(As of July 15, 1996)
STANLEY L. JAKI
Distinguished University Professor
Seton Hall University
South Orange, N.J. 07079
Mailing address:
THE RELEVANCE OF PHYSICS (University
of Chicago Press, 1966; 2d printing 1970) 640pp. A historical analysis
of the limitations of the method of exact science within physics and within
the interaction of physics with biology, philosophy, ethics, theology,
and with culture in general. Spanish translation in press. BRAIN, MIND AND COMPUTERS (Herder
& Herder, 1969) 269pp. A critique of of the notion of artificial intelligence
within the context of computer theory, neurophysiology, psychology, and
logical positivism. Received the Lecomte du Nouy Prize for 1970. Paperback
reprint edition with a new preface (Regnery Gateway, 1978). Third printing,
enlarged with a chapter on artificial intelligence, 1989. THE PARADOX OF OLBERS' PARADOX (Herder
& Herder, 1969) 267pp. The first monograph on the history of a fundamental
problem of scientific cosmology; the infinity or finiteness of the universe
as posed by the darkness of the night sky. Second enlarged edition in preparation. THE MILKY WAY: AN ELUSIVE ROAD FOR
SCIENCE (Science History Publications, 1972) 352pp with illustrations.
The first monograph on the history of research on the Milky Way. Paperback
reprint, 1975. SCIENCE AND CREATION: FROM ETERNAL
CYCLES TO AN OSCILLATING UNIVERSE (Scottish Academic Press, 1974; Science
History Publications, 1974; second enlarged edition, 1986) 367pp. The first
monograph on the invariable stillbirths of the scientific enterprise in
all great ancient cultures and on its sole viable birth in Christian medieval
Europe with special emphasis on the biblical doctrine of creation. Second
enlarged paperback edition 1986. First American edition, University Press
of America, 1990. PLANETS AND PLANETARIANS: A HISTORY
OF THEORIES ON THE ORIGIN OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS (Scottish Academic Press,
1978; John Wiley, 1978) 266 pp with illustrations. A meticulously documented
survey which strongly suggests the extreme rarity of systems similar to
our solar system and the fatuity of preoccupation with extraterrestrial
intelligence. THE ROAD OF SCIENCE AND THE WAYS
TO GOD (The Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, 1974-75 and 1975-76).
University of Chicago Press, Scottish Academic Press, 1978. 487pp. The
text of twenty lectures, of which the last ten are devoted to science in
the 20th century. It is argued that the metaphysical realism embodied in
the classical proofs of the existence of God is the only epistemology compatible
with creative science. Paperback reprint editions, 1980 and 1985. Italian
translation (Iaca Books, Milano, 1988). Hungarian translation in preparation.
THE ORIGIN OF SCIENCE AND THE SCIENCE
OF ITS ORIGIN (Fremantle Lectures, Balliol College, Oxford, 1977). Scottish
Academic Press; Regnery Gateway 1978. 160pp. The first monograph on theories
proposed since Bacon to the present day on the rise of science in the 17th
century. LES TENDANCES NOUVELLES DE L'ECCLESIOLOGIE
(Herder, Rome, 1956), 274pp. A thematic analysis of recent trends in ecclesiology.
Reprinted in 1963 owing to the great surge of interest in the topic during
Vatican II. AND ON THIS ROCK: THE WITNESS OF
ONE LAND AND TWO COVENANTS (Ave Maria Press, 1978), 125pp with illustrations.
