Mathew Chandrankunnel
| Mathew Chandrankunnel | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 April 1958 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Professor of philosophy of science |
| Known for | Philosophy of Quantum mechanics |
Fr. Mathew Chandrankunnel CMI (born 26 April 1958) is a professor of philosophy of science at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram and Christ University, both in Bangalore, India. He is the author of several books including "Philosophy of Quantum mechanics" and "Ascent to Truth: The Physics, philosophy and Religion of Galileo Galilei". He is a scientist, philosopher and theologian.
Mathew Chandrankunnel was born on 26 April 1958. He was ordained a priest in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church on 5 May 1987, and is in the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate Congregation, Province of Kottayam. He went to Telangana in Andhra Pradesh in the early 1990s, living with the Naxalites and trying to understand their movement.
Chandrankunnel studied physics and philosophy in several Indian universities. In 1998 he earned a PhD in Philosophy of Science from the University of Leuven in Belgium. His worked under Aage Bohr, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and Ilya Prigogine in developing his thesis, which compared the interpretations of Niels Bohr and of David Boehm. He did post-doctoral research at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and lectured at the State University of New York. In July 2000 he won the Science and Religion Course Award from the Centre for Theology and Natural Sciences in Berkeley, California for his contribution: "Search for Unity and Interconnectedness: Meeting Point between Science and Religion".
Chandrankunnel is a founder of the Bangalore Forum for Science and Religion. He was a founding member in 2001 of the Bangalore Initiative for Religious Dialogue, which attempts to defuse tensions between religious communities such as Hindus, Christians and Muslims. He was the Indian co-ordinator for the Science-Religion Summit in Bangalore in 2003. He organised the conference "Merging Boundaries: Mysticism, Science and Religion", inaugurated by Sri Ravi Shankar. He has worked as science editor of Deepika daily newspaper and as its Chennai and Bangalore correspondent.
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