In science, Joseph Emmet Earley, Sr. (1932-) is an American chemist noted for his chemical philosophy views surrounding the philosophical implications of autocatalytic theory and Belgian chemist Ilya Prigogine’s dissipative structures theory. [1]
Brooks-Wiley theory
In his review of the bend-over-backwards incoherent Brooks-Wiley theory, Earley gives them “high marks for intellectual schutzpah.” [2]
Education
Earley completed his BS in chemistry at Providence College in 1954 and his PhD in physical and inorganic chemistry at Brown University in 1957. In 1958, he became a chemistry professor at Georgetown University, becoming professor emeritus in 2000.
References
1. Roque, Alicia J. (1985). “Self-Organization: Kant’s Concept of Teleology and Modern Chemistry” (abs), The Review of Metaphysics, 39(1):107-35.
2. Earley, Joseph E. (1987). “Review: Evolution as Entropy” (abs), The Review of Metaphysics, 40(4):760-61.
Further reading
● Earley, Joseph. (1981). “Self Organization an Agency: in Chemistry and Process Philosophy”, Process Studies, 11:246.
● Earley, Joseph E. (2003). “On the Relevance of Repetition, Recurrence, and Reiteration”, in: Chemistry in the Philosophical Melting Pot (editors: Danuta Sobczynska, Zeidler Pawel, and Ewa Zielonacka-Lis) (pgs. 171-). Peter Lang, 2004.
● Earley, Joseph E. (2006). “Philosophy and the Statistical Mechanics of Ilya Prigogine”, Foundations of Chemistry, 8:271-283.
External links
● Joseph E. Earley (works) – PhilPapers.org.
