Roger Trigg
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I retired as Professor of Philosophy at the end of September 2007, and am now an Emeritus Professor of the University. I am continuing to work on major projects, but am now based at St. Cross College, Oxford, and am now working closely with the Ian Ramsey Centre in the University of Oxford. In particuler, I am Co-Principal Invewstigator on a research programme funded for three years from October 2007, by the John Templeton Foundation. I am working with the Oxford Centre for Anthropology and Mind, part of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology. The title of the project is 'Empirical Expansion in Cognitive Science of Religion and Theology'. My last book - 'Religion in Public life:' Must Religion Be Privatized?' - dealt with the issue of the public recognition of religion in a pluralist society. For further details see http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199279807. It has roused considerable public interest, and a successful conference on the subject, and based on the book, (entitled 'The Atlantic Conversation on Religion on Public Life') was held in St. George's House, Windsor Castle at the end of June 2007. It was attended by senior academics and opinion formers in politics and elsewhere, from the United States and the Netherlands, as well as the United Kingdom. I now am in tne process of writing a sequel on the burning (and connected) issue of 'Religious Freedom'. This research is also being funded by the Templeton Foundation. I also have a particular interest in the relationship between science and religion, and am joint editor of the Ashgate series of monographs in the subject. I am a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey, where I spent a semester in 2002. I was the Founding President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion (1993-6), and was also President of the Mind Association (1997-8). In 2000 I chaired the Benchmarking Group in Philosophy on behalf of the Quality Assurance Agency. This set standards for British undergraduate degrees in Philosophy. From 1997 to 2003 I chaired the National Committee for Philosophy and in 2003-4 became the first Chair of its successor, the British Philosophical Association, founded to represent all British Philosophy. This was inaugurated at the Houses of Parliament in London in October 2003. Online Lecture
Selected Publications
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