2026 SCP Midwest Conference, Baylor University
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Conference Schedule:
Thursday, October 8
2:00-3:00 Check-in
3:00-3:50 Parallel Session 1
Session 1.1: Cal Fawell, “A New Challenge to Faith”
Session 1.2: Greta LaFore, “How Being a Mandatory Reporter Is Not Like Being a Fire Lookout: An Epistemological Argument for Universal Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse”
Session 1.3: Tyler Hildebrand, “Underdetermination Problems in Science and Theology”
4:00-4:50 Parallel Session 2
Session 2.1: Emma Gregory, “Creation of the Cosmos: Comparing Plato’s Timaeus to the Biblical Narrative”
Session 2.2: Michael Debord-Hall, “Symmetry and the Commitments of Maltheism and Theism”
Session 2.3: Hans Shenk, “The Truth Will Make You Epistemically Better Off: A Challenge For Claims of Engagement With the Divine”
5:20-5:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
5:30-7:00 Keynote 1: John Greco, “From Externalism to Anti-individualism in Epistemology and Religious Epistemology”
7:00 Dinner on your own
Friday, October 9
8:00-9:00 Check-in
9:00-9:50 Parallel Session 3
Session 3.3: Garrett Pendergraft, “God as Author: A New Solution to the Problem of Theological Determinism”
Session 3.4: Eric Anderson, “The Five Ways of Gratitude”
Session 3.5: James Kintz, “Embodiment, Reciprocal Relations, and Divine Hiddenness”
10:00-10:50 Parallel Session 4
Session 4.1: Austen McDougal, “Divine Mercy”
Session 4.2: Logan Wigglesworth, “Divine Resemblance and Aesthetic Value”
Session 4.3: Patrick Todd, “Innocent Incompatibilism and Substantive Responsibility”
11:00-11:50 Parallel Session 5
Session 5.1: Caleb Cohoe, “Holism and Temporal Neutrality”
Session 5.2: A.G. Holdier, “On Ghosting: The Normative Contours of Valedictive Speech”
Session 5.3: Jace Snodgrass, “The Doctrine of Divine Simplicity Repackaged: From a Constituent Ontology to a Non-Constituent
Ontology”
12:00-1:30 Lunch on your own
1:30-2:20 Parallel Session 6
Session 6.1: Matthew Shea, “Does Natural Law Ethics Need Natural Teleology?”
Session 6.2: Renee Rushing, “Blame-lighting: Gaslighting via Blaming Reactive Attitudes”
Session 6.3: Daniel Woolnough, “Narrative Theodicy and the ‘Construction’ of Evidence”
2:30-3:20 Parallel Session 7
Session 7.1: David Hancock, “Moral Insignificance in Theism”
Session 7.2: Marilie Coetsee, “Religion, Revolution, and Democratic Neutrality
Session 7.3: Jacob Hollis, “Christ as Deceiver: A Critique of Wielenberg’s New Argument from Opaque Theism”
3:30-4:20 Parallel Session 8
Session 8.1: Ian Church, “Context, Narrative, and the Evidential Problem of Evil”
Session 8.2: Fuyao Zhang, “God as Mental Ground, Not Cosmic Subject”
Session 8.3: Libby Minyard, “One Thing Is Needful: The Virtue of Simplicity”
4:30-5:00 Break
5:00-6:30 Keynote 2: Leigh Vicens, “Theism vs. Naturalism on Narrative Meaning”
6:30-7:00 Break
7:00-8:30 Banquet dinner
Saturday, October 10
8:00-9:00 Check-in
9:00-9:50 Parallel Session 9
Session 9.1: Zachary Kralik, “The Phenomenal Rebinding Problem for Memory Traces”
Session 9.2: Michell-Lee Graham, “A Hegelian View of Christian Suffering”
Session 9.3: Gracie van Orden, “Why Mickey Mouse is a Problem for Evolutionary Debunking Arguments”
10:00-10:50 Parallel Session 10
Session 10.1: Brian Ballard, “The World Gains Value Because God Values It”
Session 10.2: William Burnham-Fleck, “Arguing Towards Christian Theism: A Case for How Anselm’s Ontological Argument Can Be Used to Narrow the Theist’s Concept of God”
Session 10.3: Godehard Brüntrup, “Narratives and Minds in Synchrony: Religious Knowledge as a Social Affair”
11:00-11:50 Parallel Session 11
Session 11.1: Scott Williams, “Against the Causal Filioque and For the Non-Causal Filioque”
Session 11.2: Arnold Charles, “Epistemic Greatness and Knowledge of Tensed and Tenseless Propositions: A New Perspective on Plantinga’s Nature of Necessity”
Session 11.3: Thiago Maia, “A Pascalian Wager on the Value of Truth”
12:00-1:30 Lunch on your own
1:30-2:20 Parallel Session 12
Session 12.1: Micah George, “Skeptical Theism versus Optimism”
Session 12.2: Harrison Jennings, “The Practical Syllogism and the Formal Causation of Action in Aristotle”
Session 12.3: Tiziano Cantalupi, “Science, Transcendence, and Traces of God”
2:30-4:00 Panel: Alexander Pruss and Joshua Rasmussen, “Is A Perfect Being Timeless?”
4:00-4:15 Closing Remarks
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