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Just got home from the 3rd annual conference. Lots of wonderful philosophy and lots of time to enjoy San Antonio. Since the papers are posted elsewhere, I won't summarize content, but, in my view, conferences like this are much better for philosophical discourse than APA's. I hope many will start to make plans for next year to make it to the conference. We cap attendance at a small number, there's lots of discussion, and lots of time with the primary speakers, who are always first-rate.

Brad Monton took a bunch of pictures, and I'll link to the pictures as soon as he posts them.

January 25-26, 2008
Pres House
731 State St., Madison, WI

C.S. Lewis was an inspiration and a help to many during the late 20th century, and many suspect that he may be equally helpful in the 21st century.

Where is C. S. Lewis's thought helpful to us as we face the problems of the 21st century,and where does his thought need to be supplemented, extended or challenged?

You won't want to miss this exciting and important conference!

At least two sessions at this year's American Academy of Religion meeting (being held in sunny SD) might be of interest to PBers.  Details below the fold.

John Greco (now at SLU don't forget) is currently putting together a session for the Society of Christian Philosophers at the American Catholic Philosophical Association meeting. Jason Baehr will give a paper on open mindedness as an intellectual virtue and Stephen Grimm will give a paper on epistemic value. Daniel Breyer (Fordham) will comment on Jason's paper and I'll be commenting on Stephen's paper.

Call for Papers

The second annual Online Philosophy Conference has begun. Be sure to catch the keynote address by Ernest Sosa on "Epistemic Normativity."

Brian Weatherson reports a new series of lectures in honor of David Lewis at Princeton. The first lecture will be by Frank Jackson. Of interest to Prosblogion readers will be a talk going on the same day (October 27) by Steffi Lewis, David Lewis' widow. The title of the talk is "Lewis and the Christians".

If anyone can make it and give a report back, I'm sure many of us would appreciate it (and I'd even be willing to post your reflections or notes if you aren't a Prosblogion contributor).

Congrats to SLU's Eric Silverman for winning a Graduate Student Travel Stipend to the Eastern APA to present his paper "Hick's Soul Making Theodicy and the Virtue of Love."

Way to go Eric!

Mark your calendars and assure your transportation -- SLU's Graduate Student Conference is right around the corner. Robert Audi is the keynote speaker, and Prosblogion's own Trent Dougherty will be presenting a paper co-authored with Ted Poston.

Here's the scoop; more below the fold:

2006 Saint Louis University Philosophy Graduate
Student Conference
Sponsored by the Saint Louis University Philosophy Department and the Graduate School
The Epistemology of Religious Belief
Sept. 21 & 22, 2006

Keynote Address by Robert Audi, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy and David E. Gallo Professor of Business Ethics (University of Notre Dame)

Panel Discussion with Robert Audi, Ph.D., John Greco, Ph.D. (Saint Louis University), and Eleonore Stump, Ph.D. (Saint Louis University)

Thursday, Sept. 21: Humanities Building, Room 142

3:30 p.m. Welcoming Reception

4:00 p.m. Keynote Address - Dr. Robert Audi: “The Dimensions and
Normative Authority of Religious Experience”

5:15 p.m. Break

5:30 p.m. Panel Discussion: The Epistemology of Religious Belief
Robert Audi, Ph.D., John Greco, Ph.D., and Eleonore Stump, Ph.D.

THE ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT, REVISITED

May 18-20, 2006
Houghton College

Houghton, New York

Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics in the Thomistic and Analytic Traditions

August 7 - 11, 2006
On the campus of Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics in the Thomistic and Analytic Traditions is a summer graduate seminar devoted to promoting intellectual exchange between the philosophical tradition inspired by Thomas Aquinas, broadly understood, and contemporary analytic philosophy. This seminar hopes to further this engagement between traditions by offering faculty and graduate students a forum for focused study and discussion of Thomism, as well as providing a convivial environment that initiates long-term scholarly collaboration. The topics addressed by the seminar will range broadly from metaphysics to legal and political theory, encouraging consideration of how the various problems and subfields of philosophy intertwine. Perhaps most importantly, the seminar aims to be more than a conventional academic conference by contributing in some small way to a renewal of contemporary philosophical practice; it is hoped that “philosophy” can again be understood as a way of life—an ideal which includes but transcends argumentation.

Seminar Faculty

• Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he is also Chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science.
  
• Alexander Pruss is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University.
  
• Gabriele De Anna is Permanent Researcher in philosophy at the University of Udine, Italy, and is currently a fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
  
• Mark C. Murphy is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University.
  
• Michael Gorman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America.

Applications and more information at: http://www.winst.org/philosophy.htm