An exegetical and archeological evaluation of the notion of "rock"
in the Old and New Testaments. French translation ET SUR CE ROC (Paris:
Tequi, 1983). Second enlarged edition (Trinity Communications, 1987). Hungarian
translation, Ecclesia, Budapest, 1990. COSMOS AND CREATOR (Scottish Academic
Press, l979; Regnery Gateway, 1980), 168pp. An analysis of the bearing
of modern cosmological theories on the Christian dogma of the creation
of the universe, followed by the history of that dogma, its philosophical
presuppositions, and its relation to evolutionary theories of man. Hungarian
translation in preparation. ANGELS, APES AND MEN (Sherwood Sugden,
1982), 129pp. A discussion of the influence which the rationalist and naturalist
notions of man respectively had on the scientific enterprise together with
the claim that the great breakthroughs of modern science imply a notion
of man which represents a middle road between these two extremes. Third
printing 1988. UNEASY GENIUS: THE LIFE AND WORK
OF PIERRE DUHEM (Dordrecht, London, Boston; Martinus Nifhoff, 1984) xii
+ 476pp. The first monograph on the life and thought of Duhem, a pioneering
and most seminal philosopher and historian of science, including a portrayal
of the mental physiognomy of the Third Republic and the reaction to Duhem
as a physicist, philosopher and historian of science during the last fifty
years. Second paperback edition, 1987. Chinese translation in preparation. CHESTERTON: A SEER OF SCIENCE (University
of Illinois Press, 1986) x + 165pp. The first discussion of Chesterton's
attitude to and reflections on science and a detailed documentation of
the claim that, as in other fields, here too he displayed remarkable originality
and insight. LORD GIFFORD AND HIS LECTURES: A
CENTENARY RETROSPECT (Scottish Academic Press, 1986; Mercer University
Press Atlanta, 1986) 138pp. An analysis of the more than 150 volumes that
represent almost as many Gifford Lectures since their inception in 1887
with a special reference to the justice they had done to Lord Gifford's
bequest that made academic history. 2nd enlarged edition, late 1994. CHANCE OR REALITY AND OTHER ESSAYS
(University Press of American and Inter-collegiate Studies Institute, 1986),
viii and 249pp. A collection of thirteen essays relating to the cultural
bearing of various aspects of the history and philosophy of science, old
and new. THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM: A TOOL'S
WITNESS TO TRUTH (Chicago: Franciscan Herald Press, 1986), 226pp. A monograph
on the theological history of Peter's Keys with an emphasis on the bearing
of that history by key-making, ancient and modern. Illustrations. Hungarian
translation. Budapest: Ecclesia, 1991. THE PHYSICIST AS ARTIST: THE LANDSCAPES
OF PIERRE DUHEM (Scottish Academic Press, 1988), 188pp in quarto. 235 illustrations
and XI color plates. Possibly the only major physicist of modern times
with a creative ability to draw, Duhem reveals in his landscape-art the
same kind of perception which underlies his theory of physics, a theory
positivist in form but metaphysically realist in essence. THE ABSOLUTE BENEATH THE RELATIVE
AND OTHER ESSAYS (University Press of America and Intercollegiate Studies
Institute, 1988), viii +233pp. A collection of 14 essays that deal with
various aspects of modern physics in their impact on modern culture and
inasmuch as that impact is colored by fashionable interpretations of physical
science. THE SAVIOR OF SCIENCE (Washington
DC: Regnery Gateway, 1988), 260pp. Based on the text of five lectures,
delivered at the Third Annual Wethersfield Institute Conference in August
1987. The book deals with the subtle but crucial impact which the Christian
belief in the Incarnation had on the development of science and with the
role which the same belief can play in securing science for a constructive
role in mankind's future. Hungarian translation: Budapest, Ecclesia, 1990.
Italian translation, Casa Editrice Vaticana, 1992. Russian translation,
Moscow, 1992. Russian translation (1990). Polish translation (1994) MIRACLES AND PHYSICS (Christendom
Press Front Royal Va: 1989), 117pp. An analysis of the notion of scientific
law with respect to the possibility of miracles and a criticism of efforts
that seek in quantum mechanical indeterminacy a loophole for miracles.
Hungarian translation, 1992 GOD AND THE COSMOLOGISTS (Edinburgh:
Scottish Academic Press; Washington, D.C.: Regnery-Gateway, 1989), 276pp.
