Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion

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.

Episodes

The Sacred Rites in Kant's Soul

July 22, 2011 • 60 mins

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 two distinct neural subsystems which generate competing moral intuitions. One subsystem generates consequentialist intuitions and the other generates deontological intuitions. Green...

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Evolutionary Theology Without the Concept of Progress

July 22, 2011 • 50 mins

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 'progress' is an unsatisfactory concept in both evolutionary and theological thought. Watts' proposal is that evolutionary theology does not require the concept of progress, and is bet...

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Neuroscience and the Soul

May 16, 2011 • 51 mins

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 the 'mind' as an individual entity in which all these processes occur, is a kind of explanatory science, effective in its way, but with obscure and empirically empty theoretical terms...

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Science and Religion Around the World - Book Launch (27 Jan 2011)

April 18, 2011 • 55 mins

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 has seen an explosion of interest in the history of science and religion. All too often, however, the scholars writing it have focused their attention almost exclusively on the Chri...

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On the very idea of criteria for personhood (4 Nov 2010)

April 18, 2011 • 51 mins

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 properties such as self-consciousness, emotionality, sentience, and so forth is necessary and sufficient for the status of a person. He argues that this view confuses criteria for personho...

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Reconciling Islam and Modern Science: from schizophrenia to harmony (18 Nov 2010)

April 18, 2011 • 68 mins

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 Abdus Salam often said, some 750 verses of the Qur'an speak about knowledge, scholarship, and the natural world, compared to less than 250 verses directing the Muslim's life and actions....

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The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (10 Feb 2011)

April 18, 2011 • 65 mins

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 to understand why nature has so carefully segregated the hemispheres - despite a large, and expanding, body of evidence about their differences at every level. On the basis of resea...

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Cistercian Monks as Metallurgists - Iron Technology at Rievalx Abbey c. 1130-1600 AD (24 Feb 2011)

April 18, 2011 • 56 mins

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 the development of iron smelting technology in England argued for a step change in technology in the late 15th Century when small scale bloomery iron production was replaced by blast ...

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Cosmology and Creation: From Hawking to Aquinas (10 Mar 2011)

April 18, 2011 • 42 mins

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 renewed discussion of the relationship between developments in cosmology and the doctrine of creation. Whether one speaks of quantum tunneling from nothing or some version of a multiverse...

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Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion

Episodes

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Neuroscience and the Soul

Science and Religion Around the World - Book Launch (27 Jan 2011)

On the very idea of criteria for personhood (4 Nov 2010)

Reconciling Islam and Modern Science: from schizophrenia to harmony (18 Nov 2010)

The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (10 Feb 2011)

Cistercian Monks as Metallurgists - Iron Technology at Rievalx Abbey c. 1130-1600 AD (24 Feb 2011)

Cosmology and Creation: From Hawking to Aquinas (10 Mar 2011)

Popular Podcasts

The Sacred Rites in Kant's Soul

Evolutionary Theology Without the Concept of Progress