Biography

Chris Oldfield is a Research Associate at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion in Cambridge, where he works on foundational issues in the logic of scientific metaphysics.

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Selected outputs

Conference Presentations

The Possibility of Pan-Psyche-Ism (forthcoming)
HEAT25: Theological Implications of Life in the Universe, University of Helsinki 9-11 April 2025

Lives Matter for the Metaphysics of Pregnancy
The Metaphysics of Pregnancy and Beyond, King’s College London, 25-27 October 2024

Questions and Doubts as Modes of Holding Propositions
Newman, Wittgenstein and Hinge Epistemology, University College Dublin, 9-10 December 2024

Hylomorphism and the Inverse Special Composition Question
Middle Sized Matters for Science, Theology and Metaphysics, University of Oxford, 1-3 May 2024

Naturalism without Content: where Plantinga’s Conflict Actually Lies
Christian Philosophy Facing Naturalism, Ignatianium, University of Krakow 25-26 September 2024

The Tragedy of Scientism in A Secular Age: MacIntyre, van Fraassen and Taylor
ECSTXX: The Construction of Narrative in Science and Religion, University of Split, 28-31 August 2024

The Attentional Stance: McGilchrist for Dennettians
Artificial and Spiritual Intelligence, International Society for Science and Religion, 20-23 June 2023

Mereology Naturalised? Not Yet
23rd European Conference on the Foundations of Physics, University of Bristol, 8 July 2023

The Attentional Stance: McGilchrist for Dennettians
Spiritual and Artificial Intelligences, International Society for Science and Religion, 20-23 June 2023

When Are Fosters Parts?
History of the Philosophy of Pregnancy, University of Dayton. online 6-8 October 2023

Invited Talks

Newman, Plantinga and Darwin’s Doubt (forthcoming, title TBC)
Our Irrational Past, Institute of Advanced Study University of Warwick, 13 March 2025

Categorical Dualism
Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford, 20 November 2024

The Activity View of Physicalism
Serious Metaphysics Group, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, 6 November 2024

What Counts as A Life in the Science of Life?
Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe, University of Cambridge, 9 May 2024

Mereology Naturalised? Not Yet
Serious Metaphysics Group, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, 25 January 2024

The Metaphysics of Pregnancy: Dispatches from the B.U.M.P. Debates
Program for Medicine, Spirituality and Religion (+podcast recording) Yale University, 17 January 2024

The Priority of Parthood
Grounding and Metaphysical Explanation Group, University of Southampton, 29 March 2023

November 2022: Naturalism Content: where Plantinga’s Conflict Actually Lies
The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, Research Seminar (online)