In case you've missed it, the Society of Christian Philosophers has introduced an new student rate of just $10. Beginning January 1, 2012, students may join or renew SCP membership for $10 per year. See here (pdf).
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As part of its spring open submission cycle, the John Templeton Foundation welcomes online funding inquiries in the areas of philosophy and theology. The submission window is February 1 to April 16, 2012. Proposed philosophical projects need not have religion or theology as a focus. To submit an online funding inquiry, please visit http://www.templeton.org/what-we-fund/our-grantmaking-process.
Please note that the Templeton Foundation does not normally provide dissertation fellowships through this open submission process. For more information on the kinds of projects that the Foundation can support, visit http://www.templeton.org/what-we-fund/core-funding-areas/science-and-the-big-questions.
A list of Foundation grants in the areas of philosophy and theology can be found here: http://www.templeton.org/what-we-fund/grant-search/results/taxonomy%3A5
The Association for the Philosophy of Judaism is now hosting a week long symposium on Philosophy in Halakha (Jewish law) on its site.
Many of you are familiar with Any Cullison's 'Young Philosopher' series at SUNY Fredonia. Here is another lecture series along the same general lines. This year's theme is 'Existentialism or Philosophy of Religion'. Submissions due by 17 Feb.
On behalf of Prof. Godehard Brüntrup
As part of the Analytic Theology Project funded by the Templeton Foundation, the Munich School of Philosophy is organizing various philosophy of religion events and activities this year.
Summer School: "Minds - Human and Divine"
July 26 - August 4, 2012
In most cases, the organizers will be able to cover the full expenses of successful applicants; including tuition, travel, lodging and full-board (for both summer school and international conference). The specific terms will be negotiated on an individual basis.
Application Deadline: February 15, 2012
International Conference: "Minds - Human and Divine"
August 6 - 9, 2012
Accepted paper presenters will receive free accommodation and full board. Support with travel expenses is possible in many cases. Some financial support from the presenter's home institution is expected, however. We will negotiate this on an individual basis.
Submission Deadline: March 1, 2012
John Hawthorne has been awarded a generous grant from Templeton for work on religious epistemology. There are fellowship possibilities. See here.
Sponsored by the Ammonius Foundation and administered by the editorial board of Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, the 2012 Younger Scholar Prize annual essay competition is open to scholars who are within ten years of receiving a Ph.D. or students who are currently enrolled in a graduate program. (Independent scholars should enquire of the editor to determine eligibility.) The award is $8,000. Winning essays will appear in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, so submissions must not be under review elsewhere.
Essays should generally be no longer than 10,000 words; longer essays may be considered, but authors must seek prior approval. To be eligible for the 2012 prize, submissions must be electronically submitted by 30 January 2012 (paper submissions are no longer accepted). Refereeing will be blind; authors should omit remarks and references that might disclose their identities. Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. The winner is determined by a committee of members of the editorial board of Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, and will be announced in early March. At the author's request, the board will simultaneously consider entries in the prize competition as submissions for Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, independently of the prize.
Previous winners of the Younger Scholar Prize are:
Thomas Hofweber, "Inexpressible Properties and Propositions", Vol. 2;
Matthew McGrath, "Four-Dimensionalism and the Puzzles of Coincidence", Vol. 3;
Cody Gilmore, "Time Travel, Coinciding Objects, and Persistence", Vol. 3;
Stephan Leuenberger, "Ceteris Absentibus Physicalism", Vol. 4;
Jeffrey Sanford Russell, "The Structure of Gunk: Adventures in the Ontology of Space", Vol. 4;
Bradford Skow, "Extrinsic Temporal Metrics", Vol. 5;
Jason Turner, "Ontological Nihilism", Vol. 6;
Rachael Briggs and Graeme A. Forbes, "The Real Truth About the Unreal Future", Vol. 7;
Shamik Dasgupta, "Absolutism vs Comparativism about Quantities", forthcoming, Vol. 8.
Enquiries should be addressed to Dean Zimmerman
Just learned about this. A great web resource. It is kicked off by Alvin Plantinga, and they have Michael Murray, Eleonore Stump and others lined up for the next two years. Lecture notes are also included.
