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John Joseph Haldane KCHS FRSE FRSA (born 19 February 1954) is a British philosopher, commentator and broadcaster. He is a former papal adviser to the Vatican . [ 1 ] He is credited with coining the term ' analytical Thomism ' and is himself a Thomist in the analytic tradition.
J.B.S. Haldane was a scientist who was born in Britain yet was spiritually inclined towards India. He saw action in the two World Wars, was engaged in the most radical politics of his day, conducted scientific research, and wrote with flair and conviction. The book describes his intellect, vision of society, philosophy, and scientific progress. [2]
By John Scott Haldane, JBS Haldane's father; Enzymes (1930), MIT Press 1965 edition with new preface by the author written just prior to his death: ISBN 0-262-58003-9; Haldane, J. B (1931). "Mathematical Darwinism: A discussion of the genetical theory of natural selection". The Eugenics Review. 23 (2): 115– 117. PMC 2985031. PMID 21259979.
Analytical Thomism is a philosophical movement which promotes the interchange of ideas between the thought of Thomas Aquinas (including the philosophy carried on in relation to his thinking, called 'Thomism'), and modern analytic philosophy. It is a branch of analytic scholasticism that draws on other scholastic sources, esp. John Duns Scotus.
The Causes of Evolution is a 1932 book on evolution by J.B.S. Haldane (1990 edition ISBN 0-691-02442-1), based on a series of January 1931 lectures entitled "A Re-examination of Darwinism". It was influential in the founding of population genetics and the modern synthesis .
On Being the Right Size" is a 1926 essay by J. B. S. Haldane which discusses proportions in the animal world and the essential link between the size of an animal and these systems an animal has for life. [1] It was published as one of Haldane's collected essays in Possible Worlds and Other Essays.
Daedalus; or, Science and the Future is a book by the British scientist J. B. S. Haldane, published in England in 1924. It was the text of a lecture [ 1 ] read to the Heretics Society (an intellectual club at the University of Cambridge ) on 4 February 1923.
Haldane, John (2005). "Maritain, Jacques". In Honderich, Ted (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-926479-1. Maritain, Jacques (1994). The Person and the Common Good. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 978-0268002046