Calum Miller
Home: 28 Horwood Close, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7RF
Telephone: 02086479097
Date of Birth: 29th August 1991
Email: c.miller@oxon.org
Mobile: 07592605735
Nationality: British
Education
2012 - 2015
St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford
BM BCh Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery
 St Hugh’s College Medicine Representative.
 Paediatrics placement at St Bernard’s Hospital, Gibraltar.
 Obstetrics and Gynaecology placement at Taranaki Base Hospital, New Zealand.
 Research project on the Philosophy of Science, supervised by Prof Richard
Swinburne.
2009 -2012
St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford
BA (Hons) Medical Sciences, Upper Second Class
Additional Subject: History & Philosophy of Science, First Class
 Research project on the neuroscience of free will.
 Extended essay on the neuroscience of romantic relationship.
Academic Prizes & Presentations
Prizes:
Aug 2014
May 2012
Oct 2011
Andrew Markus Medical Ethics Prize, University of Oxford. Medical Ethics prize for a
paper on whether foetuses have a serious right to life.
Joseph and Nancy Burton Prize, St Hugh’s College. Philosophy, Politics and Economics
prize for a paper on the argument from fine-tuning.
Academic exhibition for outstanding academic performance, St Hugh’s College,
University of Oxford.
Academic Presentations:
Aug 2014
‘Whence Human Rights? Some Moral Evidence for Theism’ at Religion and Human
Rights: Compatibility, Conflict and Resolution conference, Al-Mahdi Institute,
Birmingham.
July 2014
‘Response to Stephen Law on the Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism’ at
Philosophers’ Cocoon Philosophy Conference, University of Tampa.
July 2014
‘Probabilism and the Resurrection of Jesus’ at Special Divine Action conference,
University of Oxford.
July 2014
‘Recent Work on the Problem of Evil’ at Tyndale Fellowship Philosophy conference,
University of Cambridge.
June 2014
‘Do Animals Feel Pain in a Morally Relevant Sense?’ at Essex Philosophy Graduate
Conference, University of Essex.
June 2014
‘Hume: Theism’s Trojan Horse?’ at ‘Religious Studies at 50’ conference, University of
Leeds.
June 2014
May 2014
May 2014
Feb 2013
Apr 2012
Apr 2012
‘Moral Epistemology and Abortion: Can a Secular Case be Made Against Abortion?’ at
Living in the Cosmos: Ethical and Ascetic Reflections on Patristic Theology conference,
University of Durham.
‘Why Scientific Realism Leads to Theism’ at Graduate Conference in Theoretical
Philosophy, VU University Amsterdam.
‘The Case Against Abortion’ at Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy, University of
Minho, Braga.
Presentation on causal arguments for theism. University of Oxford Philosophy of
Religion Graduate Seminar, with Prof Brian Leftow.
‘Does God Exist?’ Debate versus Prof Peter Atkins, Christ Church, Oxford.
Presentation on fine-tuning arguments. University of Oxford Philosophy of Religion
Graduate Seminar, with Dr Tim Mawson.
Conference Comments:
July 2014
Comments on David Killoren, ‘Robust Moral Realism: An Excellent Religion’ at
Philosophers’ Cocoon Philosophy Conference, University of Tampa.
Conference Moderator:
July 2014
‘Probability and the Resurrection’ Panel discussion between Richard Swinburne,
Timothy McGrew and David Glass, University of Oxford.
Other presentations
Dec 2013
Oct 2013
Feb 2013
‘Can science increase our faith in God?’ Lecture at St Thomas’ Syriac Orthodox Cathedral,
London.
‘Hume: Theism’s Trojan Horse?’ Socrates Society, University of Oxford.
‘Fine-tuning arguments for theism’ Presentation at Socrates Society, University of
Oxford.
Publications
Papers:
Published:
2012
Should trainee doctors use the developing world to gain clinical experience?
B.J. Gilbert, C. Miller, F. Corrick, R.A. Watson. Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in
Medicine, 8(1).
Forthcoming:
2014
A Bayesian Formulation of the Kalam Cosmological Argument
C. Miller. Religious Studies.
Revise and re-submit:
2014
On the simplicity of omni-properties.
C. Miller. Submitted to Faith and Philosophy.
Under review:
1. Response to Stephen Law on the evolutionary argument against naturalism.
C. Miller. Submitted to Philosophia.
2. Can a secular case against abortion be made?
C. Miller. Submitted to Journal of Analytic Theology.
Book reviews:
2012
Malcolm Jeeves’ Rethinking Human Nature.
C. Miller. Science and Christian Belief, 25(1), 68-70.
Work in Progress
Books:
The Probability of the Resurrection (edited volume), eds. C. Miler and J. DePoe
Papers:
1. Determining the significance of the multiverse in Bayesian fine-tuning arguments.
C. Miller. Won College PPE Prize, (2013).
2. A gruesome argument for theism.
C. Miller.
3. A formal probabilistic argument against abortion.
C. Miller.
4. Do animals feel morally significant pain? A sceptical approach.
C. Miller.
5. Defeating objections to Bayesianism by adopting a proximal facts approach.
C. Miller.
6. What is wrong with Michael Tooley’s argument from evil?
C. Miller.
Relevant Experience
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Advisory Board Member of the Editorial Board for the Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities section
in Open Access Medicine.
Organiser of Probability and the Resurrection conference, University of Oxford.
President of the Oxford Forum for Medical Humanities.
Debates for University of Oxford Medical School.
Psychiatry Autumn School, University of Oxford.
Writer for the Oxford Medical School Gazette.
Writer on medical and other topics for The Huffington Post.
Active member of Graduate Philosophy of Religion Reading Group, University of Oxford.
Archaeological trip to Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Syria with Theology Faculty.
Self-taught basic Koine Greek.
Self-taught Arabic.
Trustee and Director of the Christian Evidence Society.
Paediatrics teaching.
Referees
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Prof John Morris FMedSci:
o Emeritus Professor of Human Anatomy, Former Director of Pre-Clinical Medicine,
Emeritus Wellcome-Franks Fellow of Medicine, St Hugh’s College.
o Contact: 57 The Moors, Kidlington, Oxon, OX5 2AQ.
Tel. 01865 375922
Dr Damian Jenkins MRCP:
o Tutor and Lecturer in Medicine, St Hugh’s College.
o Contact: St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, OX2 6LE.
Tel. 01865 311671
Mr Syman Stevens MA, MSc:
o DPhil Candidate in Philosophy, Tutor in Philosophy of Science, Exeter College.
o Contact: Exeter College, University of Oxford, OX1 3DP.
Tel. 01865 558614
Prof Richard Swinburne:
o Emeritus Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion
o Contact: richard.swinburne@oriel.ox.ac.uk
Tel. 01865 514406
Prof Timothy McGrew
o Professor of Philosophy, Western Michigan University.
o Contact: timothymcgrew@gmail.com