Michaelmas Term 2008 Oct 16 Thomas Dixon The history of altruism, 1851-2006: Comte, Wilde and Dawkins Oct

30 John Polkinghorne A new natural theology Nov 27 Alister McGrath Natural theology: renewing a traditional interface between science and religion Trinity Term 2008 May 1 Prof Edward B Davis Fundamentalist Cartoons, Modernist Pamphlets, and the Religious image of Science in America during the Scopes Era May 15 Prof Richard Swinburne What makes me me? A defence of substance dualism May 29 Prof George Pattison Technology and Violence: Origins and Futures Hilary Term 2008 24 Jan Professor Rob Iliffe Eirenicum: Newton's ecclesiastical politics 7 Feb Prof Peter Harrison Genesis and the Foundations of Seventeenth-Century Science 21 Feb Prof John Cottingham Are Religious Claims Explanatory Hypotheses? Michaelmas Term 2007 Oct 11 Dr Justin Barrett Born Believers: The Naturalness of Childhood Theism Oct 25 Prof. Geoffrey Cantor The Conflict Thesis Revisited Nov 11 Dr John Puddefoot Dynamic Infinities and the Complexities of Being Nov 22 Prof Simon Conway Morris Darwin's Compass: How evolution discovers the song of creation. Trinity Term 2007 May 3 Prof Robert McCauley: Comparing the Cognitive Foundations of Science and Religion May 17 Prof Robert Audi: Religious Commitment and the Scientific Habit of Mind May 31 Dr Denis Alexander: Evolution and theodicya biologist's perspective Hilary Term 2007 Jan 18 Dr Kelly James Clark Reformed Epistemology and the Deliverances of Cognitive Science Jan 25 Prof Michael Marsh The Out-of-Body and Near-Death Experience Feb 8 Prof Magda Stavinschi Tradition and Crisis: religion and science in Romania Feb 22 Prof Roger Trigg Religion in Public Life Michaelmas Term 2006 Oct 12 Dr Margaret Yee Is divine/human action still credible in a scientific world? Oct 26 Dr David Grumett Towards a Theology of Matter: insights from Teilhard de Chardin Nov 9 Dr Michael Meredith Mysticism or Mystery? Nov 23 Prof Erlendur Haraldsson Children who claim to remember a past life Trinity Term 2006 May 4 Rev Dr Timothy Bradshaw Pannenberg's attempt to allow science into theology May 18 Dr Rik van Nieuwenhove The Relevance of Religion in a Digital Age Jun 1 Dr Geoffrey Cantor Reconstructing Nature - ten years on Hilary Term 2006 Jan 26 Professor Harald Walach Science and Spirituality Feb 9 Dr Margaret Yee The Creation of Life - theology in a science world Feb 22 Professor Ian Walmsley Michael Polanyi's concept of knowing Michaelmas Term 2005 Oct 13 Dr Brent Waters Did Nietzsche Blink? Oct 27 Professor John Bowker The Sacred Neuron Nov 10 Archbishop Gregorios Theology in a Scientific World Nov 24 Dr Pete Moore Launch of Sophia Europa Oxford 2005-8 Trinity Term 2005 May 5 Prof Michael Humphrey Consciousness Research, and Artificial Intelligence. May 19 Dr Irene Tracey Imaging Pain, Suffering and its Alleviation June 2 Dr Rodney Holder Multiverses in modern cosmology Hilary Term 2005 Jan 27 Professor Marc Marenco Towards an Ontology of Human Reproduction

Feb 10 Dr Olivera Petrovich Origins of Religion in Human Development: the issue of innateness Feb 24 Dr Jane Pearce Is wisdom a helpful model in healthcare? A perspective from psychiatry. Michaelmas Term 2004 14 Oct Professor John Hedley Brooke The search for extra-terrestrial life 28 Oct Dr Tom Kemp Explanatory Theories in Palaeobiology: how science copes with history 11 Nov Professor Roger Trigg Must we privatise religion? 25 Nov Professor Nancy Cartwright No God, no laws Trinity Term 2004: Science and Religion 6 May Dr John Lennox Fingerprints of God? Some reflections on God's Two Books 20 May Emma Shackle Why we need psychology of religion in an age of globalisation 3 Jun Dr Gavin Dalton The Sounds of the Suburbs - Echoes from the Big Bang Hilary Term 2004: Science and Religion 29 Jan Dr Keith Hutchison An angel's view of heaven? Heliocentricity before Copernicus 12 Feb Professor John Kelly Consciousness, Literature and Science 26 Feb Professor Holmes Rolston Genes, Genesis and God Michaelmas Term 2003: Science and Religion 16 Oct Professor Maurice Finocchiaro Re-trying Galileo, 1633-1992 30 Oct Professor William Dembski Gauging Intelligent Design's Success 13 Nov Professor John Hedley Brooke Scientific Laws: Can there be laws without a lawmaker? 27 Nov Professor William E. Carroll Thomas Aquinas, Creation, and Current Cosmology Trinity Term 2003: Science, Religion and Medicine 8 May Professor Julian Savulescu Gene Therapy, Transgenesis and Chimeras 22 May Dr Joanna McGrath The World Health Organisation model of disease 5 June Dr Nick Bostrom Our Human and Posthuman Dignity Hilary Term 2003 30 Jan Rev Dr John Weaver Dialogue and Apologetic 13 Feb Dr Charles Conti Feuerbach and Religious Projection 27 Feb Dr Michael Culhane Did the Creator dispense with time and history? Michaelmas Term 2002: Theology, Science and Medicine 17 Oct Professor John Hedley Brooke Science, religion and the unification of nature 31 Oct Professor Roger Homan Fighting for life? Conflicts of religion and medicine 14 Nov: Professor Geoffrey Cantor Evoking Evlolution; how Jews and Quakers responded to Darwin 28 Nov Dr Pauline Rudd Reflections on science, religion and the search for meaning Trinity Term 2002: Science, Religion and Medicine 2 May Dr Allan Chapman The Canon, the Chemist and the Dinosaurs 16 May Professor R.J. Berry Adam: an ape or an angel? 30 May Lord Winston and Lord Habgood Consciousness and Human Responsibiity Hilary Term 2002: Science and Religion: Ongoing Concerns 24 Jan Dr Rodney Holder Modern Cosmology and the Design of the Universe 7 Feb Dr Yanna Popova Conceptualising the Spiritual 21 Feb: Canon Trevor Williams Tillich's 'Yes and No' to Theology and Science Michaelmas Term 2001: Theology, Science and Medicine 11 Oct Professor Brian Leonard 25 Oct Professor John Wyatt 22 Nov Dr Margaret Yee The Human Person: Brain, Mind and Spirit Trinity Term 2001: The Human Person 3 May Dr Gerard Hughes Neuroscience and Spirituality 17 May Dr Ron Bell Is scientific knowledge compatible with the existence of God? 31 May Dr Paul Fiddes Concepts of God in the context of scientific development Hilary Term 2001: Science, Religion and Education 25 Jan Dr David Wilkinson A multi-media approach to the relationship between science and

