Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion
By Oxford University
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Description
The Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion conducts research into religious beliefs and theological concepts in relation to the sciences. The Centre is a part of the Theology Faculty at the University of Oxford.
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The Sacred Rites in Kant's Soul | Steve Clarke, James Martin Research Fellow, Institute for Science and Ethics, Oxford Martin School, Oxford gives a talk for the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion. Joshua Greene argues that ordinary moral judgment results from the interaction of | 22 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Evolutionary Theology Without the Concept of Progress | Fraser Watts, Cambridghe, gives a talk for the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion Seminar series. Integrations of evolutionary theory and Christian theology have often been built around the concept of progress. However, it will be argued that 'p | 22 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Neuroscience and the Soul | Professor Roger Scruton gives a talk for the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion on the 21st October, 2010. Patricia Churchland argued that 'folk psychology , with its everyday concepts of belief, desire, perception and thought, and its idea of t | 16 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Science and Religion Around the World - Book Launch (27 Jan 2011) | Geoffrey Cantor, John Brooke, Ronald Numbers and Keith Benson, contributors to the Science and Religion Around the World book, give presentations for the Ian Ramsay Seminar Series on 27th January 2011 as part of the book launch. The past quarter-century | 18 4 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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On the very idea of criteria for personhood (4 Nov 2010) | Timothy Chappell, Professor of Philosophy, Open University, gives a talk for the Ian Ramsay Seminar series on 4th November, 2010. Professor Chappell examines the familiar criterial view of personhood, according to which the possession of personal proper | 18 4 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Reconciling Islam and Modern Science: from schizophrenia to harmony (18 Nov 2010) | Nidhal Guessoum, Professor of Physics, American University of Sharjah, gives a talk for the Ian Ramsay Seminar series on 18th November 2010. Science, or at least Knowledge, has always had a special status in the Islamic culture and civilization. As Abdu | 18 4 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (10 Feb 2011) | Iain McGilchrist gives a talk for the Ian Ramsay Seminar series on 10th February 2011. We now know that each hemisphere plays a role in everything the brain does: the old dichotomies do not hold. Most neuroscientists have therefore abandoned the attempt | 18 4 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cistercian Monks as Metallurgists - Iron Technology at Rievalx Abbey c. 1130-1600 AD (24 Feb 2011) | Gerry McDonnell gives a talk for the Ian Ramsay Seminar Series on 24th February 2011. Iron was fundamental to the construction and operation of any large scale building in medieval Europe, whether castle or abbey. The long-standing interpretation of t | 18 4 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cosmology and Creation: From Hawking to Aquinas (10 Mar 2011) | William Carroll, Aquinas Fellow, Blackfriars College, Oxford, gives a talk for the Ian Ramsay Seminar Series on 10th March, 2011. The publication last September of The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow has been the occasion for renewe | 18 4 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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