Based on the text of eight lectures, delivered at Corpus Christi College,
Oxford, under the sponsorship of Farmington Institute, the book deals with
the principal contributions modern science has made to the cosmological
argument and with the various views of scientific cosmologists who try
to exploit their subject in the opposite sense. Italian translation, DIO
E I COSMOLOGI (Casa Editrice Vaticana, 1991), 278pp. Hungarian translation
Budapest, Ecclesia, 1992. Russian translation (1993). Polish translation
(1994) THE ONLY CHAOS AND OTHER ESSAYS (University
Press of America and Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1990), 282pp. A
collection of 17 essays that deal with the interaction of scientific and
literary cultures, with scientism, questions of modern cosmology, the relation
of the Bible to modern science. CATHOLIC ESSAYS (Christendom Press,
1990), 176pp. A collection of 10 essays dealing with Catholic theology,
Church, and culture. COSMOS IN TRANSITION: ESSAYS IN THE
HISTORY OF COSMOLOGY (Pachart, Tucson, Ar., 1990), 247pp. A collection
9 essays, dealing with the Milky Way, the planetary system, Lambert's cosmology,
the bending of light, etc. CIENCIA, FE, CULTURA (Madrid: Libros
MC, 1990), 208pp. Spanish translation of 7 essays. dealing mostly with
science and culture. THE PURPOSE OF IT ALL, based on the
text of eight lectures given in Oxford in November 1989, under the sponsorship
of Framington Institute for Christian Studies. They deal with unreliable
sources of the sense of purpose, such as progress, evolution, process philosophies
and with the true status of the design argument, together with its grounds:
man's inner sense of purpose and his freedom to act for a purpose (Washington:
Regnery Gateway; Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1990), 294pp. Italian
translation (Milano: Ares, 1994). Hungarian translation to be published
by Ecclesia (Budapest, 1993). Polish translation in preparation. PIERRE DUHEM: HOMME DE FOI ET DE
SCIENCE (Paris: Beauchesne, 1991), 272pp. A portrayal of Duhem the scientist
and the Christian, together with selected pages from his publications illustrating
the topic. In English SCIENTIST AND CATHOLIC: PIERRE DUHEM (Christendom
Press, 1991), 288pp OLBERS STUDIES: With Three Unpublished
Manuscripts by Olbers (Pachart, 1991), 98pp. RELUCTANT HEROINE: THE LIFE AND WORK
OF HELENE DUHEM (Scottish Academic Press, 1992, 335pp). A study centered
on Hélène Duhem's Duhem's heroic struggle, between 1932 and
1954, to have the second half, full five volumes, of her father's immortal
work, Le système du monde, be published. With illustrations.
UNIVERSE AND CREED, The 1992 Père
Marquette Lecture (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1992), 87pp.
German translation in preparation. Italian translation in preparation.
