August 2005 Archives

2006 Wesleyan Philosophical Society Conference

Love: Investigating its Meaning, History, and Expressions

In his description of the Methodist character, John Wesley pointed to the heart of Christian ethics: love. He said, "A Methodist is one who has 'the love of God shed abroad in his heart by the Holy Ghost given unto him;' one who 'loves the Lord his God with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his mind, and with all his strength. God is the joy of his heart, and the desire of his soul.'"

Wesley's emphasis on love hearkens back to the Greek Fathers as well as the monumental Western thinkers such as Augustine and Aquinas. Love plays a central role in Christian ethics, in our understanding of God and in the practical ways we engage others both in and out of the Christian community.

With the theme, "Love: Investigating its Meaning, History, and Expressions," First Vice-President Craig Boyd and the Wesleyan Philosophical Society (WPS) issues a Call for Papers for its 2006 annual conference. The conference will be held March 2, 2006 in Kansas City, Missouri. The society will meet in conjunction with the Society of the Study of Psychology and Wesleyan Theology (SSPWT). (Check WPS website updates for exact hotel and meeting site information http://david.snu.edu/~brint.fs/wpsjnl/).

Papers are invited on any aspect of love including the philosophy of God, theoretical and applied ethics, aesthetics and metaphysics. (Submissions for other philosophical topics will be considered, although preference will be given to those dealing with the selected theme.)

Submit proposals of 250 words or less, along with name, position, and institutional affiliation (if applicable) to Brint Montgomery at Brint@snu.edu by October 1, 2005. The proposal should be sent as an email attachment in Microsoft Word format.

New College Madison, The Society of Christian Philosophers Midwest Region, University of Wisconsin: Philosophy Department, and Department of Liberal Studies and the Arts

Present:

The Christian Worldview: Analysis, Assessment, and Development
A Conference in Honor of Keith E. Yandell

September 15-17, 2005, Memorial Union, Madison Wisconsin

Keynote Speakers

Paul J.Griffiths, University of Illinois at Chicago
Self-Annihilation or Damnation? A Disputable Question in Christian Eschatology

Paul K. Moser, Loyola University
Skepticism About Religious Skepticism

Harold Netland, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Thinking Christianly About Religious Pluralism

Charles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College
Redemption in Theism, Naturalism, and other Worldviews

David Yandell, Loyola University
How not to be a Compatibilist: On Descartes's and Kant's Alleged Compatibilism

Keith E. Yandell, University of Wisconsin
The Soul (?)

For conference registration, and a complete list of speakers and abstracts go to the New College Madison web page:
http://www.newcollegemadison.org/home.cfm

April 20-22, 2006 at the University of Notre Dame

Keynote Speakers: William Wainwright (Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee); Richard Cross (Oxford University); Merold Westphal (Fordham University)

Papers are invited on any topic of interest to Christian philosophers. Papers should be of such length as to be read in 30 minutes or less. Two copies, suitable for blind review, should be submitted, along with a one-page abstract containing the author's name and affiliation as he or she would like it to appear on the program.

Papers should be submitted to Thomas Flint, Department of Philosophy, 100 Malloy Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 46556. Submission Deadline: November 30, 2005. Notifications will be sent by January 31, 2006.