John Cornwell is an author, journalist and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge where he directs the Science and Human Dimension Project, a public understanding of science programme, and the Ethics in the Public Space project. He has written for many well known publications including The Sunday Times, Vanity Fair, Nature, Financial Times, Prospect, New Statesman, Spectator, TLS, The Tablet, New York Times and The Observer. He is author of Hitler’s Pope, The Secret History of Pius XII, A Thief in the Night, Power to Harm, Earth to Earth (Winner of Gold Dagger Award for Non-fiction), and a biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He is editor of Nature’s Imagination: The Frontiers of Scientific Vision; Consciousness and Human Identity; and Explanations: Styles of Explanation in Science (all published by Oxford University Press), and with Michael McGhee, of Philosophers and God, Continuum (2009).