Dear Friends, I have taken the initiative to organize a talk by Dr. Henry Schaefer at University of Mumbai Philosophy Department (Gnaneshwar Bhawan) above Chemistry Department on 6th February at 3:30 Pm who is one of the most distinguished physical scientists in the world. He will be speaking on, Quantum Mechanics, Postmodernism and God, on 6th February at 3:30 PM in the Mumbai University Philosophy Department. Let us hear from a foremost physical scientist his views on Religion and God! A brief profile and the abstract of his talk is given below. Thank you: Peter Akbar Professor of Philosophy The D.G Ruparel College Mahim Mumbai About Professor Schaefer: The U.S News and World Report cover story of December 23, 1991 speculated that Professir Schaefer is a five time nominee for the Nobel Prize. He has received four of the most prestigious awards of the American Chemical Society, as well as the most highly esteemed award (the Centenary Medal) given to a non-British subject by Londons Royal Society of Chemistry. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Moreover, his general interest lectures on science and religion have riveted large audiences in nearly all the major universities in the U.S.A. and in Beijing, Berlin, Budapest, Cape Town, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Istanbul, London, Paris, Prague, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, St. Petersburg, Sydney, Tokyo, Warsaw, Zagreb, and Zurich. A brief abstract of his talk: Quantum Mechanics, Postmodernism and God (55 minutes) It has become increasingly common in recent years to use quantum mechanics to support the intellectual validity of postmodernism. Postmodernism holds to an epistemology of radical skepticism. Taken to the limit, postmodernism concludes that human beings are profoundly subjective and unable to say anything meaningful about reality. Support for the idea that quantum mechanics opposes objective assertions of truth is found in a particular interpretation of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. This lecture critically reviews the four most prominent expositions of the uncertainty principle, with an eye to their philosophical and spiritual implications.
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