Westmont College hosts the

2012 Society of Philosophers Mountain-Pacific Regional Conference

January 13-14th, 2012

Winter Hall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

H. E. Baber, "Theology and Theater: Parties, Performances and Perfect Fakes"

WH 210

Justin McBrayer, “Evaluating Counterpart and Appreciation Theodicies”

WH 206

David Diener , “Authority and Disobedience in Kierkegaard’s Critique of the Modern Approach to Religion”

WH 216

4:45-5:55

Concurrent Session 2

Ben Arbour, "Not Just a Handmaiden: The Necessity of Philosophy for Doing Theology Well"

WH 210

Daniel Johnson, “Libertarianism Entails Pelagianism”

WH 206

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

6:00-8:00

Dinner (on your own)

8:00-9:30

Plenary Session 1

Eleonore Stump, "Boundaries, Natural or Imposed: The Relation between Philosophy and Theology"

WH 210

 

14 January 2012

8:45-9:15

Coffee and Tea

9:15-10:25

Concurrent Session 3

Room

Todd R. Long, "Moral Responsibility, Information Manipulation, and Divine Justice"

WH 210

Dennis Potter, “Exclusivism, Contradiction and Heterodoxy”

WH 206

Alexander Arnold, "Knowledge First and Ockhamism"

WH 216

10:30-2:00

Plenary Session 2

C. Stephen Evans, “Is There a Role for Faith-Commitments in Scientific Psychology? Philosophy as a Bridge Between Psychology and Religion”

WH 210

12:00-2:00

Lunch (in the Dining Commons)

2:00-3:10

Concurrent Session 4

Helen De Cruz and Johan De Smedt, “Proper Basicality in Reformed and Evolutionary Epistemology and the Notion of Sin”

WH 210

Caleb Cohoe, “Causality and Ontological Dependence: Why Aquinas Rejects Infinite, Essentially Ordered, Causal Series”

WH 206

Michael Robinson, “Divine Image, Human Dignity and Human Potentiality”

WH 216

3:15-4:25

Concurrent Session 5

Jimmy Licon, “But Theists Do It Too: A Response to Plantinga”

WH 210

Amy Seymour, “The Advantages of All-Falsism”

WH 206

4:30-6:00

Plenary Session 3

Michael Murray and Jeffrey Schloss, “What Would an Evolutionary Account of Religion Look Like?”

WH 210

6:30-8:30

Banquet

Founder’s Room (adjacent to the Dining Commons)

For PDF schedule, please click here.