International Conference in Philosophy of Religion:

'Philosophy of Religion in the 21st Century'

27-29 June 2011, Krakow - Poland

program

Monday (27.06)
 
From 08.30 Registration of participants at the Venue
 
09.00–09.10 Welcome Address
 
09.10–10.10 Richard SWINBURNE (University of Oxford, UK), Why Hume and Kant Were Mistaken in Rejecting Natural Theology
10.10–11.10 Eleonore STUMP (Saint Louis University, USA), Atonement, Love, and Forgiveness
 
11.10–11.30 Coffee Break
 
11.30–13.00 Parallel Sessions
 
Section I
11.30–12.00 Jerome GELLMAN (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), I Called to God from a Narrow Place … A Wide Future for Philosophy of Religion
12.00–12.30 Roger POUIVET (University of Nancy, France), Against Theological Fictionalism
12.30–13.00 Louis CARUANA (Heythrop College, University of London, UK), Science, Religion and Common Sense
 
Section II
11.30–12.00 Christian TAPP (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany), Non est procedere in infinitum–Aquinas (and modern logic) on the Argument by Infinite Regress
12.00–12.30 Petr DVOŘÁK (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), The Concepts of a priori and a posteriori in the Proofs for the Divine Existence
12.30–13.00 Vlastimil VOHÁNKA (Palacky University) & Daniel D. NOVOTNÝ (University of South Bohemia), Trinity and Probability
 
Section III
11.30–12.00 Julia ENXING (University of Munster, Germany), Process Theology Providing the Future’s Conception of God
12.00–12.30 Urszula IDZIAK-SMOCZYŃSKA (Jagiellonian University, Poland), Ludwig Wittgenstein and Contemporary Spiritual Exercise
12.30–13.00 Karol TARNOWSKI (Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland), Fundamental Faith
 
13.00–15.00 Lunch
 
15.00–15.30 Coffee Break
 
15.30–17.30 Parallel Sessions
 
Section I
15.30–16.00 Peter FORREST (University of New England, Australia), In Defence of Anthropomorphic Theism
16.00–16.30 Yujin NAGASAWA (University of Birmingham, UK), John Hick’s Pan(en)theistic Monism
16.30–17.00 Paul O’GRADY (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), Aquinas and Naturalism
17.00–17.30 Daniel von WACHTER (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago de Chile), Miracles and Human Free Actions are not Violations of the Laws of Nature
 
Section II
15.30–16.00 Timothy D. KNEPPER (Drake University, USA), The Future of the Study of Ineffability
16.00–16.30 Justyna MIKLASZEWSKA (Jagiellonian University, Poland), The Idea of Immanency in Charles Taylor’s Philosophy of Religion
16.30–17.00 Tadeusz GADACZ (Pedagogical University, Krakow, Poland), Franz Rozenzweig’s Concept of Faith
17.00–17.30 Ľuboš ROJKA (University of Trnava, Slovakia), The Timeless Will of the Creator
 
Section III
15.30–16.00 Georg GASSER (University of Innsbruck, Austria), The Concept of Personal Embodiment and the Doctrine of Bodily Resurrection
16.00–16.30 Tony BOLOS (University of Edinburgh, UK), Properties of the Imago Dei
16.30–17.00 Krzysztof MECH (Jagiellonian University, Poland), Paul Ricoeur on Religious Language: Between Symbol and Metaphor
17.00–17.30 Dominika MOTAK (Jagiellonian University, Poland), Georg Simmel’s Concept of Religion and Religiosity
 
Tuesday (28.06)
 
09.00–10.00 Linda ZAGZEBSKI (University of Oklahoma, USA), First Person and Third Person Epistemic Reasons: Navigating the Problems of Religious Epistemology
10.00–11.00 Denis MOREAU (University of Nantes, France), Clarifying the Concept of Salvation
 
11.00–11.30 Coffee Break
 
11.30–13.00 Parallel Sessions
 
Section I
11.30–12.00 Nehama VERBIN (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Divine Providence: The View from Within
12.00–12.30 Alison ASSITER (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK), The Upbuilding Discourses and the Ground of Morality
12.30–13.00 Michael POTTER (University of Cambridge, UK), Wittgenstein’s Early Philosophy of Religion
 
