This will be publicised shortly - March 2017, Oxford Lit Festival.
Can science answer every question? Is
'scientism' true? Is there not a place for philosophy, or theology, or some
other ‘armchair’ discipline? Are science and religion ‘non-overlapping magisteria’
- with science focused on the age of rocks and religion the rock of ages, each
unqualified to pronounce on the territory of the other? A philosopher and a
scientist explore these questions.
Peter Atkins is Professor Emeritus of
Chemistry at The University of Oxford, and has been called the Fifth Horseman
of Atheism. Peter argues vigorously that science, and science alone, is capable
of answering every legitimate question, and that disciplines such as philosophy
and theology are a waste of time. Peter has said: that religious belief is
'outmoded and ridiculous’ and ‘I regard the teaching of religion as the
purveying of lies’.
Stephen Law is Reader in Philosophy at
Heythrop College, University of London, and the author of many popular
introductions to philosophy including the Philosophy Gym and The Complete
Philosophy Files (for children). He is also the author of OUP’s Very Short
Introduction to Humanism. Stephen has debated a number of Christian thinkers
including Profs William Lane Craig and John Lennox. He defends the role of
armchair inquiry.
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