The Meaning of Mourning Book Launch Panel Discussion
A book launch for The Meaning of Mourning: Perspectives on Death, Loss and Grief, edited by HPP organiser Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode took...
Edward Kanterian, "Medieval Communism"
Abstract: Communism, so the usual story goes, was an invention of the 19th century, conceived as a response to the recent rise of...
Ralph Weir, "In Defence of the Soul"
Ralph Weir asks what a culturally and scientifically informed person should think about the idea of the soul. He discusses a number of...
Richard Swinburne "Varieties of Libertarian Free Will"
Abstract: An agent has libertarian free will, iff they are not caused necessarily to form an intention (that is, to try) to do one action...
Martin Pickup, "Where is God? Divine Presence and Location"
The question ‘where is God?’ is one asked by philosophers, theologians and four-year-olds alike. Within Christian traditions (among...
Jean-Pierre Lasota, "The End of Physics as We Knew It"
Contemporary fundamental physics is in crisis. On the one hand, astronomical observations show that we don't know what 96% of the...
David Oderberg, "Recovering the Hierarchy of Being"
On 26 February 2020, DAVID ODERBERG (University of Reading) delivered a talk entitled “Recovering the Hierarchy of Being” for the HPP/Ian...
Christine H. Legare, "Evolution and Ontogeny of Ritual"
Convergent developments across social scientific disciplines provide evidence that ritual is a psychologically prepared, culturally...
Marija Selak, "Contemporary Manifestations of Evil and Attempts at Their Justification"
In this lecture I point out the “unwanted fruit” of the de-substantialisation of evil. Incorporating evil within good itself has enabled...
Simon May, "What is Love?"
I briefly trace the origin of our prevailing Western conceptions of love and argue that they constitute the last genuinely universal...
