The Quest for Truth of Stephen Hawking

Keywords: Hawking; truth; creator; causality; existence of God; Aquinas; Aristotle

References:
Driessen 2021: The Quest for Truth of Stephen Hawking, Scientia et Fides, 9(1), 47-61
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350871551_The_Quest_for_Truth_of_Stephen_Hawking

Driessen 1995: The question of the existence of God in the book of Stephen Hawking: a brief history of time, Acta Philosophica, 4, 83-93
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233408550_The_question_of_the_existence_of_God_in_the_book_of_Stephen_Hawking_A_brief_history_of_time

Abstract
With his bestselling publication, A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking introduced in 1988 a new genre by connecting modern science with the question of the existence of God. In the posthumous publication Brief Answers to the Big Questions, he continues his quest for the ultimate truth. The current study presents a philosophical analysis of this search in terms of Aristotle’s and Aquinas’s classical philosophy.