LETTRES DE PIERRE DUHEM A SA FILLE,
HELENE (c. 320pp), a selection and editing of about three hundred letters
of Duhem to his daughter, with introduction and notes. (Paris: Beauchesne,
late 1994)) GENESIS 1 THROUGH THE AGES (London:
Thomas More Press, 1992) 317pp with illustrations. A history of the interpretations
of Genesis 1 from biblical times to the present day, with an emphasis on
the ever-present lures of concordism. Eight lectures delivered April 25-
May 9, 1992, in New York on behalf of Wethersfield Institute. IS THERE A UNIVERSE? The expanded
text of three lectures delivered at the University of Liverpool in November
1992. (Liverpool University Press, 1993; New York: Wethersfield Institute)
137pp. PATTERNS OR PRINCIPLES AND OTHER
ESSAYS (Bryn Mawer, PA: Intercollegiate Studies Institutte, 1995), 237pp BIBLE AND SCIENCE (Front Royal, VA:
Christendom Press, 1996) 223pp. An analysis of the biblical world view
and basic biblical propositions insofar as they relate to science and to
its history. Edition with an introduction in English
of Pierre Duhem's early essays on the history and philosophy of physics
under the title PREMICES PHILOSOPHIQUES (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1987) xiii+230pp. Edition with an introduction of NEWMAN
TODAY. A collection of papers delivered at the Fourth Annual Wethersfield
Institute Conference, October 1988. (Ignatius Press, Fall 1989), 300pp. Edition with an introduction and
notes of DIFFICULTIES OF ANGLICANS by J. H. Newman (Real-View-Books, 1994) Edition with an introduction of THE
VOYAGE TO LOURDES by Alexis Carrel (Real-View-Books, 1994) Edition with a Postscript of THE
SHAKESPEARES AND "THE OLD FAITH" by J. H. De Groot (Real-View
Books, 1995) Edition with an introduction of CHRISTIANITY
AND THE LEADERS OF MODERN SCIENCE by K. A. Kneller (Real-View-Books, 1995) Edition with an introduction of MEMOIRS
ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF JACOBINISM, by A. Barruel (Real-View-Books,
1995) Edition with an introduction of THE
TRUE STORY OF THE VATICAN COUNCIL, by H. E. Manning (Real-View-Books, 1996) THE ASH WEDNESDAY SUPPER (La Cena
de le ceneri,1584) by Giordano Bruno. The first English translation of
the first book on Copernicus (Mouton, 1975). COSMOLOGICAL LETTERS OF THE ARRANGEMENT
OF THE WORLD EDIFICE (Cosmologische Briefe über die Einrichtung
des Weltbaues, 1761) by J. H. Lambert. (Science History Publications;
Scottish Academic Press, 1976) 245pp. First English translation of a classic
of the history of cosmology. UNIVERSAL NATURAL HISTORY AND THEORY
OF THE HEAVENS (Allgemeine Naturgeschichte und Theorie des Himmels,
1775) by I. Kant. The first full translation of a classic which shows Kant's
ineptness in science and his weird ideas of denizens on other planets.
(Scottish Academic Press, 1981), 302pp. Paperback reprint, 1992. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS ARCHIVES
DE PHILOSOPHIE (PARIS) SKY AND TELESCOPE PHILOSOPHIA (ATHENS) JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
PHILOSOPHIA NATURALIS (GERMANY) SCIENTIA IL NUOVO AREOPAGO (ROME) JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH NEW
SCHOLASTICISM IRISH ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL CHESTERTON
REVIEW FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS NATIONAL REVIEW ZYGON INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES SUDHOFFS ARCHIV MODERN AGE THE THOMIST ARCHIVES, ACADEMIE NATIONALE FAITH AND REASON DES SCIENCES DE
BORDEAUX THOUGHT NATURE ZYGON AMERICAN SCIENTIST THEOLOGY TODAY ISIS THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL REVUE D'HISTOIRE DES SCIENCES DOWNSIDE
REVIEW THE TABLET SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY REFLECTIONS LINACRE QUARTERLY For a full list of publications (until
June 1991), see P. Haffner, CREATION AND SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY: A STUDY
IN THE THOUGHT OF S. L. JAKI (Front Royal, Va.: Christendom Press, 1991),
pp. 173-200. Second Conference on Cultural Unity
