The Only Chaos and Other Essays (contents)

The Only Chaos and Other Essays
by Stanley L. Jaki
1990 (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America; Bryn Mawr, Pa.: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1990), ix+271pp.

1. "The Only Chaos"
   First published in This World, Summer 1988, pp. 99-109. Reprinted with permission of The Rockford institute and with additional notes.
2. "The Cosmic Myth of Chance"
   First published in German translation, "Des Weltall als Zufall - ein Mythos von kosmischer Irrationalitat," in Zur Kritik der wissenschaftlichen Rationalitat: Festschrift Kurt Hübner, ed. H. Lenk (Munich: Karl Alber, 1986), pp. 487-503.
3. "The Modernity of the Middle Ages"
   First published in Modern Age, Summer/Fall 1987, pp. 207-14. Reprinted with permission.
4. "The Transformation of Cosmology in the Renaissance: Facts, Myths and Mythmaking"
   The main title was suggested by Prof. Stephen Tonsor at whose invitation this paper was originally presented to the Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium of the University of Michigan on March 3, 1982. Published with additional notes.
5. "The History of Science and the Idea of an Oscillating Universe"
   This chapter is an enlarged form of a lecture delivered at the University of Denver on November 6, 1974. Reprinted with permission from Cosmology, History, and Theology, ed. W. Yourgrau and A. D. Breck (New York: Plenum, 1977). The Postscript added to it was first published in Center Journal (Winter 1984).
6. "Extra-Terrestrials and Scientific Progress"
   Paper read at the meeting of the History of Science Society at Indiana University on November 1, 1985. First published here with additional notes.
7. "Science: Revolutionary or Conservative?"
   First published in The Intercollegiate Review, Spring 1989. Reprinted with permission and with additional notes.
8. "The Three Faces of Technology: Idol, Nemesis, Marvel"
   First published in The Intercollegiate Review, Spring 1988, pp. 37-46. Reprinted with permission and with additional notes.
9. "Normalcy As Terror: The Naturalization of AIDS"
   First published in Crisis, June 1987, pp. 21-23. Reprinted with permission.
10. "Evicting the Creator"
    A review of Stephen W. Hawking's A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (New York: Bantam Books, 1988), in Reflections ... The Wanderer Review of Literature, Culture, the Arts, Spring 1988, pp. 1, 20, 22. Reprinted with permission and with additional notes.
11. "Physics or Physicalism. A Cultural Dilemma"
    Lecture given at the University of Chicago, February 17, 1968.
12. "Science and Antiscience"
    Lecture given at the Colloque organized by the Secrétariat International des Questions Scientifiques of the Mouvement International des Intellectuels Catholiques, a branch of the Pax Romana movement, in Chantilly, Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 1979. A considerably shortened version of the lecture appeared in French translation in the procès-verbaux of the
    Colloque: Science et antiscience (Paris: Le Centurion, 1981), pp. 39-51. There the title of the essay is given, with no authorization from me, as "De la science-fiction à la philosophie."
13. "Teaching Transcendence in Physics"
    First published in the American Journal of Physics 55 (October 1987) pp. 884-88. Reprinted here with permission and with additional references and notes.
14. "Physics and the Ultimate"
    First published in Ultimate Reality and Meaning 11 (1988), pp. 61-73. Reprinted here with permission and with additional references and notes.
15. "The Hymn of the Universe"
    Written at the request of a friend. Published here for the first time.
16. "The Universe in the Bible and in Modern Science"
    First published in Ex Auditu, vol. III, 1987, pp. 137-47. Reprinted with permission.
17. "Address on Receiving the Templeton Prize"
    First published in 1987 Templeton Prize: The Addresses at the Fifteenth Presentation Prize for Progress in Religion at Guildhall, London, Tuesday, 12th May, 1987 (Nassau, The Bahamas: The Templeton Prize, 1987), pp. 10-11 and 14-17. Reprinted with permission and with additional notes.