October 3-5, 2014
Registration: 1:00-4:00 p.m
. – Morrison Hall 219 Commons Area
Session 1: 2:15-2:45 pm
Room 102: The Posture of Faith – Meghan Dupree
Room 100: Teaching with Ethos – Blake McAllister
2:45 – 3:00 Coffee, Soda & Snacks – Morrison Hall 107
Session 2: 3:00-3:45 pm
Room 108: The Role of Irony in the Quest for Wisdom – Bryan Yorton
Room 110: Why Should We Teach Undergraduates about the Capital Vices? – Robert Kruschwitz
Room 105: Aristotle on Sex and the Sexes – Nathan Cartagena
Session 3: 4:00-4:45 pm
Room 108: Telling a Larger Story – Dan Stiver
Room 110: The Prophetic Mode of Philosophy in the Undergraduate Classroom – Karl Aho
Room 105: Narrative Approach to Probabilities – Brandon Dahm
Session 4: 5:00-5:45 pm
Room 108: Counter-Ethics: Phenomenological Virtues in the Work of Jean-Luc Marion – Amy Antoninka
Room 110: Practical Pedagogical Advice – Sean Riley
Room 105: Methodism and Particularism in Teaching Applied Ethics – Brad Rettler
Dinner - 6:30-7:30 - McLane Stadium – President’s Suite
Plenary Session -7:30-9:00 - McLane Stadium - Dr. Dan Bonevac, Professor of Philosophy,
University of Texas
More Things on Heaven and Earth: Neglected Options in Teaching Undergraduate Philosophy
8:00 – 9:00 AM - Pastries, Coffee, and Juice – Morrison Hall 107
Session 5: 9:00-9:45 a.m.
Room 108: Divine Moral Authority – Jared Brandt
Room 110: Iris Murdoch & Rebecca Goldstein: Two Philosophers, Two Platonists, Two Novelists –
Stuart Rosenbaum
Room 105: A Thomistic Account of Wisdom and Pride – Alina Beary
Session 6: 10:00-10:45
Room 108: The Real Euthyphro Problem – Doug Henry
Room 110: Austere Consolation, Fantasy, and Hope in Iris Murdoch – Scott Moore
Room 105: On Docility – Darin Davis
Session 7: 11:00-11:45
Room 110: The Roots of Religious Governance in Aristotle’s Distribution Program – Jeremy Neill
Room 105: Humbly Accepting Limits – Maria Kenney

Lunch on Your Own: 11:45-1:00 pm
Session 8: 1:00-1:45 pm
Room 108: A Look at Plato’s Symposium as a Model of Philosophical Education – Cody Dolinsek
Room 105: How Clear Pedagogical Choices Help Students Solve Their Problems – Leslie Ballard
Session 9: 2:00-2:45 pm
Room 108: Viva la revolución! Cultural Models of Emotion Regulation in Plato's Republic – Paul Carron and Anne Marie Schultz
Room 110: Is Pacifism Too Extreme to be a Virtue? – Edwin Bagley
Room 105: Being All Things to All People – Lewis Pearson
2:45 – 3:00 - Coffee, Soda & Snacks – Morrison Hall 107
Session 10: 3:00-3:45
Room 108: Anselm’s Apophatic Ontological Argument? – Gregory Poore
Room 110: A Critical Assessment of Douglas Groothuis’s Christian Apologetics – Randall Bush
Room 105: Two Very Broad Approaches to Christian Education – John Mullen
Session 11: 4:00-4:45
Room 108: Perceiving God Through Natural Beauty -- Ryan West and Adam Pelser
Room 110: Can Virtue be Taught in Medicine? – Niloy Shah
Room 105: When Not to Play Games – Dan Johnson
6:00 – 7:00 – Dinner McMullen Faculty Center (on Campus)
7:00 – 9:30 – Plenary Session – Dr. Robert Roberts, Distinguished Professor of Ethics, Baylor University
Gratitude and Humility
8:30 – 9:30 AM - Pastries, Coffee, and Juice – Morrison Hall 107
Session 12: 9:30-10:15 a.m.
Room 108: The Habit and the Drum: The Role of the Liberal Arts in the Treatment of Moral Injury – John Wolfe
Room 110: The Special Value of Other-Centeredness – Ryan Byerly
Room 105: Is God Unlucky? – Dennis Sansom
Session 13: 10:30-11:15 a.m.
Room 108: Defining Despair – Jonathan Sands-Wise and Janelle Aijian
Room 110: Cosmopolitan Christianity and Justice – Roger Ward
Room 105: Love is Hell: Eternal Punishment, Divine Hiddenness, and the Inescapable Love of God – Zach Manis
Worship Service: 11:30-12:00 Brooks Chapel – Led by Doug Henry
Adjourn