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)