• MPhil, Philosophy
  King’s College London 2025
  
  PhD thesis: The Logic of the Special Composition Question(s)
  Supervised by Matthew Soteriou, Matthew Parrott; Bill Brewer;
  Lower Degree awarded (after UCU marking boycott and appeal)
  
  

• MSci, Physics and Philosophy
  University of Bristol, 2005
  
  MSci thesis: The Status of Spacetime in Quantum Gravity
  Supervised by James Ladyman; awarded with Distinction

• 2025-26 Supervisor
  Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge

• 2024-25 Visiting Lecturer (Metaphysics)
  Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Hertfordshire

• 2021-24 Research Associate
  The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, University of Cambridge

• 2023-25 Teaching Assistant
  Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London

• 2022 Visiting Lecturer (Philosophy, Science and Religion)
  Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford

• 2016-17 Teaching Assistant
  Department of Psychology, King’s College London

• 2015-17 Teaching Assistant
  Department of Philosophy, King’s College London

• 2016-19 Adjunct Professor (Philosophical Ethics)
  London Center, Fordham University

• 2011-16 Adjunct Professor (Science and Faith)
  Veritas International Study Abroad, Roehampton University (2011-2016)

Areas of Specialisation

• Interpretations of Physicalism, Mereological Pluralism, The Metaphysics of Constructive Empiricism

Areas of Competence

• Scientific Metaphysics, Ontology, Mereology, Philosophy of Mind, History of Ethics, Science and Religion

Edited Collections

• 2025 Why Middle Sized Matters for Science and Religion
  Scientia et Fides: Special Issue, edited by Christopher Oldfield and William Simpson

Book Chapters

• 2026 Myth-understanding Scientific Agency: the Tragedy of Scientism in a Secular Age,
  Issues in Science and Theology: Constructions of Narrative in Science and Religion, edited by Louise Hickman, Michael Fuller Harris and Joanna Leidenhag, Springer Nature (forthcoming)

Unpublished Dissertations

• 2023 The Logic of the Special Composition Question(s)
  PhD thesis, supervised by Matthew Soteriou at King’s College London

• 2021 The Logic of the Special Composition Question: An Essay on Being Misunderstood
  PhD thesis, supervised by Matthew Soteriou at King’s College London

• 2015 The Role of Intuitions in Naturalistic Responses to Hempel’s Dilemma
  MPhil upgrade, supervised by David Papineau, Jasper Reid and Mark Textor at King’s College London

• 2005 The Status of Spacetime in Canonical Theories of Quantum Gravity (Distinction)
  MSci dissertation supervised by James Ladyman in the University of Bristol 2005

• 2005 New PALS Studies of the Glassy-Rubber Transition in Amorphous Carbohydrates (Distinction)
  MPhys research, supervised by Ashraf Alam in the University of Bristol Condensed Matter Group 2005

Book Reviews

• 2025 God the Science the Evidence by Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnasssies, for Seen and Unseen

• 2024 Natural Philosophy, by Alister McGrath, in Science and Christian Belief 36/1: 147-149

• 2016 Inventing the Universe, by Alister McGrath, in Science and Christian Belief 28/2: 134-135

• 2015 Mind and Cosmos, by Thomas Nagel, in Science and Christian Belief 27/1: 103-104

Awards and Honours

• 2017 Best Graduate Teacher
  Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

• 2017 Honorable Mention for Teaching Excellence
  Department of Philosophy, King’s College London

Grants and Fellowships

• 2023 Bursary for Publication Academy courses on Academic Writing and Grant Writing and Management,
  (£1k) funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation

• 2021 Postdoctoral Research Position at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion
  (£30k salary) funded by the Fetzer Institute’s ‘New Narrative’ initiative (PI: Denis Alexander, retired)

• 2018 Sorabji Scholarship awarded to one student each year for Postgraduate Research in Philosophy
  (£1k) funded by the Department of Philosophy, King’s College London

