CONF: BSPR conference
Stephen Clark
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Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 17:03:27 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
From: Mark Wynn <M.R....@exeter.ac.uk>
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Subject: BSPR conference
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DRAFT
Conference Programme
Realism and Philosophy of Religion
A conference hosted by the
British Society for the Philosophy of Religion
Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford,
Tuesday 13 September – Thursday 15 September, 2005
Chairs: please ensure that sessions finish at least 5 minutes before lunch,
tea/coffee breaks and reception times
Tuesday 13 September
From 14.00 Arrival
16.00 Registration and tea/coffee
[Bear pit, outside Talbot Hall]
16.40 Welcome [Old Library]
16.45 Session I [Old Library]
Peter Byrne
Defining theistic realism
18.30 Reception
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Session II [Old Library]
Michael Scott
Realism and religious language
21.30 Bar (until midnight)
Wednesday 14 September
8.00 Breakfast
9.00 Session III: concurrent papers
Stream I [Old Library]
Eberhard Herrmann, Truth, freedom of religion, and the relation between science
and religion
Leslie Stevenson, Does God act in the world? Perspectives from Anglicans and
Quakers
Stream II
Victoria Harrison-Carter, Internal realism and the problem of religious
diversity
Douglas Pratt, Religious pluralism and referential realism
Stream III
Brian Garvey, Evidence of absence and the atheist’s teapot
Agnaldo Portugal, Realism and contextualism in a Bayesian approach to the
epistemology of theism
10.40 Tea/coffee
11.10 Session IV: concurrent papers
Stream I [Old Library]
Mark Linville, Ethical naturalism defeated
Dan Callcut, Religion, realism and moral authority
Stream II
Beverley Clack, Realism and illusion: phantasy and imagination in the philosophy
of religion
Hami Verbin, Religion: fiction and reality
Stream III
Nick Trakakis, D.Z. Phillips and the reality of God: do Wittgensteinians leave
everything as it is?
Patrick Quinn, The philosophical exploration of religion
12.45 Lunch
14.00 Session V: concurrent papers
Stream I [Old library]
Hugo Strandberg, A Davidsonian perspective on the question of religious realism
Stig Hansen, What a Fregean defence of realism will look like
Anders Kraal, Methodological relativism as an implication of meaning-theoretical
anti-realism in the philosophy of religion
Thord Svensson, Between concept use and conceptualization in philosophy of
religion
Stream II
Stuart Foyle, God and cognitive irrealism: how to have your cake and eat it in
theological ethics
Wang-Yen Lee, Pragmatic realism in science and religion
Earl Fronda, Wittgenstein’s non-empiricist realism with an attitude
Dónall McGinley, The conceivability of atheism in Anselm and Wittgenstein
Stream III
David Grumett, Two realisms or none: the eucharist as exemplar of substances in
the world in the Leibniz-Des Bosses correspondence
Frederic Lamond, Are gods and goddesses real?
Joseph Jedwab, The Trinity and anti-realism
16.10 Tea/coffee
16.40 General Meeting:
British Society for the Philosophy of Religion
17.00 Session VI [Old Library]
Andrew Moore
Religious Realism and
the Problem of Idolatry
18.45 Dinner
20.00 Session VII [Old Library]
Roger Trigg
Realism, religion and the public sphere
21.30 Bar (until midnight)
Thursday 15 September
8.00 Breakfast and departures
Updated versions of the schedule will be available
from the BSPR website:
http://les.man.ac.uk/philosophy/BSPR/BSPR.htm
If you would like to chair a session at the conference, do
please let me know.
In view of room size constraints, numbers for the
conference will be capped at 85. Given attendance in
previous years, this should pose no difficulty. But if the
conference is oversubscribed, places will be allocated on a
'first come, first served' basis, with priority to BSPR and
ESPR members.
With all good wishes,
Mark Wynn
Secretary, BSPR
British Society for the Philosophy of Religion
2005 Conference at
Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
Realism and the Philosophy of Religion
Tuesday 13th September to Thursday 15th September
Booking Form
Please return as soon as possible to Dr Tim Mawson, St Peter’s College, New Inn
Hall Street, Oxford, OX1 2DL
[Email: tjma...@rocketmail.com]
Name and title ________________________________________
Address _____________________________________________
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Tel no ______________ Email ___________________
(Cheques payable to ‘The British Society For The Philosophy of Religion’)
The cost of the Conference as a resident member will be £175 for an en-suite
bedroom, £155 for a standard plus bedroom and £147 for a standard bedroom
including all meals etc. In each case this includes a £25 non returnable
deposit and registration fee. Non-resident members will be liable for a £15
registration fee plus the cost of any meals. It is essential to book these
meals beforehand. Those resident members not able to stay full time will be
charged at a pro-rata rate so long as this is indicated on the booking form.
Because of the College financial requirements members residing in Britain are
requested to send the balance owing to Dr Tim Mawson by 31st August.
Resident graduate students will be eligible for a £20 reduction on their fee.
Non-resident graduate students will be eligible for a maximum £10 reduction on
their fees.
NOTE. The Society is liable for the full cost for any cancellations made after
31st August and therefore will have to pass this charge on.
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