Fiona Ellis, “God, Value, and Nature”, Christian Ethics Graduate Research Seminar
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.
Date: 18 October 2017, 16:00 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2017)
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details: South West Lodgings
Speaker: Fiona Ellis
Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion
Organiser: Professor Nigel Biggar
Organiser contact email address: Nigel.biggar@chch.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Christian Ethics Graduate Research Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: Alison Broadby, Richard Parfitt