Jonathan Kvanvig has organized Baylor University’s 6th Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference. It is being held at Baylor on January 28-29 (the flyer says 2010 but I expect that’s a typo). Speakers include Andrew Chignell (Cornell), Ed Wierenga (Rochester) and Steve Wykstra (Calvin). Among the pap... [More]

What happens when you try to analyze all of life logically? You're bound to miss some things. [More]

Even if you’re not a professional philosopher, you’ve heard of Plato and Kant and probably Russell and Descartes because of their enormous influence on just about everything academic. But what about great thinkers that rarely show up in introductory philosophy courses? [More]

We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for the following postgraduate Scholarships for 2011-2012. We welcome applicants interested in philosophy of religion. We currently have 11 MA students, 2 MPhil students and 3 PhD students in this specific area. AHRC doctoral awards (fe... [More]

The program for the third Online Consciousness Conference is finalized and is available at the conference website. The conference begins February 18th and lasts until March 4th. Papers (but not commentaries) will be available to read one week before the conference starts February 11th. To be update... [More]

Nick Spencer considers the question, “Is there a God Instinct” in a series for The Guardian. He concludes that evolutionary explanations—both modern and historical—for religion are severely lacking and that it appears that unbelief is what needs to be explained. Even if the claims of religion aren’t... [More]

Mark Oppenheimer, for the New York Times, writes considers the impact and life of this influential Catholic philosopher (her philosophy and her life are inseparable, he says) who died a decade ago. More pointedly, he observes a resurgence in interest in her work and life. “Philosophers are primarily... [More]

Call for Papers Special Issue of *Philosophical Explorations* on ”Extended Cognition and Epistemic Action” Guest Editors: Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh), Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh), Krist Vaesen (Eindhoven University of Technology) Submission Deadline: September 15, 2011 In... [More]

These two specific ways of viewing the relationship between faith and reason capture in general, I believe, the distinction between the Kierkegaardian religious epistemology and the religious epistemology of contemporary believers that wish to preserve the role of reason in religious belief. The latter hold that the deliverances of faith and the deliverances of reason not only do complement each other but should complement each other. [More]

Dean Zimmerman announces the imminent publication of the winning essay from the 2009 Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Younger Scholars Prize: “Ontological Nihilism”, by Jason Turner (University of Leeds). It will be the lead article in Vol. 6 of OSM, due early 2011 from Oxford University Press. It is a... [More]