2nd Week: Wednesday 18 October
Fiona Ellis
“God, Value, and Nature”
Dr Fiona Ellis is Professor of Philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London, and Director of the Centre for Philosophy of Religion. From 2018 she will be Professor of Philosophy at the University of Roehampton. Her most recent book is God, Value, and Nature (OUP 2014), and she has published on a variety of subjects including the philosophy of love and desire, the meaning of life, and the dismounting of seesaws. Her edited collection of essays – New Models of Religious Understanding – is to be published by OUP in December 2017. She has just finished co-directing a project on Religious Experience and Desire for which she had a research fellowship at the University of Notre Dame, and is currently working on a project on supernaturalism and naturalism in collaboration with Professor Mario De Caro of the University of Roma Tre.