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.
Research Associate
co429@faraday.cam.ac.uk
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.
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
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)