Sean M. Carroll
Sean M. Carroll | |
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poetic naturalism | |
Spouse | Jennifer Ouellette |
Awards | Andrew Gemant Award (2014) Guggenheim Fellowship (2015) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | |
Institutions | California Institute of Technology Santa Fe Institute Johns Hopkins University |
Thesis | Cosmological Consequences of Topological and Geometric Phenomena in Field Theories (1993) |
Doctoral advisor | George B. Field |
Website | preposterousuniverse |
Sean Michael Carroll (born October 5, 1966) is an American
He has appeared on the
Career
Carroll received his PhD in
Carroll has a B.S. in astronomy, Astrophysics and Philosophy from Villanova University in Pennsylvania.[18][19]
In 2010, Carroll was elected fellow of the
He is also a very prolific public speaker, hosting the podcast series Mindscape,[23] which he describes as "Sean Carroll hosts conversations with the world's most interesting thinkers", and The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.[24] He also delivers public speeches as well as getting engaged in public debates in wide variety of topics.
Carroll has appeared on numerous television shows including The Colbert Report and Through the Wormhole.[25] He also worked as a consultant in several movies[26][27] like Avengers: Endgame[28] and Thor: The Dark World. Besides consulting, Carroll worked as a voice actor in Earth to Echo.[29]
Personal life
Carroll is married to Jennifer Ouellette, a science writer and the former director of the Science & Entertainment Exchange.[30] He has two cats, Ariel and Caliban.[31]
Research
Carroll has worked on a number of areas of theoretical cosmology, field theory and gravitation theory. His research papers include models of, and experimental constraints on, violations of
His most-cited work, "Is Cosmic Speed-Up Due To New Gravitational Physics?" (2003) was written with Vikram Duvvuri,
Carroll has also worked on the
In 2017, Carroll presented an argument for rejecting certain cosmological models, including those with Boltzmann brains, on the basis that they are cognitively unstable: they cannot simultaneously be true and justifiably believed.[36] The article was solicited as a contribution to a larger work on Current Controversies in Philosophy of Science.
Philosophical and religious views
Carroll, while raised as an
His 2016 book The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe Itself develops the philosophy of poetic naturalism, the term he is credited with coining. The book talks about wide range of topics such as submicroscopic components of the universe, whether human existence can have meaning without God—and everything between the two.[8]
Carroll's speeches on the philosophy of religion also generate interest as his speeches are often responded to and talked about by philosophers and
Carroll is a vocal atheist who has debated with
Debates, dialogues and discussions
Carroll has been involved in numerous public debates and discussions with other academics and commentators. In 2012, he gathered a number of well-known academics from a variety of backgrounds for a three-day seminar titled "Moving Naturalism Forward".[50][47][51] The participants were Steven Weinberg, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Jerry Coyne, Simon DeDeo, Massimo Pigliucci, Janna Levin, Owen Flanagan, Rebecca Goldstein, David Poeppel, Alex Rosenberg, Terrence Deacon and Don Ross with James Ladyman.
Also in 2012, Carroll teamed up with Michael Shermer to debate with Ian Hutchinson of MIT and author Dinesh D'Souza at Caltech in an event titled "The Great Debate: Has Science Refuted Religion?"[52][53]
In 2014, Carroll participated in a highly anticipated debate with philosopher and Christian apologist William Lane Craig as part of the Greer-Heard Forum in New Orleans. The topic of debate was "The Existence of God in Light of Contemporary Cosmology". In a podcast in 2018, Sam Harris engaged with Carroll. They discussed consciousness, the many-worlds view of quantum mechanics, the arrow of time, free will, facts and values, and other topics including moral realism.[54][third-party source needed]
Also in 2014, Carroll partook in a debate held by Intelligence Squared, the title of the debate was "Death is Not Final". Carroll teamed up with Steven Novella, a neurologist by profession known for his skepticism, and the two argued against the motion. Their adversaries were Eben Alexander, neurosurgeon and an author, and Raymond Moody, a philosopher, author, psychologist and physician.
In 2016, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself at the University of Glasgow.[55]
In 2017, Carroll took part in a discussion with B. Alan Wallace, a Buddhist scholar and monk ordained by the Dalai Lama. It was organized by an institution sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation.[56] In this public dialogue, they discussed the nature of reality from spiritual and scientific viewpoints.[57]
In 2018, Carroll and Roger Penrose held a symposium on the subject of The Big Bang and Creation Myths.[58] The two also engaged in a dialogue in Sean Carroll's MindScape Podcast on its 28th episode.[59][third-party source needed]
Selected publications
- Carroll, Sean (2003). Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity. Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-8053-8732-3. Reprinted 2019.
- Carroll, Sean (2010). ISBN 978-0-525-95133-9. It tackles a fundamental open principle in physics: the arrow of time.
- Carroll, Sean (2012). ISBN 978-0-525-95359-3. It describes the hunt for and discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and was the 2013 winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books.[60]
- Carroll, Sean (2016). poetic naturalism.
