INCO 796: Cosmology and Our View of the World

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Suggested Reading Resources

Seminar Books (for 2014):

Author Title Pub. Library Call No. Publisher Reserve

Shaver, P.

Cosmic Heritage

2011

Springer, Heidelberg, New York, 2011

 

Nagel, T.

Mind and Cosmos:
Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

2012

Oxford University Press

 

Holmes, R. III

Three big bangs: matter-energy, life, mind

2010

B818 -- .R65 2010eb

Columbia University Press
(eBook)

Y

Further Resources for Topics of the Seminar:

Author Title Pub. Library Call No. Publisher Reserve
Cosmology:

Davies, P.

The Edge of Infinity

1981

 

Simon and Schuster

 

Taylor, J.G.

When the Clock Struck Zero

1994

QB982.T39

St. Martin’s Press, New York

R

Kippenhahn, R.

Light from the Depths of Time

1987

QB981.K5713 1987

 

R

Cosmology and Philosophy:

Barrow, J.D., J. Tipler

The Anthropic Principle

1986

BD511.B34

Oxford University Press

R

Barrow, J. D.

Impossibility: The Limits of Science & the Science of Limits

1998

 

Oxford University Press

R

Bertola, F., U. Curi (eds.)

The Anthropic Principle Proc. of the 2nd Venice Conf. on Cosmology and Philosophy

1993

QB982.V46

Cambridge University Press

 

Breuer, R.

The Anthropic Principle: man as the focal point of nature

1991

QB982.B7413

Birkhäuser, Boston

R

Davies, P.

The Accidental Universe

1982

QB981.D268

Cambridge University Press

 

Davies, P.

The Mind of God

1992

BL240.2 D29

Simon&Schuster

R

Davies, P.

The Goldilocks Enigma: why our universe is just right for life

Cosmic Jackpot: Why Our Universe is Just Right for Life?

2008

 

2007

BS651 .D325 2008

 

 

Houghton Mifflin, 2008 (Paperback)

 

(Hardcover)

 

 

R

Devlin

Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic & the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind

1997

BD 418.3 .D48

   

Gleiser, M.

A Tear at the Edge of Creation

2010

QB981 .G575 2010

Free Press, New York, 2010

R

Harris, E.E.

Cosmos and Anthropos: a philosophical interpretation of the anthropic cosmological principle

1991

BD7.H3701

Atlantic Highlands, N.J.

 

Hetherington, N.S. (ed.)

Cosmology: historical, literary, .... perspectives

1993

QB981.C822

Garland Publ., New York

 

Peat, F. D.

From Certainty to Uncertainty

2002

 

Joseph Henry Press

R

Stannard, R. (ed)

God for the 21st Century

2000

 

Templeton Foundation Press (Paperback)

R

Weizsäcker, C.F.

The Unity of Nature

1980

QC6.W51613

Farrar Strauss Giroux, New York

R

Wilson

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

1998

B 72.W54

 

R

Casti, J.L., A. Karlquist (ed)

Boundaries and Barriers - On the Limits to Scientific Knowledge

1996

 

Addison and Wesley Publ

Physics, Complex Systems and Mind:

Kafatos, M.C., R. Nadeau

The Conscious Universe

1990

Q175.K13

Springer Verlag, New York

R

Papineau, D., & Selina, H.

Introducing Consciousness

2000

B105.C477 P36 2000

Totem Books (Paperback)

R

Prigogine, I., I. Stengers

Order out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature

1984

 

Bantam Books, New York

R

Schrödinger, E.

Mind and Matter

1958

BF161.S35

Cambridge University Press

R

Schrödinger, E.

My View of the World

1964

B3329.S49673

Cambridge University Press

R

Stapp, H.P.

Mind, matter and quantum mechanics

1993

QC174.12.S8

Springer Verlag, New York

 

Torin, A., & Alter, R.J.

A Dialogue on Consciousness

2009

B105.C477 A589 2009

Oxford University Press
(Paperback)

R
Science and Religion:

Barbour, I.G.

Religion in an Age of Science

1990

BL240.2.B368

Harper, San Francisco

 

Barbour, I.G.

Ethics in an Age of Technology

1990

 

Harper, San Francisco

 

Brockelman, P.

Cosmology and Creation

1999

 

Oxford University Press

R

Davies, P.

God and the New Physics

1984

BL265.P4 D38

Simon&Schuster

R

Jastrow, R.

God and the Astronomers

1992

 

W.W. Norton, New York

R

Raymo, C.

Skeptics and True Believers

1998

 

Walker Publishing Company

 

Schwimme, B., T. Berry

The Universe Story

1992

 

Harper, San Francisco

 

Stoeger, R., Coyne (eds.)

Physics, Philosophy, and Theology: A Common Quest for Understanding

1988

Vatican Observatory, Vatican

   

Toulmin, S.

The Return to Cosmology Postmodern Science and the Theology of Nature

1982

 

University of California Press, Berkeley

 

Weber, R.

Dialogues between Scientists and Sages

1986

 

Routledge&Kegan Paul, New York

 

R: Book is on reserve in the library