The Conference

Each year we arrange a day conference with visiting University academics as our speakers. This is held on site for all of our AS and A2 Philosophy and Religious studies students and is preferred to the option of taking the students off site to an outside venue. This arrangement allows us to chose the topics covered to ensure that they are the most useful for the neeeds of our students and fully relevant to the syllabus options. There is no cost to the students.

CONFERENCE 2005

Speakers: Dr Michael Lacewing - Heythrop College ( London University) and Dr Stephen Law - Heythrop College.

Lectures: 'Descartes' Ontological Argument for the Existence of God' and 'Hume on Miracles'

CONFERENCE 2006

Speakers: Dr Michael Lacewing - Heythrop College and Geoff Willis, formerly of Pembroke College, Oxford.

Lectures: 'Hume the Sceptic'; 'Plato and Hume on Human Understanding'; 'The Synoptic Essay'; 'Descartes' Dualism'; and 'Religious Experience and Religious Authority'.