Thursday March 30, 2017
THURSDAY EVENING:
6:00-7:00 Registration
Business 109
7:00-9:00 pm Keynote Address
Location: Business 109
Speaker: Lara Buchak
University of California, Berkeley
Paper: Faith, Authority, and Disagreement
ABSTRACT: I have previously argued for a view of faith that I call the risky commitment view. According to this view, one must be willing to act on a claim one has faith in, without further evidence for the claim, and to continue to act even in the face of counter-evidence. In this talk, I will show that deference to authority is a special case of faith—a case that is particularly apt to be rational. I will also show that the risky commitment view of faith opens up a new possibility in the debate over peer disagreement, since it shows that it can be rational to act on your own view of the evidence while becoming less sure that your view is the correct one. I thus show that it is rational defer to authority in one’s community rather than one’s own understanding, and to remain committed to such deference even in the face of disagreement between communities.
Friday March 31, 2017
8:30-9:00 Registration Business 2nd Floor.
9:00- 9:50 AM
Session 1 Paper 1
Location: Business 203
Chair: Matthew Owen University of Birmingham
Speaker: Mihretu Guta Biola University and Azusa Pacific University
Paper: “The Two Natures of Christ and the Bearer Question: What Happened at Incarnation?”
Session 1 Paper 2
Location: Business 206
Chair: David Horner Talbot School of Theology
Speaker: Klaas Kraay Ryerson University
Paper: “Motivated Submaximization: Still not Good enough for God”
10:00- 10:50 AM
Session 2 Paper 1
Location: Business 203
Chair: Gary Osmundsen Grand Canyon University
Speaker: Adam Pelser US Air Force Academy
Paper: “The Temptations, Virtues, and Moral Exemplarity of Jesus”
Session 2 Paper 2
Location: Business 206
Chair: David Skowronski Talbot School of Theology
Speaker: Ryan Bunke Talbot School of Theology
Paper: “The Failure of Fairness: John Rawls, Private Ownership, and the Transitivity of Merit”
Session 2 Paper 3
Location: Business 207
Chair: Julia Stubbs Talbot School of Theology
Speaker: B. Chan Purdue University
Paper: “The Same-God problem, and the Santa Claus and Madagascar objections”
11:00- 11:50 AM
Session 3 Paper 1
Location: Business 203
Chair: Greg Ganssle Talbot School of Theology
Speaker: Sabrina Little Baylor University
Paper: “The Temptations of Jesus and Kenotic Christology”
Session 3 Paper 2
Location: Business 206
Chair: Kent Dunnington Biola University
Speaker: Jeremy Carey University of California, Berkeley
Paper: “Faith as Intention to Believe”
Session 3 Paper 3
Location: Business 207
Chair: Klaas Kraay Ryerson University
Speaker: Erik M. Hanson University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Paper: “Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Evil”
12:00-2:00 LUNCH
2:00- 2:50 PM
Session 4 Paper 1
Location: Business 203
Chair: David Horner Talbot School of Theology
Speaker: Eric Yang Santa Clara University
Paper: “Against an Updated Ontological Argument”
Session 4 Paper 2
Location: Business 206
Chair: Bridgett Kielhack Talbot School of Theology
Speaker: Mark Bernier Azusa Pacific University
Paper: “How Christian Hope Reshapes Practical Reasoning”
Session 4 Paper 3
Location: Business 207
Chair: Greg Ganssle Talbot
Speaker: Christopher Tomaszewski Baylor University
Paper: “A Geachian Cure for Morally Paralyzed Skeptical Theists”
3:00- 3:50 PM
Session 5 Paper 1
Location: Business 203
Chair: Twigz McGuire St. Louis University
Speaker: Regan Reitsma Kings College
Paper: “Humility and Not Being God”
Session 5 Paper 2
Location: Business 206
Chair: Bridgette Kielhack Talbot School of Theology
Speaker: Hilary Yaney Baylor University
Paper: “But I’m Afraid of the Dark: Why Courage Does Not Depend on What We Fear”
Session 5 Paper 3
Location: Business 207
Chair: Carl Sohmer Talbot School of Theology
Speaker: Mickey Jordan Talbot School of Theology
Paper: “Paintings and Painters”
FRIDAY EVENING: Keynote Address
7:00-9:00 PM
Location: Business 109
Speaker: John Greco
St. Louis University
Paper: Transmitting Faith (and Garbage)
Almost everyone will grant that knowledge is often transmitted through testimony. For example, parents often transmit knowledge to their children, teachers often transmit knowledge to their students, and doctors often transmit knowledge to their patients, all by telling their intended audience that such and such is the case. Here is a problem: Knowledge seems to be transmitted right alongside lots of garbage. That is, besides transmitting genuine knowledge, we manage to transmit lots of beliefs that are irrational, superstitious, self-deceiving, and flat out false. So how is that possible? How is it that the very same channels manage to transmit both knowledge and garbage together? Call this “the garbage problem”. This paper formulates and explores this problem, in general and for religious faith in particular. The religious version of the problem is this: How is it that genuine faith, considered as a kind of religious knowledge, is transmitted alongside garbage? For example, how can churchgoers come to know that God created the world and loves His creation, if this is learned right alongside self-serving prejudices and anachronistic superstitions?
