Reflections of an Information Scientist on the Science versus Religion debate with with Professor Alan Gillies, Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR

Reflections of an Information Scientist on the Science versus Religion debate with with Professor Alan Gillies

Date: 3 October 2012 Time: 2.00-4.00 pm

Venue: Cavendish Colloquium, Faraday Building

This guest lecture will explore the debate between Science and Religion from the perspective of an information scientist. Professor Gillies will argue that there is a lack of dialogue in much of the current debate which is highly polarised.

He will seek to clarify the scope and nature of the problem and use reflections from an information science career drawing on arguments from artificial

intelligence, mathematical modelling and information systems theories to construct a more effective framework for debate. It draws on work carried out within a

programme of study which included a short research fellowship at Harris

Manchester College Oxford and culminated in the publication of Theological

Reflections of An Information Scientist.

This talk is free and open to all

Alan Gillies was Professor of Information Management at the University of Central Lancashire from 1994 to 2010.

He graduated from The Queen's College, Oxford in 1984 in Chemistry. His PhD, probably the first to be awarded by the University of Central Lancashire after gaining its charter in 1992, was in problem solving methodology using knowledge based systems and formed the basis of his first book. He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford (1993-98, 2009) UMF Cluj, Romania (2001-) and RMIT, Melbourne (2001) and published over 100 articles and books.

In 2010, he left his full time academic position to join the Hope Street Centre as Director of Informatics, but retains an

honorary chair at UCLAN, and acts as an advisor to the

Cybersecurity MSc here at Lancaster.

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Who can attend: Anyone


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News and Events Forthcoming Events Latest News Events Archive News Archive	Reflections of an Information Scientist on the Science versus Religion debate with with Professor Alan Gillies Date: 3 October 2012 Time: 2.00-4.00 pm Venue: Cavendish Colloquium, Faraday Building This guest lecture will explore the debate between Science and Religion from the perspective of an information scientist. Professor Gillies will argue that there is a lack of dialogue in much of the current debate which is highly polarised. He will seek to clarify the scope and nature of the problem and use reflections from an information science career drawing on arguments from artificial intelligence, mathematical modelling and information systems theories to construct a more effective framework for debate. It draws on work carried out within a programme of study which included a short research fellowship at Harris Manchester College Oxford and culminated in the publication of Theological Reflections of An Information Scientist. More information is available at www.ageofunreason.co.uk. This talk is free and open to all Alan Gillies was Professor of Information Management at the University of Central Lancashire from 1994 to 2010. He graduated from The Queen's College, Oxford in 1984 in Chemistry. His PhD, probably the first to be awarded by the University of Central Lancashire after gaining its charter in 1992, was in problem solving methodology using knowledge based systems and formed the basis of his first book. He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford (1993-98, 2009) UMF Cluj, Romania (2001-) and RMIT, Melbourne (2001) and published over 100 articles and books. In 2010, he left his full time academic position to join the Hope Street Centre as Director of Informatics, but retains an honorary chair at UCLAN, and acts as an advisor to the Cybersecurity MSc here at Lancaster. Contact: Who can attend: Anyone Further information Organising departments and research centres: Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR «Back	Faculty News & Events Find out about news and events in other departments: All FASS Events All FASS News
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