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SUMMARY:Divine Agency/Action
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LOCATION:mam Khomeini International University Blvd\, Qazvīn\, Iran
DESCRIPTION:<p>The Iranian Association for the Philosophy of Religion\, in cooperation with Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU)\, presents:</p>\n<p>Theme: Divine Agency/Action Conference Themes Divine Agency/Action in the History of Thought and Religions</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Divine agency/action in Western philosophy (Aristotle\, Plato\, the Neoplatonists\, etc.)</li>\n<li>Divine agency/action in Eastern philosophy (Indian philosophy\, Chinese philosophy\, etc.)</li>\n<li>Divine agency/action in Islamic philosophy (Avicenna [Ibn Sīnā]\, Suhrawardī\, Mīr Dāmād\, Mullā Ṣadrā\, etc.)</li>\n<li>Divine agency/action in Islamic theology and Jewish and Christian theology</li>\n<li>Divine agency/action in mysticism</li>\n<li>The semantics of divine actions</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Semantics of Divine Action</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conceptual analysis of action in the divine and human realms (equivocity\, univocity\, etc.)</li>\n<li>The semantics of direct and indirect divine action</li>\n<li>The semantics of general and particular divine action</li>\n<li>The conceptual distinction between action and related concepts in the divine realm (causality\, origination\, creation\, etc.)</li>\n<li>The conceptual relationship between divine agency/action and opposing concepts (hiddenness\, silence\, etc.)</li>\n<li>The semantics of propositions concerning divine actions</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Ontology of Divine Agency/Action</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Models of divine agency/action (agency/action by manifestation\, agency by intention\, agency by consent\, etc.)</li>\n<li>God and causality (quantum indeterminism models\, top-down causation\, vertical and horizontal causality\, etc.)</li>\n<li>Theories of general and particular divine action and their relation to the laws of nature</li>\n<li>Divine agency/action and human beings (theories of free will\, divine decree and destiny\, <em>kasb</em> [acquisition]\, etc.)</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Epistemology of Divine Agency/Action</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Naturalistic and non-naturalistic accounts of divine agency/action</li>\n<li>Cognitive biases in attributing actions to nature or to God</li>\n<li>Criteria for identifying divine agency/action</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Methodology of the Study of Divine Agency/Action</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Modeling divine agency/action (primary and secondary causation\, divine interaction\, continuous creation\, quantum models\, etc.)</li>\n<li>Challenges in modeling divine agency/action and criteria for evaluating models</li>\n<li>Methods of critical interaction between science and theology in the study of divine agency/action</li>\n<li>Source-based approaches to the study of divine agency/action (revelation\, tradition\, experience\, etc.)</li>\n<li>Phenomenological approaches to the study of divine agency/action</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Competing Theories of Divine Agency/Action</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Naturalism</li>\n<li>Deism</li>\n<li>Pantheism</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Academic Board</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Rahim Achar (Marmara University\, Turkey)</li>\n<li>Khalil Rahman Achar (Ankara University\, Turkey)</li>\n<li>Mehdi Akhavan (Allameh Tabataba&rsquo\;i University\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Reza Akbari (Imam Sadiq University\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Amir Abbas Alizaman (University of Tehran\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Saeed Anvari (Allameh Tabataba&rsquo\;i University\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Mohammad Asghari (University of Tabriz\, Iran) <em>(now correctly placed)</em></li>\n<li>Ahmad Asgari (Shahid Beheshti University\, Iran) <em>(now correctly placed)</em></li>\n<li>Hamidreza Ayatollahi (Allameh Tabataba&rsquo\;i University\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Ebrahim Azadegan (Sharif University of Technology\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Reza Berenjkar (Farabi Campus of University of Tehran\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Ghodratollah Ghorbani (Kharazmi University\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Abdolrazzagh Hesamifar (Imam Khomeini International University\, Qazvin\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Hossein Houshangi (Imam Sadiq University\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Mansour Imanpour (Shahid Madani University of Azerbaijan\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Mohsen Javadi (University of Qom\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Ramazan Mahdavi Azadboni (University of Mazandaran\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Jahangir Masoudi (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Tedeus Metz (University of Pretoria\, South Africa)</li>\n<li>Narges Nazarnejad (Alzahra University\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Rasoul Rasoulipour (Kharazmi University\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Mehdi Saatchi (Shahid Motahari University\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Mohammad Saeedimehr (Tarbiat Modares University\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Klaus von Stosch (University of Bonn\, Germany)</li>\n<li>Gholamhossein Tavakoli (University of Isfahan\, Iran)</li>\n<li>Aydin Topaloglu (Istanbul University\, Turkey)</li>\n<li>Edward Wierenga (University of Rochester\, USA)</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Conference Chair: Reza Akbari</p>\n<p>Scientific Secretary: Majid Mollayousefi</p>\n<p>Conference Dates: 17&ndash\;18 November 2026</p>\n<p>Abstract Submission Deadline: 18 September 2026</p>\n<p>Notification of Acceptance: 9 October 2026</p>\n<p>Venue: Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU)</p>\n<p>The conference will be held in a hybrid format (both virtually and in person)</p>\n<p>Submission Guidelines</p>\n<p>To register for CPR2026\, you must first submit your abstract through the conference submission page. (here)</p>\n<p>To submit an abstract\, you should prepare the following:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>An abstract of 200&ndash\;350 words</li>\n<li>At least three keywords</li>\n<li>Author information\, including:\n<ul>\n<li>Full name(s)</li>\n<li>Current academic status or highest academic degree</li>\n<li>Institutional affiliation (authors who prefer not to list an institution may use the designation &ldquo\;Independent Scholar&rdquo\;)</li>\n<li>Email address(es)</li>\n<li>Contact phone number(s)</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the conference referees and will receive one of the following decisions: Accepted\, Rejected\, Accepted subject to revisions</p>\n<p>The registration fee is payable only after the abstract has been accepted. Authors must send a scanned copy or photograph of the payment receipt in reply to the acceptance email.</p>\n<p>Authors whose papers are selected for oral presentation are expected to submit an extended abstract of approximately 2\,000 words to the conference secretariat before the conference.</p>\n<p>Authors may submit multiple abstracts. However\, after peer review and acceptance\, only one single-authored paper and one co-authored paper per author will be published.</p>\n<p>Registration Fees</p>\n<ul>\n<li>University faculty members\, seminary instructors\, and non-student participants: 100 &euro\;</li>\n<li>University students and seminary students: 50 &euro\; (upon presentation of student identification)</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Note: Payment instructions will be provided to authors of accepted abstracts. Catering costs during the conference will be calculated separately and announced to participants before the conference.</p>\n<p>High-resolution conference poster</p>\n<p>Conference Secretariat Contact</p>\n<p>Phone: +98 902 908 0340</p>\n<p>Email:philorconf@gmail.com</p>
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