St. Patrick’s Seminary · 2026 Fall Lecture Series
Conor Cunningham, PhD · Tuesday, November 10, 2026 · 5:15 pm
St. Patrick’s Seminary’s Fall Lecture Series presents Conor Cunningham, PhD, of the University of Nottingham, in Sancta Maria Hall. Advance registration is encouraged.
About the Speaker
Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy · Director of The Centre of Theology and Philosophy, University of Nottingham
Conor Cunningham, PhD (Cambridge) is Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, where he is also the Director of The Centre of Theology and Philosophy. He is the author of Genealogy of Nihilism: Philosophies of Nothing and the Difference of Theology, Darwin’s Pious Idea, and the forthcoming True Reduction: Science, Metaphysics, and Theology.
In addition to his published work, which has been translated into several languages, he wrote and narrated the multi-award-winning BBC documentary Did Darwin Kill God? and is in high demand as a speaker and lecturer in the UK and elsewhere.
Reductionism Lost, Reduction Regained: Science, Theology and Metaphysics
Drawing on exciting developments in cutting-edge physics, Conor Cunningham challenges the reductionist logic animating the search for a single sovereign Theory of Everything. Professor Cunningham shows how reductionism handicaps science and forces nature into an ideological straitjacket. In so doing, he lays the foundation for a new understanding of reduction—not as a dissolution of wholes into parts, but as a recovery of wholes and parts together.
Date & Time
5:15 pm
Location
St. Patrick’s Seminary
320 Middlefield Road
Menlo Park, California
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St. Patrick’s Seminary
320 Middlefield Road · Menlo Park, California
