IRC Seminar & Lecture, Wednesday, 6th November, 11.00am, 5pm The Revd The Revd Dr Jonathan Jong; ‘What is a (Religious) Belief?'
Wednesday 6th November 11.00-12.30am Seminar in Gibson Building
Wednesday 6th November 5pm-6.30pm Ian Ramsey Lecture, St Anne’s College, Oxford
A seminar & lecture presented by the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion
These talks are free and open to the public.
Abstract: Belief is an important folk psychological concept: we use it all the time in everyday life. It has also been adopted into philosophical and theological theorising, especially in work in religious epistemology. But its place in psychological science is still uncertain and undertheorised. In this talk, I will provide some background to the debates in psychological and cognitive science about belief, pitch a theory of belief, and muse about some implications for philosophy and theology. Full abstract here.
The Revd Dr Jonathan Jong is an experimental psychologist and an Anglican priest. His most recent book is Experimenting with Religion: The New Science of Belief (OUP, 2023). Forthcoming are a two-volume resource on measuring religiosity and spirituality (Springer, 2025; with Peter Hill, Ralph Hood, Kevin Harris), and The Nature of Belief (OUP, 2025; with Eric Schwitzgebel). He is Editor of the Cambridge University Press series, Elements in Psychology of Religion.
