Patterns or Principles and Other Essays (contents)

Patterns or Principles and Other Essays
by Stanley L. Jaki
1995 (Bryn Mawr, PA.: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1995), viii+246pp.

1. "Patterns or Principles: The Pseudoscientific Roots of Law's Debacle"
   Based on an address to the Thomas More Society of Harvard Law School, November 14, 1991, first published in The American Journal of Jurisprudence 38 (1993), pp. 135-57. Reprinted with permission.
2. "Ecology or Ecologism?"
   First published in Man and his Environment. Tropical Forests and the Conservation of Species (Vatican City State: Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 1994), pp. 271-93. Reprinted with permission.
3. "Socrates or the Baby and the Bathwater"
   First published in Faith and Reason 16 (1990), pp. 63-79. Reprinted with permission.
4. "Medieval Creativity in Science and Technology"
   First published in Technology in the Western Political Tradition, ed. M. R. Zinman et al. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993), pp. 46-68. Reprinted with permission.
5. "Telltale Remarks and a Tale Untold"
   First published in Creation, Nature, and Political Order in the Philosophy of Michael Foster (1903-1959), ed. C. Wybrow (Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992), pp. 269-96. Reprinted with permission.
6. "Determinism and Reality"
   First published in Great Ideas Today 1990 (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1990), pp. 276-302. Reprinted with permission.
7. "History as Science and Science in History"
   First published in Intercollegiate Review 28 (Fall 1993), pp. 20-33. Reprinted with permission.
8. "Science: Western or What?"
   First published in Intercollegiate Review 26 (Fall 1990), pp. 3-12. Reprinted with permission. The meeting was held in mid-June, 1990.
9. "Gilson and Science"
   First published in Saints, Sovereigns and Scholars: Essays in Honor of Frederick D. Wilhelmsen, ed. R. A. Herrera et al (New York: Peter Lang, 1993), pp. 31-47. Reprinted with permission.
10. "The Nonsense and Sense of Science"
    First published in A Warning Is Given, essays by Pope John Paul II et al., ed. H. Owen (Woodstock, Va.: Apostolatus Uniti, 1992), pp. 43-46. Reprinted with permission.
11. "The Mind: Its Physics or Physiognomy?"
    A review essay of The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989) xiii + 466pp, by Roger Penrose. First published in Reflections 10/2 (1991). Reprinted with permission.
12. "The Last Word in Physics"
    First published in Philosophy in Science 5 (1993), pp. 9-32. Reprinted with permission.