• MPhil/Ph.D (ABD), Philosophy, King’s College London 2014-2?

• MSci (First Class), Physics and Philosophy, University of Bristol, 2001-05

• Pg-Cert (Distinction) Christian Apologetics, Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, 2007-08

• Other (EPFC 9/11): Français: Langue Etrangère, Formation Continue Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2006-07

• A-Level (A-grade): Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Sevenoaks School, 2000-01

• Research Associate, Faraday Institute for Science and Religion (2021-2024)

Areas of Specialisation

• Interpretations of Physicalism, Mereological Pluralism, The Metaphysics of Constructive Empiricism

Areas of Competence

• Scientific Metaphysics, Ontology, Mereology, Philosophy of Mind, History of Ethics, Science and Religion

Unpublished Dissertations

• 2023 The Logic of the Special Composition Question(s)
  PhD thesis supervised by Prof. Matthew Soteriou and Prof. Bill Brewer at King’s College London

• 2015 The Role of Intuitions in Naturalistic Responses to Hempel’s Dilemma (upgrade to PhD)
  MPhil upgrade, supervised by Prof. David Papineau and Prof. Mark Textor at King’s College London

• 2005 The Status of Spacetime in Canonical Theories of Quantum Gravity (Distinction)
  MSci dissertation supervised by Prof. James Ladyman in the University of Bristol

• 2005 New PALS Studies of the Glassy-Rubber Transition in Amorphous Carbohydrates (Distinction)
  MPhys research, supervised by Prof. Ashraf Alam in the University of Bristol Condensed Matter Group 2005

Book Reviews

• 2024 Natural Philosophy, by Alister McGrath, in Science and Christian Belief 36/1: 147-149

• 2016 Inventing the Universe, by Alister McGrath, in Science and Christian Belief 28/2: 134-135

• 2015 Mind and Cosmos, by Thomas Nagel, in Science and Christian Belief 27/1: 103-104

Manuscripts in Preparation

• Mereology Naturalised? Not Yet (Under Review, British Journal for Philosophy of Science)

• The Attentional Stance: McGilchrist for Dennettians

• Naturalism without Content: where Plantinga’s Conflict Actually Lies

• The Myth of Classical Extensional Mereology

Awards and Honours

• 2017 Best Graduate Teacher, Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

• 2017 Honorable Mention for Teaching Excellence in the Department of Philosophy, King’s College London

Grants and Fellowships

• 2023 Grant Writing and Management Course, Templeton World Charity Foundation

• 2021 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Topic: the Activity View, Fetzer Institute

• 2018 Sorabji Scholarship, Department of Philosophy, King’s College London

• 2017 Conference Bursary, Center for Theology, Science and Human Flourishing, University of Notre Dame

• 2015 Doctoral Fellowship, Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford

• 2014 Doctoral Bursary, Uses and Abuses of Biology Project, Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Invited Talks

• What Counts as a Life in the Science of Life? (audio, slides)
  Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe, University of Cambridge, 17 May 2024

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

• Mereology Naturalised? Not Yet (audio, Q+A)
  Department of Philosophy, King’s College London 21 September 2023

• The Priority of Parthood (slides, audio)
  Grounding and Metaphysical Explanation, University of Southampton 29 March 2023

• Science, Faith and the Ethics of Belief
  Institute of Physics (Northern Branch), University of Leeds 4 May 2017

• Science, Religion and the Business of Knowledge (video)
  Faraday Institute (short course), Department of Physics, University of Hull, 27 February 2016

Conference Papers

• Naturalism without Content: Where Plantinga’s Conflict Actually Lies (abstract)
  Christianity Facing Naturalism Conference, Jesuit University Ignatium, Krakow, 25-26 September 2024

• The Tragedy of Scientism in A Secular Age (abstract)
  20th European Conferencabstracte for Science and Theology, ESSAT Croatia, 28 August - 1 September 2024

• Hylomorphism and The Inverse Special Composition Question (video, slides)
  Why Middle-Sized Matters for Science, Theology and Metaphysics, University of Oxford, 1-3 May 2024

