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Building Bridges:
Religion and Science in Dialogue
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Date and Place:
Second Annual Southern Illinois University at Carbondale - Graduate Student
Philosophy Conference |
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Deadline:
September 15, 1999 |
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Send to: sabarnes@siu.edu |
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| Submissions should be thirty minutes in length of reading
time. Send three copies with name and institutional affiliation on title-page only
to: Stephen Barnes Department of Philosophy Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Carbondale, IL 62901-4505 618/549-4950 sabarnes@siu.edu |
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| Keynote Address: "Exhibiting Evolution: Defining the
Domains of Metaphysics and Science" By Stephen T. Asma Stephen T. Asma is professor of philosophy and interdisciplinary humanities at Columbia College, Chicago, and the author of Following Form and Function: A Philosophical Archaeology of Life Science (Northwestern University Press) and the upcoming Constructing Nature: The Culture of Natural History Museums (Oxford University Press). We will also have a special panel discussion consisting of experts from diverse world cultures exploring the ways in which different traditions address the realms of religion and science. Topics on the subject of the relation between science and religion are particularly encouraged. Questions to be considered include, but are not limited to: · Do science and religion address different spheres of human experience? · Are the truth claims of religion in some way equivalent to scientific claims? · What are the roles of design and chance in the universe? · How are tensions between scientific and religious understandings embodied in diverse philosophies or cultures? Broadly conceived, the purpose of "Building Bridges," the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Graduate Philosophy Conference, is to bring into dialogue diverse elements not commonly associated. We seek interdisciplinary as well as intra-disciplinary themes that address problems from multiple philosophical standpoints, from different traditions, or in which two or more thinkers not customarily brought into conversation are compared. Furthermore, papers that approach issues from both Western and Eastern perspectives or those that speak from a Continental, Anglo-American, and Pragmatist standpoint are desired. Our goal is to provide a pluralistic forum for constructive and critical communication across boundaries. |
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