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• Former IRC speaker Sir Roger Penrose wins the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
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• New Horizons for Science and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)
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• Natural Theology in the 21st Century, 2021 IRC Conference
• Grey - Philosophy, Theology, and Agriculture: The Missing Link
• McLeish - The Rediscovery of Contemplation Through Science
• John Habgood on Science, Faith, and Public Engagement
• POSTPONED "Fire from Heaven" - A World Premiere
• God and the Book of Nature in the 21st Century
• Recovering the Hierarchy of Being
• The End of Physics as We Knew It
• CANCELLED - A No-Go Result for a Relativity-Proof Dynamic Concept of Time
• Contemporary Scientific Explanations of Religion: Problems and Perspectives
• Empirical Evidence against Free Will? A Case Study in Neuro-Mythology
• Where is God? Divine Presence and Location
• 2019 Conference, "Compassion and Theodicy"
• The Evolution and Ontogeny of Ritual
• Barrett - Are Children Naturally Religious?
• Barrett - Are Humans Naturally Religious?
• Smith - Are Persons Relational?
• Bethany Sollereder
• Carl Hildebrand
• Daniel De Haan
• Ignacio Silva
• John Hedley Brooke
• Michael Burdett
• Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode
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• Peter Harrison
• Ralph Weir
• Roger Trigg
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• Stanley P. Rosenberg
• William Simpson
• IRC Associate William Simpson wins 4th Expanded Reason Award
• ABC Article - A Christian response to COVID-19
• Call for Grant Applications - Central and Eastern Europe
• 2019 Bampton Lectures now on YouTube
• Winners, Oxford University Essay Prize, Central and Eastern Europe
• Contemporary Manifestations of Evil and Attempts at Their Justification
• The Metaphysical Poverty of Naturalism
• The Sentiments of Rationality: Feeling, Science, and Secularism after Darwin
• What is Love?
• God Can’t Stop Evil Singlehandedly
• Evil and the Myths We Live By
• New Horizons in Science and Religion: Launch of the Ian Ramsey Centre Series
• 01 The Existence of God: Materials for Schools
• 02 Free Will and Responsibility: Materials for Schools
• 03 Miracles: Materials for Schools
• 04 The Problem of Evil and Suffering: Materials for Schools
• 05 Science and Religion: Materials for Schools
• Barrett - Are Persons Their Brains?
• Pinsent - Are there Limits to Computer Metaphors of the Mind?
• Pinsent - Are We Naturally Religious?
• Pinsent - Can Neuroscience Teach Us About the Way We Think?
• Deane-Drummond - What is Life for?
• Deane-Drummond - What is Life?
• Barrett - Do Children Naturally Believe in God?
• Barrett - Does Cognitive Science Make Religion Redundant?
• Barrett - Does Cognitive Science Show that Religion is False?
• Barrett - Does Neuroscience Deny Free Will?
• Pinsent - Does Science Explain Away Religious Beliefs?
• Smith - Does Technology Extend our Mind?
• Hernández - José M. Hernández, the first NASA astronaut from a Mexican migrant family
• Smith - How Are the Mind and Brain Related?
• Pinsent - Is Multidisciplinarity Suitable to Study Persons?
• Smith - Is Multidisciplinarity Suitable to Study Persons?
• Pinsent - Is the Brain a Computer?
• Smith - Is the Brain like a Computer? Part I
• Smith - Is the Brain like a Computer? Part II
• Barrett - Is there a Limit to Computer Metaphors on the Mind?
• Vicuña - Life: What is it?
• Pinsent - What is Life?
• Pinsent - The Difference Between the Mind and the Brain
• Brooke - The Origin of Life
• Vicuña - The Origins of Life
• Pinsent - The Watchmaker Metaphor
• Pinsent - What Am I?
• Barrett - What Are Persons?
• Pinsent - What are Souls?
• Pinsent - What are the Prospects of Artificial Intelligence?
• Smith - What Can Philosophers Learn From Wine?
• Pinsent - What is a Person?
• Pinsent - What is Consciousness?
• Pinsent - What is grace?