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

• Mereology Naturalised? Not Yet (slides, audio)
  23rd European Conference for the Foundations of Physics, University of Bristol 8-10 July 2023

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

• Naturalism without Content: Where Plantinga’s Conflict Actually Lies
  Tyndale Fellowship (Philosophy of Religion) Annual Conference, 22-24 July 2022,

• When Are Fosters Parts? Why Formal Choices Matter for the Metaphysics of Pregnancy
  Better Understanding the Metaphysics of Pregnancy, King’s College London 12-14 July 2021

• The Meaning of Life in Peter van Inwagen’s Metaphysics
  Religion, Society and the Science of Life, Ian Ramsey Centre, St Anne’s College, Oxford 19-22 July 2017

• The Book of Nature and the Language of Mathematics
  The Quest for Consonance: Theology and the Natural Sciences, University of Notre Dame, 2-4 April 2017

• The Strange Place of Biology in the New Atheist Imagination
  Evolution and Historical Explanation, Ian Ramsey Centre, St Anne’s College, Oxford, 8-10 July 2014

Workshop Replies

• On the Prospects for a Scientific and Sacred Ontology (mine was one of 25 invited replies)
  Towards a New Narrative for Spiritual Transformation, Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo MI, 18-21 Sep

• A Real Definition of Token Physicalism: Reply to Alex Kaiserman
  Mind, Metaphysics and Psychology, King’s College London 12 October 2017

• Episodic Memory and Mental Imagery: Reply to Alex Green
  London Warwick Mind Forum, University of Warwick 13 June 2017

• Eliminativism about Categories: Reply to Javier Cumpa (cancelled)
  Mind, Metaphysics and Psychology, King’s College London, 16 May 2016

• Inference in Bayesian Mind-Brain Science: Reply to Scott Sturgeon
  Naturalistic Approaches to Mind, King’s College London, 29 March 2016

Research Seminars

• 2022 Naturalism without Content: where Plantinga’s Conflict Actually Lies (online)
  Faraday Institute Research Seminar, University of Cambridge, 1 November 2022

• 2021 When Are Fosters Parts? (Reply to Kingma)
  Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, 12 January 2021

• 2020 Mereology Naturalised? Not Yet (Reply to Waechter and Ladyman)
  Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, 6 October 2020.

• 2018 Schaffer’s Gaps: Can There Be Structure Inside the Ontology Room?
  Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, 16 May 2018

• 2016 Halvorson’s Challenge: Logical Physic(s)alism and the Measurement Problem
  Summer Seminar Series, King’s College London, 22 June 2016

• 2016 Mathematical Physicalism Deserves the Name: Meeting Stoljar’s Challenge
  Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, 18 October 2016

• 2016 All at Sea on Neurath’s Raft: the Spirit of Physicalism as a Matter of Concern
  Faraday Institute Research Seminar, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge 17 May 2016

• 2015 Hempel’s Dilemma for Jackson’s Faith: on Montero’s “Triple Via Negativa"
  Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, 8 July 2015

• 2015 Disenchantment with Intelligent Design and Ideological Darwinism
  Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, 11 June 2015

Lecturer

• The Limits of Philosophy, Science and Religion (Short course, with Stephen Law)
  Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, October 2022

• Philosophical Ethics (Undergraduate Full semester, Primary Instructor)
  London Faculty, Fordham University (Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2019)

• The New Atheism (Level 6 BA/MA sub-module, Visiting Lecturer)
  St Mellitus College, University of Durham (Spring 2021, 2022, 2023)

• Science, Faith and Evolution (level 6 BA/MA sub-module, Visiting Lecturer)
  St Mellitus College, University of Durham (Spring 2021, 2022, 2023)

• Science and Faith (Undergraduate, Full Semester, Primary Instructor)
  Veritas International Study Abroad, University of Roehampton (Spring 2014, 2015, 2016)