Invited Talks

• Naturalism without Content: Where Plantinga’s Deep Conflict Actually Lies
  Serious Metaphysics Group, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, 28 January 2026

• Newman, Plantinga and Darwin’s Doubt
  Our “Irrational” Past, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, 13 March 2025

• Categorical Dualism (abstract)
  The Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford, 20 November 2024

• The Activity View of Physicalism
  Serious Metaphysics Group, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, 6 November 2024

• What Counts as a Life in the Science of Life? (audio, slides)
  Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe, University of Cambridge, 17 May 2024

• Mereology Naturalised? Not Yet
  Serious Metaphysics Group, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, 24 January 2024

• The Metaphysics of Pregnancy: Dispatches from the B.U.M.P. Debates (podcast, slides)
  Yale Program for Medicine, Spirituality and Religion, Yale University, 17 January 2024

• The Priority of Parthood (slides, audio)
  Grounding and Metaphysical Explanation, University of Southampton 29 March 2023

• Science, Faith and the Ethics of Belief
  Institute of Physics (Northern Branch), University of Leeds 4 May 2017

• Science, Religion and the Business of Knowledge (video)
  Faraday Institute (short course), Department of Physics, University of Hull, 27 February 2016

Conference Presentations

• Modern Science Yes, Western Science No! Needham’s World and the May 4th Movement
  Lost in Translation, ESSAT conference, University of Leeds, 19-22 August 2026

• The Invalidity of the Kalam Cosmological Argument
  Tyndale Fellowship, Philosophy of Religion Group, June 2026

• The Problem of Evil and the Goodness of God
  Tyndale Fellowship, Philosophy of Religion Study Group 1 July 2015

• Pan-Psyche-Ism
  HEAT25: Exploring the Implications of Life Beyond Earth, University of Helsinki, 9-11 April 2025

• Thinking with Assent while Living with Doubts (handout, audio)
  Newman, Wittgenstein and Hinge Epistemology, University College Dublin, 8-9 December 2024

• When Are Fosters Parts? Lives Matter for the Metaphysics of Pregnancy and Beyond
  The Metaphysics of Pregnancy and Beyond, King’s College London, 25-27 October 2024

• Naturalism without Content: Where Plantinga’s Conflict Actually Lies (abstract)
  Christianity Facing Naturalism Conference, Jesuit University Ignatium, Krakow, 25-26 September 2024

• The Tragedy of Scientism in A Secular Age (abstract)
  20th European Conference for Science and Theology, ESSAT Croatia, 28 August - 1 September 2024

• Hylomorphism and The Inverse Special Composition Question (video, slides)
  Why Middle-Sized Matters for Science, Theology and Metaphysics, University of Oxford, 1-3 May 2024

• When Are Fosters Parts?
  History of the Philosophy of Pregnancy, University of Dayton, 6-8 October 2023

• Mereology Naturalised? Not Yet (slides, audio)
  23rd European Conference for the Foundations of Physics, University of Bristol 8-10 July 2023

• The Attentional Stance: McGilchrist for Dennettians (slides, audio)
  Spiritual and Artificial Intelligence, International Society for Science and Religion, 20-23 June 2023

• Naturalism without Content: Where Plantinga’s Conflict Actually Lies
  Tyndale Fellowship (Philosophy of Religion) Annual Conference, 22-24 July 2022,

• When Are Fosters Parts?
  Better Understanding the Metaphysics of Pregnancy, King’s College London 12-14 July 2021

• The Meaning of Life in Peter van Inwagen’s Metaphysics
  Religion, Society and the Science of Life, Ian Ramsey Centre, St Anne’s College, Oxford 19-22 July 2017

• The Book of Nature and the Language of Mathematics
  The Quest for Consonance: Theology and the Natural Sciences, University of Notre Dame, 2-4 April 2017