• Smith - What is Insight?
• Pinsent - What is Life for?
• Brooke - What is Life?
• Smith - What is the Role of the Body in Religious Practices?
• Barrett - What is the Soul?
• Pinsent - Where Did Life Come From?
• Pinsent - Why is the Brain Divided?
• Adcock - Secularism as a Matter of Fact
• Elsdon-Baker - Communicating Evolution in a Globalised World
• Beatty - Narrating Chance
• Beck - Homo Mercans
• Bente - Coordinated Minds and Bodies
• Bielik-Robson - The Infinite in the Finite: Human Life as Living Contradiction in Hegel, Freud, and Rosenzweig
• Bishop - Becoming (Trans/Post) Human
• Blackburn - Brain Science and Morality
• Brosnan - A Comparative Approach to Morality
• Brown - Art’s Critique of Theology
• Came - Nietzsche as a Christian Thinker
• Carman - The Antikythera Mechanism: Orbits, Gods and Gears
• Carroll - Cosmology and Creation: When a Beginning is not the Beginning
• Carter & Tallis - Has Neuroscience Demonstrated that We Do Not Have Free Will?
• Chappell - Personal Knowledge
• Chappell - Science, Non-Science, and Nonsense
• Clark - Is Atheism 'Normal'? Reflections from the Cognitive Science of Religion
• Clough - The Pursuit of Human Uniqueness as Species-Level Narcissism
• Conway-Morris - Is Convergence Becoming too Popular?
• Cottingham - Confronting the Cosmos: Scientific Rationality and Human Understanding
• Cottingham - Morality and the Transcendant
• Crane - How Should We Think about the Contrast between the Natural and the Supernatural?
• Cunningham - Darwin's Idea: Dangerous or Pious?
• Darwall - Making the Hard Problem of Moral Normativity Easier
• Oderberg - Recovering the Hierarchy of Being
• Dávid-Barret - Collective Action, Shared Intentionality, and the Origins of Religion
• De Cruz - The Argument from Miracles and the Cognitive Science of Religious Testimony
• Donald - Religion and the Rise of the Machine
• Dreyfus - Dostoyevsky on how to Save the Sacred from Science
• Dumler-Winckler - The Holy Matrimony of the Modern Poet and Scientist
• Eastman - Second-Personal Knowledge of Divine Action: A View from the Apostle Paul
• Ellis - How can Physics Underlie the Mind? Top-Down Causation in the Human Context
• Ellis - Supernaturalism and Naturalism: Beyond the Divide
• Ewart - Chaos and the Character of God
• Hernández - Explorations
• Flanagan - Evolution of Anger
• Florio & Urrutia - Science and Religion in Latin America (Spanish)
• Frost - Epigenetics and the Registers of Meaning
• Galleni - Biosphere and Noosphere: A Symbiotic Relationship
• Gleiser and McGrath - Unknowns in Heaven and Earth
• Goff - Did the Universe Design Itself?
• Green & Pinsent - Neurotheology and the Social Brain (Part 2)
• Green & Pinsent - Neurotheology and the Social Brain (Part 1)
• Griffioen - Suffering, Struggle, and Theodicy as Therapy
• Halvorson - Does the Universe Need God?
• Hannam - God's Philosophers: the Medieval World
• Harrison - Natural Causes, Divine Action, and Scientific Explanation
• Harrison - The Shifting Territories of Science and Religion
• Hedley-Brooke - Science & Secularisation: Where the Myths Lie
• Heller - From the Big Bang to the Gulag: How to Justify the History of the Universe
• Hocknull - Evil and the Myths We Live By
• Horvat - Contemporary Scientific Explanations of Religion: Problems and Perspectives
• Howell - Ape/Human and Nature/Culture Difference: Navigating Muddier Waters
• Prassas, Conrad & Winters - Humane Philosophy Mini‐Conference
• Simpson - IRC Associate and winner of the 4th Expanded Reason Award
• Ruse & Leyser - ISSR Symposium New Holistic Biology (Part 1)
• Reiss &Watts - ISSR Symposium New Holistic Biology (Part 2)
• Kacar - Historical Contingency: Insights from in-vivo Molecular Evolution
• Keener - Miracle Reports in the Gospels and Today
• Kenny - Humanism vs Anthropomorphism
• Kindschi - Is There a Place at the Science-Religion Table for Mathematics?
