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Rev. Dr Andrew Pinsent

BA PhB STB PhL MA PhD DPhil

The Rev. Dr Andrew Pinsent is Research Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at Oxford University, and a Catholic Priest of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton in England. At Oxford since 2009, he has been a member of the Theology Faculty, a Research Fellow of Harris Manchester College, and a Principal Investigator for more than $6M of research grants involving scholars in more than a dozen countries.

Formerly a particle physicist on the DELPHI experiment at CERN, Dr Pinsent has degrees in philosophy and theology and a second doctorate in philosophy. A major theme of his research is second-person (I-you) relatedness in science, philosophy, and theology, incorporating insights from autism and social cognition to ‘second-person’ accounts of moral perception and character formation. His printed work covers a number of areas including virtue ethics, neuro-theology, science and religion, the philosophy of the person, insight, divine action, and the nature of evil, and he is author or co-author of over thirty publications.

Sincerest Thanks for Your Support

Staff are grateful to all those who sustained the Centre in the past by their prayers and the generous financial support from trusts, organisations, communities and especially from individual donors, including the core funding that came through the Day for Life fund and so from the generosity of many thousands of parishioners. We would finally like to acknowledge the support the Centre has received from the Catholic community in Ireland, especially during the pandemic when second collections were not possible.

We would like to emphasise that, though the Centre is now closed, these donations have not been wasted but have helped educate and support generations of conscientious healthcare professionals, clerics, and lay people over almost 50 years. This support has also helped prevent repeated attempts to legalise euthanasia or assisted suicide in Britain and Ireland from 1993 till the end of the Centre’s work on 31 July 2025.