Multimedia resources from Faraday lectures, courses, discussions and research seminars. Please note that the views expressed are those of the speakers and do not necessarily represent the views of The Faraday Institute
Talk given by Prof. Peter van Inwagen as part of summer course 7
| Title | Speaker(s) | Context | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Science, Spirituality and the Problem of Evil | Rupert Shortt | Seminar | February 9, 2023 |
| The Quranic Notion of the Soul and Its Place in Science and Psychology | Dr Mehdi Nassaji | Seminar | December 1, 2022 |
| Naturalism Without Content: Where Plantinga’s Conflict Actually Lies | Chris Oldfield | Seminar | November 10, 2022 |
| Randomness in Philosophy and Theology | Dr Yves Gaspar | Seminar | June 16, 2022 |
| Souls in Spacetime? | Dr J. Brian Pitts | Course | February 4, 2022 |
| Human Persons and Quantum Entanglement | Prof. Michael Esfeld | Course | February 4, 2022 |
| God, Aristotle and Emergence | Prof. Robert Koons | Course | February 4, 2022 |
| How the Quantum Revolution Vindicates Aristotle’s Metaphysics | Prof. Robert Koons | Seminar | February 9, 2021 |
| The Naturalistic Case for Free Will | Prof. Christian List | Seminar | November 24, 2020 |
| Experimental Psychology of Religion | Revd Dr Jonathan Jong | Seminar | November 10, 2020 |
| The Divine Lawmaker: Nomological Arguments for God’s Existence | Dr James Orr | Seminar | May 12, 2020 |
| Can Nature Be Red in Tooth and Claw In The Thought Of Augustine? (a case study) | Dr Stanley Rosenberg | Seminar | January 21, 2020 |
| Where do the laws of nature come from? | Prof. Dr Barbara Drossel | Course | July 1, 2019 |
| It Keeps Me Seeking: The Invitation from Science, Philosophy and Religion | Prof. Andrew Briggs | Seminar | February 5, 2019 |
| Kalam Philosopy, Islam and Science | Dr Bruno Guiderdoni | Seminar | November 20, 2018 |
| The presupposition of science, the Bible and Christian faith | Prof. René van Woudenberg | Course | July 3, 2018 |
| Scientism and the limits of science | Prof. René van Woudenberg | Course | July 2, 2018 |
| The Search for Meaning Amidst Cosmic Annihilation, Transhumanism and the Last Judgement | Dr Michael Burdett | Seminar | May 1, 2018 |
| Mathematics and the Beauty of God | Prof. David Watts | Seminar | October 24, 2017 |
| Can God Play Dice? Chance and the Question of Metaphysical Continuity between Creator and Creation. | Prof. Ian MacFarland | Seminar | March 7, 2017 |
| Descartes, God and the Mechanistic Universe | Prof. John Cottingham | Seminar | February 7, 2017 |
| Scientific Exegesis of the Qur’an: Bint al-Shati’s Critique of Mustafa Mahmud | Dr Shuruq Naguib | Seminar | January 24, 2017 |
| How Science Learns about Unobservable Entities | Prof. Hasok Chang | Seminar | October 25, 2016 |
| Jewish Perspectives on Personhood | Dr Daniel Weiss | Course | July 7, 2016 |
| God and Natural Evil | Dr Vinoth Ramachandra | Course | July 5, 2016 |
| Science, God and Ockham’s Razor: Can Science Explain God Away? | Dr David Glass | Seminar | May 17, 2016 |
| God and the Order of Nature: Unity and Plurality | Revd. Dr Shaun Henson | Seminar | May 3, 2016 |
| Is there a place at the science-religion table for mathematics? | Prof. Doug Kindschi | Seminar | April 19, 2016 |
| Science and Religion: How do we know what we know? | Chris Oldfield | Course | February 27, 2016 |
| Hasn’t Science Disproved God? | Martin Buzza | Course | February 27, 2016 |
| Theological and philosophical responses to new atheism | Prof. Alister McGrath | Course | July 6, 2015 |
