[PHILOS-L] UCD Newman Centre Annual Lecture: Genia Schönbaumsfeld (16 April)
Daniel L Deasy
The UCD Newman Centre’s Annual Lecture in the Philosophy of Religion takes place on Thursday, 16 April at 3.30pm in the Agnes Cuming Seminar Room (D520), School of Philosophy, Newman Building, University College Dublin (Belfield) and online via this link.
The speaker is Genia Schönbaumsfeld, who is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. Prof. Schönbaumsfeld specialises in Wittgenstein, epistemology, Kierkegaard, and the philosophy of religion. She has just been awarded a 2.5 million euro ERC Advanced Grant for a 5-year project entitled “The Ethics of Doubt: Kierkegaard, Scepticism, and Conspiracy Theory”. You can find out more about her research and publications here.
The title of Prof. Schönbaumsfeld’s lecture is:
‘The Best Scientific Evidence is Just Nothing’—Wittgenstein’s Critique of Scientism and Evidentialism in Religion.
Abstract: In the Lectures and Conversations on Religious Belief, Wittgenstein makes three controversial claims: (1) The availability of evidence would destroy the very idea of religious belief; (2) ordinary evidence would have no impact on Wittgenstein acquiring (or not acquiring) a religious belief; (3) an ordinary forecast that predicted some sort of ‘Judgement Day’ would not be a religious belief. In this talk, I explain why Wittgenstein holds each of these three views and examine the implications they have for scientism and evidentialism in religion. I also show that Wittgenstein’s conception is not a form of fideism.
I hope you can join us in person for the talecture. If not, it will also be available live on Zoom via this link. If you have any questions, please email Daniel Esmonde Deasy at daniel...@ucd.ie.
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