Peter Williams
Peter S. Williams is a philosopher with a number of books to his name and a particular expertise in working with students.
Peter loves prog-rock, science fiction and The Muppets!
Experience
Peter is experienced as a speaker in Universities, Colleges, schools and churches, and has participated in debate with a number of atheists, including American Philosopher Professor Michael Martin (cf. 'Head to Head: A Theism Debate') and British secular humanist Peter Hearty of the national secular society (cf. 'Evolution vs. Intelligent Design').
After studying philosophy at Cardiff (BA), Sheffield (MA) and The University of East Anglia (MPhil), Peter worked as a 'Student Assistant' at Holy Trinity Church Leicester for three years, before moving to Southampton to join Damaris, where he is managing editor of The Quest.
Peter is author of 3 books: The Case For God (Monarch, 1999), The Case For Angels (Paternoster, 2002) and I Wish I Could Believe In Meaning: A Response To Nihilism. He has co-authored Back in Time: A thinking fan's guide to Doctor Who and contributed chapters to Damaris' Talking About books and the Matrix Revelations: A thinking fan's guide to the Matrix Trilogy.
In addition to writing for Damaris web-sites (such as CultureWatch.org), Peter has been published by several magazines, journals and websites, including Philosophy Now, The Philosopher's Magazine, Healing & Wholeness, Themelios, Third Way, Christianity & Renewal, www.bethinking.org (the apologetics website of UCCF), CASE, C.S. Lewis Society of California, Quodlibet Online Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy, Leadership University, ISCID and the Intelligent Design website Access Research Network, where he is one of their 'featured authors'.
Speaking topics
Peter is happy to speak (with power point presentations) on a wide range of subjects, but offers the following as particular specialities:
- 'An Introduction to Intelligent Design Theory'
- 'Dawkins’ Fallacies' (Why the emperor of scientism has no clothes)
- 'A Rough Guide to Creation & Evolution' (An overview to help you think through the issues for yourself)
- 'Does God Exist?' (arguments for God's existence)
- 'God & Philosophy' (an overview of the philosophy of religion from the 20th-21st centuries)
- 'Questioning the meaning & purpose of life' (questions about the meaning and purpose of life from theistic and atheistic viewpoints)
- 'Did Jesus stay dead or not?' (evidence for the Resurrection)
- 'Who Was Jesus?' (the deity of Jesus)
- 'Nothing more than blood and bone? Solving the Mind/Body Problem' (dualism and arguments against naturalism)
- 'Apologetics Training Seminars' (seminars for Christians on the theory and practice of apologetics)
- ‘Advice for Christian Academics’ (aimed at Christian postgraduates)
- 'How Should Christians Respond to Contemporary Culture? The Damaris Approach' (evangelism and apologetics in contemporary culture)
- 'Meaningful Monsters: Daleks Through the Decades' (how Daleks tell us the same things about ourselves as the Bible)
- 'Science & Religion in Doctor Who' (dealing with scientism)
Payment details and booking
Peter does not have fixed fees and will negotiate a speaking rate with you. Payments should be made directly to him and VAT is not applicable.
To book Peter, please email him - his address is peter.williams@damaris.org
More information
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