Washington, DC 20057Past: Exec VP for the Main Campus; later Gaston Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University... See http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/heelanp
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Patrick Heelan
Lived:
Washington, DC, USA
Work:
Georgetown University - Professor of Philosophy
Education:
UCD (Dublin); Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies; B.A.; M.A.; St.Louis (PhD), Princeton(post-doc) - Theoretical Physics, St. Louis University, MO - Geophysics/Seismology, Milltown Park, Dublin - Theology, Princeton University - Quantum Physics, Catholic University of Leuven - Philosophy of Science
About:
I was born in Dublin, Ireland; I studied theoretical physics, philosophy, and theology in Ireland, Germany, and the USA, and I moved permanently to the USA in 1965. I was fortunate in my studies in t...
Tagline:
I am a Jesuit priest, a theoretical physicist, and a philosopher of science.
Bragging Rights:
I am a Jesuit who studied theoretical physics under three of the founders of the quantum theory, and concluded that the structure of quantum physics is not weird since it "models (theoretically)" the structure of everyday human communications.
Patrick Heelan
Patrick Heelan
Patrick Heelan
About:
Patrick Heelan is the Gaston Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, Washington, DC and presently close to retirement from teaching. I formerly taught for many years at Stony Brook Universit...