Quantum Mechanics, a collection of fifteen essays, explores the creative interaction among quantum physics, philosophy, and theology. This fine collection presents the results of the fifth international research conference co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory, Rome, and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley. The overarching goal of these conferences is to support the engagement of constructive theology with the natural sciences and to investigate the philosophical and theological elements in ongoing theoretical research in the natural sciences. In the first section of this collection, contributors examine scientific and historical context. Section two features essays covering a wide range of philosophical interpretations of quantum mechanics. The final set of essays explores the theological implications of quantum theory. Abner Shimony, Raymond Y. Chiao, Michael Berry, Ernan McMullin, William R. Stoeger, S.J., James T. Cushing, Jeremy Butterfield, Michael Redhead, Chris Clarke, John Polkinghorne, Michael Heller, Philip Clayton, Thomas F. Tracy, George F.R. Ellis, and Robert John Russell all contributed essays to this volume.
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This collection of 15 essays explores the creative interaction among quantum physics, philosophy and theology. It presents the results of the fifth international research conference co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780268039783
Publisert
2002-02-28
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Notre Dame Press
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
376

Biographical note

ROBERT JOHN RUSSELL is professor of theology and science, and founder and director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. PHILIP CLAYTON is professor and chair of the Philosophy Department at the California State University, Sonoma. KIRK WEGTER-McNELLY is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. JOHN POLKINGHORNE is past president, and now fellow, of Queen's College, Cambridge, and Canon Theologian of Liverpool, England.