Enrico Cantore

Scholar in History and Philosophy of Science. Formerly at Gregorian University, Rome, and Fordham University, New York.

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P. Enrico Cantore S.J. (1926- 2014) studied Physics at the University of Turin and carried out philosophical-theological studies at the Society of Jesus. He taught at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He engaged in history and philosophy of science at the University of Santa Clara in California (1962-1963) and at the University of Chicago (1963-1964). He taught philosophy of science at Fordham University dealing with philosophy of quantum mechanics. He published Atomic Order. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Microphysics (1969) and Scientific Man. The Humanistic Significance of Science (1977). He founded, with other intellectuals, the Institute for Scientific Humanism in New York.