2nd Glasgow Philosophy of Religion Seminar

The biennial Glasgow Philosophy of Religion Seminar provides a platform for discussion of work-in-progress in analytic philosophy of religion. The Seminar is organized by the Centre for Philosophy and Religion, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow.

Registration for the Seminar is required. To register, please email directly to the organiser, Victoria Harrison: [email protected]

Refreshments will be provided and there will be a buffet lunch on the 25th May (lunch on the 24th will be by own arrangement). A registration fee of £10 (£5 for graduate students) will be payable at the door.

This event is sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and Philosophy at the University of Glasgow.

Confirmed speakers and papers:

Vuko Andric and Attila Tanyi, University of Konstanz, ‘Between Boredom and Ignorance: On the Problems of an Omnitemporal Deity’

James Collin, University of Edinburgh, ‘Semantic Inferentialism and the Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism’

Richard Corrigan, Malvern College, ‘Middle Knowledge, Impossible Subjunctives and the Power to do Otherwise’

Helen De Cruz, Somerville College, University of Oxford, ‘What is the Function of Natural Theological Arguments?’

Joseph Diekemper, Queen’s University Belfast/Hertford College, Oxford, ‘Space-Time Reductionism, Creation, and God’

Elizabeth Drummond Young, University of Edinburgh, ‘God’s Moral Goodness and Supererogation’

David Hunt, Whittier College, ‘On a Semantic Argument for Open Theism’

David Hunter, University of Birmingham, ‘The Problem of Freedom—A New Argument from Evil?’

Christopher Jay, Merton College, Oxford, ‘Fictionalism and Religious Commitment’

Klaas Kraay, Ryerson University/St Peter’s College, University of Oxford, ‘Must God Prevent all Gratuitous Evil?’

Jon Loose, Heythrop College, University of London, ‘The Fallen Elevator: Personal Identity, Constitution & Afterlife’

Ioanna-Maria Patsalidou, University of Glasgow, ‘On the Failure of Christian Universalism: Curative Punishment and the Problem of Hell’

Joshua Rollins, University of Oklahoma, ‘Epistemic Universalism and Common Consent Arguments’

Kyle Scott, University of Edinburgh, ‘The Problem of Arrogance’

Thord Svensson, Lund University, ‘The Meaning of “God”: The Causal Theory and Neo-Descriptivism’

Hami Verbin, Tel Aviv University, ‘Can God Forgive our Trespasses?’

See the Seminar’s website, where further information will be posted as it becomes available:

http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/philosophyresearch/cpr/events/