Want to get into the head of the New Jersey man busted for suspiciously walking into Midtown’s Patrick’s Cathedral with canisters filled with gasoline? You can read his book on philosophy.
Marc Lamparello, 37, a PhD student at CUNY’s Graduate Center who also worked as an adjunct professor at Lehman College in the Bronx, published a 400-plus page book in 2016 called “.”
“Presented in the form of aphorisms and paragraph-length insights, Reason and Counterpoint offers ambitious and highly creative answers to some of the most vexing philosophical questions, while also using skepticism to question some of the most basic assumptions at the heart of philosophical method and inquiry,” a blurb on the back of the tome reads.
In another blurb on the back of the book, Lamparello is described as a New Jersey native who “studied philosophy at Boston College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 2004.”
“Marc has been heavily engaged in the study of philosophy from an early age, and is currently working on two other book-length projects, including a witty dialogue on arguments for and against the existence of God, and a series of essays on the epistemology of practical motivation,” the bio reads.
Lamparello was arrested Wednesday night after he walked into Fifth Avenue’s iconic neo-Gothic cathedral bearing the two, two-gallon canisters of gas, lighter fluids and lighters.
He was intercepted by church security who deemed him “suspicious,” and who then flagged police, New York Archbishop Timothy Cardinal Dolan said Thursday.
Lamparello told authorities that he was cutting through the church to get to Madison Avenue because his minivan had run out of gas, but cops say his vehicle was not out of fuel.
Charges against him are pending.
Lamparello was hired at Lehman College during this academic year and “was a part-time, online instructor this semester,” college spokeswoman Sarah Ramsey said.
He also taught a philosophy course last year at Brooklyn College as part of his PhD program, a Brooklyn College rep said.
Meanwhile, Lamparello’s dad refused to comment to The Post Thursday, only to say, “We don’t know anything.”
Family friend and retired Army veteran, Salvatore Altamore, 86, called the Lamparello’s “a good religious family.”
“They’re strict Catholics. They belong to St. Joseph’s in East Rutherford. They attend mass regularly,” Altamore said.
A neighbor, Phil Miller, 54, said he was shocked by the news of Lamparello’s arrest.
“I can’t believe it – such a nice family,” he said. “I talk to his mother almost every day when she comes down to walk the dog. She’s a nice person. I feel really bad for them. It’s a shame this happened.”
The book is currently for sale on Amazon.com for $45.53.