Christian Thomas Kohl

2011 CV of Christian Thomas KOHL

Christian Thomas Kohl is lecturer in history and philosophy of physical sciences at Tibet Institute, Rikon, Zurich (http://www.tibet-institut.ch). He has studied the history and philosophy of sciences at the Universities of Paris and Berlin and in 1973 he graduated in political science. He tries to follow the approaches of Edwin Arthur Burtt and Alfred North Whitehead. His core areas of research are the metaphysical foundations of quantum physics. He has also studied Indonesian and Indian music and was promoting music from India, Pakistan and China. Since the 1980s, he has been interested in the philosophy and history of Indian Buddhism. Since 1990, he has been working as a lecturer of history of sciences and languages in Switzerland and France. During the past three decades he has worked on 'reconciling' the fundamental principles of quantum physics and Buddhist philosophy. His home university is the University of Education, Freiburg (https://www.ph-freiburg.de).

Recent Publications

Books:

Christian Thomas Kohl, Buddhismus und Quantenphysik: Die Wirklichkeitsbegriffe Nagarjunas und der Quantenphysik, Windpferdverlag, Aitrang 2005, 302 p. http://www.amazon.de/Buddhismus-Quantenphysik-Die-Wirklichkeitsbegriffe-Nagarjunas/dp/3893856013

Journal Articles:

Christian Thomas Kohl, ‘Buddhism and Quantum Physics: a strange parallelism of two concepts of reality’, Contemporary Buddhism, Vol.8, No 1, May 2007 (69-82) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14639940701295328

Christian Thomas Kohl, ‘Buddhism and Quantum Physics’, The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies, Number 9, 2008 (45-62) http://www.iijbs.org/images/iijbs_part9.pdf

Christian Thomas Kohl, ‘Buddhism and Quantum Physics’, Concepts of Physics, Vol. V, No. 3, 2008 (517-519) http://merlin.fic.uni.lodz.pl/concepts/www/V_3/517.pdf

Christian Thomas Kohl, ‘Buddhism and Quantum Physics’, Buddhist Himalaya, Vol.9. Combined Issue 2001-2007 http://www.niem.com.np/buddhisthim/buddhism_quantum.pdf

Conferences:

Christian Thomas Kohl, Buddhismus und Quantenphysik: Zwischenräume, 30. Orientalistentag, University of Freiburg, September 24-28, 2007: http://orient.ruf.uni-freiburg.de/dotpub/kohl.pdf

Christian Thomas Kohl, Buddhism and Quantum Physics: A Contribution to the Dialogue between East and West, 3. World Conference on Buddhism and Science, Bangkok, Thailand, December 2010 http://www.crs.mahidol.ac.th/eng/conferencepapers.htm

Personal website: http://ctkohl.googlepages.com