• Kołodziejczyk - Non-conceptual Content and Religious Experience
• Krajewski - Can a Robot be Grateful?
• Larson - Who's to Blame for Eugenics: An English Agnostic or an Austrian Abbot?
• Lasota - The End of Physics as We Knew It
• Legare - Evolution and Ontogeny of Ritual
• Lightman - The Creed of Victorian Science
• Löffler - Empirical Evidence against Free Will? A Case Study in Neuro-Mythology
• López - Beyond Modularisation: Towards the Integration of Neuro-constructivism
• Łuczewski - Conversion, Coercion, and Transhumanism
• May - What is love?
• McGilchrist - Can Brain Science Cast Light on Cultural History?
• McGinn - Mysterianism and the Mind of God
• McGrath - Conflict or Mutual Enrichment?
• McGrath - Science, God, and Faith: C. S. Lewis & Richard Dawkins
• McGrath - The Search for Coherence in Science and Religion
• McGrath - Understanding Cultural and Theological Resistance to Special Divine Action
• McGrath - Secularism as a Neutral Space with Sides
• McGrath - The Transformation of Humanity or the Abolition of Man?
• McGrath - John Habgood on Science, Faith, and Public Engagement
• McGrath - Reflections on Science and Religion
• McGrath - Why we can't stop talking about Science, Religion, and God
• McGrath - New Atheism and the Dialogue Between Science and Faith
• McGrew - Special Divine Action: The State of the Art and the Uses of History
• McLeish - Faith and Wisdom in Science
• McLeish - Why is Science Such a Pain?
• Megill - Paradoxes, Presuppositions and Proposed Uses of the Evolutionary Epic
• Meriste - Can You Feel Guilt about the Future?
• Messer - Theology and Neuroethics
• Midgley - Science, Scientism and the Self
• Moore - Reflections on the New Atheism
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• Murray - Science, Religion, and the Templeton Foundation
• Nachev - When the Talking has to Stop: Brain Imaging and the Person
• Nogal & Price - Who Owns Life?
• Numbers - Social Darwinism: A Historical Myth?
• O'Hear - Darwin’s Beliefs
• Oord - God Can't Stop Evil Singlehandedly
• Papineau & Smith - Can Neuroscience Contribute to Self-understanding?
• Pelligrini - Ghost of Enchantment Psychoanalysis and Secular Time
• Penrose - Consciousness and the foundations of physics
• Perovic - Orthodoxy and its Alternatives in Modern Cosmology
• Peterson - Euthanasia, Human and Other
• Pickup - Where is God? Divine Presence and Location
• Pigliucci - What Human Biology Tells Us About Ethics
• Pinsent - A Christmas Carol: The Prosopagnosia of Avarice and its Cure
• Pinsent - The Divided Brain and the Spiritual Sense of Scripture
• Pinsent - The Orphaned State of the Term 'Person' and the Significance of Research
• Pinsent - Why Matter Matters
• Pinsent - Science and Supernatural Flourishing
• Pinsent - The Second-Person Perspective: A Common Project of Science, Philosophy, and Theology
• Porter - Judgments of Desire
• Rath - On the Impossibility of Engineering Moral Virtue
• Reddy - Engagement, Response and Social Understanding
• Reiss - Science and Religion: Public and and School Education
• Robinson - Why there is no such thing as Naturalism
• Robinson - Fingerprints of the Trinity?
• Roessler - Reason Explanation and the Second-Person Perspective
• Rosińska - The Place of Questioning in Fidelity
• Ruse - Are Humans Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do
• Ruse - Evolutionary Ethics: A Phoenix Arisen?
• Ruse - Might is Right: Does Darwin refute Thrasymachus?
• Russell - Does ‘the God Who Acts’ Really Act?
• Saunders - Divine Action and Modern Science
• Scruton - Accounting for Yourself
• Scruton - What is it for a Prayer to be Answered?
