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Stent, Gunther Siegmund was born on March 28, 1924 in Berlin, Germany. Came to United States, 1940, naturalized, 1945. Son of George and Elizabeth (Karfunkelstein) Stent.
(Driving human reason too far in the analysis of deep prob...)
Driving human reason too far in the analysis of deep problems often leads to irresolvable inconsistencies and contradictions. This monograph traces the origins and development of the paradoxes of free will. Free will poses one of the oldest and most vexacious philosophical problems, dating back to the beginnings of moral philosophy in ancient Greece. Pure theoretical reason implies that our actions are determined, while practical theoretical reason tells us that our will is free. Gunther Stent examines the arguments of moral responsibility versus determinism from Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to Immanuel Kant, Neils Bohr, and Max Planck.
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professor of molecular biology
Stent, Gunther Siegmund was born on March 28, 1924 in Berlin, Germany. Came to United States, 1940, naturalized, 1945. Son of George and Elizabeth (Karfunkelstein) Stent.
Bachelor of Science, University Illinois, 1945. Doctor of Philosophy, University Illinois, 1948. Doctor of Science (honorary), York University, 1984.
Assistant United States War Production Board, Synthetic Rubber Research Programme 1944-1948. Document Analyst, Field Intelligence Agency, Occupied Germany 1946-1947. Merck Postdoctoral Fellow California Institute of Technology 1948-1950.
American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow University of Copenhagen and Institute Pasteur, Paris 1950-1952. Assistant Research Biochemist University of California, Berkeley 1952-1956, Association Professor, of Bacteriology 1956-1959, Professor, of Molecular Biology since 1959, Chairman Molecular Biology and Director Virus Laboratory 1980-1986. Natural Science Foundation Senior Fellow University of Kyoto and Cambridge 1960-1961.
Guggenheim Fellow Harvard Medical School 1969-1970. Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Berlin 1985-1990. Fogarty Scholar, N.I.H. 1990-1991.
Honorary Doctor of Science (York, Toronto Universities) 1984.
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Author: Papers On Bacterial Viruses, second edition, 1966, Molecular Biology of Bacterial Viruses, 1963, Phage and the Origin of Molecular Biology, 1966, The Coming of the Golden Age: A View of the End of Progress, 1969, Function and Formation of Neural Systems, 1977, Morality as a Biological Phenomenon, 1978, Paradoxes of Progress, 1978, Molecular Genetics, second edition, 1978, Nazis, Women and Molecular Biology: Memoirs of a Lucky Self-Hater, 1998, Paradoxes of Free Will, 2002. Member editorial board Journal Molecular Biology, 1965-1968, Genetics, 1963-1968, Zeitschrift für Vererbungslehre, 1962-1968, Annual Revs. Genetics, 1965-1969, Annual Revs.Microbiology, 1966-1970, Journal Neurosci., 1988-1996. Contributor aricles to professional journals.
Member National Academy of Sciences, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Society Neurosci., American Philosophical Society, Academy of Sciences and Literature of Mainz (Germany), European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Married Inga Loftsdottir, October 27, 1951 (deceased). 1 son, Stefan Loftur. Married Mary Burgwin Ulam.
2 stepchildren: Alexander, Joseph.