The 18th Annual

Undergraduate Philosophy & Religion Conference

Saturday,November 10, 2007
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
SUB Conference room (301)

Hosted by Truman State University Department of Philosophy and Religion

 

 

Conference Schedule

 

9:00 am - Welcome 

 

9:05 am - Paper 1

Sunyata and Interbeing: An Approach to Buddhist-Christian Dialogue
By:  Arthur David Gregg
Truman State University

 

9:35 am - Paper 2

The Whole Shebang: Science and Religion in Relationship
By: Levi M. Hadley
Southeast Missouri State University

 

10:05 am - Paper 3

The Logic of Paul’s Ethics: A Paradigm Shift in Literary Terms
By: Brad Smith
Truman State University

 

10:35 am - Break

 

10:40 am - Paper 4

Examining the Mean Relative to Us
By: Rick Archer
Illinois State University

 

11:10 am - Paper 5

The Problem of Evil and Its Solution
By: Trevor Hedberg
Baker University

 

11:40 am - Paper 6

Free Will and Calvinism in Jonathan Edwards
By: Kacey Proctor
Southeast Missouri State University

 

12:10 pm - Lunch 1 hr, 10 min

 

1:20 pm - Paper 7

Conversing With Angels and the Search for Divine Language: John Dee the Scientist, John Dee the Conjurer
By: Matt Schweizer
Truman State University

 

1:50 pm - Paper 8

The Cosmological and Anthropological Framework of Ibn 'Arabi's teaching of Union with God
By: Daniel Greeson
Western Kentucky University

 

2:20 pm - Paper 9

From Rules to Principles: The Transformation of a Jewish Agricultural Ethic
By: Travis Berg
Minnesota State University

 

2:50 pm - Paper 10

Xun Zi: An Investigation on Xun Zi’s Doctrine of Human Nature
By: Brandon Johnson
Western Kentucky University

 

3:20 pm - Break

 

3:30 pm - Paper 11

Inheriting Cosmopolitanism: Thomas Pogge and Jacques Derrida on Global Injustice
By: Samuel Timme
Creighton University

 

4:00 pm - Paper 12

Toward a Pluralistic, Postmodern Polis: Restructuring Foucault’s Objections to Habermas’s Discourse Ethics
By: Ivar Rodriguez
Principia College

 

4:30 pm - Paper 13

The Harmony of Faith and Reason in Saint Thomas Aquinas
By: Daniel De Haan 
Belmont University

 

5:00 pm - Paper 14

The Enlightenment of God: Kenosis and the Salvation of the World
By: Chris Nation
Truman State University

 

5:30 pm - Paper 15

The Continuum of Communication in Christianity, with Occasional
Reference to The Moment and Late Writings
By:  Michael McEvilly
Washington University in Saint Louis

 

6:00 pm - Closing remarks and Dinner Break

 

7:30 pm - Keynote speaker

Science and Religion in Islam
Dr. Taner Edis
Department of Physics, Truman State University