“Of Miracles” — What, Precisely, Was Hume’s Point?

Submitted for your consideration, a hastily written polemic. I would like to see what others think of this situation.

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“Aquinas on Eternity, Tense, and Temporal Becoming”

Congratulations to FSPB contributor Andrew Brenner (UNF) for winning the FPA’s Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Philosophy Paper! Andrew will present his paper — “Aquinas on Eternity, Tense, and Temporal Becoming” — on Friday, November 13th at 5:00 P.M. at the FPA’s second plenary session.

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Abstracts of Papers, Part 2

Here are abstracts of the papers for the conference’s second concurrent sessions. More to follow shortly.

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Society of Christian Philosophers CFP (Reminder)

We have at least one student at UNF who will be submitting a paper. Perhaps others are interested, as well:
Western Conference of the Society of Christian Philosophers
PAPER DEADLINE: Saturday, August 15

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Call for Papers: “Spirituality in Action: Bringing Transpersonal Psychology to a World in Crisis”

I though this might be relevant for those working on Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, and/or Moral Psychology. Best of Luck!

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Thomas Berry, Environmentalist, Priest, Eco-Theologian, Dies at 94

Read more here and here.

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Call for Papers

Søren Kierkegaard Society Meeting at the Central APA
February 17-20, Palmer House, Chicago , IL
Session Theme: Kierkegaard and Time
Reading time: 20-25 minutes max.
Keynote address by John Davenport (Fordham University): “Earnestness, Loyalty, and Purity of Heart: Narrative Unity through Infinite Pathos”
Deadline for submission: June 5, 2009. Two open slots.
Any submission broadly related to these topics will be [...]

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Old Testament Ethics Conference at Notre Dame

My Ways Are Not Your Ways: The Character of the God of the Hebrew Bible

Theme: The conference will focus on the charge that the Abrahamic religious traditions should be rejected because of their foundation in the Hebrew Bible, which allegedly portrays God as immoral and vicious. The presenters and commentators will include philosophers—both theistic and nontheistic—as well as Biblical scholars.

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God, Time, Heidegger, and Personal Identity

Congratulations to Andrew Brenner and Ace Comparato whose projects were accepted for presentation at UNF’s annual Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Here are the abstracts of their projects:
“Special Relativity and Divine Eternality: The Contemporary Debate”
Andrew Brenner

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William Lane Craig to Speak at FSU This Month

William Lane Craig, research professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, will be speaking at FSU March 31, 2009. His speech will be titled “5 Reasons God Exists and 3 Reasons It Makes A Difference,” and will be followed by a Q & A.
Dr. Craig is well known for his work in philosophy of religion, [...]

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Conference Papers

Congratulations to the students whose papers have been accepted for presentation at the 12th Annual Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference at UNF on February 7th:
“How to Motivate the Maxim that ‘Ought Implies Can’ to Defend the Principle of Alternate Possibilities”
Sean Armil (University of Florida)
“On the Limitations of Formal Methods”
Wataru Asanuma (Florida State University)
“A Defense of [...]

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Creationism in the UK

For better or worse, 29% percent of teachers in the UK think that creationism ought to be taught alongside evoultion, according to this blog.
Whether evolutionary theory is the only legitimate scientific explanation for the existence of life begs the question, ‘What is science?’ For, if science classes in schools covers that which falls under the [...]

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Happy Halloween!

And don’t eat too much candy!

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To Those who Call Abortion, Murder

2 Kings 17:17 They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire.

Some claim that abortion is murder.
To restate this, there are some who claim is that there are rooms all over America, where individuals are murdering innocent children with the consent of their mothers. To date, between thirty and forty million innocent children have [...]

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Bernard Williams Lecture in Nine Parts

Below are youtube links to a lecture Williams gave in 2002 at Princeton entitled “Unavoidable Human Prejudice.” In it, Williams discusses speciesism, Singer’s utilitarianism and the unavoidable human prejudice.

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Philosophy on the Radio

For all of the FSPB readers who have better things to do on a Saturday afternoon than listen to NPR, this post will let you hear what you missed. To The Best of Our Knowledge is a program which offers a breath of topics ranging from current events, to post-postmodernism, to existential philosophy. One their shows which I think [...]

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Winona LaDuke on Climate Change and Sustainability

Here’s a lecture LaDuke gave last year (Sept, 2007) at UCF on climate change, sustainability and some of the things native communities are doing to create sustainable societies.

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Muslim Girls reach out

Here is a good link for educators who want to help shape a global understanding of religion and cultural diversity and who are looking for new tools.
The magazine is clever, hot, fun, and contemporary. It is targeted for college age young female adults. You can get it free at:
http://www.muslimgirlworld.com/mgmag/2class.cfm

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Nussbaum Interview: Liberty of Conscience

Here’s a link to an interview with Martha Nussbaum about her recent book Liberty of Conscience.
(Hat Tip!)

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The Problem of Evil on NPR

Here’s an interview with Religious Studies Professor Bart D. Ehrman (UNC-Chapel Hill) on the problem of evil, the Bible and his new book God’s Problem.
(Thanks, Tara, for the heads-up!)

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Philosophers’ Carnival #53

Class is officially in session for the 53rd Philosophers‘ Carnival!
Since we at the Florida Student Philosophy Blog have recently returned to class, we thought you should too. We would like to thank all those who submitted, and we hope that you find the current selection as engaging as we did. Courses (or posts if you [...]

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Epistemological Discussions at ‘Go Grue!’

The folks at Go Grue! have a couple interesting discussions that are worth a look:

Plantinga on Whether Belief that God Exists is Properly Basic

Personal and Doxastic Justification

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Colbert Using Ockham’s Razor

… to clarify his take on the theory of evolution in a discussion with Kenneth Miller (Brown). Enjoy the whole interview here.

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God’s Existence and the Standard Model of Particle Physics: An Entailment Relation?

In Faith and Philosophy (January 2007), Elliott Sober once again takes up the question of intelligent design (ID) theory, arguing that the minimalist ID (mini-ID) theory–despite what its proponents claim–has theological implications. Here is how Sober describes mini-ID theory:

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Philosophy Soup

Our friends at Philosophy@Utah State have an interesting discussion going that seems related to the Epicurus discussion we had going here last month: Religious Authenticity.
The Space of Reasons, previous Philosophers’ Carnival host, always has great discussion. The most recent post is: Lottery Argument Against Defeasible Evidence – a must for anyone interested in Epistemology.
A [...]

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