The Templeton Foundation has awarded a $3.67m grant to fund “The Character Project”, under the direction of Christian Miller at Wake Forest University. The project includes several funding and conference opportunities that will be of interest to Christian philosophers working in ethics and virtue theory. For more information, and to sign up for notices regarding [...]
A quick update on the 2010 ITIA conference “Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture: Conversations with the Work of David Brown,” to be held September 6th-8th at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. As the conference website — http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/rt/itia/conf2010/ — indicates, the speakers will be: Margaret Miles (Graduate Theological Union) William Abraham (Southern Methodist University) Richard Bauckham [...]
Postmodernism, Culture and Religion 4 “The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion” Syracuse University April 7-9, 2011 Plenary Speakers: JOHN D. CAPUTO Watson Professor of Religion and Philosophy Syracuse University (http://religion.syr.edu/Caputo.html) PHILIP GOODCHILD Professor of Theology and Religious Studies University of Nottingham (UK) (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Theology/People/philip.goodchild) CATHERINE MALABOU Professor of Philosophy University of Paris-X, Nanterre (http://www.u-paris10.fr/10980645/0/fiche_EE8__pagelibre/) Call [...]
The John Templeton Foundation, the Society of Christian Philosophers, Oxford University and the University of Oklahoma are pleased to announce the Templeton Research Fellows Program for 2011-2012. This is the final year of a program designed to promote extended international exchange at Oxford University with philosophers of religion and scientists. We are seeking highly-qualified Fellows [...]
The Society of Christian Philosophers Midwestern Conference February 24th-26th, 2011 Hope College Holland, Michigan Topic: Values and Virtues Plenary speakers: Robert C. Roberts (Baylor University) Address: “Emotions in the Sense of Duty” Eric Wielenberg (DePauw University) Address: “Divine Deception” Papers are especially encouraged on matters of virtue ethics, the relation between religion and ethics, applied [...]
The Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy and Islamic Philosophy and Theology Research Center present: The International Conference of Religious Doctrines and the Mind-Body Problem, March 9th-10th, 2011. Just click here to download a PDF version of the Call for Papers. Email for your questions: icrm@seminars.ir Website: www.seminars.ir/icrm
You are cordially invited to attend “Truth Matters”, an interdisciplinary conference with a philosophical focus to be held in Toronto on August 18-20 at Victoria University in the University of Toronto. For more information please click here to download the conference flier as a PDF file. If anyone has any questions, feel free to contact [...]
Announcing Wuhan University’s newly inaugurated Kretzmann Instittute for Morality and Belief!
Society of Christian Philosophers Lecture Grants In order to foster philosophical discussion and encourage fellowship in smaller departments and institutions, the Society of Christian Philosophers has established a new small grant program. The program provides up to $1500 for departments to host a well-known Christian philosopher for a lecture and discussion. (These funds can be [...]
The Alvin Plantinga Retirement Ceelebration May 20-22, 2010 McKenna Hall University of Notre Dame Alvin Plantinga is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. His publications range over a wide variety of fields, but his most enduring contributions have been in metaphysics, epistemology, and, especially the philosophy [...]