Brebeuf College School

Science Department

Science & Philosophy


Philosophical study of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (Is the world objective and independent of our observations?)  The Uncertainty Principle and Philosophical Realism)
Philosophical analysis:   Heisenber on: "What is an elementary particle"? 
Philosophical analysis: What is an atom? A substance? A pure quantity?
Philosophical analysis: The number of protons determine an atom to be what it is. (question formulated by R. Krevs - in light of faulty modern thinking and answered by D. McManaman - Philosopher.
Philosohical analysis: Is this world simply the result of random and accidental physical and chemical processes?
Philosophical analysis: Substance, element and compound.
Philosophical analysis: Chemical changes and the formation of a new substance (question formulated by R. Krevs - in light of faulty modern thinking and answered by D. McManaman - Philosopher.)
Philosophical analysis:   A solid is mostly empty space.  A critique of Physicist Nick Herbert's thinking.   
Philosophical analysis:   Second Law of Thermodynamics and Hylomorphism. 
Philosophical analysis:   Modern Physics and Aristotle's Hylomorphism 
Philosophical analysis: Spinoza and the Unity of Reality
Philosophical analysis: Is solidity an illusion?
Philosophical analysis: Prime Matter
Philosophical analysis: Won't physics eventually arrive at a complete explanation of things?
Philosophical analysis: Mathematical language and truth.
Philosophical analysis: Mass, Energy and Hylomorphism
Philosophical analysis: Is it true that "There is no common truth. What is true for you may not be true for me. You have your truth, I have my truth"?
Philosophical analysis: Doesn't the uncertainty principle show that nature is indeterminate?
Philosophical analysis: Can finality or teleology be measured?
Philosophical analysis: A Brief Response to the Reductionism of Richard P. Feynman
Philosophical analysis: Does the instability of the entropic process contravene hylomorphism?
 
Philosophical analysis: "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Matter and energy are equivalent. So isn't everything energy in one form or another."
Philosophical analysis: Is energy the ultimate cause and first principle of material reality?
Philosophical analysis: Is Empty Space Nothing?
 
Philosophical analysis: Paul Davies and Creation
 
Philosophical analysis: Can the universe come into existence from nothing?
Philosophical analysis: Complexity and Reductionism
Philosophical analysis: Am I a Big Bag of Chemicals?
Philosophical analysis: Chance, Spontaneity, and Radioactivity
Philosophical analysis: Is this world simply the result of random and accidental physical and chemical processes?
 
   

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