Ernan mcmullin galileo biography

Ernan McMullin (13 Ekim 1924 - 8 Şubat 2011), en son Notre Dame Üniversitesi'nde O'Hara Fahri Felsefe Profesörü olarak görev yapan İrlandalı bir filozoftur. Kozmoloji ve İlahiyat arasındaki ilişkiden bilimi anlamada değerlerin rolüne ve Darwinizm'in Batı dini düşüncesi üzerindeki etkisine kadar uzanan çeşitli konularda kapsamlı yazılar yazan ve konferanslar veren uluslararası saygın bir bilim felsefecisiydi. ABD'deki dört büyük felsefe derneğinin başkanlığını yürüten tek kişidir^[1]Galileo'nun hayatı konusunda uzmandır.^[2]

Hayatı

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McMullin, 13 Ekim 1924'te Ballybofey'de doğdu ve 8 Şubat 2011'de İrlanda'nın memleketi County Donegal'deki Letterkenny'de öldü.^[3]

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• İrlanda'daki Maynooth College'da eğitim gördü ve burada 1945'te fizik alanında lisans derecesi ve teoloji alanında ilahiyat lisans derecesi aldı.
• 1949'da bir Katolik rahip atandı.
• Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies'de bir bursla teorik fizik okudu.
• 1954 Leuven Üniversitesi'nde felsefe alanında dokt
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  In Memoriam: Rev. Ernan McMullin, Notre Dame philosopher of science

  Rev. Ernan McMullin, John Cardinal O’Hara Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, died yesterday (Feb. 8) at Letterkenny General Hospital in Donegal, Ireland. He was 86 years old.

  A native of Ballybofey, Donegal, Father McMullin was an internationally prominent scholar in the philosophy of science. He studied physics at the National University of Ireland under the Nobel laureate Erwin Schroedinger and theology at Maynooth College before being ordained a priest in 1949 and receiving his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Louvain in 1954. He joined the Notre Dame faculty the same year, and for the next half century explained that decision by praising the then-new president who had recruited him. “Father Ted Hesburgh could charm a bird out of a tree,” he would say.

  At Notre Dame, Father McMullin chaired the philosophy department from 1965 to 1972 and served as director of the history and philosophy of science program and of the Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Human

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  • Book
  • 408 pages
  • Level: university

  A book edited by Fr. Ernan McMullin in 2005. From the web site of the publisher, the University of Notre Dame Press:

  This collection of first-rate essays aims to provide an accurate scholarly assessment of the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and Galileo. In 1981, Pope John Paul II established a commission to inquire into the Church’s treatment of Galileo “in loyal recognition of wrongs, from whatever side they came,” hoping this way to “dispel the mistrust . . . between science and faith.” When the Galileo Commission finally issued its report in 1992, many scholars were disappointed by its inadequacies and its perpetuation of old defensive stratagems. This volume attempts what the Commission failed to provide—a historically accurate, scholarly, and balanced account of Galileo and his difficult relationship with the Roman Catholic Church.

  Contributors provide careful analyses of the interactions of the Church and Galileo over the thirty years between 1612 and his death in 1642. They also explore the attitudes of theologians