Section II
11.30–12.00 Oliver WIERTZ (School of Philosophy and Theology Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt, Germany), Analytic Philosophy of Religion and Spirituality - Friends or Foes?
12.00–12.30 Stanisław WSZOŁEK (Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland), The Rationality of Faith in the Age of New Atheism
12.30–13.00 Jakub GOMUŁKA (Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland), Dialogue Between Theism and Atheism: A Variety of Rationalities
 
Section III
11.30–12.00 T. Ryan BYERLY (Baylor University, USA), Faith as an Epistemically Justifying Disposition
12.00–12.30 James FRANKLIN (University of New South Wales, Australia), The Global/local Distinction and Leibniz’s Theodicy
12.30–13.00 Stanley TWEYMAN (York University, Toronto, Canada), René Descartes on How to Know God
 
13.00–15.00 Lunch
 
15.00–15.30 Coffee
 
15.30–17.30 Parallel Sessions
 
Section I
15.30–16.00 Bruce LANGTRY (University of Melbourne, Australia), Swinburne on the Simplicity of Theism
16.00–16.30 Michael V. ANTONY (University of Haifa, Israel), Public Knowledge About God
16.30–17.00 Peter JONKERS (Tilburg University, The Netherlands), Redefining Religious Truth as a Challenge for Philosophy of Religion
17.00–17.30 Dariusz ŁUKASIEWICZ (University of Bydgoszcz, Poland), Open Theism and its  Perspectives
 
Section II
15.30–16.00 Bryan REECE (Oxford Univeristy, UK), Epistemic Communities, Doxastic Alternatives, and Soteriological Exclusivism
16.00–16.30 Abbas YAZDANI (University of Zanjan, Iran), The Epistemic Justification of Immediate Knowledge of God from Sadra's Philosophy Perspective
16.30–17.00 Daniel MURPHY (Cornell University, USA), Molinism, Creature-types, and the Nature of Counterfactual Implication
17.00–17.30 Murat ARICI (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey), Can Faith Be a Sustainable Epistemological Reaction to Epistemic Barriers?
 
Section III
15.30–16.00 Jeremy KOONS (Georgetown University, USA), Theism and Proper Basicality: Lessons from the Epistemology of Perception
16.00–16.30 Kyle SCOTT (University of Edinburgh, UK), Return of the Great Pumpkin
16.30–17.00 Marek PEPLIŃSKI (University of Gdansk, Poland), The Importance of Evidence in the Philosophy of Religion
17.00–17.30 Marco DAMONTE (University of Genova, Italy), Towards a New Natural Theology: Between Reformed Epistemology and Wittgensteinian Theism
 
Wednesday (29.06)
 
09.00–10.00 William WAINWRIGHT (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA), The Spiritual Senses in Western Spirituality and the Analytic Philosophy of Religion
10.00–11.00 Paul CLAVIER (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France), Hans Jonas' Feeble Theodicy : How on Earth Could God Retire?
 
11.00–11.30 Coffee Break
 
11.30–13.30 Parallel Sessions
 
Section I
11.30–12.00 Olli-Pekka VAINIO (University of Helsinki, Finland), Reflections on the Epistemology of Disagreement
12.00–12.30 Vladimir SHOKHIN (Moscow State University, Russia), Three Dimensions of Religion and Some Tasks of Philosophy of Religion
12.30–13.00 Andrzej BRONK (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland), Philosophizing as God's Command: A. MacIntyre’s Conception of Philosophy
 
Section II
11.30–12.00 Lukáš NOVÁK (University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic), Is God Logically Necessary?
12.00–12.30 Sebastian T. KOŁODZIEJCZYK (University of Geneva & Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland), Conceptual Commitment in the Argumentation for the Existence of God
12.30–13.00 David BÉZIER (University of Nancy, France), From Existence to Divine Simplicity
 
Section III
11.30–12.00 Stanisław KRAJEWSKI (Warsaw University, Poland), Some Issues in the Philosophy of Interreligious Dialogue
12.00–12.30 Amir DASTMALCHIAN (The Islamic College, London, UK), The Pluralist Hypothesis and the Muslim Mentality
12.30–13.00 Janusz SALAMON (Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic), On Value Pluralism, Religious Diversity, and the Autonomy of Ethical and Religious Realms
 
13.45–14.00 Closing Address

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