Holmes Rolston

Holmes Rolston, III, is University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus.  He has written most recently: Three Big Bangs: Matter-Energy, Life, Mind, Genes, Genesis and God, Philosophy Gone Wild, Environmental Ethics, Science and Religion: A Critical Survey, and Conserving Natural Value.  He gave the Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh, 1997-1998.  Rolston was laureate for the 2003 Templeton Prize in Religion, awarded by Prince Philip in Buckingham Palace.  He has spoken as distinguished lecturer on seven continents, and is featured in Joy A. Palmer, ed., Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment,2000.  He is past and founding president of the International Society for Environmental Ethics, a founding editor of the journal Environmental Ethics and a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion.  An intellectual biography is: Christopher J. Preston, Saving Creation: Nature and Faith in the Life of Holmes Rolston, III, 2009.