| The Penultimate Curiosity | Prof. Andrew Briggs | Seminar | May 12, 2015 |
| Does matter matter? Fundamental physics and ideas about God | Revd Dr Gillian Straine | Course | March 21, 2015 |
| Has science removed the need for God? | Revd Prof. Keith Ward | Course | March 20, 2015 |
| Charles Raven (1885-1964): Professor of Divinity and Promoter of Science | Revd Dr Ian Randall | Seminar | February 17, 2015 |
| Are we (just) animals? | Prof. Raymond Tallis | Seminar | October 28, 2014 |
| Evil in Evolution – a Philosopher’s Perspective | Prof. Michael Murray | Course | July 10, 2014 |
| Complex Systems, Emergence and God | Prof. Dr Barbara Drossel | Course | July 9, 2014 |
| Exploring the relationship between Science and Religion | Prof. Tom McLeish FRS | Course | July 7, 2014 |
| Contingency, Convergence and Hyper-astronomical Numbers in Biological Evolution. | Dr Ard Louis | Seminar | April 29, 2014 |
| Physics and Philosophy | Dr Jeremy Butterfield | Course | April 6, 2014 |
| Cognitive Science, Philosophy and Faith | Prof. Roger Trigg | Course | April 5, 2014 |
| Evolution, Emergence and Philosophy | Prof. Tim O’Connor | Course | April 5, 2014 |
| Free Will and Determinism | Prof. Tim O’Connor | Course | April 5, 2014 |
| Rationality in Science and Faith | Prof. Roger Trigg | Course | April 4, 2014 |
| Does the Universe need God? | Hans Halvorson | Lecture | January 29, 2014 |
| Faith and Science | Prof. Raymond Tallis, The Most Revd Dr Rowan Williams | Talk | December 4, 2013 |
| Big Questions in Science and Religion | Revd Prof. Keith Ward | Course | November 30, 2013 |
| Could There Be a Theory of Everything? | Prof. Tim O’Connor | Course | July 8, 2013 |
| The Emergence of Human Persons: Between the Scylla of Dualism and the Charybdis of Reductionism | Prof. Tim O’Connor | Seminar | May 28, 2013 |
| Emergence, Top Down Causation and Reductionism | Prof. George F. R. Ellis FRS | Seminar | April 30, 2013 |
| A Philosophical Perspective on Free Will | Prof. Peter van Inwagen | Course | July 11, 2012 |
| Naturalism and Evolutionary Theory | Prof. Elliott Sober | Lecture | May 24, 2012 |
| An agnostic’s perspective on the philosophy of science and religion | Dr Mark Vernon | Course | March 31, 2012 |
| Should the word ‘Nature’ be eliminated? A Historical Survey | Prof. John Hedley Brooke | Seminar | January 22, 2008 |
| A Mutuality Model for Science and Religion | Prof. Alan Padgett | Course | July 21, 2007 |
| Dialogue: Can God Know the Future? Reflections on the Block Universe | Prof. Chris Isham, Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS 16 October 1930—9 March 2021 | Course | May 19, 2007 |
| Quantum Theory, Critical Realism and Religious Belief | Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS 16 October 1930—9 March 2021 | Course | May 19, 2007 |
| Quantum Theory and Being | Prof. Chris Isham | Course | May 19, 2007 |
| Interpretations of Quantum Theory and Their Implications for Theology | Prof. Gerard Nienhuis | Course | May 19, 2007 |
| And Information Has Become Physical | Prof. Andrew Briggs | Course | May 19, 2007 |
| Divine Action | Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS 16 October 1930—9 March 2021 | Course | July 27, 2006 |
| Divine Action in Modern Science | Dr Nicholas Saunders | Course | July 27, 2006 |
| Does Religious Belief Need Justification? | Prof. Roger Trigg | Course | July 25, 2006 |
| Physics and the Real World | Prof. George F. R. Ellis FRS | Course | July 17, 2006 |
