CityLife

Renowned author Martin Amis will examine the interplays and tensions between literature and science at his next University of Manchester debate. The writer will be joined by high profile psychotherapist Adam Philips and philosopher and academic John Gray, for the evening event in the University's Whitworth Hall. The event will offer a unique chance to hear leading writers and thinkers consider the competing claims of literature and science as ways of understanding and explaining the world, and whether science has overtaken literature as a way of making sense of our experience. The panel is also expected to discuss topics such as the role of imaginative writing in chronicling and critiquing 'scientific' activities, and how literature can and should respond to recent controversies in bio-technology and genetic engineering. This reading will be followed by a Q & A session.