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2026
March 5th
Dr Eric Yang

Theological Modelling as Conceptual Artmaking


February 17th
​Dr Marie-Hélène Gorisse
Knowledge and Re-education of the Soul in Jainism

2025
October 21st
Prof Roger Pouivet

Geach on Sin and Intellectual Confusion

May 20th
Prof Jim Sterba

A Simplier Logical Argument from Evil

May 12th
Prof Robert Audi

Philsophical Reflections on the Love Commandments of Jesus

Mar 13th
Prof Clare Carlisle

The Concept of Religion

Feb 20th
Dr Jonathan Hill
Desire and the Temptation of Christ

2024
Nov 26th
Prof Harriet Baber

Perduring Personites and What Matters in Survival

Nov 14th
Prof Michael Scott

Ineffability and Religious Language 

May 14th
Prof Brian Leftow

God's Aseity 

May 7th
Prof Timothy O'Connor
Loving God and Free Will

February 27th
Prof David Worsley

Subjectivity and the Beatific Vision

February 22nd
​Prof Tasia Scrutton

Psychopathology and Religious Experience: A Both-And Account?

2023
November 7th
Prof Yujin Nagasawa

Evil and the Problem of Impermanence

October 17th
Prof Robert Audi

Faith, Reason, and the Challenge of Naturalism

June 15th
Dr Philip Gof

Christianity and a God of Limited Power

May 11th
Prof John Schellenberg

Christian Hiddenness

February 23rd 
Dr David Leech
The Religious Heart

March 2nd
Prof Charles Taliaferro
The Meaning of Life; The revival of this field in philosophy from the perspective of Christian Platonism

2022
November 29th
Dr Tom Simpson

Faith and Trust
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November 17th
Dr Lydia Schumacher​
Beyond', 'Above' or 'Against' Nature? Early Scholastic Debates on the Status of Miracles

June 20th
Prof Swami Medhananda

The Will to Realize: Swami Vivekanandas's Three-Rung Ladder of Religious Faith

May 12th
Prof Charity Anderson
Problems of Divine Hiddenness

March 7th
Prof Robert Audi
Reframing the problem of evil

March 1st
Prof Robin Le Poidevin
Fictionalism in religion and ethics
2021
December 1st
Prof Samuel Lebens
Rabbinic philosophy and communitarian epistemology

November 16th
Prof Douglas Hedley
How serious is play?

June 15th
Prof Fiona Ellis
Meaning, Desire and God

June 1st
Prof Mark Murphy
Owing God Worship

March 9th
Prof Lara Buchak
Faith and Traditions

February 25th
Dr James Orr
God and the Grounds of Basic Equality
2020
November 24th
Prof Megan Sullivan
God and the Good Life

November 12th
Prof Robert Stern
Can we make ourselves morally better?

March 5th
Prof Robert Audi
Love, Forgiveness, and Powers of the Will

February 11th
Dr Harry Bunting
God and Moral Order
2019

October 29th
Dr Daniel Hill
Does God Intend that Sin Occur?

October 22nd
Prof Richard Swinburne
A Sound Cartesian Argument for the Soul
2018

May 7th
Prof John Schellenberg
Truth-Triggered Religious Commitments

May 1st
Prof Thomas Flint
What God Would Do

February 26th
Dr Max Baker-Hytch
Evolution, Moral Knowledge and God

January 22nd
Prof Harriet Baber
Trinitarianism: Social and Anti-Social
2017

November 13th
Prof Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
Could There Have Been Nothing?

October 24th
Prof Sarah Coakley
Can Mystical Theology Solve the Divine Hiddenness Problem?

May 30th
Prof Timothy Pawl
The Impeccability of Christ

February 14th
Prof Robin LePoidevin
The New Agnosticism
2016

November 7th
Prof Yujin Nagasawa
The Maximal God Thesis and the Modal Ontological Argument

October 31th
Prof John Cottingham
Spirituality Without Religion?

May 12th
Dr Christopher Hughes
Miracles and the 'Consequence Argument' for Compatibilism

May 2nd
Dr Tim Mawson
God and the Meanings of Life

January 26th
Prof Ryan T. Byerley
Commonsense Morality Does Not Require Atheism 
2015

October 26th
Dr Chad Meister
The Problem of Neglect and the Not-Even-Once Principle: On Addressing a Recent Challenge to Theistic Personalism

October 19th
Prof Laura Ekstrom
Suffering and the Value of Free Will
2014

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