• Scruton - The Humanities in the Face of Brain Science
• Selak - Contemporary Manifestations of Evil and Attempts at Their Justification
• Shanahan - The Possibility of Artificial Consciousness
• Shushan - Near-Death Experience and the Origins of Afterlife Beliefs
• Silva - Science and Religion in Latin America
• Simpson - The Nature of Scientific and Religious Belief
• Smedes - Why is Special Divine Action a Problem?
• Spruit - Catholic Censorship of Modern Science and Natural Philosophy
• Stump - The Second-Personal and the Transmission of Knowledge Through Testimony
• Sutherland - Greed: from Gordon Gecko to David Hume
• Swinburne - The Probability of the Resurrection of Jesus
• Talasiewicz - Imagery in Science and Religion
• Tallis - Aping Mankind? Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
• Tallis - 'Hey, you!' Some Reflections on Pointing and Second-Person Being
• Tallis - The Sighted Watchmaker: Preliminary Thoughts on How We Got to be so Different
• Tallis - The Strange Idea that What Happens Has to be Made to Happen
• Tan - Extending the Transhuman Person: Religion as Technological Enhancement
• Thweat - Cyborgs in the Garden
• Brekke (Panel) - Fundamentalism and Science
• Trigg - Beyond Matter: Why Science Needs Metaphysics
• Twelftree - The Historian and the Miraculous
• Vainio - Belief-Formation in the Desert of the Real
• Velázquez - Purpose and Nature (Spanish)
• Vicuña - Astrobiology: Searching for Life Beyond the Earth
• Vicuña - New Frontiers on the Origin of Life
• Vicuña - What is Life? (Spanish)
• Von Wachter - Divine Intervention Does not Violate Laws of Nature (Spanish)
• Ward - Secularism the Dead Debate
• Ward - AI Vampires
• MCGrath - Why Study Science & Religion at Oxford?
• Williamson - What is Naturalism?
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• McGrath - Natural Theology: An Interface between Science and Religion?
• De Cruz - A Taste for the Infinite: What Evolution can tell us about Belief in God
• Petrovich - The Naturalness of Natural Theology: A Psychological Approach
• McGilchrist - Hemispheric Asymmetry and the Approach to the Divine
• McGrath - INTRO_27 - Conclusion: Framing the Relation of Science and Religion
• McGrath - INTRO_26 - Mystery in Science and Religion
• McGrath - INTRO_25 - Natural Theology
• McGrath - INTRO_24 - Science, Religion, and Moral Values
• McGrath - INTRO_23 - Science, Religion, and the Meaning of Life
• McGrath - INTRO_22 - Reductionism in Science and Religion
• McGrath - INTRO_21 - Models and Analogies in Religion
• McGrath - INTRO_20 - Models and Analogies in Science
• McGrath - INTRO_19 - A Fine-Tuned Universe
• McGrath - INTRO_18 - The Big Bang: Creation and Cosmology
• McGrath - INTRO_17 - Albert Einstein on Science and Faith
• McGrath - INTRO_16 - Darwin, Evolution, and God
• McGrath - INTRO_15 - How does God act in the world?
• McGrath - INTRO_14 - Miracles and the Laws of Nature
• McGrath - INTRO_13 - Isaac Newton and the Mechanical Universe
• McGrath - INTRO_12 - Watching the Heavens: Copernicus and Kepler
• McGrath - INTRO_11 - Can God "explain" anything?
• McGrath - INTRO_10 - Scientism: Exploring the Limits of the Sciences
• McGrath - INTRO_09 - Faith and Proof in Religion
• McGrath - INTRO_08 - Faith and Proof in Science
• McGrath - INTRO_07 - How do we find the best explanation?
• McGrath - INTRO_06 - How do we develop theories?
• McGrath - INTRO_05 - What does it mean to explain something?
• McGrath - INTRO_04 - Science and Faith: Different Maps of Reality
• McGrath - INTRO_03 - The Warfare of Science and Religion?
