Seton Hall University’s Departments of Physics and Catholic Studies, Immaculate Seminary School of Theology, Core Curriculum Program, Center for Catholic Studies, and chapter of the Society of Catholic Scientists, in collaboration with the Stanley Jaki Foundation, are pleased to announce the 2024 Stanley Jaki International Congress.
This conference
has been held on April 24, 2024, to
mark the centenary of Father Stanley Jaki’s birth on August 17, 1924, and
at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. This
event follows our successful inaugural
2015 Stanley Jaki International Conference.
All papers and presentations for this event have been subject to double blind peer review by a distinguished group of scholars. The Program Committee invited the submission of scholarly papers in areas such as the relationship between Christian faith and the natural sciences, the relationship of physics, the philosophy of nature, and metaphysics and other interdisciplinary topics related to faith and science.
Father Stanley L. Jaki, O.S.B., S.T.D., Ph.D. (1924-2009), stands as one of the eminent
thinkers of the twentieth century. His contributions to Catholic Intellectual Tradition,
particularly in the realm of the interplay between science and faith, have left an
indelible mark. He served as a physics professor at Seton Hall University from 1965
to 2009; with doctorates in both theology and physics, he devoted over four decades
to the study of the history and philosophy of science. With a prolific output comprising
over fifty books and more than three hundred and fifty articles, he held prestigious
positions such as the Gifford Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and the Fremantle
Lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford. Father Jaki delivered lectures at esteemed institutions
across the United States, Europe and Australia. He held honorary membership in the
Pontifical Academy of Science and was a membre correspondant of the Académie Nationale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts of Bordeaux. His accolades
include the Lecomte du Noüy Prize for 1970 and the Templeton Prize for 1987.
Bethany 201 (Remote, Virtual Presentations)
| Time______ | Presentation Title | Presenter |
| 02:00 PM | "Chesterton, Undset, and Jaki: Three Catholic Intellectual Giants" | Geir Hasnes, M.S. |
| 02:30 PM | "Can What Cannot be Measured Exactly Happen Exactly?" | John Long, Ph.D. |
| 03:00 PM | "Gödel’s Theorems in Physics Half a Century after Stanley Jaki" | Gergely Bognár, M.A. |