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Byrne, Edmund Francis was born on May 30, 1933 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Edmond J. Byrne and Cecilia M. Heili.
(This study examines judiciary attempts to refine the neut...)
This study examines judiciary attempts to refine the neutrality worldview called for by the U.S. Constitution. The author argues that religion should be reasonably accommodated in the public arena, especially in the United States. To this end he reviews and critiques the way this issue has been considered in both philosophical and legal circles. He finds that neither the philosophical nor the legal case for suppressing religion-based statements in the public arena is persuasive or definitive.
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(Modern physics has accustomed us to consider events which...)
Modern physics has accustomed us to consider events which cannot give rise to certainty in our knowledge. A scientific knowledge of such events is nevertheless possible. The method which has enabled us to obtain a stable and exact knowledge about uncertain events consists in a kind of changing of plane and in the replacing of the study of indi vidual phenomena by the study of statistical aggregates to which those phenomena can give rise. A statistical aggregate is not a collection of real phenomena, among which some would happen more often, others more rarely. It is a set of possibilities relative to a certain object or to a certain type of phenomenon. For example, we could consider the differ ent ways in which a die, thrown in given conditions, can fall: they are the possible results of a certain trial, the casting of the die (in the fore seen conditions). The set of those results constitutes effectively a set of possibilities, relative to a phenomenon of a certain type, the fall of the die in specified circumstances. Similarly, it is possible to consider the different velocities which can affect a molecule in a volume of gas; the set of those velocities constitutes effectively a set of possible values which a physical property, namely the velocity of a molecule, can have.
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Byrne, Edmund Francis was born on May 30, 1933 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Edmond J. Byrne and Cecilia M. Heili.
Master of Arts, Loyola University, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy, University Louvain, Belgium, 1966. Juris Doctor, Indiana University, 1978.
Instructor McCooey High School, Hannibal, Missouri, 1963. Assistant professor philosophy Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1966-1969. From assistant professor to associate professor Indiana University, Indianapolis, 1969-1976, chair department, 1979-1988, professor philosophy, 1976-1998, professor emeritus, since 1998.
Adjunct professor philanthropic studies Indiana University, Indianapolis, 1991-1998. Instructor humanities Purchase College State University of New York, 2002.
(Examines legal and philosophical problems that must be ad...)
(Modern physics has accustomed us to consider events which...)
(This study examines judiciary attempts to refine the neut...)
Local coordinator American Association Retired Persons/Health Advocacy Service, 1999-2001. Member Society for Philosophy and Technology (treasurer 1981-1995), Legal Services Organization (legal intern 1998-2001), North America Society Social Philosophy (book award committee 1999-2001, chair 2000-2001).
Married Margaret Karen, December 16, 1967 (divorced December 1981). Children: Coco J., C. Robert.