Past lectures
Scientists sometimes complain about the introduction of religious ideas into science. But many scientists, especially evolutionary...
Religion and Philosophy The problem of verification and the nature of religious language. The problem of consciousness, and the...
Religion and Philosophy There are some misunderstandings which are unthinkingly accepted by most who study Immanuel Kant, the great...
Religion and Philosophy Hume and the grounding of knowledge in human experience. The conflict of reason and common sense. Hume was wrong...
Religion and Philosophy Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza. The division between mind and matter. Philosophy declares its independence. Is...
Religion and Philosophy Aquinas and Aristotle. The Christain Rationalists - Anselm and Abelard. The cradle of autonomous reason and the...
Religion and Philosophy Appearance and Reality. The One and the Good. The Alexandrian Neo-Platonists. Is Christian theology a 'series of...
Human autonomy and obedience to God. Is religious law repressive and archaic? Is there a secular basis for justice? Must religious law (...
Are humans in charge of their own lives and deaths? Are humans different from other animals? Abortion, euthanasia and human rights....
Sex and religion. Why celibacy? Is homosexuality objectively disordered? Are gender differences important in religion? What...
Should we engineer the human genome? The ethics of stem cell research. Will humans be superseded? The Christian Natural Law tradition in...
The American political scientist Samuel Huntington has warned of a future 'clash of civilisations' between Islam, the West and China....
