Conversations in Science and Religion
This series of books is the result of the annual conferences of the Science and Religion Forum – a group of scientists and people with religious (not necessarily Christian) sympathies, who are keen to explore the interface between these two major strands of human thinking. A typical volume contains five or six long essays by invited contributors to the conference, and a rather larger number of shorter papers selected from the contributions offered by conference attendees.
Neil Spurway studied at Cambridge, but has worked in the University of Glasgow ever since, and is now Emeritus Professor of Exercise Physiology. He has chaired Glasgow’s Gifford Lectureships Committee, as well as the present Forum, been President of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow and Vice-President of the European Society for the Study of Science And Theology, and also edited the latter’s journal, ESSSAT News. Alongside considerable scientific writing he initiated the present series and edited three of its previous volumes—most recently Laws of Nature, Laws of God? (2015).
Michael Fuller, the Forum’s Chair, studied chemistry at Oxford and theology at Cambridge. He served as a priest in the dioceses of Oxford and Edinburgh, and for 15 years oversaw ministerial training for the Scottish Episcopal Church. He is a teaching Fellow at New College, Edinburgh, and an Honorary Canon of Edinburgh Cathedral. Alongside many papers he has written or edited seven books and in the science & religion field, three in the present series (most recently The Concept of the Soul, 2014 ).
Louise Hickman studied at Exeter and Cambridge and is now Senior Lecture in Philosophy and Ethics at Newman University in Birmingham. She edits Reviews in Science and Religion, the journal of the Science and Religion Forum, and has edited a previous volume in this series, Chance Or Providence? Religious Perspectives on Divine Action. She has published several articles in the history of philosophy and is currently finishing her monograph Eighteenth Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism, to be published with Routledge.