SATURDAY PAPERS
9:00- 9:50 AM
Session 1 Paper 1
Location: Business 203
Chair: Liz Jackson, University of Notre Dame
Speaker: Nicole Garcia MIT
Paper: “Epistemic Provisions”
Session 1 Paper 2
Location: Business 206
Chair: Bridgett Kielhack Talbot School of Theology
Speaker: Josh Blander The King’s College
Paper: “Humility: Human, Divine, Hebraic”
Session 1 Paper 3
Location: Business 207
Chair: Mihretu Guta Biola University and Azusa Pacific University
Speaker: Allison Krile Thornton Baylor University
Paper: “If I am a hylomorphic compound, who thinks my thoughts?”
10:00- 10:50 AM
Session 2 Paper 1
Location: Business 203
Chair: Tim Pickavance Talbot School of Theology
Speaker: Liz Jackson University of Notre Dame
Paper: “A Defense of Intrapersonal Belief Permissivism”
Session 2 Paper 2
Location: Business 206
Chair: Greg Ganssle Talbot School of Theology
Speaker: Ryan Peterson Talbot School of Theology
Paper: “Speaking of God with Humility”
Session 2 Paper 3
Location: Business 207
Chair: Kevin Gausselin Talbot School of Theology
Speaker: Matt Owen University of Birmingham
Paper: “A Hylomorphic Solution To The Causal Pairing Problem”
11:00- 11:50 AM
Session 3 Paper 1
Location: Business 203
Chair: Liz Jackson, University of Notre Dame
Speaker: Anna Brinkerhoff Brown University
Paper: “What’s Really Problematic about Problematic Irrelevant Influences”
Session 3 Paper 2
Location: Business 206
Chair: Arden Cobb Talbot School of Theology
Speaker: Hayden Stephan St. Louis University
Paper: “The Knowability Paradox and Christian Theism”
Session 3 Paper 3
Location: Business 207
Chair: Jon Kelly Talbot School of Theology
Speaker: Brandon Rickabaugh Baylor University
Paper: “Dismantling Bodily Resurrection Objections to the Soul”
12:00-2:00 LUNCH
2:00- 2:50 PM
Session 4 Paper 1
Location: Business 203
Chair: Jonah Nagashima University of California Riverside
Speaker: Taylor W. Cyr and Andrew Law University of California, Riverside
Paper: “Freedom, Foreknowledge, and Dependence: A Dialectical Intervention”
Session 4 Paper 2
Location: Business 206
Chair: Keith Hess The College of Southern Nevada
Speaker: Gary Osmundsen Grand Canyon University
Paper: “Revisiting Religious Luck: Can a True Religious Belief Sourced in Testimony Merit The Kind of Credit Needed for Knowledge?”
Session 4 Paper 3
Location: Business 207
Chair: Liz Jackson, University of Notre Dame
Speaker: Heather Spradley Harvard University
Paper: “Disagreement in Context: An Analysis of the Disagreement Discussion”
3:00- 3:50 PM
Session 5 Paper 1
Location: Business 203
Chair: Taylor W. Cyr University of California, Riverside
Speaker: Jonah Nagashima University of California Riverside
Paper: “Grounding the Consequence Argument”
Session 5 Paper 2
Location: Business 206
Chair: Keith Hess The College of Southern Nevada
Speaker: Andrew Punkay Talbot School of Theology
Paper: “Angels, Hotels, and Infinity: A Response to Morriston”
Session 5 Paper 3
Location: Business 207
Chair Mickey Jordan Talbot School of Theology
Speaker: Carl Sohmer Talbot School of Theology
Paper: “Phenomenological Structure, Schizophrenia, and Self-Knowledge”
SATURDAY EVENING
6:00-8:30 PM
BANQUET
conversation!
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