Paul Buckley

Background

Paul Buckley was born on April 29, 1938, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is the son of William H. Buckley, a manager, and Emma (Pelletier) Buckley.

Education

Buckley was educated at Loyola of Montreal (now Loyola Campus, Concordia University), in Montreal, Quebec. He received Bachelor of Science degree with honors, in 1959. He obtained Doctor of Science degree at Laval University, in 1967.

Career

Buckley served as an associate professor of chemistry at the Laval University for 5 years from 1967. In 1972 he became a radio producer, at the organization Canadian Broadcasting Corp., leaving it in 1975. During 2 years from 1977, he worked at the position of a science adviser, at the Government of Saskatchewan.

From 1980 to 1987 Buckley was a science adviser, at the Government of Canada.

He edited and co-edited several books.

In his writings, Buckley has worked on philosophy and poetry.

Works

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• book

  • A Question of Physics: Conversations in Physics and Biology (Heritage)

    (This book contains interviews with physicists, biologists...)

    1976
  • Glimpsing Reality: Ideas in Physics and the Link to Biology 1996

Views

Quotations: “In co-editing and contributing an essay for Glimpsing Reality, my intention was to move certain paradoxical ideas of physics and biology from their specialist context into the wider realm of interested non-specialists who might appreciate the difficulties encountered when science reaches levels of interpretation beset with uncertainty. I feel that this problem should be shared with a wider audience. All is not smooth sailing in the heart of the scientific enterprise. We found that, in the form of conversations with leading scientists, the puzzling features of some ideas would manifest themselves in an interesting way. Adding essays, we thought, would allow the problems to be discussed in a more intensive way. In this manner, an original contribution to the ongoing reflections could be offered to the general reader with interests close to the philosophic spirit. What motivated me was and is a desire to clarify where ideas nudge one another in a somewhat confused way and to make some progress in general understanding of the world we inhabit.”

Interests

• philosophy of science, poetry

Connections

Buckley married Lorraine, on September 10, 1960. They divorced in 1974. Later he married Claudia, but they separated, as well, in 1987. Buckley has children from the first marriage - Dominique, Melina and Paul Steven, and from the second - Thomas and Liam.

Father:

William H. Buckley

Mother:

Emma (Pelletier) Buckley

child:

Dominique Buckley

child:

Melina Buckley

child:

Paul Steven Buckley

child:

Thomas Buckley

child:

Liam Buckley

1-st wife:

Lorraine

2-nd wife:

Claudia