ANDREW PINSENT is a research fellow of Harris Manchester College, Research Director of the
Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, and a member of the Theology and Religion Faculty
at Oxford University. He was formerly a high energy physicist on the DELPHI experiment at CERN,
has degrees in philosophy and theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University and a
second doctorate, in philosophy, from St Louis University. He is the author of
The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics: Virtues and Gifts
(Routledge, 2012) and a wide range of publications on virtue ethics, neurotheology, science and
religion, the philosophy of the person, divine action, and the nature of evil. His is a regular
contributor to engagement by the public and in the media with science and religion issues.
