17 February, Richard Swinburne "Varieties of Libertarian Free Will"
On 17 February Professor Richard Swinburne (University of Oxford) will deliver the first of the HPP-IRC "Persons, Mind and Cosmos"...
"Persons, Mind and Cosmos" Seminars, Oxford
We are delighted to announce the return of the HPP-Ian Ramsey Centre Seminar, beginning with a series of talks on "Persons, Mind and...
Martin Pickup, "Where is God? Divine Presence and Location"
The question ‘where is God?’ is one asked by philosophers, theologians and four-year-olds alike. Within Christian traditions (among...
Jean-Pierre Lasota, "The End of Physics as We Knew It"
Contemporary fundamental physics is in crisis. On the one hand, astronomical observations show that we don't know what 96% of the...
David Oderberg, "Recovering the Hierarchy of Being"
On 26 February 2020, DAVID ODERBERG (University of Reading) delivered a talk entitled “Recovering the Hierarchy of Being” for the HPP/Ian...
Remembering Michael Inwood
The organisers of the HPP were saddened to hear of the death of Michael Inwood (1944-2021). Michael was an early supporter of the HPP and...
Christine H. Legare, "Evolution and Ontogeny of Ritual"
Convergent developments across social scientific disciplines provide evidence that ritual is a psychologically prepared, culturally...
Marija Selak, "Contemporary Manifestations of Evil and Attempts at Their Justification"
In this lecture I point out the “unwanted fruit” of the de-substantialisation of evil. Incorporating evil within good itself has enabled...
Simon May, "What is Love?"
I briefly trace the origin of our prevailing Western conceptions of love and argue that they constitute the last genuinely universal...
Thomas Jay Oord, "God Can't Stop Evil Singlehandedly"
Nearly everyone wonders why a good and powerful God doesn't prevent evil. But the usual answers are unsatisfactory. In his best-selling...
