Between Chance and Choice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Determinism

Harald Atmanspacher received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Munich in 1986, followed by a Reimar Lust fellowship until 1988. Then he was a research scientist in the theory division at the Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik in Garching. He has been head of the Theory and Data Analysis Department at the Institut fur Grenzgebiete der Psychologie since April 1998. Dr. Atmanspacher's research visits include the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA) and the study center of the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio (Italy). He is an associate member of the Solvay Institutes in Brussels and at the Max Planck Centre for interdisciplinary plasma science at Garching. Dr. Atmanspacher's current fields of work and interest are nonlinear dynamics, complex systems, mind-matter problems and selected topics in the history and philosophy of science. Publications include On Quanta, Mind, and Matter (Kluwer, 1999, co-ed.), Time, Temporality, Now (Springer, 1997, co-ed.), Der Pauli-Jung-Dialog und seine Bedeutung fur die moderne Wissenschaft (Springer, 1995, co-ed.), Inside Versus Outside (Springer, 1994, co-ed.), Die Vernunft der Metis (Metzler, 1993) and Information Dynamics (Plenum, 1991, co-ed.) From 1983 to 1985 Robert Bishop was a research assistant with the Center for Theoretical Physics at The University of Texas at Austin under the direction of Dr. John A. Wheeler. Subsequently he worked as a research scientist for the Science Applications International Corporation from 1985 to 1989, then for Austin Research Associates from 1989 to 1991. Dr. Bishop was a NASA Graduate Fellow from 1990 to 1992. While pursuing his Ph.D. in philosophy, he worked as a database and internet programmer for various companies. Since February of 2000 Dr. Bishop has been with the Theory and Data Analysis Department of IGPP as a research postdoc. His current areas of research are philosophy of science, conceptual foundations of physics, philosophy of mind and philosophy of social science.