Infinity, Causality and Determinism

The Editor: Eeva Martikainen was educated at the University of Helsinki where she obtained a Ph.D. in Theology in 1980. From 1983 to 1988 she was Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland. She has been Professor of Modern Theology at the University of Helsinki since 1996.

Contents: Eeva Martikainen: Introduction: Physics, Philosophy, and Theology Facing Cosmological Challenges - Taneli Kukkonen: Causality and Cosmology. The Arabic Debate - Reijo Työrinoja: God, Causality, and Nature. Some Problems of Causality in Medieval Theology - Olli Koistinen: On the Relationship between Metaphysics and Physics - Jussi Kotkavirta: The Concept of Infinity in Kant and Hegel - Tarja Kallio-Tamminen: The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and the Question of Causality - Sami Pihlström: Subject and Object in the Study of Nature - Jaakko Hintikka: Causes, Causes, Causes. Three Aspects of the Idea of Cause - I. A. Kieseppä: Quantum Mechanics and Emergence - Kari Enqvist: Time and Causality in the Theory of Everything - Raimo Lehti: The Concept of Space in Relativity Theory and Cosmology - Rainer E. Zimmermann: Spinoza in Context. A Holistic Approach in Modern Terms - Juhani Pietarinen: Spinoza and Modern Physics. Comments on Professor Zimmermann's 'Spinoza in Context' - Stanley L. Jaki: Cosmology in Science and Theology. Some Perennial Differences - Juleon M. Schins: An Axiomatic Foundation of Quantum Mechanics. Paradoxes, Causality, and the Unification of Sciences - Heikki Kirjavainen: Cosmology, Theology, and the Question of Ultimate Explanation.