[asa] Call for Papers: God, Nature and Design - Oxford, July 10-13 2008

GOD, NATURE AND DESIGN
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
July 10th - 13th 2008.
St Anne's College, Oxford

CALL FOR PAPERS (further details):
Participants are invited to contribute a short paper, lasting no more than
20 minutes, to be read during this conference. A half-hour slot will be
allocated to the chosen papers, with 10 minutes for questions. Acceptance is
at the discretion of the organising committee.

Papers should be broadly relevant to the conference theme, God, Nature and
Design: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Possible topics include:

  a.. the argument from design in its historical or contemporary forms
  b.. divine activity in nature
  c.. debates about intelligent design
  d.. fine-tuning arguments
  e.. the implications of evolutionary thought for theistic interpretations
of nature
An abstract of no more than 250 words (excluding title, names and keywords)
should be submitted to the Ian Ramsey Centre (clicking on this link will
open an email window to ian-ramsey-centre@theology.ox.ac.uk). Abstracts,
which must be received before the deadline of Friday, March 14th, should
give
1) the name, academic position and affiliation of the author(s) and
2) the title.

Decisions about acceptance of papers will be made by April 7th 2008.
(Please note that papers can only be accepted from those who attend the
conference in person.)
Vist our Call for Papers page (clicking on these links will lead directly
to the relevant page).

SPEAKERS

John Hedley Brooke

Ron Numbers

Michael Ruse

Holmes Rolston III

Stephen Snobelen

Richard Swinburne

Information about the speakers is on our Conference 2008 Speakers page.

BOOKING

Details are on our Booking page, and secure online credit card bookings can
be made from there (click here to go directly to the Online Booking page).
If you have any queries about matters to do with booking, please contact us.
Early booking discounts apply before May 30th.

QUERIES

should be addressed to

1) The Conference Director, Professor Peter Harrison (Andreos Idreos
Professor of Science and Religion and Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre) or
to

2) The Co-Director, Dr Mike Parsons. (Clicking on these liknks will open an
email window.)

FUTHER DETAILS

are on our Conference page. (NB:Our main website is at
http://www.ianramseycentre.org/)

With good wishes
 
Cynthia Hall

Administrator

Ian Ramsey Centre,
11 Bevington Road
Oxford OX2 6NB, U.K.

Tel: +44 (0) 1865 274548
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 274717
Email: ian-ramsey-centre@theology.ox.ac.uk

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Received on Wed Feb 6 11:45:03 2008