Oscar Gaitan — Philosophy & Catholic Thought
Independent philosophical researcher exploring ontology, philosophy of time, metaphysics, phenomenology, and Catholic theology.
Essays written for both scholarly readers and the philosophically curious.
Featured Essays
| On Happiness | Where Is God? |
| The Am That Remains | Non te egeo: When we stopped Asking |
| De-Roling God | Does Time Need Me, or Do I Need Time? |
Research Areas
Ontology
Questions of being, identity, continuity, and persistence.
Philosophy of Time
Presence, temporality, memory, and the structure of the Now.
Catholic Theology
Grace, suffering, divine action, eternity, and the metaphysics of faith.
Phenomenology
Experience, selfhood, and first-person existence.
Metaphysical Anthropology
Human identity, moral agency, responsibility, and personhood.
Philosophy of Mathematics
Symbolic structures, abstraction, number, and ontological interpretation.
Language Accessibility
Many essays are available in both English and Spanish.
Recent Publications
- Non te egeo: When We Stopped Asking — May 16, 2026
- Non te egeo: Cuando Dejamos de Preguntar — May 16, 2026
- On Happiness: Its Duration, Its Name, and What Endures — May 12, 2026
- Sobre la Felicidad: Su Duración, Su Nombre, y Lo Que Perdura — May 12, 2026
- Alpha and Omega: On the Cosmos, the Now, and the God Who Holds Both Ends — May 10, 2026
- Alfa y Omega: Sobre el cosmos, el Ahora y el Dios que sostiene ambos extremos — May 10, 2026
- Desplazando a Dios: Sobre la comunidad, la multitud y el desplazamiento del Yo del Ahora — May 09, 2026
- De-Roling God: On Community, Multitude, and the Displacement of the Self from the Now — May 09, 2026
- Against You Alone: On Judgement, the Soul's Self-Witness, and the Two Responses That Remain — May 08, 2026
- Solo Contra Ti: Sobre el Juicio, el Alma como Testigo de Sí Misma, y las Dos Respuestas que Permanecen — May 08, 2026
About
Oscar Gaitan is an independent philosophical researcher whose work explores ontology, temporality, metaphysical anthropology, phenomenology, and Catholic thought through publicly accessible scholarly essays.