2023
Program
The Society for
Philosophy of Religion
2023 Annual Meeting
February 23rd - 25th, 2023
Hyatt Centric Hotel
New Orleans, Louisiana
Thursday
February 23, 2023
8:45 - 9:00 a.m.
Welcome and Announcements
Session I
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
“Practicing Farewell to God“
Scott Davison (Morehead State University)
Commentary: Joshua Horn (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point)
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
“Divine Temporalism and the Doctrine of the Eternal Processions”
Andrew Hollingsworth (Brewton-Parker College)
Commentary: Brian Austin (Carson Newman University)
Session Chair: Brad Kallenberg (University of Dayton)
Session II
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
“Why Divine Foreknowledge”
Michael Robinson (University of Mary Hardin-Baylor)
Commentary: Ben McCraw (University of South Carolina, Upstate)
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
"The World is What People Say It Is”
Patrick Horn (Managing Editor; American Political Thought, University of Oklahoma)
Commentary: Brian Birch (Utah Valley State University)
Session Chair: Susan Peppers-Bates (Stetson University)
Friday
February 24, 2023
Session III
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
“William Wainwright on Arguing about Religion"
William Hasker (Huntington University)
Commentary: Ted Poston (University of Alabama)
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
“Natural Thoughts and Unnatural Oughts:
Lessing, Wittgenstein, and Contemporary CSR"
Guy Axtell (Radford University)
Commentary: Ron Hall (Stetson University, Emeritus)
Session Chair: Tim Lytle (Piedmont University)
Session IV
Session Chair: TBD
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
"Resurrecting the Evidentialist Challenge to Theism”
Ted Poston (University of Alabama)
Commentary: Charity Anderson (Baylor University)
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
“Turning the Image Too Far:
Unlikely Bedfellows, Naturalism and Theism”
Joshua Farris, (Ruhr Universitat of Bochum, Germany)
Commentary: Terrance Tilley (Fordham University)
7:00 p.m.
Society Dinner and Presidential Address
"Why Reasonable People Differ"
Robert Prevost (Wingate University)
Saturday
February 25, 2023
Session V
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
'Non-Correspondence: On Hope, Faith, and Truth”
Hartmut von Sass (Humbolt Univ., Berlin/ New School for Research, NYC)
Commentary: Jeffrey Willetts (The John Leland Center for Theological Studies)
Session Chair: Hyun Kim
10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Business Meeting
Officers
President - Robert Prevost (2018)
Vice-President - Jeffrey Willetts (2019)
Secretary - Brian Birch (2022)
Treasurer - Ben McCraw (2022)
Council Members
Immediate Past President
Brian Birch (2017)
Tim Lytle (2020)
Ted Poston (2021)
Josh Horn (2022)