32 Facts About Philip McShane

Philip McShane was an Irish mathematician and philosopher-theologian.

In 1960, after teaching mathematical physics, engineering, and commerce to undergraduates, and special relativity and differential equations to graduate students, McShane began studying theology.

Philip McShane did his fourth year of theology in 1963 and in 1968 began reading economics.

Philip McShane lectured in mathematics at University College Dublin and in Philosophy at the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy.

Philip McShane entered the Jesuits in September 1950 and spent two years in spiritual formation.

In 1956, Philip McShane "shifted from graduate studies of mathematics and physics that included such works as the classic Space-Time Structure by Erwin Schrodinger," and embarked on what would be a lifelong venture of reading and appropriating the works of Bernard Lonergan, initially through a careful study of Lonergan's Verbum articles, followed by a startling study Insight.

In 1975, along with Conn O'Donovan, Philip McShane founded the Dublin Lonergan Centre, in Milltown Park, Dublin.

From 1974 until 1994, Philip McShane taught philosophy at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Philip McShane gave keynote addresses at gatherings in Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.

When Philip McShane died in July 2020, colleagues and former students around the globe paid tribute to him.

Philip McShane was fond of and often quoted the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Patrick Kavanaugh.

Philip McShane resonated with the English novelist and poet Mary Ann Evans, who went by the name of Georg Eliot.

Philip McShane referred to the work of Jane Jacobs, with whom he corresponded.

For more than 60 years, Philip McShane diligently read and reread Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, and is arguably the leading interpreter of this compendious work.

Philip McShane claimed that the world view "emergent probability" is a verifiable, anticipatory heuristic that is not "abstract" in the pejorative sense of the word.

Philip McShane's position, stated in the original preface, is that a viewpoint on the relationship of physics to chemistry and chemistry to botany is part of an adequate worldview.

At the heart of the worldview that Philip McShane wrote about, taught, and advocated is the human capacity and need for a particular doubling.

Philip McShane included some simple diagrams in this book to help the reader appropriate, or "self-taste," what-ing, is-ing, what-to-do-ing, believing, symbolizing conveniently and judiciously, and exploring potentialities for living through the arts.

Organic development had been a topic of interest for Philip McShane in the 1960s, and in fact was a possible topic of his thesis.

Philip McShane identified the three-step procedure for studying organic development as perhaps the most obscure challenge for scholars with an interest in the works of Lonergan.

In Interpretation from A to Z, Philip McShane was still focused on the methodological study of organic development.

In 1968 Philip McShane began reading Lonergan's 1944 manuscript "Essay in Circulation Analysis" and made his first attempt to present the material in the summer of 1977.

In January 2000, Philip McShane gave a series of lectures on Lonergan's economics at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus in New York City.

Philip McShane drew the following analogy to identify the shift to two-flow economics.

Philip McShane wrote about the needed turn sketched by Lonergan's in the 1969 Gregorianum article in various works.

Philip McShane adds that those doing Comparison are competent in scientific understanding and autobiographically appreciative of the lengthy, patient messing around required to become intelligently competent, as opposed to merely technically competent.

In various places Philip McShane traced the implicit or explicit views to Aristotelian notions of speculative and practical science.

Philip McShane recalled a favorite quote from Samuel Beckett, about direct expression:.

In 1977 Philip McShane applied to the Canada Council for a grant to work on economics.

Philip McShane considered the basic insights of two-flow economic analysis empirically verifiable and accessible to high school students.

Philip McShane wrote the following evaluation of the volume of essays published in 2016:.

Two years later, Philip McShane participated in a round table discussion of Method in Theology at the West Coast Methods Institute at Loyola Marymount University.