Ernan McMullin

Ernan McMullin ( born October 13, 1924 in Ballybofey, Ireland, † February 8, 2011 in Donegal, Ireland) was an Irish-American philosopher and philosopher of science.

McMullin studied physics and theology at Maynooth College ( Ireland) and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1949. After working at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, he received his doctorate in 1954 on the The quantum principle of uncertainty. Since 1954 he worked at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Notre Dame ( USA), since 1967 there. Professor of the History of Science and Philosophy of Science, Science and Religion In 1994, the philosopher who developed posts on topics such as Galileo Galilei and the reconciliation of European understanding of religion and evolutionary theory was given emeritus status.

Publications

• (ed. ) The Concept of Matter, 1963
• (ed. ) Galileo, Man of Science, 1967
• Newton on Matter and Activity, 1978
• (ed. ) Evolution and Creation, 1985
• (ed. ) Construction and Constraint, 1988
• (edited with James Cushing ) Philosophical Consequences of Quantum Theory, 1989
• (ed. ) The Social Dimensions of Science, (1992 )
• The Inference That Makes Science, 1992

• " Indifference Principle and Anthropic Principle in Cosmology ", Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, (1993 )
• " Enlarging the Known World," in Physics and Our View of the World, (1994 )
• "Galileo on Science and Scripture ," in The Cambridge Companion to Galileo (1998)
• "Cosmic Purpose and the Contingency of Human Evolution ," Theology Today, (1998)
• " Materialist Categories", Science and Education, (1999)
• "Biology and the Theology of Human Nature ," in Controlling our Destinies, (2000)
• "Values ​​in Science, " in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, (2000)
• " Origins of the Field Concept in Physics," Physics in Perspective, (2001)
• " Formalism and Ontology in Early Astronomy ," Quantum Mechanics: Perspectives on Divine Action ( 2001)

• (as ed.): The church and Galileo, 2005 ( ISBN 0-268-03483-4 )