ehdi Golshani is Distinguished Professor of Physics at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, and is the Founder and Chairman of the Philosophy of Science Department of that University. He is also Director of the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley, and was a Senior Associate Member of the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy (1990-1995). He received Iran’s Best University Faculty Award (1992) and John Templeton’s Science and Religion Course Program Award (1995). His research interests include Particle Physics, Foundations of Physics (especially Quantum Mechanics and Cosmology), and Philosophical aspects of Physics, Philosophy of Science and Theology. Among his recent books are The Holy Qur’an and the Sciences of Nature (1997), From Physics to Metaphysics (1997) and Can Science Dispense with Religion? (1998, editor).

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