Here are the abstracts for the forthcoming Zygon: A Journal of Religion and Science symposium on Oakeshott. Elizabeth Corey (Baylor) RELIGION AND THE MODE OF PRACTICE IN MICHAEL OAKESHOTT Michael Oakeshott’s religious view of the world stands behind much of his political and philosophical writing. The present essay proceeds first by discussing Oakeshott’s view of religion…
This past Monday I presented a talk to the Advanced Seminar Program at the Chicago-based Zygon Center for Religion and Science and editorial home of the journal Zygon: Journal of Science & Religion. My host was Zygon’s editor Phil Hefner. The theme of this year’s seminar was The ‘Hard Problem’ – Consciousness, Experience, and Mind – my talk dealt…
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…
Update: A digital version of this essay is now available from the Journal of Mind and Behavior website – click here or here. Here is a final MS of my review essay on Dennett’s Breaking the Spell published in Journal of Mind and Behavior (Vol. 27 No. 3 & 4 Summer & Autumn 2006).
Withdrawn from project I’m very pleased to have been asked by the editor of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science to be a participant in a forthcoming symposium on Owen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…
Much has been made about Anthony Flew’s “conversion” from atheism to deism. An article in The Atlantic suggests that all might not be quite as it seems. I’m not in a position to adjudicate, but something is a bit off. (On a personal note, Flew has been a responsive and charming correspondent and an early supporter (a charter member) of the…
Atheism is big publishing business these days. The rash of recent bestsellers has been dubbed the “New” Atheism – and the loose coalition of those who subsribe to the naturalism promoted across these books – as Brights. I want to make four points: 1. I resent the haughtiness of the term “bright”. The term fails to capture many…
Einstein on a variety of topics – available here.
In the wake of Dennett and Dawkins, two more prominent names weigh in on atheism. This article from Salon.com I reproduce here because of annoying pop-up adverts. Also see David Berreby’s piece on Dawkins (Berreby happens to drop in a reference to Oakeshott – this Oakeshott fellow seems to be getting fashionable amongst bloggers). Readers might be interested in…
I don’t normally make CFP announcements for projects I’m not involved in, but I’m making an exception for a mate of mine. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The continuous and constantly accelerated introduction of advanced new technologies allowing an unprecedented variety of novel applications is inundating our social and private life. One important species of these technological breakthroughs biotechnology, concerns a…
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