Episode #21 - "Fields as Formal Causes"

[I am DBH’s temporary guest-editor while he and his family take time to themselves to continue to adjust to the loss of someone they love.]

This conversation was recorded on the evening of 10 May, at the London home of Dr. Rupert Sheldrake and his wife Jill Purce. Dr. Hart and his son (Patrick) were visiting for dinner, at which A. N. Wilson and his wife Ruth Guilding were allso guests; but, before everyone had gathered, there was time for Rupert Sheldrake and David Bentley Hart to slip upstairs to the study for this quick conversation.

Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist, biochemist, parapsychologist, philosopher and historian of science. He secured his doctorate in biochemistry at Cambridge for his work on plant hormones and development.