Alexander S Kohav, PhD

Alex S. Kohav, PhD, teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Kohav is the author of Early Israel: Cultic Praxis, God, and the Sôd Hypothesis (Routledge 2023) and the editor of two recent anthologies, Mysticism and Meaning: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Three Pines Press 2019) and Mysticism and Experience: Twenty-First-Century Approaches (Lexington Books 2020), as well as coeditor of Interrogating AI: The Promise, the Problems, the Future (forthcoming). 

A philosopher and an artist, Kohav’s forthcoming book, Adam, a Kind of Thinker: Freedom Scales as Selves, Worlds, and Thinking Fields (Hebraic Pluri-Dimensional Perspectives) elaborates the ontology of worlds accessible to human beings.

Kohav’s visual art is explored in Ori Z. Soltes’ book (containing 100+ images), Ontogeny of Light: Apples, Suns, Mirrors, Electricities—Limitless Light, Oscillating Silences, Immersive Realms: The Art of Alex Shalom Kohav (Canal Street Studios 2020).

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