Westmont College hosts the
2012 Society of Philosophers Mountain-Pacific Regional Conference
January 13-14th, 2012
Philosophy among the Disciplines |
All sessions will be held in Winter Hall.
13 January 2012
2:00-3:30 |
Registration Winter Hall rotunda |
Room |
3:30-4:40 |
Concurrent Session 1 |
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H. E. Baber, "Theology and Theater: Parties, Performances and Perfect Fakes" |
WH 210 |
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Justin McBrayer, “Evaluating Counterpart and Appreciation Theodicies” |
WH 206 |
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David Diener , “Authority and Disobedience in Kierkegaard’s Critique of the Modern Approach to Religion” |
WH 216 |
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4:45-5:55 |
Concurrent Session 2 |
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Ben Arbour, "Not Just a Handmaiden: The Necessity of Philosophy for Doing Theology Well" |
WH 210 |
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Daniel Johnson, “Libertarianism Entails Pelagianism” |
WH 206 |
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Christopher Kyle and Stephen Contakes, “Nineteenth Century Epistemology of Science in Defense of Religious Knowledge? The Natural Theology of Josiah Parsons Cooke Jr.” |
WH 216 |
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6:00-8:00 |
Dinner (on your own) |
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8:00-9:30 |
Plenary Session 1 |
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Eleonore Stump, "Boundaries, Natural or Imposed: The Relation between Philosophy and Theology" |
WH 210 |
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14 January 2012
8:45-9:15 |
Coffee and Tea |
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9:15-10:25 |
Concurrent Session 3 |
Room |
Todd R. Long, "Moral Responsibility, Information Manipulation, and Divine Justice" |
WH 210 |
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Dennis Potter, “Exclusivism, Contradiction and Heterodoxy” |
WH 206 |
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Alexander Arnold, "Knowledge First and Ockhamism" |
WH 216 |
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10:30-2:00 |
Plenary Session 2 |
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C. Stephen Evans, “Is There a Role for Faith-Commitments in Scientific Psychology? Philosophy as a Bridge Between Psychology and Religion” |
WH 210 |
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12:00-2:00 |
Lunch (in the Dining Commons) |
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2:00-3:10 |
Concurrent Session 4 |
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Helen De Cruz and Johan De Smedt, “Proper Basicality in Reformed and Evolutionary Epistemology and the Notion of Sin” |
WH 210 |
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Caleb Cohoe, “Causality and Ontological Dependence: Why Aquinas Rejects Infinite, Essentially Ordered, Causal Series” |
WH 206 |
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Michael Robinson, “Divine Image, Human Dignity and Human Potentiality” |
WH 216 |
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3:15-4:25 |
Concurrent Session 5 |
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Jimmy Licon, “But Theists Do It Too: A Response to Plantinga” |
WH 210 |
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Amy Seymour, “The Advantages of All-Falsism” |
WH 206 |
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4:30-6:00 |
Plenary Session 3 |
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Michael Murray and Jeffrey Schloss, “What Would an Evolutionary Account of Religion Look Like?” |
WH 210 |
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6:30-8:30 |
Banquet |
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Founder’s Room (adjacent to the Dining Commons) |
For PDF schedule, please click here.
