(As of July 15, 1996)

STANLEY L. JAKI
Distinguished University Professor
Seton Hall University
South Orange, N.J. 07079


Mailing address:
Stanley L. Jaki
P.O. Box 167
Princeton, N.J.08542
Tel 609 896 3979
Fax 609 896 9307

Publications

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)

Translations with introduction and notes:

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.

Introductory essay to:

Articles in

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

Book reviews in

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.

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 at)

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)

Membership

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)

Degrees

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)

Honors

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

Curriculum vitae

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.