Niall Shanks

Quick Facts

Full Name	Niall Shanks
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	Jan 18, 1959(1959-01-18)
Age	65
Date Of Death	2011-07-13
Birthplace	England
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Capricorn

Niall Shanks Biography

Niall Shanks is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on January 18, 1959 in England, United Kingdom. Niall Shanks (18 Jan 1959 – 13 Jul 2011) was an English philosopher, critic and theorist of intelligent design.

Shanks was President of the Southwest and Rocky Mountain Divisions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for a term (2008-09). He was also vice-president of Americans For Medical Advancement for ten year and an honorary board member of Internet Infidels. He was elected President of the Tennessee Philosophical Association in 1993. He died 13 July 2011.

Shanks’ early research was on the so-called hidden-variables theory non- relativistic, elementary quantum mechanics and the problem of building classical models (models that exhibit the properties of determinateness or determinism) to calculate quantum measurement statistics. Shanks claimed that the no-hidden variants proofs were based on questionable assumptions that a classical modeller could not accept. Shanks would later argue that local deterministic models were indeed possible for the puzzling quantum spin correlation statistics that were used to characterise Bell’s Theorem (a modern incarnation of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox EPR paradox). Shanks’ essay “Quantum Mechanics and Determinism”, (Philosophical Quarterly 1993, vol. 43, 170-37 summarizes his arguments in an easily understood manner. Shanks worked with W. David Sharp to examine puzzles regarding counterfactual interpretations in quantum mechanics. Sharp and Shanks proved that quantum spin measurements can be interpreted counter-intuitively. This was in accordance with quantum mechanics’ validated predictions.

Niall Shanks Net Worth

Niall Shanks is one of the richest Philosopher from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Niall Shanks 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Shanks was born in Cheshire (England) and was educated at Rossall School and then at the University of Leeds. Shanks moved to Canada from England in 1981. He received his PhD in 1987 at the University of Alberta. Shanks immigrated to the United States in 1987. Shanks served as a member of East Tennessee State University’s Department of Philosophy for a number of decades. He also held positions in both the Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Physics and Astronomy. After leaving East Tennessee State University, Shanks moved to Wichita State University as the Curtis D. Gridley professor in the History and Philosophy of Science.

Shanks’ initial research was focused on philosophical issues related to quantum mechanics. Later, he wrote extensively about Intelligent Design and actively supported evolution. He began to explore the implications of evolution for biomedical research in the 1990s and was active in it until his death. Shanks was also interested the history of medicine, and the role of medicine in the scientific revolutions in the sixteenth and 17th centuries.

Shanks has explored the role played by animal experimentation in the contexts of anatomy and physiology during the renaissance. He has argued that animal experimentation provided a crucial driving force behind the method of analysis and synthesis that would come to play a central role in the emergence of the physico-chemical sciences in the 17th and 18th centuries. According to Shanks, the development of modern science flows from physik (i.e., medicine) to physics, and not the reverse as is commonly supposed. Physics would ultimately come to have profound implications for physiology, and these matters are explored by Shanks in his work on the writings of the great 19th century French physiologist, Claude Bernard. In the course of his explorations of the implications of the study of animals for the modern scientific view of the world, Shanks has explored the issue of animal consciousness and the question as to what, if anything, science can teach us about the mental lives of animals. Shanks has argued that there is no straightforward fact of the matter to settle disputes between those who have a very generous view of the mental lives of animals (for example, in some versions of cognitive ethology derived from the work of Donald Griffin), and those who favour minimalistic cognitive estimates (for example, some species of behaviorism). Shanks has argued that disputes about these matters hinge not on appeals to the facts, but rather on disputes about what the relevant facts are, and where these disputes do not themselves admit of a straightforward factual resolution.

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