Anastasia Philippa Scrutton's New Paper on Pragmatic Encroachment and Philosophy of Religion
Scrutton, Anastasia Philippa. "Why Not Believe in an Evil God? Pragmatic Encroachment and Some Lessons for Philosophy of Religion", Religious Studies 52:3 (2016), 345-360.
Announcement: 6th Annual Metaphysics Conference on Philosophy of Religion
The University of Southern California will be hosting the 6th annual California Metaphysics Conference, January 20th-22nd, 2017. This year's topic is Philosophy of Religion and Metaphysics!
Speakers:
Andrew Bailey
Ricki Bliss
Jeffrey Brower
Lara Buchak
Hud Hudson
Michael Rea
Bradley Rettler
Amy Seymour
Meghan Sullivan
Christina Van Dyke
Attendence is open (and free) to all who would like to come, but you must register by emailing kleinsch [at] usc [dot] edu no later than December 15th, 2016. Please include your full name and university affiliation in the email. You will not receive a confirmation email, but your name should appear on the list of participants within 30 days. Also, let me know if you are a graduate student from outside CA and you are interested in being an assistant organiser!
Contrarian Philosophy of Religion Friday
If lacking the ability to do wrong thereby makes a person a robot, then the God of classical theism is thereby a robot. But if the lack of ability to do wrong does not thereby make a person a robot, then finite creaturely agents who lack such an ability are not thereby rendered robots.
CfP: Inquiry: New Work on the Existence of God
NEW WORK ON THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
In recent years, methods and concepts in logic, metaphysics and epistemology have become more and more sophisticated. For example, much new, subtle and interesting work has been done on modality, grounding, explanation and infinity, in both logic, metaphysics as well as epistemology. The three classical arguments for the existence of God – ontological arguments, cosmological arguments and fine-tuning arguments – all turn on issues of modality, grounding, explanation and infinity. In light of recent work, these arguments can - and to some extent have - become more sophisticated as well. Inquiry hereby calls for new and original papers in the intersection of recent work in logic, metaphysics and epistemology and the three main types of arguments for the existence of God.
The deadline is 31 January 2017.
Direct queries to einar.d.bohn at uia.no.
Nice Piece on Rizzieri's Pragmatic Encroachment, Religious Belief, and Practice
...by Michael Pace, at Marginalia.
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