Baylor-Georgetown-Notre Dame Philosophy of Religion Conference 2011

Georgetown Main Gates

October 6-8, 2011 at Georgetown University

Organizers

Jon Kvanvig - Baylor University
Mark Murphy - Georgetown University
Michael Rea - University of Notre Dame


Thursday, October 6

7:00pm - 8:30pm   Mark Henninger - Georgetown University
"Duns Scotus and the Human Will's Synchronic Contingency Before God"

  • Commentator: Patrick Toner - Wake Forest University

Friday, October 7

9:30am - 11:00am   Trenton Merricks - University of Virginia
"Foreknowledge and Freedom"

  • Commentator: Todd Buras - Baylor University

11:15am - 12:45pm   Meghan Sullivan - University of Notre Dame
"Semantic Pollution and Religious Testimony"

  • Commentator: Lorraine Keller - University of Notre Dame

2:30pm - 4:00pm   Lara Buchak - University of California, Berkeley
"How Faith Makes Rational Action Possible"

  • Commentator: Mark Lance, Georgetown University

4:15pm - 5:45pm   Hud Hudson - Western Washington University
"Transreceptacle Identity"

  • Commentator: Blake Roeber - Rutgers University

Saturday, October 8

9:30am - 11:00am   Trent Dougherty and Alex Pruss - Baylor University
"Evil and the Problem of Anomaly"

  • Commentator: Stephen Grimm - Fordham University

11:15am - 12:45pm   Terence Cuneo - University of Vermont
"Protesting Evil"

  • Commentator: Karen Stohr - Georgetown University

2:30pm - 4:00pm   Christina Van Dyke - Calvin College
"(Im)Perfect Happiness and the Limits of Human Nature: Aquinas on our Ultimate Eden"

  • Commentator: Thomas Williams, University of South Florida

4:15pm -  5:45pm   Oliver Crisp - Fuller Theological Seminary
"Jonathan Edwards on Divine Excellence"

  • Commentator: Thomas Senor - University of Arkansas