Philosophical Dimensions of Science

Isaac Newton

God and the Universe in the Principia Mathematica (1687)
The General Scholium to Principia Mathematica, 1687

Adam Sedgwick

God and the Laws of Nature (1833)
A Discourse on the Studies of the University, 1833

James C. Maxwell

Introductory Lecture on Experimental Physics (1871)
The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, 1965

Alfred N. Whitehead

The Influence of Western Medieval Culture Upon the Development of Modern Science (1925)
Science and the Modern World, Lowell Lectures, 1925

Arthur H. Compton

Freedom versus Law (1935)
The Freedom of Man, 1935.

Etienne Gilson

The Realist Beginner’s Handbook (1935)
Methodical Realism, 1935

Albert Einstein

On Freedom (1950)
On Freedom, 1950
On the Rational Order of the World: a Letter to Maurice Solovine (1952)
Letters to Solovine, tr. by W. Baskin, New York 1987

Richard Rudner

The Scientist qua Scientist Makes Value Judgments (1953)
Philosophy of Science, 20 (1953)

Michael Polanyi

On the Intellectual Passion in Scientific Research (1958)
Personal Knowledge. Toward A Post-Critical Philosophy, 1958
The Republic of Science: Its Political and Economic Theory (1962)
Minerva 1 (1962), pp.54-74
Life’s Irreducible Structure (1968)
Science, June 1968

Eugene P. Wigner

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (1959)
Richard Courant Lecture in Mathematical Sciences delivered at New York University, May 11, 1959

Kurt Gödel

The Modern Development of the Foundations of Mathematics in the Light of Philosophy (1961)
Collected works, vol. III: Unpublished Essays and Lectures

Langdon Gilkey

On the Religious Dimensions of Scientific Activity (1967)
Deems Lectures delivered at New York University

Werner Karl Heisenberg

The Meaning of Beauty in Exact Natural Science (1970)
Lecture delivered to the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste

Enrico Cantore

The Humanistic Character of Science (1977)
Scientific Man. The Humanistic Significance of Science
The Scientific experience of Knowledge (1977)
Scientific Man. The Humanistic Significance of Science
The Scientific Experience of Ultimates: Wonder (1977)
Scientific Man. The Humanistic Significance of Science

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Beauty And The Quest For Beauty In Science (1979)
Truth and Beauty

Richard W. Hamming

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics (1980)
The American Mathematical Monthly, February 1980

Hilary Putnam

Beyond the Fact/Value Dichotomy (1982)
Realism with a Human Face, 1992

Thomas F. Torrance

James Clerk Maxwell and the Equations of Light (1984)
Transformation & Convergence in the Frame of Knowledge, 1984

John Barrow

Computability and Turing Machine (1988)
The World within the World, 1988

Evandro Agazzi

The Universe as a Philosophical Problem (1991)
The Universe as a Scientific and Philosophical Problem, 1991
Reductionism as Negation of the Scientific Spirit (1991)
The Problem of Reductionism in Science, Dordrecht 1991

Bruno Belhoste

Practices and Principles in Cauchy’s Work (1991)
Augustine-Louis Cauchy. A Biography, 1991

George Smoot

Towards the ultimate question (1993)
Wrinkles in time

Josef Seifert

On the Nature of Life (1997)
What is Life? The Originality, Irreducibility, and Value of Life, 1997
Four Arguments for Mental Life Inhering in a Spiritual Substance (1997)
What is Life? The originality, irreducibility, and value of life, 1997

Cornelius Hunter

Evolution and Theodicy, a Reading from "Darwin’s God. Evolution and the Problem of Evil" (2001)
Darwin's God. Evolution and the Problem of Evil, 2001

Joseph M. Zycinski

Between Mathematics and Transcendence. The Search for the Spiritual Dimension of Scientific Discovery (2005)
Spiritual Information. 100 Perspectives on Science and Religion.

Paul Davies

The Universe. What’s the Point? (2005)
Spiritual Information. 100 Perspectives on Science and Religion.

Eric Cornell

Why is the Sky Blue? (What Was God Thinking? Science Can't Tell) (2005)
Time Magazine, November 14, 2005

Christopher B. Kaiser

Thick description of science (2007)
Toward a Theology of Scientific Endeavour, 2007

Brian Greene

Put a Little Science in Your Life (2008)
International Herald Tribune, June 2, 2008

Jacalyn Duffin

Religion, Medicine and Miracles (2009)
Medical Miracles. Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World, 2009

Elaine H. Ecklund

What Scientists Really Think: Shattering Myths, Toward Dialogue (2010)
Science Vs. Religion, 2010