This past weekend I attended the Timothy Sprigge Memorial Conference (see link to obituary by Jane O’Grady who was in attendence). I met Sprigge in 1997 at the Bradley conference at Harris-Manchester College Oxford, a time when I was very interested in the idealists. Funny how philosophical changes come and go – Sprigge, ever the…
The Oakeshott symposium on science, religion, and politics in the journal Zygon is now online. In this issue there is also a symposium on Owen Flanagan’s latest book The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World. I was scheduled to participate in this symposium, a symposium that I’d originally suggested, but my computer went…
I notice that Oxford’s Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion and the Centre for Anthropology and Mind have received a big grant for the “study of the cognitive science of religion” from the Templeton Foundation. Who’d have thought that the project of naturalizing religion would become so sexy – for reasons I won’t go…
Withdrawn from project I’m very pleased to have been asked by the editor of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science to be a participant in a forthcoming symposium on Owen Flanagan’s recently published The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World. The other participants are Greg Peterson (So. Dak. State); Ann Taves (UC Santa Barbara); Don Wiebe (Toronto) and, of…
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