Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature, Routledge, 2021,co-edited with R.C.Surprises in Theoretical Casimir Physics: Quantum Forces in Inhomogeneous Media, Springer, 2014.Hylomorphism, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2023.In 2021, he was awarded the Cardinal Mercier Prize in International Philosophy, jointly awarded by The Institut supérieur de philosophie (ISP) of UCLouvain and the Hoger Instituut Voor Wijsbegeerte (HIW) of KU Leuven.In 2020, he received an international Expanded Reason Award for his work on the metaphysics of quantum mechanics, jointly awarded by Universidad Francisco de Vitoria and The Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation.His research lies at the intersection of philosophy, theology and physics.įor more information, including an up-to-date list of publications, visit Dr Simpson’s Academia page or his personal website. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (2020), and a doctorate in physics from the University of St Andrews (2014). He is also a Visiting Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Durham. Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in metaphysics, philosophy of science, natural theology, philosophical theology, and analytic theology.Ĭhapters 1, 2, and 7 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.William Simpson is the John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Research Associate of the University of Cambridge.
By pushing the current boundaries of neo-Aristotelian metaphysics to recover the traditional notion of substantial forms in physics, reframe the principle of proportionality in biology, and restore the hierarchy of being familiar to ancient philosophy, this book advances a metaphysically unified framework that accommodates both scientific and theological knowledge, enriching the interaction between science, philosophy and theology. The chapters in this volume are collected into three thematic sections: Naturalism and Nature, Mind and Nature, and God and Nature. It features original contributions by some of the best scholars engaging with Aristotelianism in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophical theology.ĭespite the growing interest in Aristotelian approaches to contemporary philosophy of science, few metaphysicians have engaged directly with the question of how a neo-Aristotelian metaphysics of nature might change the landscape for theological discussion concerning theology and naturalism, the place of human beings within nature, or the problem of divine causality. This book explores the relationship between a scientifically updated Aristotelian philosophy of nature and a scientifically engaged theology of nature.
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