(Bowdoin College, 1967) Conference on Science and Religion
(Star Island, 1968) Symposium on Society and Technology
(History of Science Society, 1970) Second International Humanistic Symposium
(Delphi, Greece, 1972) International Conference on Cosmology,
History of Science and Theology (University of Denver, 1974) Third International Humanistic Symposium
(Mount Pelion, Greece, 1975) Twelfth Nobel Conference, Gustavus
Adolphus College (St. Peter, Minn. 1976) Congres International "Lambert"
(Mulhouse, 1977) History of Science Society, Annual
Meeting, (Dallas, 1977) 16th World Congress of Philosophy
(Düsseldorf, 1978) Fourth International Humanistic Symposium
(Mount Pelion, Greece, 1978) International Congress on Decision
Making in Business (Nijenrode, Netherlands, 1976) International Congress on Business
and Ethics (Nijenrode, Netherlands,1979) Boston Colloquia on the Philosophy
of Science (1979) Fifth International Humanistic Symposium
(Mount Pelion, Greece, 1981) Science in Islamic Polity (Islamabad,
Pakistan, 1983) Second TERRA MATER conference (Gubbio,
Italy, 1987) Frederick Neumann Symposium (Princeton,
1987) World Congress, Amicizia fra i Popoli
(Rimini, 1988) Open University (Moscow, Academy
of Sciences, 1989) Man and his Environment (Pontifical
Academy of Sciences, 1990) Culture in Scientific Context (Vatican,
1991) The Emergence of Complexity (Pontifical
Academy of Sciences, 1992) The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena
(An International Conference of the Vatican Observatory, 1994) Sigma Xi History of Science Society Olbers Gesellschaft (Bremen) Hellenic Society for Humanistic Studies
(Athens) Academie Nationale des Sciences,
Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux (membre correspondant) Pontifical Academy of Sciences (honorary
member) STD (Systematic Theology, Rome, Istituto
Pontificio di S. Anselmo, 1950) PhD (Physics,Fordham University,
1957) LLD (honoris causa, Central Michigan
University, 1974) LitD (honoris causa, Steubenville
University, 1986) LitD (honoris causa, St. Anselm's
College, 1988) LitD (honoris causa, Marquette University,
1989) LitD (honoris causa, St. Vincent
College, 1989) ScD (honoris causa, Fordham University,
1991) ScD (honoris cause, Seton Hall University,
1991) The Lecomte du Nouy Prize and Medal
for 1970 Olbers Lecturer, Bremen, 1970 Gifford Lecturer, University of Edinburgh,
1974-75 and 1975-76 Fremantle Lecturer, Balliol College,
Oxford, 1977 Hoyt Fellow, Yale University, 1980 Macdonald Lecturer, University of
Sydney, 1981 McDermott Lecturer, University of
Dallas, 1983 Wethersfield Institute Scholar, 1986
and 1987 Farmington Institute Lecturer, Oxford
University, 1988 Farmington Institute Lecturer, Oxford
University, 1989 Templeton Prize, 1987 Wethersfield Institute Lecturer,
1992 Forwood Lecturer, University of Liverpool,
1992 STANLEY L. JAKI P. O. Box 167 Princeton, N. J. 08542 He was born in Gyor (Hungary) in
1924; upon graduating from the Jedlik Preparatory School and Junior College
there he entered the Benedictine Order in 1942. After completing his undergraduate
training in philosophy, theology and mathematics in 1947, he went to Rome
to do graduate work in theology at the Pontifical Institute of San Anselmo,
where he received the doctorate in December 1950. In 1948 he was ordained
a priest. An extended version of his doctoral
dissertation was published by Casa Editrice Herder (Rome) in 1956 under
the title,Les tendances nouvelles de l'ecclésiologie reissued
in 1963 owing to renewed interest in the topic during Vatican II. From early 1951 he taught systematic
theology at the School of Theology of St. Vincent College, Latrobe, Pa.
At the same time, he attended in the same college courses in American history,
literature, mathematics and sciences to secure American recognition of
his undergraduate training done in Hungary. The bachelor of science degree
was awarded him by St. Vincent College in 1954. In September he enrolled in the Graduate
School of Fordham University to work for an advanced degree in physics.
