2025
Program

 The Society for

Philosophy of Religion

  

2025 Annual Meeting

March 6th—8th

Hyatt Centric French Quarter

New Orleans, Louisiana


 

Officers 

President—Tim Lytle (2020)

Vice-President—Joshua Horn (2022)

Secretary—Brian Birch (2022)

Treasurer—Ben McCraw (2022)

Council Members

Jeffrey Willetts (Immediate Past President, 2019)
Ted Poston (2021)
Tad Robinson (2023)

Brian Austin (2024)



Program

 

Thursday, March 6th, 2025

 

8:45 am—9:00 am
Welcome and Announcements

 

Session I

9:00 am—10:20 am

Chair: Joshua Horn (University of Wisconsin Stevens Point) 

 

Speakers:

Noa Lahav Ayalon (Harvard University)

“Divine Self-Love in Judah Abrabanel and Baruch Spinoza”

 

Tad Robinson (Muhlenberg College)

 

10:30 am—11:50am

Chair: Tad Robinson (Muhlenberg College) 

 

Speakers:

Jeremy Skrzypek (Ohio Dominican University)

“Leibniz and the Problem of Regret”

 

Joshua Horn (University of Wisconsin Stevens Point)

 

12:00 pm—2:00 pm

Lunch

 

Session II

2:00 pm—3:20 pm

Chair: Brian Austin (Carson-Newman University)

 

Speakers:
Ben McCraw (University of South Carolina Upstate)

“Modelling Collective Faith: The Social Epistemology of Religious Commitments”

 

Mark Satta (University of Notre Dame)

  

3:30 pm—5:00 pm

Chair: Terrence Tilley (Fordham University)

 

Speakers:

William Hasker (Huntington University)

“Omnisubjectivity—Something it is Like to be God”

John Keller (Saint Joseph’s University)

  

 

Friday, March 7th, 2025

 

Session III 

9:00 am—10:20 am

Chair: Hyun Kim (State College of Florida)

 

Speakers:

James Sterba (University of Notre Dame)

Could a Good God Permit So Much Suffering?

 

Rob Prevost (Wingate University)

 

10:30 am—11:50 am
Chair: Ted Poston (University of Alabama)

 

Speakers:

Richard Swinburne (University of Oxford)

Could a Good God Permit So Much Suffering?

 

Scott Davison (Morehead State University)

 

12:00 pm—2:00 pm

Lunch

 

Session IV

2:00 pm—3:20 pm
Chair: Paul Draper (Purdue University)

 

Speakers:

John Lemos (Coe College)

“Free Will, Love’s Value, and Hick’s Theodicy”

 

Nate Rockwood (Brigham Young University)

 

3:30 pm—5:00 pm

Chair: Jeffrey Willetts (The John Leland Center)

 

Speakers

Lael Keller (Purdue University)

Paul Draper (Purdue University)

“Seeing God in a Solar Eclipse: A New Look at the Phenomenology of Numinous Experience”


Katherine Sweet (Flagler College)

 

7:00 pm
Society Dinner and Presidential Address

Tim Lytle (Piedmont University)

“Handing on a Tradition”

 


Saturday, March 8th, 2025


9:00 am—10:20 am
Business Meeting

 

Session VI: Keynote Address

10:30 am—11:50 am

Chair: Tim Lytle (Piedmont University) 

 

Speaker:

Yujin Nagasawa (University of Oklahoma)

“The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Consciousness”

 

12:00 pm—2:00 pm

Lunch

 

Session VII

2:00 pm—3:20 pm

Chair: Neil Manson (University of Mississippi)

Book Panel: The Problem of Evil for Atheists

 

Speakers

Yujin Nagasawa (University of Oklahoma)


Andrei Buckareff (Marist University) 

Curtis Rigsby (Hiroshima University) 

Eric Steinhart (William Paterson University)


3:30 pm—5:00 pm

Chair: Katherine Sweet (Flagler College)

 

Speakers:

Emily Cogburn (Southern University and A&M College)

Jon Cogburn (Louisiana State University)

“Uniformities of Religious Experience:

Mysticism, Pojman’s Arguments, and the Church-Turing Thesis”

 

Lorraine Keller (Saint Joseph’s University)