CV — Semiotics, theology, mind and life

Curriculum Vitae

Andrew John Nottage Robinson b.1964

Academic Qualifications

BSc 1st Class Honours (Physiology) 1985 University of Bristol

MB ChB 1988 University of Bristol

PhD (Theology) 2003 University of Exeter

Professional Qualifications and Honours

Membership of Royal College of Physicians (MRCP UK) 1991

Membership of Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP) 1993

Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR)

Appointments

General Medical Practitioner (1994-2019)

Appointments at the University of Exeter:

Honorary University Fellow in Theology (2003-2018)

Research Fellow in Theology (2018-2020)

Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Classics, Ancient History, Religion and Theology (2020 - )

Grants

Co-principal Investigator (with Dr Christopher Southgate) on CTNS-STARS project “Information and the Origin of Life”. See www.ctnsstars.org.

2007: $20,000 planning grant

2008: $100,000 full project grant

2009-2010: $200,000 renewal grant (with Terrence Deacon, Niles Lehman and Bruce Weber as co-investigators).

2018-2020: 3 year grant from the John Templeton Foundation (JTF 60882) for project entitled “Cooperation and Interpretation in the Emergence of Life”, with Christopher Southgate (PI), Niles Lehman and Sara Walker (total grant £316, 000).

Books

Andrew Robinson, Traces of the Trinity: Signs, Sacraments and Sharing God’s Life, Cambridge: James Clark & Co (2014). http://www.jamesclarke.co/product_info.php/products_id/2081

Andrew Robinson, God and the World of Signs: Trinity, Evolution and the Metaphysical Semiotics of C.S. Peirce, Leiden: Brill (2010). http://www.brill.nl/god-and-world-signs

Andrew Robinson (ed.) Darwinism and Natural Theology: Evolving Perspectives. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2012).

Recent Articles

Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate, ‘Constraint-evading surrogacy: The missing piece in Radical Embodied Cognition’s non-representationalist account of intentionality?’, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (2022) 21:813–834.

Andrew Robinson, ‘New observations on the formal coherence of Griesbach’s solution to the synoptic problem’. Accepted fpr publication in Revue Biblique. Forthcoming.

Other scientific, philosophical and theological publications

Andrew Robinson. ‘On the origin of symbols: archaeology, semiotics, and self-transcendence’. In: Celia Deane-Drummond and Agustin Fuentes (eds), Theology and Evolutionary Anthropology: Dialogues in Wisdom, Humility and Grace. London and New York: Routledge (2020).

Andrew Robinson. Can the cognitive basis of the apprehension of transcendence be mapped to cerebral structure and function? Religion, Brain and Behaviour 2017 (Volume 7, Issue 4). pp. 313-315

Andrew Robinson. Representation and Interpretation as the Basis of Participation in the Trinity. Religions 2015, 6(3), 1017-1032.

(Open Access in a special issue of Religions: New Horizons in the Philosophy of Religion http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/6/3/1017).

Andrew Robinson. Chance and the Emergence of Purpose: A Peircean Perspective. Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences 2015 (2), 194-215.

Niles Lehman, Tess Bernhard, Brian C Larson, Andrew JN Robinson and Christopher CB Southgate. ‘Empirical demonstration of environmental sensing in catalytic RNA: evolution of interpretive behavior at the origins of life’. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:248. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/14/248

Andrew Robinson, “Semiotics”, in A. Runehov and L. Oviedo (eds.), Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions, Springer 2013, pp. 2136-2141.

Robinson, A. and Southgate, C., 'A General Definition of Interpretation and its Application to Origin of Life Research'. Biology and Philosophy. Volume 25, number 2, March 2010, pp. 163-181.  http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10539-009-9188-4

Christopher Southgate and Andrew Robinson, 'Interpretation and the Origin of Life'. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. Volume 45, No. 2, June 2010, pp. 345-360. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01085.x/abstract

Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate in Conversation with Terrence Deacon, 'Discussion of the Conceptual Basis of Semiotics'. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. Volume 45, No. 2, June 2010, pp. 409-418. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01089.x/abstract

Leong Ting Lui, Z. Ron Yang, Andrew J.N. Robinson, Christopher C.B. Southgate, 'Interpretation and the Origin of Life', Biological Theory, Spring 2010, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 112-116. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/BIOT_a_00027

Other theological publications

Andrew Robinson, “God’s Quality and Creation’s Longing”. In A. Runehov and C. Taliaferro (eds.), Understanding Darwin and Darwinian Understanding, Copenhagen University Discussions in Science and Religion, Volume 2 (2013), pp. 61-68.

Andrew Robinson, Michael Robert Negus and Christopher Southgate (2011) Theology and evolutionary biology. In Southgate (ed.) God, Humanity and the Cosmos (3rd edition, revised and updated), T&T Clark: London, pp. 162-203.

Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate, "Incarnation and Semiotics: A Theological and Anthropological Hypothesis. Part 1: Incarnation and Peirce's Taxonomy of Signs," Theology and Science Vol. 8, No. 3 (2010): 265-282. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a926291767~frm=abslink

Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate, "Incarnation and Semiotics: A Theological and Anthropological Hypothesis. Part 2: Semiotics, Anthropology, and Religious Transformation," Theology and Science Vol. 8, No. 3 (2010): 283-302. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a926290956~frm=abslink

Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate, 'Introduction: Toward a Metaphysic of Meaning'. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, Volume 45 (June 2010), No. 2, pp. 339-344. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01084.x/abstract

Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate, "Semiotics as a Metaphysical Framework for Christian Theology," Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science Vol. 45, No. 3 (September 2010): 689-712

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01122.x/abstract

Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate, 'Broken Symbols?: A Response to F. LeRon Shults, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science Vol. 46, No. 3, September 2010, pp. 733-738.  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01124.x/abstract

Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate, "Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life," in John MacDonald Smith and John Quenby, eds., Intelligent Faith: A Celebration of 150 Years of Darwinian Evolution, Winchester: O Books (2009).

Christopher Southgate and Andrew Robinson, 2007, ‘Varieties of Theodicy: An Exploration of Responses to the Problem of Evil based on a Typology of Good-Harm Analyses’ in Physics and Cosmology: Scientific Perspectives on the Problem of Natural Evil, Volume 1. Eds. Robert J. Russell, Nancey Murphy and William Stoeger SJ, (Berkeley, Ca. and Vatican City: CTNS and Vatican Observatory).

Andrew Robinson (2007) Emergence and the Origin of Life. Reviews in Science and Religion, No 49, pp. 29-37.

Andrew Robinson (2005) Semiotics, Science, and the Trinity: Programme for a New Synthesis? Studies in Science and Theology Vol 10: 121-136.

Andrew J. Robinson (2004). Continuity, Naturalism and Contingency: A Theology of Evolution drawing on the Semiotics of C.S. Peirce and Trinitarian Thought. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 39 (1): 111-136

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118781363/abstract