• The Strange Place of Biology in the New Atheist Imagination
  Evolution and Historical Explanation, Ian Ramsey Centre, St Anne’s College, Oxford, 8-10 July 2014

Workshop Replies

• On the Prospects for a Scientific and Sacred Ontology (mine was one of 25 invited replies)
  Towards a New Narrative for Spiritual Transformation, Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo MI, 18-21 Sep

• A Real Definition of Token Physicalism: Reply to Alex Kaiserman
  Mind, Metaphysics and Psychology, King’s College London 12 October 2017

• Episodic Memory and Mental Imagery: Reply to Alex Green
  London Warwick Mind Forum, University of Warwick 13 June 2017

• Eliminativism about Categories: Reply to Javier Cumpa (cancelled)
  Mind, Metaphysics and Psychology, King’s College London, 16 May 2016

• Inference in Bayesian Mind-Brain Science: Reply to Scott Sturgeon
  Naturalistic Approaches to Mind, King’s College London, 29 March 2016

Research Seminars

• 2023 Mereology Naturalised? Not Yet (audio, Q+A)
  Department of Philosophy, King’s College London 21 September 2023

• 2022 Naturalism without Content: where Plantinga’s Conflict Actually Lies (online)
  Faraday Institute Research Seminar, University of Cambridge, 1 November 2022

• 2021 When Are Fosters Parts? (Reply to Kingma)
  Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, 12 January 2021

• 2020 Mereology Naturalised? Not Yet (Reply to Waechter and Ladyman)
  Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, 6 October 2020.

• 2018 Schaffer’s Gaps: Can There Be Structure Inside the Ontology Room?
  Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, 16 May 2018

• 2016 Halvorson’s Challenge: Logical Physic(s)alism and the Measurement Problem
  Summer Seminar Series, King’s College London, 22 June 2016

• 2016 Mathematical Physicalism Deserves the Name: Meeting Stoljar’s Challenge
  Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, 18 October 2016

• 2016 All at Sea on Neurath’s Raft: the Spirit of Physicalism as a Matter of Concern
  Faraday Institute Research Seminar, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge 17 May 2016

• 2015 Hempel’s Dilemma for Jackson’s Faith: on Montero’s “Triple Via Negativa"
  Department of Philosophy, King’s College London, 8 July 2015

• 2015 Disenchantment with Intelligent Design and Ideological Darwinism
  Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, 11 June 2015

Lecturer

• Metaphysics
  Department of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire, Spring 2025

• The Limits of Philosophy, Science and Religion (Short course, with Stephen Law)
  Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, October 2022

• Philosophical Ethics (Undergraduate Full semester, Primary Instructor)
  London Faculty, Fordham University (Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2019)

• The New Atheism (Level 6 BA/MA sub-module, Visiting Lecturer)
  St Mellitus College, University of Durham (Spring 2021, 2022, 2023)

• Science, Faith and Evolution (level 6 BA/MA sub-module, Visiting Lecturer)
  St Mellitus College, University of Durham (Spring 2021, 2022, 2023)

• Science and Faith (Undergraduate, Full Semester, Primary Instructor)
  Veritas International Study Abroad, University of Roehampton (Spring 2014, 2015, 2016)

Tutor

• The Lewis-Anscombe Debate (Short course, Tutor)
  Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge (Fall 2022)

• Epistemological Issues: John Polkinghorne’s Critical Realism (sub-module, Tutor)
  Faraday Enrichment Programme in Science and Religion (Fall 2021, Fall 2022)

• Metaphysical Issues: Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity (sub-module, Tutor)
  Faraday Enrichment Programme in Science and Religion (Fall 2021)

• Epistemological Issues: Alternatives to Scientific Realism (sub-module, Tutor)
  Faraday Enrichment Programme in Science and Religion (Fall 2020)

Teaching Assistant

• History of Modern Science (with Jon Agar)
  Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London

