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Francis Brassard
Brassard, Francis
Brassard, FrancisAdjunct Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Croatia |
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Adjunct Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Croatia
Francis Brassard is an Adjunct Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Croatia. He received his PhD from McGill University in religious studies. His research interests include Buddhist philosophy and psychology, comparative religions and philosophies, and inter-religious dialogue. His book, The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra, was published in 2000. He has previously taught in Berry College, USA and Miyazaki International College, Japan.
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Ruđer Bošković and the Structure of the Experience of Scientific Discovery
( Knowledge, Science & Values )
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Abstract
Ruđer Josip Bošković (1711-1787) was a Jesuit priest and a scientist from the former Republic of Dubrovnik in today’s Croatia. He published many works in such fields as mathematics, physics, astronomy and geodesy. According to Werner Heisenberg, Bošković’s “main work, Theoria Philosophiae Naturalis, contains numerous ideas which have reached full expression only in modern physics of the past fifty years.” The question that this paper seeks to elucidate is...