- Carroll, Sean (2019). ISBN 978-1-5247-4301-7.
- Carroll, Sean (2022). ISBN 978-0-5931-8658-9.
- Research publication list, from the INSPIRE-HEP digital library.
See also
References
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- ^ a b c d ""The evidence is pretty incontrovertible that he doesn't exist": Stephen Colbert's favorite scientist on the universe, naturalism and finding meaning without God". Salon. May 8, 2016. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
- ^ Carroll, Sean M. "Sean M Carroll | Speaker | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
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- ^ "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe". Archived from the original on October 17, 2022. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
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- ^ Dajose, Lorinda C. (April 24, 2015). "Sean Carroll Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship" (Press release). California Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on March 9, 2019.
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- ^ "Sean Carroll – the physicist who taught the Avengers all about time". Stuff. December 21, 2019. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
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- ^ Claudia Dreifus, "Sean Carroll Talks School Science and Time Travel" Archived February 27, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, April 19, 2010
- ^ Carroll, Sean. "Sean Carroll – Preposterous Universe". www.preposterousuniverse.com. Retrieved March 28, 2023.
My official title is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins, and I am also Fractal Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. I live in Baltimore with my wife, writer Jennifer Ouellette, and two cats, Ariel and Caliban.
- ^ "inSPIRE High-Energy Physics Database". Archived from the original on February 22, 2013. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
- ^ Sean M. Carroll, Jennifer Chen, "Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time" Archived November 18, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Frank, Adam (April 2008). "3 Theories That Might Blow Up the Big Bang". Discover. pp. 57–58. Archived from the original on January 21, 2012.
- ^ Henderson, Harold (August 12, 2005). "The Cosmic Jiggle" (PDF). Chicago Reader. p. 14. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 25, 2020.
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- ^ Carroll, Sean [1] Archived March 28, 2021, at the Wayback Machine. Saturday 28th October 2017 — 02:30 pm. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
- ^ Carroll, Sean (May 9, 2013). "Science and Religion Can't Be Reconciled: Why I won't take money from the Templeton Foundation". Slate. Archived from the original on May 2, 2020. Retrieved May 6, 2015.
- The Huffington Post. Archivedfrom the original on November 3, 2012. Retrieved September 19, 2012.
- ^ "2014 National Convention – Los Angeles – Freedom From Religion Foundation". June 26, 2014. Archived from the original on June 26, 2014.
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- ^ Reply to Sean Carroll by Peter van Inwagen.
- ^ "Is God a good theory? A response to Sean Carroll (Part One) – Uncommon Descent". uncommondescent.com. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
- ^ Horgan, John. "Multiverse Theories Are Bad for Science". Scientific American Blog Network. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
- ^ "Sean Carroll's Preposterous Universe". Evolution News. February 13, 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
- ISBN 978-0-19-879870-5.
- ^ a b "Moving Naturalism Forward – Sean Carroll". www.preposterousuniverse.com. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
- ^ Carroll, Sean Michael. The Big Picture. p. 133.
- ^ Carroll, Sean (November 7, 2016). "The Future of Democratic Values". Preposterous Universe. Retrieved November 19, 2023.
- ^ Farrell, John. "What Happens When You Lock Scientists And Philosophers In A Room Together". Forbes. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
- ^ December 18, the Editor on; Essay, 2012 in (December 18, 2012). "Moving Naturalism Forward". Metanexus. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
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- ^ "The Great Debate: Has Science Refuted Religion?". California Institute of Technology. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
- ^ "Making Sense Podcast #124 – In Search of Reality". Sam Harris. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
- ^ "The Glasgow Gifford Lectures". gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow.
- ^ Gleiser, Marcelo (February 16, 2017). "Alan Wallace and Sean Carroll on The Nature of Reality". Dartmouth College. Archived from the original on January 4, 2019.
- ^ "B. Alan Wallace". The Wisdom Experience. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
- ^ Raza, S. Abbas (January 10, 2019). "Roger Penrose, Sean Carroll, and Laura Mersini-Hougton debate the Big Bang and Creation Myths". 3 Quarks Daily. Retrieved April 16, 2021.
- ^ "Episode 28: Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the Universe – Sean Carroll". www.preposterousuniverse.com. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
- ^ "Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books". Royal Society. Archived from the original on November 30, 2012. Retrieved November 26, 2013.
External links
- Oral history interview transcript with Sean Carroll on 4 January 2021, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
- Carroll's web site, Preposterous Universe
- Sean M. Carroll at IMDb
- Dark Matter, Dark Energy: The Dark Side of the Universe, lectures at The Teaching Company.
- Video of Sean Carroll's panel discussion, "Quantum to Cosmos", answering the biggest questions in physics today, Part 1 at Perimeter Institute's Quantum to Comos (Q2C) festival
- Video introduction to Sean Carroll's lectures "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe", 2020
- Interview on The Colbert Report
- Carroll, Sean. "Higgs Boson with Sean Carroll". Sixty Symbols. Brady Haran for the University of Nottingham.