Ian Ramsey Centre
Teaching Staff

Dr Ignacio Silva, Research Fellow
PhP Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Profesor de Filosofía (Philosophy), 2001
PhL Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Licenciado en Filosofía (Philosophy), 2002
MSt University of Oxford (Science and Religion), Distinction, 2005
DPhil University of Oxford (Theology), 2010
Research Interests:
- Philosophy and theology of Thomas Aquinas
- Philosophy of religion
- Divine action
- Science and religion
Select Publications:
- Latin American Perspectives on Science and Religion, ed. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2014)
- “Revisiting Aquinas on Providence and Rising to the Challenge of Divine Action in Nature”, The Journal of Religion 94:3 (2014)
- “Great Minds Think (Almost) Alike. Thomas Aquinas and Alvin Plantinga on Divine Action in Nature”, Philosophia Reformata 79 (2014)
- “Indeterminismo y Providencia Divina”, Anuario Filosófico 46:2 (2013)
- “Werner Heisenberg and Thomas Aquinas on Natural Indeterminism”, New Blackfriars 94 (2013)
- “John Polkinghorne on Divine Action: a Coherent Theological Evolution”, Science and Christian Belief 24:1 (2012)
- “Thomas Aquinas Holds Fast: Objections to Aquinas within Today’s Debate on Divine Action”, The Heythrop Journal 54:4 (2011)
- “Science and Religion in Latin America”, Zygon (forthcoming, 2015)
- “Thomas Aquinas on Natural Contingency and Providence”, in Karl Giberson (ed.), Abraham’s Dice: Chance and Providence in the Monotheistic Traditions, Oxford University Press (forthcoming, 2015)
- “Contingency, the Mark of a Perfect Universe. Aquinas on Creation, Perfection and Contingency”, Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences (forthcoming, 2015)
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“Divine Action and Thomism - Views from the Past Twenty Years in the English-Speaking Academia”, Acta Philosophica 23:1 (forthcoming, 2016)
Other details:
- Co-director of the project “Science, Philosophy and Theology: Capability Building in Latin America”
- Co-editor of the book series “International Perspectives on Science, Culture and Society”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers
- Member of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR)
- Research Fellow of Harris Manchester College (Oxford)
- Member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion