The Society for
Philosophy of Religion
2026 Annual Meeting
March 26th—28, 2026
Menger Hotel, San Antonio, Texas
Keynote Speaker: Dean Zimmerman, Rutgers University
Officers
President—Joshua Horn (2022)
Vice President—Ted Poston (2021)
Treasurer—Ben McCraw (2022)
Council Members
Tim Lytle (Immediate Past President, 2020)
Tad Robinson (2023)
Brian Austin (2024)
Ryan Falcioni (2025)
Program
Thursday, March 26
8:45 am—9:00 am
Welcome and Announcements
Session I: 9:00—10:20 am
A Powerful Pantheistic Model of Divine Creation
Speaker: Andrei Buckareff (Marist University)
Chair: Emil Badici (Texas A&M University-Kingsville)
Respondent: Dan Bonevac (University of Texas)
Session II: 10:30—11:50 am
Theistic Potentialism
Speaker: Hayden Macklin (University of California, Davis)
Chair: Tim Lytle (Piedmont University)
Respondent: Daniel Rubio (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Lunch Break (11:50 am–2:00 pm)
Session III: 2:00–3:20 pm
Divine Hiddenness and Arguments for God
Speaker: Charity Anderson (Baylor University)
Chair: Joshua Farris (Priest and Canon Theologian with Church of Tanzania, AMSG (AMiA))
Respondent: Ben McCraw (University of South Carolina Upstate)
Session IV: 3:30–4:50 pm
The Near Miss Modal Ontological Argument for Atheism
Speakers: Gene Witmer & Micah Edvenson (University of Florida)
Chair: Ted Poston (University of Alabama)
Respondent: Kenny Boyce (University of Missouri)
Friday, March 27th
Session V: 9:00–10:20 am
Embodiment, Creation, and Omnipotence
Speaker: Nate Rockwood (Brigham Young University)
Chair: Tad Robinson (Muhlenberg College)
Respondent: Jeff Bishop (St. Louis University)
Session VI: 10:30–11:50 am
Leibniz on Divine Justice and Eternal Punishment
Speaker: Juan Garcia Torres (University of California, Irvine)
Chair: Joshua Horn (University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point)
Respondent: Jeremy Skrzypek (Ohio Dominican University)
Lunch Break (11:50 am–2:00 pm)
Session VII: 2:00–3:20 pm
One Need Not Hope in Order to Undertake One’s Work
Speaker: Giffin Klemick (Hope College)
Chair: Josh Thurow (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Respondent: Bertha Manninen (Arizona State University)
Special Panel (3:30—5:00 pm): The Place of Philosophy in Islamic Faith: Prospects and Problems
Chair: Hashem Morvarid (Trinity University)
Featured Author: Imran Aijaz (University of Michigan–Dearborn)
Comments by:
- Hüseyin Güngör (University of Glasgow)
- Seyed Mousavian (Loyola University Chicago)
- Jamie Turner (University of Birmingham)
7:00 pm
Society Dinner and Presidential Address
Speaker: Joshua Horn (University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point) Unitas in Varietate
Saturday, March 28
Business Meeting: 9:30 am
(All SPR members welcome)
Keynote Session: 10:30 am–12:00 pm
Speaker: Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers University)
Lunch Break (12:00–2:00 pm)
Session VIII: 2:00–3:30 pm
Must Love be Freely Chosen?
Speaker: Scott Davison (University of Notre Dame)
Chair: Bernie Canteñs (Sul Ross State University)
Respondent: John Keller (St. Joseph’s University)
Session IX: 3:30-5:00 pm
Veneration and Representation: A Schopenhauerian Exploration of Religious Icons
Speaker: Trevor Dering (Princeton Theological Seminary)
Chair: Josh Rollins (University of Central Oklahoma)
Respondent: Judith Norman (Trinity University)