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Philosophical Dimensions of Science

Eric Cornell, What Was God Thinking? Science Can't Tell

[from Time Magazine, November 14, 2005]

 

Cornelius Hunter, Evolution and Theodicy

[from Darwin’s God. Evolution and the Problem of Evil, 2001]

 

Josef Seifert (b. 1945), Four Arguments for Mental Life Inhering in a Spiritual Substance

[from What is Life? The originality, irreducibility, and value of life, 1997]

 

Josef Seifert, What is life? A dialogue between a philosopher and some scientists

[from What is Life? The originality, irreducibility, and value of life, 1997]

 

Bruno Belhoste, Practices and Principles in Cauchy’s Work

[from Augustine-Louis Cauchy. A Biography, 1991]

 

Richard W. Hamming (1915-1998), The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics

[from The American Mathematical Monthly 87 (1980), n. 2, pp. 81-90]

 

Enrico Cantore (b. 1926), Wonder and Awe: The Scientific Experience of Ultimates

[from Scientific Man, 1977]

 

Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), The Modern Development of the Foundations of Mathematics in the Light of Philosophy {*1961/?}

[from “Collected works”, vol. III: Unpublished essays and Lectures]

 

Michael Polanyi (1891-1976), Life’s Irreducible Structure

[from Knowing and Being (1969)]

 

Eugene P. Wigner (1902-1995), The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

[Richard Courant Lecture in Mathematical Sciences delivered at New York University - May 11, 1959]

 

Michael Polanyi (1891 - 1976), On the Intellectual Passions in Scientific Research

[from Personal Knowledge (1958)]

 

Richard Rudner (1921-1979), The Scientist qua Scientist makes Value Judgments (1953)

[from Philosophy of Science, 20 (1953), n. 1, pp. 1-6]

 

Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Letter to Maurice Solovine (1952)

[from A. Einstein, Letters to Solovine, translated by Wade Baskin, (New York: Philosophical Library, 1987), pp. 132-133.]

 

Etienne Gilson (1884-1978), The Realist Beginner’s Handbook

[from Methodical Realism, 1935, ch. V]

 

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), The Influence of Western Medieval Culture upon the Development of Modern Science

[from Science and the Modern World, 1925]

 

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Introductory Lecture on Experimental Physics

[from The Scientific Papers of J.C. Maxwell’s, New York 1965]

 

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