1. Robert Arp was awarded a prestigious Theodore B Basselin Scholarship while at CUA, and was a teaching fellow, research fellow, and dissertation fellow during his time at SLU.
21 Facts About Robert Arp
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Robert Arp has offered suggestions for the interactions of philosophers and scientists as they go about their work in philosophy of science.
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Robert Arp's view continues to be referred to as plausible by cognitive scientists and others doing work in artificial intelligence, philosophical psychology, and other areas of study.
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Robert Arp has worked as an ontologist with the CGI Group and BAE Systems on projects for the United States Air Force, National Institutes of Health, and United States Army.
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Robert Arp has published papers dealing with philosophy of science and conceptual models and produced numerous technical documents as a technical writer.
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Robert Arp has used RDF, RDFS, OWL, and SPARQL to assist in building ontologies for the Next Generation Air Transportation System, making use of ontology-building tools such as TopBraid and Protege.
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Robert Arp was part of the initial steps in developing the world's first weather ontology with other ontologists at Lincoln Laboratory.
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Robert Arp was part of the genesis of the Infectious Disease Ontology through meetings and discussions in 2007 and 2008.
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One argument Robert Arp puts forward is a restatement of the "no-miracles argument" for scientific realism which states that it would be miraculous if scientific theories were not at least approximately true descriptions of the world, since they are so successful at prediction and control.
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Robert Arp has argued for this position in the past.
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Just as Kant spoke of the value of the regulative ideas as aiding in, not only the rounding off of our systematic picture of reality, but prompting us to do further research and investigation, so too, according to Robert Arp thinkers are to act as if there is a reality "out there" when they construct domain ontologies or engage in any other kind of scientific endeavor.
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Robert Arp has added to the discussion concerning the issue of classifying mystical union with the One in the Neoplatonism of Plotinus, a topic in mysticism with a crossover in religious experience and spirituality more generally.
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Robert Arp has published on mystics such as Lydwina of Schiedam, Margaret of Castello, Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, Saint Rita of Cascia, and others who claim that God's goodness and love can be experienced through, or in the midst of, pain and suffering.
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Borrowing the concept of solidarity as used by the famous environmental ethicist Robin Attfield in his view known as biocentric consequentialism, Robert Arp has sought to establish a Ubiquitous Ethical Principle of Solidarity.
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Robert Arp has chapters in more than 40 books in the genre known colloquially as Philosophy and Popular Culture, including Metallica and Philosophy, Family Guy and Philosophy, Lost and Philosophy, 24 and Philosophy, The Office and Philosophy, Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy, Watchmen and Philosophy, Final Fantasy and Philosophy, Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy, True Blood and Philosophy, 30 Rock and Philosophy, and others.
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Robert Arp has worked numerous times with William Irwin, General Editor of The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series through Wiley-Blackwell.
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In 2006 Robert Arp edited the flagship book in that series, South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today, which has been translated into the Italian, the Turkish, and Portuguese.
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Robert Arp co-edited Batman and Philosophy: The Dark Knight of the Soul with Mark White, soon to be translated into the German language.
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Robert Arp was Plenary Speaker for Pop Culture and Philosophy Conferences at Eastern Washington University and Georgia Southern University.
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In September 2015, Robert Arp was interviewed by Ed Berliner on his show, The Hard Line with Ed Berliner, through Newsmax TV about South Park.
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On January 22,2019, Robert Arp appeared with other philosophers on the podcast devoted to philosophy and popular culture titled, I Think, Therefore, I Fan.