Call for Papers and Proposals – TRUTH MATTERS www.icscanada.edu/truthmatters/ Toronto, August 18-20, 2010 We live in an age of skepticism about the idea of truth. Contemporary skeptics question the nature and value of truth and the concomitant virtue of truthfulness. Skepticism about truth is not restricted to popular culture. It occurs within the academic world, [...]
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 [...]
The Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology is proud to announce the Politics of Peace Conference to be held on April 16th-17th, 2010 at Messiah College in Grantham, PA. Keynote Speakers: Catherine Keller (Drew University) William T. Cavanaugh (University of St. Thomas) Call for Papers: SCPT’s 2010 conference will focus on PEACE. We invite papers [...]
I was saddened to hear of the news of the death of William P. Alson, September 13, 2009. News came to me via an announcement in an Evangelical Philosophical Society news bulletin, October 6. I’ve known of his role and place in the Society of Christian Philosophers since my first trip to Wheaton College for [...]
William Payne Alston, 87, died September 13, 2009, at the Nottingham Residential Health Care Facility in Jamesville, New York. He was born November 29, 1921 in Shreveport, Louisiana. In 1942, Bill received a Bachelor of Music degree from Centenary College. During WWII, he served in an Army Band stationed in California. While in the service, [...]
Recent PhDs and current graduate students are invited to apply to participate in the 2010 St. Thomas Summer Seminar in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology, a three-week long seminar organized by Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers) and Michael Rota (University of St. Thomas). The seminar will be held at the University of St. Thomas, in St. [...]
April 29-May 1, 2010 “Thinking in Public: Christian Philosophers as Public Intellectuals” Location – Prince Conference Center at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI Plenary speakers: Jean Bethke Elshtain (University of Chicago) Matthew Halteman (Calvin College) Philosophers have often played a role as public intellectuals and social critics, reaching beyond the guild to speak to wider [...]
The John Templeton Foundation (JTF), the Society of Christian Philosophers (SCP), the University of Oklahoma and Oxford University are pleased to announce the Templeton Research Fellows program for 2010-2011. The Templeton Research Fellows program is designed to promote extended international exchange at Oxford University with philosophers of religion and scientists. This one-year fellowship is intended [...]
The 2009 Western Conference of the Society of Christian Philosophers hosted by Fort Lewis College Durango, Colorado will take place October 22nd-24th, 2009. Plenary Speakers: Michael Bergmann (Purdue University): “Commonsense Skeptical Theism”. Wes Morriston (University of Colorado): “My Ways Are Not Your Ways: Human Cognitive Limitations and Divinely Authorized Genocides in the Hebrew Bible”. Click here [...]
St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews is pleased to announce its third conference on Scripture and Christian Theology: Genesis and Christian Theology – July 14th-18th, 2009. Since the first conference on the Gospel of John in 2003, the St Andrews conferences have been recognized as one of the most important occasions when biblical scholars [...]