religion 8 Feb Michael Poole Teaching about science and religion in education 22 Feb Dr Nick Saunders Divine action and chaos theory Michaelmas Term 2000: Science and Religion 12 Oct Professor John Hedley Brooke Revisiting Darwin on Order and Design 26 Oct Dr Rob Iliffe A comparison of Newton's research strategies in science and religion 9 Nov Professor Robin Gill Theology and Human Genetic Science 23 Nov Dr Rabbi Norman Solomon The Limits of Description Trinity Term 2000: Human Consciousness 11 May Professor Berj Bardakjian Cues of consciousness in brain cells 25 May Professor Susan Greenfield How the brain generates consciousness 8 June Dr Margaret Yee Human life and consciousness: a multi-disciplinary quest? Hilary Term 2000: The Science and Theology Relation: Ways Forward 27 Jan Dr Michael Parsons Contingency and Rationality in Science and Religion 10 Feb Dr Christopher Southgate The Difficult Case of Evolution 24 Feb Dr Kallistos Ware Why does theology differ from scientific discourse? Michaelmas Term 1999: Theology and the Sciences - where now? 14 Oct Professor John Hedley Brooke Proving the Relevance of Religion to the Sciences 28 Oct Dr Celia Deane-Drummond Biotechnology, Ecology and Wisdom 11 Nov Professor John Bryant The genes have spoken, now send in the clones 25 Nov Professor Rom Harre Natural Religion and its Critics Trinity Term 1999: Issues in theology and the Sciences 6 May Professor David Bartholomew Misplaced certainty in Science and Religion 20 May Dr Arthur Peacocke Science and the Future of Theology: some critical issues 3 June Professor Oliver O'Donovan Creation Hilary Term 1999: Cosmology and Theology 28 Jan Professor Andrew Lyne Cosmology and Life in the Universe 11 Feb Professor Russell Stannard Cosmology and Theology 25 Feb Professor John Webster Theology and Cosmology: some reflections Michaelmas Term 1998: Questions raised by Cognitive Neuroscience 15 Oct Professor John Marshall Neuroscience: Brains or People? 29 Oct Professor William Carroll Soul and Science: Thomistic Biology, an Antidote to Reductionism 12 Nov Dr Mary Midgley Being scientific about ourselves 26 Nov Dr Arthur Peacocke & Dr Margaret Yee Can God Communicate with Brains-inBodies? Trinity Term 1998: The Person in Genetics and Theology 30 Apr Dr Kevin Sharpe Human Behaviour, Genetics and Theology 14 May Dr Jo Poulton Mitochondrial DNA: Genetic Counselling and Evolution 28 May Dr Neil Messer Genes, Persons and God Hilary Term 1998: Brain, Mind and Religious Belief 29 Jan Professor Richard Swinburne The Soul 12 Feb Revd John Puddefoot Machines and Persons: is the Turing Test enough? 26 Feb Dr Irene Tracey Perceiving pain Michaelmas Term 1997: Issues in the Relation of Science and Theology 16 Oct Dr Margaret Yee Principles of Knowing: science, Humanities and Theology 30 Oct Sir John Houghton The Environment: a Challenge to Scientists and Christians 13 Nov Dr Arthur Peacocke Evolution: how is it to be interpreted? 27 Nov Professor Keith Ward The God of Physics and the God of Abraham Trinity Term 1997: Science and theology from the perspective of different disciplines 1 May Dr Angela Vincent, Dr Arthur Peacocke & Dr Margaret Yee 15 May Dr J Weaver Dialogue and Apologetic& Dr R Harnish How should we live? 29 May Dr Olivera PetrovitchThe relation of psychology and theology & Dr Norman Solomon Making sense of traditional texts about the soul