After receiving 367 applications from 170 universities and 30 different countries, an international jury awarded Claudia Vanney and Juan F. Franck the Expanded Reason Award in the category Research for their book ¿Determinismo o indeterminismo? Grandes preguntas de las ciencias a la filosofía (Determinism or Indeterminism? Big Questions from the Sciences to Philosophy).
The Expanded Reason Awards are granted by Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (Spain) and the Vatican Foundation Joseph Ratzinger Benedict XVI to researchers who have shown a greater capacity to broaden the horizons of reason by means of an active dialogue between the sciences, Philosophy and Theology. The other award-winner in the category of Research was Darcia Narváez, from the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN, United States), whereas in the category Teaching the awards were received by Michael Schuck, Nancy C. Tuchman and Michael J. Garanzini, from Loyola University (Chicago, IL, United States) and Laura Beatriz, OP, from the Keteg Oikonomia Resarch Institute Foundation (Hungary).
The award ceremony took place on September 27th at the Academy of Sciences in the Vatican. A video of the ceremony is available in the YouTube channel of the Expanded Reason Awards (click here). At the end of the ceremony the President of the Ratzinger Foundation announced the opening of the call for the second edition of the awards.That day, during the morning, award-winners had the opportunity to greet Pope Francis at the end of the Wednesday audience (click here).
The book Determinism or Indeterminism? Big Questions from the Sciences to Philosophy is the result of a collaborative work among physicists, biologists, neuroscientists, philosophers and theologians, from 15 universities and 6 countries. Throughout the years 2013-2015 the editors promoted several activities centered on the debate about determinism in nature, exploring epistemological, anthropological and meaning-of-life questions. A research path was thus essayed, which led to open the scientific approach to the transdisciplinary perspective of philosophy and theology. The book is the result of these efforts. Each chapter was co-authored by a scientist and a philosopher, who worked jointly to achieve the integration of both contributions.
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