Challenges to Religious and Moral Belief: Disagreement and Evolution

Conference Schedule, September 6-8, 2012

All paper presentations will be in Stewart Center, Room 214

Thursday, September 6, 2012

I. Moral Disagreement and Religious Disagreement

6:00-7:30pm: "Normative Disagreement as a Challenge to Moral Philosophy and Philosophical Theology"

• Presenter: Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame, Philosophy)
• Commentator: Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University, Philosophy)
• Chair: Jonathan Matheson (University of North Florida, Philosophy)

7:45-9:15pm: "Theologies of Hell and Epistemological Conflict"

• Presenter: Charles Mathewes (University of Virginia, Religious Studies)
• Commentator: Stephen Davis (Claremont McKenna College, Philosophy)
• Chair: Stephen Long (Marquette University, Theology)

9:15pm: Reception (Stewart Center, Rooms 302 and 306)

Friday, September 7, 2012

9:00-10:30am: "Moral Disagreement among Philosophers"

• Presenter: Ralph Wedgwood (University of Southern California, Philosophy)
• Commentator: John Pittard (Yale University, Philosophy and Religious Studies)
• Chair: Karen Stohr (Georgetown University, Philosophy)

Break

10:45am-12:15pm: "Disagreeing With Psychopaths"

• Presenter: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University, Philosophy)
• Commentator: John Greco (Saint Louis University, Philosophy)
• Chair: Michael DePaul (University of Notre Dame, Philosophy)

12:15-1:45pm: Lunch (on own)

II. Religious vs. Nonreligious Sources of Moral Belief

1:45-3:15pm: "Not by Reason Alone: The Priority of Sanctity over Dignity"

• Presenter: Timothy Jackson (Emory University, Candler School of Theology)
• Commentator: Kevin Hector (University of Chicago, Divinity School)
• Chair: Andrew Moon (University of Missouri, Philosophy)

Break

3:30-5:00pm: "Conscience and the Moral Epistemology of Divine Command Theory"

• Presenter: John Hare (Yale University, Yale Divinity School)
• Commentator: Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern University, Philosophy)
• Chair: Jesse Couenhoven (Villanova University, Theology)

5:30-7:15pm: Conference Banquet (Purdue Memorial Union, East and West Faculty Lounge, reservations required)

7:30pm-9:00pm: "Toward God's Own Ethics"

• Presenter: Mark Murphy (Georgetown University, Philosophy)
• Commentator: Christian Miller (Wake Forest University, Philosophy)
• Chair: Jill Graper Hernandez (University of Texas at San Antonio, Philosophy)

Saturday, September 8, 2012

III. Evolutionary Accounts of Moral and Religious Belief

9:00-10:30am: "Religion is more than Belief: What Evolutionary Theories of Religion Tell Us about Religious Commitments"

• Presenter: Richard Sosis and Jordan Kiper (University of Connecticut, Anthropology)
• Commentator: Kelly James Clark (Grand Valley State University, Philosophy)
• Chair: Joshua Thurow (University of Texas at San Antonio, Philosophy)

Break

10:45am-12:15:pm: "Primate precursors to moral behavior"

• Presenter: Sarah Brosnan (Georgia State University, Psychology)
• Commentator: Jeffrey Schloss (Westmont College, Biology)
• Chair: James Nairne (Purdue University, Psychology)

12:15-1:45pm: Lunch (on own)

1:45-3:15pm: "Darwinian Normative Skepticism"

• Presenter: Dustin Locke (Claremont McKenna College, Philosophy)
• Commentator: William FitzPatrick (University of Rochester, Philosophy)
• Chair: Meghan Sullivan (University of Notre Dame, Philosophy)

Break

3:30-5:00pm: "The Existence of God as a Normative Question"

• Presenter: Sharon Street (New York University, Philosophy)
• Commentator: Erik Wielenberg (DePauw University, Philosophy)
• Chair: Daniel Kelly (Purdue University, Philosophy)