and paleontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, famously made the evolution of the cosmos the central theme of his posthumous book The Phenomenon of Man (1955). Here he embraced cosmic evolution, and argued for a teleological evolution in w…Following in the tradition of Shapley’s Of Stars and Men (1958), a variety of popular books are also bringing cosmic evolution to a broader audience including Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (also a…29. On the anthropic principle and its philosophical implications see John Barrow and Frank Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), Universe or Multiverse? Bernard Carr, ed. (Cambridge: Cambri…
Brian Swimme
physicist · 3 mentions across 1 reading
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Brian Swimme is a mathematical cosmologist and eco-philosopher who extends Teilhard de Chardin's vision of cosmic evolution into a framework for understanding humanity's role in a living, interconnected universe. The course readings invoke him as part of a lineage of thinkers—alongside Tyson and Shapley—who democratize cosmological science for broader audiences, translating abstract physics into narratives that address humanity's place within evolutionary and systems-level processes. His work appears relevant to the seminar's interest in how narratives of complexity, emergence, and interconnectedness shape contemporary thought about AI and technics within cosmic and ecological contexts.
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