Conferences & Events
2013 Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture
Institute for Faith and Learning
Thursday, October 31 - Saturday, November 2
2012 Philosophy Department Homecoming Lecture
Alumna Amanda Mendiola
Friday, November 2, at 3:30 p.m.
The 2012 Homecoming Lecture will be held on November 2, 2012 at 3:30 pm in Morrison Hall 120. This lecture will be on "But what can you do with a Philosophy Major?" and presented by Amanda Mendiola.
The 2012 Phi Beta Kappa Albaugh Lecture
Philosopher Charles TaylorTuesday, November 27, at 7:30 p.m.
Charles Taylor, a professor of philosophy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, has made notable contributions to the fields of political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, and the history of philosophy. A recipient of the prestigious Kyoto Prize and Templeton Prize, Taylor is the author of numerous articles and books, including: The Explanation of Behavior (1964), Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity (1989), The Ethics of Authenticity (1992), Multiculturalism (1994), A Secular Age (2007), Dilemmas and Connections (2011), and the forthcoming Retrieving Realism, with Hubert Dreyfus. Taylor enjoys widespread esteem among fellow philosophers and has been called the greatest philosopher alive today.
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Philosophy of Religion Colloquium Series
Fall 2012- October 1-4: Merold Westphal (Fordham)
Faith and Reason in Kierkegaard: A Lecture Series
Monday, October 1: The Nature of Biblical Faith in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
4:00 - 6:30, Armstrong Browning Library, Foyer of Meditation
Reception to follow lecture in the Cox Reception room of Armstrong Browning Library
Wednesday, October 3: Faith and Reason in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
4:00 - 5:30, Armstrong Browning Library, Foyer of Meditation
Thursday, October 4: Faith and Reason in Philosophical Fragments
4:00 - 5:30, Armstrong Browning Library, Foyer of Meditation
- August 29: Keith DeRose (Yale)
Relationships, Value, and the Atonement.Wednesday, August 29, 3:30pm - 5:00pm, Armstrong Browning Library, Foyer of Meditation.
Reception to follow
Spring 2012
- April 26-27: Alvin Plantinga (Notre Dame)
Science and Religion: Where the Conflict Really Lies
Thursday, April 26, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Armstrong Browning Library, Foyer of Meditation
Reception to follow from 5:00pm-6:00pm in the Cox Reception Room of Armstrong Browning Library
Fall 2011
- November 3-4: Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma) Epistemic Authority: A Theory of Trust, Authority, and Autonomy in Belief
Spring 2011
Fall 2010
- Eternity and Fatalism
A lecture with Dr. Linda Zagzebski of the University of Oklahoma
September 24 at 3:30-5:00 PM
October 29th: Timothy O'Connor (University of Indiana)
"Could There Be a Theory of Everything?"
'Why is there this--why is there anything at all?' A little reflection shows that a satisfactory answer to this question would require an altogether different kind of explanation from familiar sorts. Would any sort manage to do? If so, would more than one? O'Connor will not try to answer these questions in a short talk (!). Instead, he wants to lay the groundwork for pursuing them in a rigorous and creative fashion. After identifying a couple key assumptions that underlie either the question of existence itself or certain kinds of response to it, O'Connor will try to rebut a common objection to the enterprise of seeking an explanation of contingent reality, viz., that the enterprise is bankrupt since contingent reality, by definition as it were, precludes the possibility of complete explanation.
Location: Treasure Room in Armstrong Browning Library at 3:30 PM
Past Lectures
The Communicative Turn in the Dynamics of Philosophical Discourse, September 30, 2010
Annual Baylor Philosophy Homecoming Lecture
Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference
February 25-26, 2011
More Information to Come.
