Annual Logos Workshop
The aim of the annual Logos Workshop is to foster interaction between analytic philosophers and theologians on topics of common interest.
Attendance at Logos Workshops is by invitation only; the usual attendance consists of roughly 50 scholars and 20 graduate students. To request an invitation to the 2013 workshop, please email analytictheology.logos@gmail.com no later than June 1, 2012. (The deadline for requesting invitations to the 2012 workshop has now passed.) Papers are distributed and read in advance of the workshop in order to permit maximal time for discussion. Presentation of each paper begins with critical comments from a commentator, followed by a response from the author. The remaining time is devoted to questions and answers.
There are discussions with various publishers to put out a regular series of volumes with content drawn from the Logos Workshop papers.
For information about past Logos Workshops, please visit their webpages linked in the sidebar.
Upcoming Logos Workshops
Logos Workshops have been scheduled through 2013.
2012: Minds, Bodies, and the Divine
May 3-5 at the University of Notre Dame
Various ancient religious/philosophical systems (Orphism, Pythagoreanism, and Stoicism) maintained that the divine mind 'embodied' itself in the world in much the same way in which immaterial souls are supposedly embodied in human organisms. Christianity has likewise traditionally endorsed a duality of mind and body, and maintains that, in becoming incarnate, the Son of God somehow took on both a human soul and a human body.
In the 20th and 21st centuries mind-body dualism has come under heavy fire; philosophers in the Christian tradition have begun to explore what implications contemporary materialism might have for their doctrines of incarnation and afterlife; and other philosophers have begun to explore naturalistic and materialistic variations on panentheism.
In this workshop, we bring together philosophers and theologians with interests in contemporary philosophy of mind to explore questions about the nature of embodiment and about the relations between minds (human and divine) and the material world.
2013: Theorizing about God—Realism in Theology
Theological realism is a hot topic nowadays, and is interestingly related to issues about religious pluralism. These debates bear obvious connections to debates about realism and anti-realism in science, as well as to issues in metaphysics and the philosophy of language about ontological commitment and related topics, and with the theological literature on the nature of doctrine. These are the sorts of issues that will be in focus at this workshop.
