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Is there Purpose in the Universe?

Saturday 16 June 2012

The Loyola Hall, Heythrop College

Programme  
   
10.00 Registration
   
10.30 ‘Cosmic Purpose and the Challenge of Wisdom’s Parable’,
  Dr Andrew Pinsent (Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, Oxford)
   
11.45 Coffee
   
12.15 ‘Synthetic Life and the Irreducibility of Teleology’,
  Professor David Oderberg (University of Reading)
   
1.30 Lunch (Provided)
   
2.30 ‘What is the Point? Is there any Purpose in the Natural World?’
  Dr Gerard Hughes (Centre for Philosophy of Religion, Heythrop College)
   
3.45 Coffee
   
4.15 ‘Why? Creation and Theodicy: Notes on Simone Weil’,
  Professor Anthony O’Hear (University of Buckingham)
   
5.30 Close

Registration   

To register please send your full name in an email to f.ellis@heythrop.ac.uk with 16 June as the header, indicating your fees category (see below). Fees are payable on the day.

U of L faculty/students – no charge
Students - £5
Concession and HAAS - £10
Standard - £20

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