His doctoral research was carried out under the mentorship of the late
Dr. Victor F. Hess, the discoverer of cosmic rays and a Nobel-laureate,
and was published in the June 1958 issue of Journal of Geophysical research
(pp. 378-89) under the title, "A study of the Distribution of Radon,
Thoron, and their Decay Products above and below the Ground." Between 1958 and 1960 he did research
in the history and philosophy of physics at Stanford University and the
University of California, Berkeley. From 1960 to 1962 he was Visiting
Fellow in the Program for the History and Philosophy of Science at Princeton
University. During the years 1962-65 he wrote
The Relevance of Physics (University of Chicago Press, 1966) of
which Prof. W. Heitler wrote in American Scientist: "The appearance
of this book is an event of no small importance...I suggest...to make Jaki's
book...compulsory reading for all scientists, students, and professors." From 1965 he has been on the Faculty
of Seton Hall University, where he was promoted in 1975, to the rank of
Distinguished University Professor. During the academic year 1966-67
he was associated with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. 1973--he was invited to deliver the
Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 1974-75 and 1975-76,
which made him the eighth American Gifford Lecturer after William James,
Josiah Royce, John Dewey, Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr and others 1976--he was invited to be the Fremantle
Lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1977 1980--he was elected Hoyt Fellow
at Yale University 1981--he served as Macdonald Lecturer
at the University of Sydney 1981 (Spring)--he served as Visiting
Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary 1984-87--Fellow, Center of Theological
Inquiry, Princeton 1987--Templeton Prize. Conferred
by His Royal Highness, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Windsor Castle, May ll 1987--He delivered five lectures
at the Third Wetherfield Annual Conference held on his ideas on science
and creation 1988--Eight lectures on "God
and the Cosmologists" at the Farmington Institute of Oxford University 1988--Invited lecturer of the South-Asian
Bishop's Conference on Science and Technology, Hongkong, Dec. 8-10 1989-90--Fellow, Center of Theological
Inquiry, Princeton 1989--He gave two lectures at the
"Open University" in Moscow, June 1989, a week-long symposium
sponsored by the American Foreign Policy Forum
and the Soviet Academy of Sciences 1990--Invited lecturer at "Man
and his Environment," a symposium sponsored by the Pontifical Academy
of Science, May 1990 1989--Eight lectures on "The
Purpose of It All," at the Farmington Institute of Oxford University 1990--Honorary member, Pontifical
Academy of Sciences. 1992--Eight lectures on "Genesis
1 through the Ages", Wethersfield Institute, New York. 1992--Three lectures on "Is
There a Universe?" University of Liverpool 1993--Invited lecturer at the International
Colloquium, "Cosmology," University of Madrid 1994--Invited lecturer at the International
Symposium, "The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena" Castelgandolfo, Italy.
Stanley L. Jaki
P.O. Box 167
Princeton, N.J.08542
Tel 609 896 3979
Fax 609 896 9307
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notes:
Introductory essay to:
Articles in
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Lectures at
University of Chicago University of Kiel
Princeton University University of Goettingen
Stanford University University of Munich
Boston University University of Mainz
University of California University of Brimingham
University of Kansas Oxford University
Carnegie-Mellon University University of Edinburgh
University of Notre Dame University of Louvain
US Research Center, Los Alamos University of Strasbourg
Lockheed Research Center Medieval Institute (Toronto) St. John's College (Annapolis) McGill University (Montreal) Yale University University of Sevilla
University of Michigan University of Pamplona
Columbia University University of Upsala
Georgetown University University of Sydney
University of Dallas University of Melbourne
University of Colorado University of Paris (Sorbonne) Rice University Ecole Normale Superieure California Institute of Technology Gregorian University (Rome) University of Southern California, University of Prague
Virginia Institute of Technology Academic Nauk USSR
Louisiana State University Hungarian Academy of Sciences Michigan State University Pontifical Academy of Sciences Clemson University University of Liverpool,
Massachussetts Institute of Technology University of Christchurch,
Penn State University University of Auckland, etc
Swarthmore College Harvard University University of Houston, etc Congresses (invited lecturer
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