Gabriel Vacariu

Gabriel Vacariu (born September 2, 1974) is a Romanian theoretical philosopher and author at the University of Bucharest. In addition to his more specialized work, he has also written popular books about philosophical issues. One of his latest works is Illusions of Human Thinking.
Career
Gabriel was educated in philosophy in Romania. After completing his studies, he held an assistant professor position at the University of Bucharest. He has written books on his concept of "Epistemologically Different Worlds" from 2008 to the present.
Philosophy
His main ideas appeared first time in 2002 and Synthese, USA, in 2005. His books from 2008 to present shows that 'world' doesn't exist but 'EDW' exist. In his works from 2008, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, he showed that cognitive neuroscience is a pseudo-science.
With his EDWs perspective, Vacariu showed that the main greatest problems from science and philosophy are pseudo-problems:
* The mind-brain problem: in philosophy since Descartes, in cognitive science since this particular science appeared, then a particular science has been invented in the 70’s for solving it directly: cognitive neuroscience.
* The life-organism/cell problem: in biology there have been many particular definitions of “life” but nobody could identify the relationship between life and the organism/cell.
* The relationship between wave and particle in quantum mechanics: in physics, this problem has not been solved since its appearance (Young’s experiment!). It remains one of the greatest mysteries of quantum mechanics.
* The relationship between microparticles and macroparticles: in physics, this problem pushed the scientists to try to unify Einstein’s theory of general relativity and quantum mechanics. The results of this unification were unsuccessful.
Books
Books about his EDW concept.
* (2016) English and German, Illusions of Human Thinking: on Concepts of Mind, Reality, and Universe in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Physics
Articles
* (2013) Gabriel Vacaru and Mihai Vacariu (eds.), “The mind-body problem in cognitive neuroscience”, Philosophia Scientiae 17/2 (Nancy-Universite/France). Authors of this issue: William Bechtel, Rolls T. Edmund, Cees van Leeuwen, Kari Theurer and John Bickle, Bernard Andrieu, Corey Maley and Gualtiero Piccinini, Paula Droege, and Gabriel Vacariu and Mihai Vacariu.
* (2005) “Mind, brain and epistemologically different worlds”, in Synthese Review, vol. 143, no. 3
* (2001) M. Vacariu, E. T. Rolls, G. Vacariu, (eds), “Representations”, Synthese 129/2 (Kluwer, Boston) (ISI) Authors of this issue: Edmund T. Rolls (Oxford University); Kim Plunkett (Oxford University); Peter Mcleod (Oxford University), David Plaut and Tim Shallice; K. Rantala (University of Tampere); Michael Wheeler (Oxford University); Radu Bogdan (Tulaine University); Ilie Parvu (Bucharest University); Gabriel Vacariu, Dalia Terhesiu and Mihai Vacariu
Tertiary studies
* (2004- 2008) Ph.D. student, University of New South Wales, School of Philosophy (Sydney, Australia); Title:; EIPRS and UIPA scholarships. The thesis was submitted at Graduate Centre, UNSW on 06.09.2007 and posted on the internet on 21.09.2007 and then on 29.04.2008. Supervisor: Philip Cam (UNSW). Referees of thesis: John Bickle (University of Cincinnati, USA), Rom Harre (Linacre College, Oxford, UK) and Ilie Parvu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
* (2006) Ph.D. degree, University of Bucharest, Department of Philosophy, Chair of Theoretical Philosophy and Logic; Topic: The concept of representation in cognitive science
* (2002-2003) University of New York, Department of Philosophy (New York, USA) Fulbright Scholarship
* (1998-1999) University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology (Oxford, Great Britain) Soros Scholarship; Supervisors: Prof. Martin Davies and Prof. Peter McLeod; Adviser: Prof. E. T. Rolls
* (1991-1996) University of Bucharest, Department of Philosophy (Bucharest, Romania)

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