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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Fellowship Announcement – Big Questions in Free Will: The Theology of Free Will Grants offered through Florida State University supporting philosophical and theological inquiry into the importance and implications of free will in the theological domain. The Big Questions in Free Will Program offers funds for inquiry into theological presuppositions and implications of belief in [...]
Robin Collins 2010 Distinguished Lecturer Tuesday and Wednesday, April 6 and 7, 2010, 7:00pm Arntzen Hall 100; Western Washington University Philosopher of science and religion Robin Collins is Professor of Philosophy at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. With earned degrees in mathematics, physics, and philosophy, Professor Collins is widely regarded as one of the foremost [...]
Cambridge University Press is inviting applications for the position of Editor of Religious Studies: An international journal for the philosophy of religion. Religious Studies, published by Cambridge University Press, was launched in 1966. Since then, it has established itself as a leading international journal devoted to the problems of philosophy of religion as they arise [...]
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, Dept of Philosophy Post Doctoral Research Officer Salary: From £31,311 – £38, 391 per annum inclusive (pay award pending) The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science is seeking to appoint a three year research officer in the Templeton Project, ‘God’s Order, Man’s Order and the [...]