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)