The 2010 Seminar Speakers Recommend:

portrait: 2010 Seminar Speakers

In preparation for specific lectures in the seminars, the speakers recommend these readings to the fellows.

Denis Alexander

John Barrow

  • Theories of Everything, John D. Barrow, Vintage
  • The Infinite Book, John D. Barrow, Jonathan Cape Ltd.
  • The Artful Universe Expanded, John D. Barrow, Oxford University Press
  • The Constants of Nature, John D. Barrow, Pantheon and Vintage (paperback)
  • The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler, Oxford University Press
  • Inconstant Constants, John D. Barrow and J. Webb, Scientific American, June 2005 and March 2006
  • Unexpected Truth, John Barrow

Dame Gillian Beer

Alasdair Coles

Noah Efron

Owen Gingerich

John Gray

  • The New Atheists, Tina Beattie, Orbis Books
  • Darwin's Angel, John Cornwell, Profile Books
  • The Atheist Delusion, John Gray

Simon Conway Morris

  • Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe, Simon Conway Morris, Cambridge University Press (especially chapters 7, 11)
  • The Crucible of Creation, Simon Conway Morris, Oxford University Press
  • Darwin Was Right. Up to a Point., Simon Conway Morris

Steven Rose

  • Lifelines: Life Beyond the Gene, Steven Rose, Vintage
  • The 21st Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind, Steven Rose, Vintage
  • Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology, Hilary Rose and Steven Rose, eds, Vintage
  • A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness, Merlin Donald, Norton
  • Consciousness and the Novel, David Lodge, Harvard University Press
  • Memory: An Anthology, A.S. Byatt and Harriet Harvey–Wood, eds, Chatto and Windus
  • Brave New Brain, Steven Rose

Keith Ward

  • The Big Questions in Science and Religion, Keith Ward, Templeton Foundation Press (especially chapter 6)
  • Human Nature: Reflections on the Integration of Psychology and Christianity, Keith Ward, ed. Malcolm Jeeves, Templeton Foundation Press (see chapters 3.4 Linking Mind and Brain and 4.6 Human Nature and the Soul)
  • Christianity: A Short Introduction, Keith Ward, Oneworld (especially chapter 4)
  • Religion and Human Nature, Oxford University Press (especially chapters 6, 7, 11)
  • From Cells to Souls, ed. Malcolm Jeeves, Eerdmans
  • The Evolution of the Soul, Richard Swinburne, Oxford University Press
  • Consciousness and the Mind of God, Charles Taliaferro, Cambridge University Press (see chapter 3)
  • From Soul to Self, James Crabbe, Routledge
  • Science and the Human Person, Keith Ward

Fraser Watts

  • Theology and Psychology, Fraser Watts, Aldershot: Ashgate
  • God, Humanity and the Cosmos (2nd Revised edition), Christopher Southgate, T & T Clark
  • God, Faith & the New Millennium: Christian Belief in an Age of Science, Keith Ward, Oneworld Publications
  • Science Meets Faith, ed. Fraser Watts, SPCK