The 2009 Seminar Speakers Recommend:

portrait: 2009 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

Simon Blackburn

  • The Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, David Hume, William Blackwood
  • The Natural History of Religion, David Hume, Stanford University Press
  • The World as Will and Idea, Arthur Schopenhauer, Everyman Press—The chapter 'On Man's Need for Metaphysics'
  • Hume 10, Rest of the World 0, Simon Blackburn

Guy Claxton

  • Noises from the Darkroom, Guy Claxton, Aquarian Press
  • The Psychology of Awakening, Batchelor, Watson and Claxton, Red Wheel/Weiser
  • The Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh, Cygnus
  • Mindfulness, Learning, and the Brain (pdf), Guy Claxton

Sarah Coakley

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

Edward Kessler

  • Journey into Islam, Akbar Ahmed, Brookings Institution Press
  • Challenges in Jewish–Christian Relations, Edward Kessler and James Aitken, Paulist Press
  • Talking to the Other: A Jewish Interfaith Dialogue with Christians and Muslims, Jonathan Magonet, I. B. Taurus
  • The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilisations, Jonathan Sacks, Continuum International Publishing Group
  • What Do Jews Believe?, Edward Kessler, Granta Publications

Mike McCullough

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

Rev. Dr. John Polkinghorne

  • When Science Meets Religion, Ian Barbour, Harper SanFrancisco
  • Pathways from Science towards God, Arthur Peacocke, Oneworld
  • Belief in God in an Age of Science, John Polkinghorne, Yale University Press (especially chapters 1, 4)

Tariq Ramadan

  • Islam, the West, and the Challenges of Modernity, Tariq Ramadan, The Islamic Foundation
  • In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Mohammad, Tariq Ramadan, Oxford University Press
  • The Messenger: The Meanings of the Life of Mohammad, Tariq Ramadan, Penguin Books
  • Radical Reform: Islamic Ethics and Liberation, Tariq Ramadan

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

Richard Swinburne

  • The Philosophy of Mind, Peter Smith and O.R. Jones, Cambridge University Press 2008, chapters 1-6
  • The Evolution of the Soul, Richard Swinburne, Oxford University Press chapters 1-3, 8-10
  • Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness, Thomas Nagel. This essay is available online (pdf), and in Nagel's collection titled Mortal Questions, Cambridge University Press
  • Recent Work on Freewill and Science, Alfred R. Mele, American Philosophical Quarterly, April 2008
  • Interview with Science and Religion News (2006) on Mind-body Dualism

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