• McGrath - INTRO_02 - Science and Religion: A Personal Journey
• McGrath - INTRO_01 - Science and Religion: Introducing the Field
• William Simpson wins the 2021 Cardinal Mercier Prize
• The 2021 Roger Scruton Philosophy Symposium
• Human Flourishing Book Launch
• “Why is there Suffering? Pick Your Own Theological Expedition” Book Launch
• Emily Qureshi-Hurst
• Varieties of Atheism in Science
• Briggs & Reiss - Human Flourishing Book Launch
• Harrison - Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age (Lecture 1)
• Harrison - Science and the Disenchantment of Nature (Lecture 2)
• Harrison - Nature and the Idea of the Supernatural (Lecture 3)
• Harrison - Religious Belief and the Myth of Scientific Naturalism (Lecture 4)
• 2022 IRC Conference in Honour of Alister McGrath
• After Galileo: Faith and Science in the 21st Century
• Fighting Pandemics in a Life of Faith
• Existentialism and Metaphysics
• Anglo-Indian Perspectives on Human Dignity in Healthcare and Medical Research
• Panpsychism and God(s)
• Book Launch: Emerging Voices in Science and Theology - Contributions by Young Women
• Priest - Existentialism and Metaphysics
• Jose - Anglo-Indian Perspectives on Human Dignity in Healthcare and Medical Research
• McGrath - Science and Religion: A Reflection on the State of the Art
• $70,000 psychology-religion grants
• In Defence of the Soul
• Report praised in Parliament
• Weir - In Defence of the Soul
• Sciences and the Future of Religion
• Book Launch, "The Meaning of Mourning"
• Medieval Communism
• Personal Identity and the Creation of Self
• When Beliefs Don't Seem True
• WINNERS - Science, Theology & Philosophy Essay Prize
• New Horizons for Science and Religion in Latin America
• The Workshop in the Galapagos Islands, 2015
• The Workshop in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, 2016
• The Workshop and Final Project Conference, Santiago de Chile, 2017
• Book launch - "Coming to Faith through Dawkins"
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• Mark Harris
• On the Sublime: Poetic Theory in the Age of Dryden
• How the Church Fathers taught me to be a Filmmaker
• The Idea of an A Priori Law
• Lekka-Kowalik - Science and the Future of Religion
• Kanterian - Medieval Communism
• Sławkowski-Rode - The Meaning of Mourning
• Farris - Personal Identity and the Creation of Self
• Dominus Illuminatio Mea: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Future of the University
• "Do This in Remembrance of Me": Memory, Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Embodied Remembrance of God in Liturgical Action
• The Right to Believe in Values, Obligations, and Moral Responsibility
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• The Meaning of Mourning
• Science, Theology, and Humane Philosophy
• Julie Arliss
• Quantum Fundamentalism and Theological Liberty (Andreas Idreos Chair in Science and Religion Inaugural Lecture)
• Gow - When Beliefs Don't Come True
• Cooper - On the Sublime: Poetic Theory in the Age of Dryden
• McGilchrist - Dominus Illuminatio Mea: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Future of the University
• Fatona - 'Do this in Remembrance of Me’: Memory, Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Embodied Remembrance of God in Liturgical Action
• Sławkowski-Rode - "The Meaning of Mourning": Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief
• Pinsent - Does Humane Philosophy Require Grace?
• Harris - Quantum Fundamentalism and Theological Liberty
• Winners, Oxford University Essay Prize III, Central and Eastern Europe
• Book launch - "Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age"
• Science and Religion Research Seminars | Ian Ramsey Centre Lectures
• A New Account of the Supernatural Life
• Science and Religion Research Seminars | Ian Ramsey Centre Lectures
• ‘A new account of the supernatural life’
• What is a (Religious) Belief?
• ‘Categorical Dualism’
• ‘Likely stories: How the ancient drama of philosophy can help us think about the nonhuman world’
• Call for Papers: Political Theologies of a Democratic Common Life
• McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, & Public Life Annual Conference 2024 | Christian Humanism and the Black Atlantic
• DPhil Student Zishang Yue Wins Prestigious Peacocke Prize in Science and Religion