Andrew Steane, Full Professor, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK
Andrew Steane is a Professor of Physics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. His research includes experimental and theoretical Quantum Computing, atomic physics, and Special Relativity. He co-discovered quantum error correction. His research group, co-led by David Lucas, has pioneered the ion trap approach to quantum computing. He is the author of two undergraduate physics textbooks, and of Faithful to Science: the role of science in religion (OUP 2014). He was awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics (2000). He is married to Emma Steane; they have three children.
1. Introduction Part I: Science and philosophy 2. Light 3. The structure of science, part 1 4. The structure of science, part 2 5. Logic and knowledge: the Babel fallacy 6. Reflection 7. Purpose and casue 8. Darwinian evolution 9. The tree 10. What science can and cannot do 11. What must be embraced, not derived 12. Religious language 13. The Unframeable Picture 14. A farewell to Hume 15. Drawing threads together 16. Extraterrestrial life 17. Does the universe suggest design, purpose, goodness or concern? Part II: Breathing 18. Silence 19. The human community 20. Encounter 21. The human being 22. Witnessed to
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