Fr. Andrew Pinsent (born 1966) is Research Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, part of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the
University of Oxford
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. He is also a Research Fellow at
Harris Manchester College
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, Oxford, and a Catholic priest of the diocese of Arundel and Brighton in England.
A physicist by training, Pinsent was involved in the
DELPHI
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project at
CERN
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, and co-authored 31 of the collaboration's publications. A focus of his current research is the application of insights from autism and social cognition to "second-person" accounts of moral perception and character formation.
Education and career
Pinsent has a first-class degree in physics and a D.Phil. in high-energy physics from
Merton College
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, Oxford. He also has three degrees in philosophy and theology from the
Pontifical Gregorian University
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in Rome, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from
Saint Louis University
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.
A member of the United Kingdom
Institute of Physics
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and a tutor of the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham, Pinsent has been interviewed for various media, including the
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, on issues of science and faith. He has also written for the ''
'', who identified him as a prominent young Catholic.
His most recent book is ''The Second-Person Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics: Virtues and Gifts'' (2012). Besides academic publications, he is a co-author of the ''Evangelium'' catechetical course and the ''Credo'', ''Apologia,'' and ''Lumen'' pocket books. Pinsent was a signatory of the 2017 'filial correction' ''
''.