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Society of Christian Philosophers Schedule

Detailed Schedule of Events

Thursday, September 22

10:00 am – 2:00 pm Registration RG-200 Riggs Atrium
2:00 pm Welcome TR-101 Auditorium
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm Breakouts
Chair: Phil Kallberg

TR-101 Auditorium

 Chair: Adam Cebula

ZM-102 Lecture Hall

 Chair: Filepe Miguel

ZM-209 Lecture Hall
Audra Goodnight:
Women and Testimonial Injustice in the Bible		 Elijah Hess:
Reconciling Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom
Kevin Carnahan: On the Impossibility of Imitating Christ in a Sinful World		 Andrew Marsh:
Implicit Association and Social Evil
Jim Elliott:
Faith and Intellectual Humility: Friends, Foes, or Simply Epistemic Colleagues		 Philip Swensen:
Fischer on Explanatory Dependence and Foreknowledge		 Kevin Carnahan:
On the Impossibility of Imitating Christ in a Sinful World
3:45 – 4:00 pm Break w/snack ZM-SELOB Southeast Lobby
 4:00 – 5:15 pm  Breakouts
Chair: Teri Merrick

TR-101 Auditorium 

 Chair: Andrew Moon

ZM-102 Lecture Hall

 Chair: Andy Gustafson

ZM-101 Lecture Hall

 Chair: Justin Morton

ZM-105 Auditorium 
Christopher Shrock:
Stone and Campbell vs. Classical Theism: What’s the Flicker problem?		 Matthew Shea:
Divine Concurrence and Evil		 Sabrina Little:

Good Guys and Bad Guys: The Role of Reconciliation in Sin Blindness

 Zachary Manis: Rethinking Eternal Punishment:
The Divine Presence Model
Jonathan Fuqua:
The Difficulty of Escaping Pascal’s Wager		 Michelle Panchuk:
The Epistemic Significance of Suffering and the Problem of Evil		 Alexander Jech:

The Practice of Love: Between Freedom and Authority

 James Sennett:
Is “Christian Buisness Ethics” A Double Oxymoron? Profit Corporate Social Responsibility And Being Like Jesus
5:00 – 5:15 pm Break w/snack ZM-SELOB Southeast Lobby
 5:30 – 6:30 pm

Alexander Pruss: Marriage is a natural kind

ZM-105 Auditorium 

Friday, September 23

9:00 am – 10:15 am Breakout
Chair: Philip Swensen

ZM-101 Lecture Hall

 Chair: Kevin Carnahan

ZM-102

 Chair: James Sennet

ZM-104 Lecture Hall

 Chair: Matthew Shea

ZM-113 Classroom
Paul Anders:
Is There an Anti-Abortion Mandate?		 Brock Bahler:
Christian Philosophy as Habitus: A Praxis-Oriented Teaching Pedagogy		 Ashton Speery:
How Ought Christians Approach Economic Theory?		 Dominic Halsmer:
Hacking The Cosmos: How Engineering Contributes to a Balanced View of Origins
Brandon Rickbaugh:
Substance Dualism and Resurrected Bodies: A Neo-Aristotelian Account		 Dax Bennington:
Reconstructing Charles Leslie’s Argument for Christianity		 Felipe Miguel:
Divine Providence And System Effects		 Rob Reed:
From Civitas to Urbs: Challenges to the Common Good in the Modern Urban Landscape
10:15 – 10:30 am Break w/snack ZM-SELOB Southeast Lobby
10:30 – 11:45 am Keynote Leigh Vicens: Sin and Implicit Bias

ZM-105 Auditorium
12:00 pm Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 pm Breakouts
Chair Michelle Panchuk

ZM-101 Lecture Hall

 Chair: Aaron Shepherd

ZM-102 Lecture Hall

 Chair: Jim Elliott

 

 Chair: Sean Skedzielewski

ZM-113 Classroom
Kate Finley: Religious Experience and Intellectual Disability Hillary Yancey:
Frontiers of Analogous Justice: A Thomistic Approach to Martha Nussbaum’s Justice for Animals		 Joshua Smart:
Theistic Moral Nihilism: Might Mackie and Moses both be Right?		 Adam Cebula:
The Public Legitimacy of Religion. Notes in the Margins of Richard John Neuhaus’s The Naked Public Square 32 Years After it’s Publication
Jason Goltz:
Religion, Public Policy, and Compromise		 Phil Kallberg:
The Art of Persuasion According to Aquinas: How the Saint Would Have us Talk to Each Other		 Jennifer Ward:
Christians, Society, and Government: A Case for Church-State Pluralism		 Andy Gustafson:
Playing the Fiddle While Rome Is Burning: What is it that we do again
3:00 – 4:45 pm Breakouts
Chair: Zachary Manis

