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title = "John Wheeler, A Seeker in the Atomic Age",
abstract = "John A. Wheeler (1911{\textendash}2008) is known nowadays for his visionary ideas, catchy expressions, and mentoring of many distinguished physicists. This emphasis, however, neglects another dimension of his personal research, not reducible to an institutional level. While seeking a {\textquotedblleft}larger view{\textquotedblright}, Wheeler confronted himself with physicists of his time (among which Heisenberg and Prigogine) as well as thinkers and texts of various ages and cultures, far beyond what may be expected from a physicist. In his writings he left traces of such inspirations, but they are often regarded or dismissed as idiosyncrasies of his notoriously peculiar communicative style. In this paper, also in the light of Wheeler{\textquoteright}s vast archival material, we show how such references are properly framed within the complex trajectory that he followed from the 1950s onwards, as well as how they can contribute to a proper interpretation of the new worldview he was trying to develop: that of a {\textquotedblleft}universe as home for man.{\textquotedblright}",
author = "Stefano Furlan and Rocco Gaudenzi",
note = "Furlan, S., \& Gaudenzi, R. (2024). John Wheeler, A Seeker in the Atomic Age. In P. Allen, \& F. Marcacci (Eds.), Divined Explanations: The Theological and Philosophical Context for the Development of the Sciences (1600{\textendash}2000). Leiden: Brill, pp. 286-316. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004701908\_014",
year = "2024",
month = dec,
day = "6",
doi = "10.1163/9789004701908\_014",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-90-04-70188-5",
series = "Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion",
publisher = "Brill",
pages = "286{\textendash}316",
editor = "Allen, \{ Paul \} and Marcacci, \{Flavia \}",
booktitle = "Divined Explanations",
address = "Netherlands",
}