception
- Stipulative Definitions: Present, Moment, and Process Velocity
- Stipulative Definition: Reality
- Stipulative Definition: Subject in the System-Ontological Sense
- Stipulative Definitions: Ontological, Perspectival, and Physical Time
- Stipulative Definition: Information-Processing System
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