• Philosophy of Science (with Rory Jubber)
  Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London

• Science and Religion in a Global Context (with Andrew Gregory)
  University College London (Fall 2023, Fall 2024)

• Philosophy of Physics I: Space and Time (with Eleanor Knox)
  King’s College London (Fall 2016, Spring 2017)

• Philosophy of Religion (with Maria Rosa Antognazza)
  King’s College London (Spring 2017)

• Metaphysics I (with Jessica Leech)
  King’s College London (Spring 2017)

• Philosophy of Psychology I (with Matthew Parrott)
  King’s College London (Fall 2016)

• Philosophy of Mind (with Matthew Parrott)
  King’s College London (Fall 2015)

Teaching Evaluations

From anonymised student and staff teaching evaluations at King’s College London, average score: 4.6/5.0

• “Rigorous, clearly explained technical concepts, always available and responsive to questions.”

• “He’s great, absolutely wonderful. I think I want to take this subject for a Masters”

• “Helpful, informative seminars, Chris went out of his way to help me when I was struggling”

Service to the Profession

I have been an academic referee for submissions to the following international peer reviewed journals

• Dialogoi: Ancient Philosophy Today

• Foundations of Science,

• International Studies in the Philosophy of Science,

• Philosophia Reformata

• Science and Christian Belief

• Topoi

• Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science

Service to the University

• 2025 Supervisor for selected papers in (Part 1A: Ethics, Part 1B: Knowledge, Language and World, Part II: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science), Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge

• 2024 Cordinated (with Boris Gunjevic) and Chaired Panel on Intelligence, Imagination and Illumination: Cambridge Theological Federation/Faculty of Divinity conference, Westminster College, Cambridge

• 2023 Coordinator for Reading Group on The Matter with Things by Iain McGilchrist, Cambridge/Online

• 2018 Coordinator for Annual Summer Seminar Series, Department of Philosophy, King’s College London

• 2018 Coordinator for `Climate Change: Philosophical Ethics and Global Sustainability’, Fordham University

• 2015 Researcher for `Science, Technology and Society’ MA module at St Mellitus College, London

Service to the Public

• 2022 The Limits of Philosophy, Science and Religion (Short course, with Stephen Law)
  Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, 22 October 2022

• 2022 The Selfish Green? (with Mazviita Chirimuuta, Timothy Howles and Hannah Malcolm),
  Panel discussion on the religious roots of the Anthropocene, Greenbelt Festival, 29 August 2022

• 2016 God and the Big Bang, A-Level Philosophy and R.E. day for schools, Bristol Cathedral, 10 March 2016

Service to the Media

• 2018 Consultant for `God and the Big Bang’, R.E. curriculum resource, unit 5: a question of language?’

• 2018 Consultant for `Oxplore: the Big Questions’ on the interpretation of the books of nature and scripture

• 2016 Interviewed for `Sunday Sequence’, BBC Radio Ulster on scientifically literate experience of scripture

Service to the Church

• 2023 Can a Rational Person Believe in Miracles? (1 minute video), UCCF Science Network, Jan 2023

• 2022 Epiphany (article) Christchurch London, 6 Jan 2022

• 2017 The Myth of Conflict (article) Christchurch London, 18 July 2017

• 2016 Who’s Afraid of Naturalism? (article), Pulse 22 (Spring): 22-24

Natural Languages

English (native), French (fluent), Latin (competent), Koine Greek (beginner)

Artificial Languages

HTML (competent), VBA (competent), LaTex (competent), Python (basic)

• 2025-present: Wittgenstein, Newman and Hinge Epistemology Network

• 2025-present: Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology

• 2024-present: European Society for Science and Theology

• 2023-present: British Society for the History of Philosophy

• 2023-present: International Society for Science and Religion

• 2022-present: Trinity College Postdoctoral Society, University of Cambridge

• 2018-present: British Society for the Philosophy of Science

available on request