Science and Humanity: A Humane Philosophy of Science and Religion

ISBN-13: 9780198824589 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 304 str.

Andrew Steane

Opis

For the general educated reader, this book presents the nature of the physical world, the role of well-motivated religious response.

Recenzje

This is a deeply personal, poetic and philosophical book by a professional physicist who wants to divert rivers of fresh water to the desiccated discourse of late modern world-views. His urgent patience in addressing poorly-founded atheist arguments, makes compulsive reading. Insistent that the world of relativity, quantum mechanics, and thermodynamics that he loves is perfectly receptive of meaning, purpose, freedom and love, this is a read for anyone who cherishes the miracle of being human.

O autorze

Andrew Steane is a Professor of Physics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. His research includes experimental and theoretical Quantum Computing, atomic physics, and Special Relativity. He co-discovered quantum error correction. His research group, co-led by David Lucas, has pioneered the ion trap approach to quantum computing. He is the author of two undergraduate physics textbooks, and of Faithful to Science: the role of science in religion (OUP 2014). He was awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics (2000). He is married to Emma Steane; they have three children.