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- Physics of Life
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- History and Philosophy of Science
The Poetry and Music of Science
Tom McLeish, The Poetry and Music of Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2019)Prof. McLeish’s other academic interests include the framing of science, theology, society and history, and the theory of creativity in art and science, leading to the recent book The Poetry and Music of Science (OUP 2019). He co-leads the Ordered Universe project, a large interdisciplinary collaboration re-examining scientific treatises from the 13th century. He has also contributed to the philosophy of emergence (including the recent Routledge Handbook of Emergence 2019), and is embarking on a research project in cross-curricular education at York. Two recent books, Faith and Wisdom in Science (2014) and Let There Be Science (with David Hutchings, 2017), articulate a theological narrative for science, and support his work co-leading (with Revd. Prof. David Wilkinson, Durham) the major project Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science). This work was recognised by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lanfranc Award in 2018.
Giles E. M. Gasper, Cecilia Panti, Tom McLeish, and Hannah E. Smithson The Scientific Works of Robert Grosseteste, Volume 1Knowing and Speaking: Robert Grosseteste's De artibus liberalibus 'On the Liberal Arts' and De generatione sonorum 'On the Generation of Sounds', Oxford: Oxford University Press (2019)
Tom McLeish, ‘The Science and Religion Delusion: Towards a Theology of Science’, in Knowing Creation – Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology and Science Eds. Andrew B. Torrence and Thomas H. McCall, Zondervan (2018)
J. S. Harvey, H. E. Smithson, C. R. Siviour, G. E. M. Gasper, S. O. Sønnesyn, T. C. B. McLeish and D. M. Howard, ‘A thirteenth-century theory of speech’, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 146, 937-947 (2019)McLeish, Tom C.B., ‘Strong emergence and downward causation in biological physics’, Philosophica, 92,113-138 (2017)
T. C.B. McLeish, T. Lancaster and Mark Pexton, 'Emergence and Topological Order in Classical and Quantum Systems’, Studies Hist. Phil. Mod. Physics, 66, 155-169 (2019)