Tutor

• The Lewis-Anscombe Debate (Short course, Tutor)
  Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge (Fall 2022)

• Epistemological Issues: John Polkinghorne’s Critical Realism (sub-module, Tutor)
  Faraday Enrichment Programme in Science and Religion (Fall 2021, Fall 2022)

• Metaphysical Issues: Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity (sub-module, Tutor)
  Faraday Enrichment Programme in Science and Religion (Fall 2021)

• Epistemological Issues: Alternatives to Scientific Realism (sub-module, Tutor)
  Faraday Enrichment Programme in Science and Religion (Fall 2020)

Teaching Assistant

• Philosophy of Physics I: Space and Time (with Eleanor Knox), King’s College London (Fall 2016, Spring 2017)

• Philosophy of Religion (with Maria Rosa Antognazza), King’s College London (Spring 2017)

• Metaphysics I (with Jessica Leech), King’s College London (Spring 2017)

• Philosophy of Psychology I (with Matthew Parrott), King’s College London (Fall 2016)

• Philosophy of Mind (with Matthew Parrott), King’s College London (Fall 2015)

Teaching Evaluations

From anonymised student and staff teaching evaluations at King’s College London, average score: 4.6/5.0

• “Rigorous, clearly explained technical concepts, always available and responsive to questions.”

• “He’s great, absolutely wonderful. I think I want to take this subject for a Masters”

• “Helpful, informative seminars, Chris went out of his way to help me when I was struggling”

Service to the Profession

I have been an academic referee for submissions to the following international peer reviewed journals

• Dialogue: Ancient Philosophy Today

• Foundations of Science,

• International Studies in the Philosophy of Science,

• Science and Christian Belief

• Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science

Service to the University

• 2024 Cordinated (with Boris Gunjevic) and Chaired Panel on Intelligence, Imagination and Illumination: Cambridge Theological Federation/Faculty of Divinity conference, Westminster College, Cambridge

• 2023 Coordinator for Reading Group on The Matter with Things by Iain McGilchrist, Cambridge/Online

• 2018 Coordinator for Annual Summer Seminar Series, Department of Philosophy, King’s College London

• 2018 Coordinator for `Climate Change: Philosophical Ethics and Global Sustainability’, Fordham University

• 2015 Researcher for `Science, Technology and Society’ MA module at St Mellitus College, London

Service to the Public

• 2022 The Limits of Philosophy, Science and Religion (Short course, with Stephen Law)
  Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, 22 October 2022

• 2022 The Selfish Green? (with Mazviita Chirimuuta, Timothy Howles and Hannah Malcolm),
  Panel discussion on the religious roots of the Anthropocene, Greenbelt Festival, 29 August 2022

• 2016 God and the Big Bang, A-Level Philosophy and R.E. day for schools, Bristol Cathedral, 10 March 2016

Service to the Media

• 2018 Consultant for `God and the Big Bang’, R.E. curriculum resource, unit 5: a question of language?’

• 2018 Consultant for `Oxplore: the Big Questions’ on the interpretation of the books of nature and scripture

• 2016 Interviewed for `Sunday Sequence’, BBC Radio Ulster on scientifically literate experience of scripture

Service to the Church

• 2023 Can a Rational Person Believe in Miracles? (1 minute video), UCCF Science Network, Jan 2023

• 2022 Epiphany (article) Christchurch London, 6 Jan 2022

• 2017 The Myth of Conflict (article) Christchurch London, 18 July 2017

• 2016 Who’s Afraid of Naturalism? (article), Pulse 22 (Spring): 22-24

Natural Languages

English (native), French (fluent), Latin (competent), Koine Greek (beginner)

Artificial Languages

HTML (competent), VBA (competent), LaTex (competent), Python (basic)

• 2024-present: European Society for Science and Theology

• 2023-present: British Society for the History of Philosophy

• 2023-present: International Society for Science and Religion

• 2022-present: Trinity College Postdoctoral Society, University of Cambridge

• 2018-present: British Society for the Philosophy of Science

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