Terry Bristol initially attended University of California at Berkeley in the mid-1960s to major in Astronomy. Finding the disciplinary narrowing too constraining he switched to the ‘all sciences’ field of Philosophy of Science. Paul Feyerabend was his Honors Thesis Advisor at Berkeley and encouraged him to attend the University of London for graduate work in History and Philosophy of Science, where he worked with Imre Lakatos and the ‘Karl Popper Group’. In recent years he has been a leading-edge contributor to the emerging Paradigm Shift from the Scientific Worldview to the new broader, superseding, post-scientific Engineering Worldview.
Visit: terrybristol.org or isepp.org
YouTube Channel: Linus Pauling Memorial Lectures
YouTube Links 2020
Freewill and the Engineering Worldview
Bristol May 3rd, 2013 http://youtu.be/kZjJukntqHM
Life Ascendant: A Post-Darwinian Worldview
Bristol May 21st, 2014 http://youtu.be/i2mwhk-6a3A
What is Engineering? What is the Value Context of Engineering?
Bristol May 28th, 2015 https://youtu.be/08kfPUEnpGM
What is the Value Context of Engineering?
Bristol July 30th, 2015 (China) https://youtu.be/vc1lI8Ox7qM
Rethinking the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
Bristol May 6th, 2016 https://youtu.be/02DBdDyXdUY
Engineering Knowledge and the Engineering Worldview
Bristol at fPET16, May 20th, 2016 https://youtu.be/iU7qNEb2nGA
The Big Picture: The New Understanding of the Nature of Reality and Our Role in its Emergence
Bristol May 18th, 2017 https://youtu.be/QmpN28ofA4g
Hawking Evolution: Technology and the Survival of the Weaker
Bristol June 18th, 2017 https://youtu.be/LSEqEaQ_q_s
The Middle Way Evolution of Engineering Design (fPET 2018)
https://youtu.be/76Ddgg20GP0
Systems Philosophy and Engineering Thermodynamics (ISSS 2018)
https://youtu.be/50VpsyCnRiw
Systems Evolution and Engineering Thermodynamics (PSU Systems Society, Oct. 2018)
https://youtu.be/rKwX7jOigfc
Paul Romer’s New Growth Economics: A Paradigm Shift in Philosophy of Technology
Society for Philosophy of Technology (Texas A&M, March 2019)
https://youtu.be/ZNCZqeHMeGQ
Hawking Evolution 2.0, July 8th, 2019, ISHPSSBB, Oslo, Norway
https://youtu.be/HTTcU_SP7mE
How the Elements came to be as they are, July 28th, 2019, Mendeleev 150, St. Petersburg
https://youtu.be/fKWLoBOZUtw
How Systems Grow, How Systems Evolve, June 30, 2019, ISSS 2019, Corvallis
https://youtu.be/FlvCfrab2K4
Philosophical Foundations of Chemistry – from a Quantum Engineering Thermodynamic Perspective, Turin, July 2019
https://youtu.be/UbJC_G7R960
Bristol has held teaching positions at University of California at Santa Barbara, Linfield College, Portland State University, Marylhurst University and Portland Community College. Since 1987, as President of the Institute for Science, Engineering and Public Policy, affiliated with Portland State University, he has run the award-winning Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture Series.
Intermittently over a forty-year period he engaged in biomedical research projects at Oregon Health and Science University. His work on the biological effects of DMSO was published in the Annual of the New York Academy of Sciences. He also undertook a multi-year research project in cryobiology and served, for over twenty years, as scientific editor for the newsletter of Scleroderma International Foundation.
Terry Bristol served as President of the Columbia Willamette Chapter of Sigma Xi (Research Society of America) for several years. He has a number of both scientific and philosophical publications and has made numerous conference presentations.
He is an active member of the Philosophy of Science Association, the History of Science Society, the Society for the History of Technology, the Society for the Philosophy of Technology, the Forum on Philosophy, Engineering and Technology, Sigma Xi, The American Philosophical Association, the American Physical Society, and the AAAS.
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