Zdeněk Neubauer (30 May 1942 – 5 July 2016) was a Czech philosopher and

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, remarkable especially for original interpretations in

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and

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Biography

Born in Brno to family of the Brno normative legal school representative Zdeněk Neubauer (sr.), Neubauer graduated from

Charles University in Prague ) , image_name = Carolinum_Logo.svg , image_size = 200px , established = , type = Public, Ancient , budget = 8.9 billion CZK , rector = Milena Králíčková , faculty = 4,057 , administrative_staff = 4,026 , students = 51,438 , undergr ...

(1965 in microbiology,

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and chemistry, 1971 in philosophy). During his activity in ''Laboratorio Internazionale di Genetica e Biofisica'' in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

(1967–1970) he made several discoveries in

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. In 1982 left the university because of nonconformist attitudes (both scientific and political). After that, he was mainly a philosopher (a programmer analyst by job), publishing underground. Since 1990, he has been a member of the department of philosophy and history of science at Charles University Faculty of Science.

Selected bibliographySee Neubauer, Zdeněk: ''Smysl a svět''. Praha 2001, pp. 209–228.

Books

* ''Deus et Natura'', 1979/1980 and 1999. * ''Od Smyslu Vědeckého Poznání k vědě jako poznávání smyslu'' (From Reason of Scientific Knowledge to Science as Cognition of Reason), 1979. * ''Střetnutí paradigmat v současné biologii'' (Clash of Paradigms in Contemporary Biology), 1985. * ''Nový Areopág'' (The New Areopagus), 1992. * ''Přímluvce postmoderny'' (An Intercessor of Postmodernity), 1994. * ''Smysl a svět'' (Sense and Universe), 2001. * ''O svatém Františku aneb zrození ducha novověku'' (On Saint Francis or the Birth of the Spirit of Modern Age), 2006.

Articles

* ''A brief consideration on the meaning of the lysogenic conversion'', 1967, in ''

Nature Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are ...

''. * ''A model concerning the early functions in lambda bacteriophage'', 1968. * ''Physics and Human Thought'', 1995, in Zwilling (ed.): ''Natural Sciences and Human Thought''. Berlin-Heidelberg.

Notes

References

Information on website of the Faculty of Sciences of Charles University
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