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Who is the real Dr. Stephen Hawking? Is he a detached Spectator seeking a mathematical description of a deterministic, objective reality out there ? Or is he an embodied Participant in the universe seeking to bring about a more desirable future? The timeline of the book is a four-city lecture tour the author organized for Hawking in the early 1990s (Portland, Eugene, Seattle and Vancouver BC) . Hawking s powerful meetings with students with disabilities, officially collateral events, were remarkable. However, the greater significance of these stories of the road is better appreciated in the context of the central narrative question of the book: the nature of the universe and our place/role in it. The author, a philosopher of science (Berkeley, London) , engages Hawking, his graduate assistants and eventually his nurses in what starts as a critical review of the new physics of Einstein, Bohr and Heisenberg.
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He is an active member of the Philosophy of Science Association, the History of Science Society, the Society for the History of Technology, the Society for the Philosophy of Technology, the Forum on Philosophy, Engineering and Technology, Sigma Xi, The American Philosophical Association, the American Physical Society, and the AAAS.
