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The Small-Scale Universe
To Be - Reality. What is it?
Scholars seek to define
fundamental units of reality,
experience and/or being.
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The Human Scale
To Know - Ways of Knowing
Scholars seek to understand basic
interactions from cells to populations
of people. What makes life human?
What gives life meaning?
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The Large-Scale Universe
To Envision the Cosmos
Scholars seek to understand cosmology --
the parts, laws, and operations
of the universe. They seek to know
the origin and nature of the universe.
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1979 - All Living Scholars
(all listings, all columns are alphabetical) |
Scientists - Philosophers - Theologians
(all listings are followed by a school designation) |
All Living Scholars in 1979
(all listings of published work are linked) |
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• Ian Barbour, Carleton, Northfield (MN)
Issues in Science and Religion
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• Michael Arbib, Massachusetts, UCLA
Brains, Machines and Mathematics
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• Hannes Alfven, Uppsala, Stockholm
Cosmic Plasma
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• Ted Bastin, Cambridge
Quantum Theory & Beyond |
• Peter Berger, Boston College
The Sacred Canopy |
• Hermann Bondi, London
The cosmological scene |
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• Charles Birch, Sydney
Biology and the Riddle of Life
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• Percy Brand Blanshard, Yale
The Nature of Thought
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• Margaret & Geoffrey Burbidge, UCSD (CA)
The Abundances of the Elements |
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• David Bohm, Birbeck, London
Fragmentation & Wholeness
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• Kenneth Boulding, Colorado
The World as a Total System
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• Buckminster Fuller, Pennsylvania
Synergetics I & II
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• Mario Bunge, McGill, Montreal
Treatise on Basic Philosophy
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• Erwin Chargaff,Columbia
Heraclitean Fire
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• Stephen Hawking, Cambridge
On the Shoulders of Giants
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• Fritjof Capra, Lawrence Berkeley
The Tao of Physics
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• Noam Chomsky, MIT
Language and Mind
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• Fred Hoyle, Cambridge, Cal Tech
Ten Faces of the Universe
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• John Cobb, Claremont (CA)
Process Studies
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• Freeman Dyson, Princeton
Disturbing the Universe
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• Stanley Jaki, Seton Hall (NJ)
Science and Creation
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• Richard Feynman, Cal Tech
Theory of Fundamental Processes
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• John Eccles, SUNY-Buffalo
Understanding of the Brain
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• Bernard Lovell, Manchester, JBO
Emerging Cosmology: Convergence
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• Lewis Ford, Old Dominion, Norfolk (VA)
Lure of God
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• Richard Falk, Princeton
A Study of Future Worlds
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• Roger Penrose
The Emperor's New Mind
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• Sheldon Glashow, Harvard
The charm of physics
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• Paul K. Feyerabend, Berkeley
Science in a Free Society
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• Arno Penzias, Bell Labs (NJ)
The Origin of the Elements
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• David Griffin, Claremont (CA)
Archetypal Process
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• John N. Findlay, Oxford, Boston
Plato: The Written and Unwritten
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• Carl Sagan, Cornell
Contact and Cosmos
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• Charles Hartshorne, Chicago
The Zero Fallacy
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• Hans-Georg Gadamer, Heidelberg
Truth and Method
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• Fred A. Wolf
The Dreaming Universe
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• Krishnamurti, California
The First and Last Freedom
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• Langdon Gilkey, Chicago
Maker of Heaven and Earth
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• Tarthang Tulku (Berkeley, CA)
Time, Space, and Knowledge
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• H. Pierre Noyes, Stanford
Bit-String Physics
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• Steven Grossberg, Boston
Studies of Mind and Brain
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• Steven Weinberg, Harvard, Texas
The First Three Minutes
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• Shubert Ogden, SMU, Dallas (TX)
On Theology
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• Jürgen Habermas, Max Planck, Starnberg
The Fear of Freedom
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• Yakov B. Zel'dovich
Creation of particles in cosmology
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• Harold Oliver, Boston
A Relational Metaphysic
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• Gerald Holton, Harvard
Scientific Imagination
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Living Scholars Today
Who shall we add in each
category? Who are today's
leading living scholars?
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• Gian-Carlo Rota, MIT
Foundations of Combinatorics
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• William Johnston, Sophia, Japan
Still Point
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• Julian Schwinger, UCLA
Einstein's Legacy
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• Gustavo Lagos, Chile
(in process)
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• John Baez, UCR (CA)
Knots and quantum gravity
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• Henry P. Stapp, Lawrence Berkeley
Mindful Universe
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• Erwin Laszlo, UN
Systems View of the World
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• Lisa Randall, Harvard
Warped Passages
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• Victor Weisskopf, MIT
The Joy of Insight
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• Bernard Lonergan, Regis
Insight: A Study of Human Understanding
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• Richard Dawkins, Oxford
The Magic of Reality
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• Carl F. von Weizsäcker, Max-Planck (Starnberg)
The Structure of Physics
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• Lynn Margulis, Massachusetts (Amherst)
Early Life
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• Daniel Shechtman, Technion
Icosahedral Quasiperiodic Phase
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• John Wheeler, Princeton, Texas
Spacetime Physics
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• Ali A. Mazrui, Michigan, SUNY-Binghamton
A World Federation of Cultures
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• Jim Yong Kim, World Bank,
Dartmouth, Toward a Golden Age
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• Eugene Wigner, Princeton
Symmetries & Reflections
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• Marvin Minsky, MIT
The Society of Mind
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• Ben J. Green, Cambridge
On arithmetic structures...
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• Jürgen Moltmann, Tübingen
The Spirit of Life
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• Brian Green, Columbia (NYC)
The Elegant Universe
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The selection committee
Included Marx Wartofsky,
J. Robert Nelson, Alan Olson,
and Bill Henneman, all of
Boston University.
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• Wolfhart Pannenburg, Munich
Theology and the Philosophy of Science
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• Agnieszka Zalewska, Krakow, CERN
Large Hadron Collider
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• Karl Popper, London
All Life Is Problem Solving
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Every scholar selected was also
invited to nominate others.
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• Karl Pribam, Stanford
The End of Certainty
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• _____
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Every scholar was also invited
to critique the selections.
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• Ilya Prigogine, Brussels
The End of Certainty
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• _____
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Bruce Camber initiated and
coordinated this effort.
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• Karl Rahner
Theological Investigations
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• _____
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A back story of its development
is linked here.
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• Theodore Roszak, San Francisco State
The Making of a Counter Culture.
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More to come...
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• Huston Smith, Syracuse
The World's Religions
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• William I. Thomson, Lindisfarne
Passages about Earth
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