Zdeněk Neubauer


Zdeněk Neubauer was a Czech philosopher and biologist, remarkable especially for original interpretations in science history and epistemology.

Biography

Born in Brno to family of the Brno normative legal school representative Zdeněk Neubauer, Neubauer graduated from Charles University in Prague. During his activity in Laboratorio Internazionale di Genetica e Biofisica in Naples he made several discoveries in genetics. In 1982 left the university because of nonconformist attitudes. After that, he was mainly a philosopher, 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, 1979.Střetnutí paradigmat v současné biologii, 1985.Nový Areopág, 1992.Přímluvce postmoderny, 1994.Smysl a svět, 2001.O svatém Františku aneb zrození ducha novověku, 2006.

Articles

A brief consideration on the meaning of the lysogenic conversion, 1967, in Nature.A model concerning the early functions in lambda bacteriophage, 1968.Physics and Human Thought, 1995, in Zwilling : Natural Sciences and Human Thought. Berlin-Heidelberg.