The New York times has a generous piece up on Plantinga and the release of his new book Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism (OUP). Many of you have no doubt heard Plantinga on this topic in the past.
Update: Philosopher Michael Ruse comments in CHE
This just in from Dan Rabinowitz...
The Association for the Philosophy of Judaism invites all those interested to join in the following online symposium:
Date: 01-08 December
Website: http://philosophyofjudaism.blogspot.com/
Paper: "The Realm of the Sacred, wherein We may not Draw an Inference from Something which Itself has been Inferred: a reading of Talmud Bavli Zevachim folio 50" by Curtis Franks (Notre Dame).
Professors Curtis Franks (University of Notre Dame) and Andrew Schumann have kindly agreed to participate in the symposium.
A copy of the paper is available on the website. Please contact us if you have any queries asdphilosophy@gmail.com
Killeen Chair Conference on Religious Disagreement
Hosted by St. Norbert College, Green Bay, Wisconsin
April 14th through 15th, 2012
https://sites.google.com/site/killeenchair/
The organizing committee for the Killeen Chair of Theology & Philosophy announces a conference on the epistemology of religious disagreement, to be held at St. Norbert College on April 14-15, 2012.
Keynote Speakers:
Michael Bergmann (Purdue)
Thomas Kelly (Princeton)
Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern)
Additional Speakers:
Nathan King (Whitworth)
Jonathan Matheson (North Florida)
Andrew Moon (Missouri)
Tim Pickavance (Biola)
The organizing committee invites the submission of papers for two or three additional speakers. Papers should relate in some way to the epistemic significance of religious disagreement, and each should be suitable for a thirty-five minute presentation (roughly 3,500 words).
Papers should be prepared for blind review and submitted electronically. Please send your file attached to an e-mail message in which you state your name, contact information, and the title of your paper. Preferred file formats include Word 97-2003 (.doc), Word 2007 (.docx), and PDF. Please send submissions to tomas DOT bogardus AT snc DOT edu.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, February 10th, 2012.
The organizing committee warmly invites all interested philosophers to attend and participate in the conference. If you plan to attend, please email Tomas Bogardus at the above address so that we can plan to accommodate the group's size.
Commentators will be selected for some papers. If you would be willing to comment, please indicate your interest in an email (with a current CV attached) by Friday, February 10th, 2012. One need not present a paper in order to serve as a commentator.
For further information on the Killeen Chair in Theology & Philosophy, please visit http://www.snc.edu/killeen/
Social Science Research Council (SSRC) has a new project and grants program, New Directions in the Study of Prayer. Supported with funding from the John Templeton Foundation and led by a multi-disciplinary advisory committee, to be chaired by Columbia University's Courtney Bender, the program will make grants to both researchers and journalists.
Grant awards will range from $50,000 to $200,000 in the case of researchers and up to $50,000 in the case of journalists. Letters of inquiry for both fields of competition are due by December 1, 2011. Further information is available on the SSRC's website:
A central religious practice among much of the world's population, prayer has been a part of every known culture and is manifest in some form in every known religion. And yet scholarly research on prayer is lacking and often not concentrated in any given field or discipline. With this in mind, New Directions in the Study of Prayer will support research that adopts innovative approaches to the study of prayer and will seek to foster an interdisciplinary network of researchers dedicated to this topic.
The SSRC invites proposals from scholars in all disciplines for studies that will enhance knowledge of the social, cultural, psychological, and cognitive dimensions of prayer, and of its origins, variations, and correlations in human life, as well as from journalists interested in pursuing projects on these themes. Those researchers or journalists interested in submitting proposals are encouraged to consult the detailed Requests for Proposals posted on our website.
New Directions in the Study of Prayer is a project established in conjunction with the SSRC's work on religion and the public sphere. For more details on the SSRC's work on religion, please visit: http://religion.ssrc.org/.
If you have any questions regarding the new grants program or the SSRC's broader work, please do not hesitate to contact us at religion@ssrc.org.
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