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Education: | 1983: |
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Florida, |
1982: | JD, University of Florida | |
1977: |
MA, Philosophy, University of London, Birkbeck
College, |
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1975: | BA cum laude, Philosophy, University of Minnesota, cum laude thesis: Platonic Aesthetics |
1984- |
Present: Professor of Philosophy & Comparative
Religion, Central Florida |
2006: | The Golden Section: Nature’s Greatest Secret, in press, Walker Publishing, N.Y. |
2005: | Lecturer, Florence, Italy, 21st International Festival of Esoteric Sciences |
2005: | Consciousness 2005 and Beyond, co-presenter with astronaut Edgar Mitchell, FL |
Lecturer: Cape Town, South Africa, 19th Int’l. Festival of Esoteric Sciences | |
2002: | Published, The Indefinite Dyad and the Golden Section:
Uncovering Plato’s Second Principle, Nexus Network Journal of Architecture and Mathematics, www.nexusjournal.com/GA-v4n1-Olsen.html |
2002: | Presenter: Sacred Geometry, Florida Institute of Noetic Sciences, Eckerd College |
2002: | Published, Plato, Proclus and Peirce: Abduction and the Foundations of the Logic of Discovery, in R. Baine Harris, ed., Neoplatonism & Contemporary Thought. |
2001: | Lecturer: Spigno Saturnia, Italy, 3rd Annual Esoteric Sciences Summer School |
2001: | The Sacred Primal Numbers Revealed, the Geometric Unfoldment of Nature, and the Universal Principles of Beauty, 2-Day Seminar, Asheville, NC |
2001: | Sacred Geometry: Discovering the Sacred Geometric Structure of the Cosmos, 1-Day Seminar, San Francisco, CA |
2000: | Sacred Geometry: Plato’s Secret Path, 2-Day Seminar, Asheville, North Carolina |
1998: | delivered paper at International Neoplatonism Conference, University of Rethymno, Crete, Plato’s Secret & the Foundations of Western Aesthetics |
1997: | delivered paper at International Neoplatonism Conference, Vanderbilt University, Plato and the Foundations of Abductive Logic |
1996: | delivered paper, Plato’s Ontology, Epistemology and Aesthetics, at the World Conference of Ancient Philosophy, SUNY, Binghampton, |
recipient of CFCC’s Endowed Chair for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities | |
1994: | speaker, York University, England, International Festival of Esoteric Sciences |
1993: | invited speaker, Florence, Italy, International Festival of Yoga & Esoteric Sciences |
1990: | elected President of the Florida Philosophical Association |
1989- | present: member of the Florida Bar |
1970: | Mr. Apollo, 1st Place, National open physique title |