Science and the Future of Mankind
Working Group 12-14 November 1999
Jubilee Plenary Session 10-13 November 2000
Scripta Varia 99
Vatican City, 2001
pp. 527, XV tables
ISBN 88-7761-075-1
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SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
PART I: Science for Man and Man for Science (Working Group)
Context, Essential Contents of, and Follow-up to, the World Conference on Science Held in Budapest in June 1999 (PDF)
W. Arber
Technology: between Science and Man (PDF)
P. Germain
Spinning Fluids, Geomagnetism and the Earth’s Deep Interior (PDF)
R. Hide
Mathematics: Recent Developments and cultural aspects (PDF)
Y.I. Manin
Science as Utopia (PDF)
J. Mittelstrass
From Modern Research in Astrophysics to the Next Millennium for Mankind (PDF)
G.V. Coyne
The Role of Tropical Atmospheric Chemistry in Global Change Research: the Need for Research in the Tropics and Subtropics (PDF)
P. Crutzen
Which Economic System is Likely to Serve Human Societies the Best? The Scientific Question (PDF)
E. Malinvaud
Sustainability: Prospects for a New Millennium (PDF)
R.H. Raven
Choice, Responsibility, and Problems of Population (PDF)
B.M. Colombo
The Search for Man (PDF)
J. Marías
Science Facing the Crisis of Sense (PDF)
F. Jacques
The Fight against Disease: Comments Related to “Science for Man and Man for Science” (PDF)
M. Sela
Society in the Face of Scientific and Technological Development: Risk, Decision, Responsibility (PDF)
A. Blanc-Lapierre
Challenges for Agricultural Scientists (PDF)
T.-T. Chang
The Mathematisation of Science (PDF)
L.A. Caffarelli
PART II: Science and the Future of Mankind (Jubilee Session)
Light and Matter (PDF)
C. Cohen-Tannoudji
The Relationship Between Science, Religion and Aristotelian Theology Today (PDF)
E. Berti
Design Versus Selection in Chemistry and Beyond (PDF)
A. Eschenmoser
Chemical Design of New Materials (PDF)
C.N.R. Rao
Developmental Biology: New Trends and Prospects (PDF)
N.M. Le Douarin
Erreur, Correction, Réhabilitation et Pardon (PDF)
G. Cottier, O.P.
Logic and Uncertainties in Science and Religion (PDF)
C.H. Townes
Natural Theology in the Light of Modern Cosmology and Biology (PDF)
R. Swinburne
The Progress of Science and the Messianic Ideal (PDF)
J.-M. Maldamé
Creation and Science (PDF)
W.E. Carroll
The Transition from Biological to Cultural Evolution (PDF)
W. Singer
Earth Sciences: Remarkable Scientific Progress (PDF)
F. Press
Global Change and the Antarctic Ozone Hole (PDF)
M.J. Molina
Science for Man and Man for Science: the View from the Third World (PDF)
M. Moshinsky
Physics in the Last Century and in the Future (PDF)
R.L. Mössbauer
The Christological Origins of Newton’s First Law (PDF)
S.L. Jaki
Colliding Cascades: a Model for Prediction of Critical Transitions (PDF)
V.I. Keilis-Borok
Time and Matter – Science at New Limits (PDF)
A.H. Zewail
The New World Dis-Order – Can Science Aid the Have-Nots? (PDF)
A.H. Zewail
Why and how Physicists are Interested in the Brain and the Mind (PDF)
M. Oda
A Millennium View of the Universe (PDF)
V.C. Rubin
Recent Trends in the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (PDF)
R. Omnès
Christ and Science (PDF)
P. Cardinal Poupard
On Transdisciplinarity (PDF)
J. Mittelstrass
‘Illicit Jumps’ – The Logic of Creation (PDF)
M. Heller
Proposed Declaration on Sciences and Scientists at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Drafted by P. Germain (PDF)
Study-Document on the Use of ‘Genetically Modified Food Plants’ to Combat Hunger in the World with an Introductory Note by President Nicola Cabibbo (PDF)
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