Eastern Regional Meeting of the
Society of Christian Philosophers
November 14-16, 2002
Schedule

(abstracts)


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14
Concurrent Session I: 4:30 - 5:30 P.M.
Bernardo Cantens 
Barry University
Peirce's Conjectures of Instinctive Reason and the Reality of God: Undermining the Evidential Challenge
Michael Robinson 
Cumberland College
Simple Foreknowledge and Divine Guidance
Paul MacDonald 
University of Virginia
Ethical and Theological Realisms: Practical Reason in McDowell as a Template for Faith in Aquinas
Concurrent Session II: 5:30 - 6:30 P.M.
Shawn Floyd 
Malone College
Can There Be a Science of Sacred Doctrine
Raymond VanArragon 
Asbury College
On the Possibility of Freely Rejecting God Forever
Sharon Hewitt
Messiah College
Abortion and the Ethic of Care: Harmonizing Women's Voices
Dinner: 6:30 - 7:30 Lottie Nelson Dining Hall, Eisenhower Student Center
Concurrent Session III: 7:30 - 8:30 P.M.
Gregory Ganssle 
Rivendell Institute for Christian Thought and Learning
Metaphysical Naturalism is Doomed (Sort of)
Mark Nowacki 
George Washington University
Natural Necessity and the Will
Dale Tuggy 
SUNY - Fredonia
The Deception Argument Against Social Trinitarianism
Concurrent Session IV: 8:30 - 9:30 P.M.
Victoria Harrison-Carter
University of Colorado at Boulder
Internalist Pluralism
Stan Tyvoll 
Seton Hall University
Anselm on the Compatibility of Grace and Free Will
Steven Horst 
Wesleyan University
(Report)
The Christian Studies Cluster at Wesleyan University: A Model for Cross-Disciplinary Organization of the Study of Christianity at a Secular University
Reception: 9:30 P.M.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15
Concurrent Session V: 9 - 10 A.M.
Michael Pace 
Brown University
The Openness of God and the Problem of Evil
Nicholas Meriwether
Shawnee State University
The Irrelevance of Values Pluralism for Political Theory
Paul Bali 
University of Toronto
Determining God's Ultimacy
Concurrent Session VI: 10 -11 A.M.
Ian DeWeese-Boyd 
Gordon College
Quiescence and Freedom
Aaron Preston 
Malone College
Quality Instances and the Structure of the Concrete Particular
Michael Murray and Glenn Ross
Franklin and Marshall College
Neo-Cartesian Theodicies of Animal Suffering
Break: 11 - 11:30 A.M.
Plenary Session I: 11:30 A.M - 1 P.M.
John D. Caputo
David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy
Villanova University
For the Love of Things Themselves: Derrida's Hyper-Realism
Business Meeting: 1-2 P.M.
(Boxed lunch will be provided)
Concurrent Session VII: 2 -3 P.M. 
Stewart Goetz 
Ursinus College
The Strong and Weak Arguments for Substance Dualism
Andrew Koehl 
Roberts Wesleyan College
On Blanket Statements About the Epistemic Effects of Diversity
Gregory Smith 
Patrick Henry College
Transmission Causality, Realism, and the Manifestior Via
Concurrent Session VIII: 3-4 P.M.
Stephen Griffith 
Lycoming College
Irreducible Complexity
Aaron Preston 
Malone College
Husserl's Ontology of Immediate Experience
Nathan Nobis 
University of Rochester
The Real Problem of Infant and Animal Suffering
Break: 4 - 4:30
Concurrent Session IX: 4:30 - 5:30 P.M.
Gordon Knight 
University of Iowa
What is it like to be God: the Theological Significance of Subjectivity
Angus Menuge 
Concordia University, Wisconsin
Evolution, Response and Cognition: Beyond Skinnerian Creatures
Kyle Swan 
College of Charleston
Jon Hare's Prescriptive Realism
Henry Venema 
Messiah College
Oneself and Another or Another as oneself
Ecumenical Worship Service: 5:30-6 P.M.
Banquet: 6:15-7:45 P.M.
Plenary Session II: 7:45-9:15 P.M.
William P. Alston
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Syracuse University
A Modest Metaphysical Realism
Saturday, November 16
Concurrent Session X: 8:30 - 9:30 A.M.
Justin Barnard 
Messiah College
Can the Physicalist Be a Mental Realist?
Timothy Miller 
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
In Defense of Anselmian Trinitarianism: A Response to Keith Yandell
P. Eddy Wilson 
Shaw University
Sophisticated Universalism and the After Life
Concurrent Session XI: 9:30-10:30 A.M.
Carlos Bovell
Westminster Theological Seminary
The Chicken-and-Egg Pattern of Christian Arguments for Realism
Patrick Toner 
University of Virginia
Perdurance and Divine Judgment
Andrew Cullison 
University of Rochester
Kenotic Christology and Disjunctive Properties
Break: 10:30 - 11:30
Concurrent Session XII: 10:45-11:45 A.M.
Andrei Buckareff and Allen Plug
University of Rochester
Escaping Hell: Divine Motivation and the Problem of Hell
Jeffrey Koperski 
Saginaw Valley State University
Scoring the Intelligent Design Debate
Morgan Rempel 
Calvin College
Philosophy as Ventriloquy: Nietzsche on the Deaths of Jesus and Socrates
Plenary Session III: 11:45 A.M - 1:15 P.M.
Linda Zagzebski
Professor of Philosophy
University of Oklahoma
Emotion and Moral Judgment
Lunch: Lottie Nelson Dining Hall 1:15 P.M.