Brian Martine
10:30 – 11:30 am | Wednesdays, January 7 through March 4
This course is not open to individual session attendance.

Quantum theory is full of ideas that appear to contradict common sense. How can something be at once a wave and a particle? How can two particles separated by great distances react identically? Some of the puzzles of contemporary science are presaged by ancient western philosophy. This course explores the often forgotten suggestions of early thinkers such as Anaximander, Heraclitus, Pythagoras, and Plato.

Brian Martine is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Having established the department, he chaired it for 20 years. He served for ten years as director of the Humanities Center at UAH and led the Metaphysical Society of America. He is the author of Individuals and Individuality, Indeterminacy and Intelligibility.