The hope and vision of J. Robert Oppenheimer /
"Incorporating elements from history, science, philosophy and international relations theory, this book takes a fresh look at the life and thought of Robert Oppenheimer. The author argues that not only are Oppenheimer's ideas important, engaging and relevant, but also more coherent than ge...
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Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. :
World Scientific,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Biographical Sketch; Recent Scholarship and the "Oppenheimer Challenge"; 2. Oppenheimer's Hope and Vision 1957-1959; Background; A Vital Center for Oppenheimer's Thought; Philosophy and the Public Sphere; 3. MacLeish, Oppenheimer, and "The Conquest of America"; Background; The Conquest of America; Oppenheimer-MacLeish Exchange; Oppenheimer's Reith Lectures; MacLeish's Suspicion of Science; 4. Rabi, Oppenheimer, and the Universal Culture of Science ; Background; Oppenheimer's Response to Rabi; Focusing Oppenheimer's Hope and Vision.
- Rabi's Philosophical Views and OutlookMacLeish, Oppenheimer, and Rabi; 5. International Control of Atomic Energy; Acheson-Lilienthal Proposal; Moral Ramifications; 6. Complementarity in Atomic Physics; Oppenheimer and Complementarity; Bohr, Einstein, and Oppenheimer; 7. Oppenheimer
- Philosophical Exploration I; Oppenheimer and Modernity; Oppenheimer and Pragmatism; 8. Oppenheimer
- Philosophical Exploration II; Oppenheimer, Moral Dilemmas, and Moral Luck; Oppenheimer and Narrative; 9. Oppenheimer and International Relations; Realism, Liberal Internationalism, and Constructivism.
- David Mitrany and International FunctionalismOppenheimer and Epistemic Communities; 10. Oppenheimer and the Nuclear Revolution; Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty; Nuclear Disarmament; Nuclear One Worldism; Epilogue; Endnotes; Index.