ZM-101 Lecture Hall

 Chair: Brock Bahler

ZM-102 Lecture Hall

 Chair: David McPherson

ZM-104 Lecture Hall

 Chair: Paul Anders

ZM-113 Lecture Hall
Jack Mulder:
The Content Problem for Bettcher’s Theory of (Trans)Women		 Eric Berg:
Albert Camus’ Call for Christian Action		 Brad Sickler:
Natural Theology and Laws of Nature: Against Probablistic Arguments from Laws to God		 Bob Wadholm:
Open Knowledge: Social Benefits of the Hacker Ethic
Teri Merrick:
Authority, Testimonial Justice and Intersex Christians		 Craig Payne:
The Anti-Nietzsche: Advocating for a Thomistic Culture		 Andrew Moon:
Skeptical Theism, Plantinga’s Religious Epistemology, and Debunking Arguments		 Alex Hyun:
Atonement and the Vicarious Punishment of Humankind
Jonathan Nabel:
The Origin Argument		 Ed Hackett:
Understanding Kenosis and the Existential Challenge of its Realization as a Spiritual Ideal		 Justin Morton:
Can Theists Avoid Epistemological Objections to Moral Realism		 Megan Fritts & Nicholas Vallone:
The Over-Demanding Christ: Defeating a Fairness-Tracking Objection to Christian Ethics
5:00 – 6:30 pm Keynote Richard Swinburne: Christian Moral Teaching on Sex, Family, and Life

ZM-105 Auditorium 

Saturday, September 24

9:00 – 10:15 am Breakouts
Chair: Joshua Smart

ZM-101 Lecture Hall

 Chair: Hillary Yancey

ZM-102 Lecture Hall

 Chair: Sabrina Little

ZM-104 Lecture Hall

 Chair: Jason Goltz

ZM-113 Classroom
Josh Merlo:
Sexual Ethics and the Avoidance of Conception		 Aaron Shepherd:
The “Kingdom of God” vs. “Beloved Community”		 Geoff Sutton:
Moral Psychology, Moral Philosophy, and Christian Morality: Learning from Hume		 Yisrarel Vincent:
When God Takes a Life: A Study of God’s Immediate and Direct Judgement on Humanity Modeled Across both Testaments
Sean Skedzielewski:
The Efficacy of Belief: Euthanasia As Judgement		 James Spiegel:
Celebration and Betrayal: Martin Luther King’s Case for Racial Justice and our Current Moral Dilemma		 Celeste Harvey:
Righteous Anger, Rage and Systemic Injustice		 Melissa Mills:
New Wine, New Wineskins: A New Creation
10:15 – 10:00 am Break w/snack ZM-SELOB Southeast Lobby
10:30 – 11:45 am Breakouts
Chair: Alex Hyun

ZM-101 Lecture Hall

 Chair: Jennifer Ward

ZM-102 Lecture Hall

 Chair: Craig Payne

ZM-104 Lecture Hall

 Chair: Ben Varghese

ZM-113 Classroom
David McPherson:
Humane Philosophy as Public Philosophy		 Michael Willenborg:
Herbert’s Dilemma and a Mind-Making Theodicy		 Christopher Tomaszewski:
Christian Materialism and the Imago Dei		 Rico Vitz:
Minding the ‘Unbridgeable Gap’: The Future of Conscientious Objection in a Secular Age
Josh Thurow:
He Died For Our Sins (In a Contextually-Sensitive Way)		 Brendan Sweetman:
Religion and the Secularist State		 Matthew Wilson:
Respect is a Two-Street: Speaking, Listening, and the Limits of Justificatory Liberalism		 David Redmond:
Wolterstorff On Secular and Theistic Attempts to Ground Human Rights
Noon – 2:00 pm Banquet Francis Beckwith:
Taking Rites Seriously: Faith, Reason, and Religious LibertyCRUSHALL CH-115AB CH-115 A & B

 

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