Much of the impetus for the worldview of naturalism comes from the apparent success of science in progressively edging out teleological explanations and replacing them with explanations that are framed exclusively in terms of physical mechanisms and forces. But what happens when naturalism attempts to take the final step in its journey, and explain consciousness and reason — which are the very conditions of our being able to do science — in purely physicalist terms? In this talk, we examine the ways in which consciousness and reason pose a fundamental challenge to naturalism, resisting its attempts to fit them into its categories.

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Max Baker-Hytch received his PhD in Philosophy from Oxford University in 2014 and subsequently held two postdoctoral research fellowships, one at Oxford (2014-15) and one at the University of Notre Dame (2015-16). Since 2016, he has been Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University and a member of the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University. Max is also a speaker affiliated with The Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. He has published scholarly articles on various topics at the intersection of analytic philosophy of religion and epistemology. He is currently working on an academic book on divine hiddenness.

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