Roger Trigg is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick , Senior Research Fellow at the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford, and a member of the Faculties of Philosophy and of Theology and Religion at Oxford. With Justin Barrett he is Editor of ‘The Roots of Religion: Exploring the Cognitive Science of Religion’ (Routledge 2014), one outcome of a large interdisciplinary research project at Oxford of which he was co-Director.
The Founding President of the British Society for Philosophy of Religion, he was also (2008-10) the President of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion. He is a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion. The author of many books on Philosophy , particularly the Philosophy of Science and the Philosophy of Religion, his latest is Beyond Matter: Why Science Needs Metaphysics (Templeton Press, 2015).