Public Lectures
13 May 2019, 1:00-4:30 pm, University of Birmingham
"Philosophy of Religion Workshop with a Public Lecture by Timothy O'Connor"
Sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation
1:00-2:00pm: Joshua Brown (University of Birmingham), "It is Never Reasonable to Believe in Ontologically Brute Facts"
2:10-3:10pm: Khai Wager (University of Birmingham), "Does Cosmopsychism Imply Panpsychism?"
3:10-3:30pm: Coffee and refreshments
3:30-4:30pm: Professor Timothy O’Connor (Indiana University Bloomington, USA), "Why the One Did Not Remain Within Itself"
"Why the One Did Not Remain Within Itself"
Abstract: Transposed to a classical theistic framework, Plotinus's ancient question becomes: Why did the omnipotent, omniscient, unsurpassably and perfectly good being who is necessary in Himself, and having a supremely rational will, contingently create ex nihilo? What motivation could account for such freely undertaken activity, displaying it as neither necessary nor less than fully rational? I discuss and criticize recent answers offered by Mark Johnston and Alex Pruss, and I argue that an adequate answer will plausibly posit an ordered complexity in God’s motivations, with surprising implications, possibly severe, for the scope of contingency.
Location: Room GD20, Metallurgy and Materials building, Building G6 on the campus map.
For more information, contact Yujin Nagasawa at <Y.Nagasawa@bham.ac.uk>
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30 January 2019, 5:00, Marist College
"What it Means to be 'In God' and for God to be 'In Us': Panentheism, Panexperientialism, and Open and Relational Theology"
Sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation
Thomas Jay Oord, Professor of Theology and Philosophy, Northwestern Nazarene University
Location: Marist College, 3399 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601, Hancock 2023
For more information, contact Andrei A. Buckareff <andrei.buckareff@marist.edu>
28 November 2017, 12:30-5:10 pm, University of Birmingham
Royal Institute of Philosophy Workshop, Birmingham branch
Sponsored by the John Templeton and the Royal Institute of Philosophy
The timetable for the workshop is:
-- 12.30 – 1.50: Yujin Nagasawa (University of Birmingham), "Pantheism, Panpsychism, and Cosmopsychism"
-- 1.50 – 2.00: Break
-- 2.00 – 3.20: Sam Lebens (University of Haifa), "God and His Imaginary Friends: Acosmism, Pantheism and Priority Monism"
-- 3.20 – 3.50: Refreshments
-- 3.50 – 5.10: Mikael Stenmark (University of Uppsala), "Panentheism and Its Rivals"
Location: Learning Centre room LG 14, building R28 on the map at: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/university/edgbaston-campus-map.pdf
For more information, contact Yujin Nagasawa at <Y.Nagasawa@bham.ac.uk>
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1 November 2017, 5:00-7:00 p.m., Marist College
Sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation
Yitzhak Melamed, Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
Location: Marist College, 3399 North Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601, Hancock 2023
For more information, contact Andrei A. Buckareff <andrei.buckareff@marist.edu>