ANNOUNCEMENT: Purdue Conference on the Epistemology of Moral and Religious Belief

On September 6-8, 2012, Purdue University will host an interdisciplinary conference entitled “Challenges to Religious and Moral Belief: Disagreement and Evolution”.
The conference will focus on three main challenges to religious and moral beliefs:

1. Widespread interpersonal disagreement among intellectual peers on religious and on moral topics provides reason to doubt these beliefs;
2. Belief-source disagreement on moral issues between commonsense moral intuitions and religious belief sources raises doubts about both methods of belief formation;
3. Evolutionary accounts of the origins of our religious and moral beliefs creates doubts about these beliefs by undermining our confidence in the reliability of their sources.

 Conference Participants:

• Robert Audi                              University of Notre Dame (Philosophy)
• Sarah Brosnan                         Georgia State University (Psychology)
• Kelly James Clark                    Calvin College (Philosophy)
• Stephen Davis                          Claremont McKenna College (Philosophy)
• Kyla Ebels-Duggan                  Northwestern University (Philosophy)
• William FitzPatrick                   University of Rochester (Philosophy)
• John Greco                              Saint Louis University (Philosophy)
• John Hare                                Yale University (Divinity School)
• Kevin Hector                            University of Chicago (Divinity School)
• Timothy Jackson                     Emory University (Candler School of Theology)
• Jordan Kiper                            University of Connecticut (Anthropology)
• Jennifer Lackey                       Northwestern University (Philosophy)
• Dustin Locke                           Claremont McKenna College (Philosophy)
• Charles Mathewes                  University of Virginia (Religious Studies)
• Christian Miller                        Wake Forest University (Philosophy)
• Mark Murphy                           Georgetown University (Philosophy)
• John Pittard                             Yale University (Philosophy & Religious Studies)
• Jeffrey Schloss                        Westmont College (Biology)
• Walter Sinnott-Armstrong        Duke University (Philosophy)
• Richard Sosis                           University of Connecticut (Anthropology)
• Sharon Street                           New York University (Philosophy)
• Ralph Wedgwood                     University of Southern California (Philosophy)
• Erik Wielenberg                        DePauw University (Philosophy)

 Organizers:

• Michael Bergmann                  Purdue University (Philosophy)
• Patrick Kain                             Purdue University (Philosophy)

For more information, including how to register, go to www.knowinginreligionandmorality.com/conference.html.