The University of St. Thomas

St. Thomas Philosophy of Religion Project

St. Thomas Summer Seminars
in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology

Organized by

Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers)

Michael Rota (University of St. Thomas)

 

Sponsored by
The John Templeton Foundation
The University of St. Thomas
The Society of Christian Philosophers
The University of Notre Dame’s Center for Philosophy of Religion
The John Cardinal O’Hara Chair in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
The Philosophy Department of Rutgers University

 

After a hiatus in 2013, we will hold seminars in 2014, 2015, and 2016. Twenty participants will be selected for each seminar. Each participant will receive a stipend of $2,000, and will be provided with accommodations and meals for the duration of the seminar. Regrettably, funding for travel costs cannot be provided.

 

Information on speakers, topics and application instructions will be available on this webpage by late August 2013. Applications will be due by December 1, 2013.

 

Seminar Dates:

 

Tuesday June 17 – Wednesday July 2nd, 2014

Tuesday June 16 – Wednesday July 1st, 2015

Tuesday June 14 – Wednesday June 29, 2016

 

Location: University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota

 

Contact Information:

Please direct questions about the program to:

Dr. Michael Rota
St. Thomas Philosophy of Religion Project
Department of Philosophy, JRC 241
University of St. Thomas
2115 Summit Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55105-1096
ustphilrel@stthomas.edu

 

Information on previous seminars:

The 2012 St. Thomas Summer Seminar in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology

2012 Topics and Speakers

Neuroscience and Philosophy


Jeffrey Schwartz (UCLA School of Medicine)
and
Hans Halvorson (Princeton)

Dualism and Materialism


Christopher Hill (Brown),
Hud Hudson (Western Washington University),
and
Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers)

Atonement

 

Eleonore Stump (St. Louis University)
and
Michael Rea (Notre Dame)

Pascal's Wager


Thomas Kelly (Princeton)
and
Michael Rota (University of St. Thomas)

Human Freedom and Divine Foreknowledge


Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma)
and
David Hunt (Whittier College)

Resurrection
Timothy O'Connor (Indiana University)

 

The 2011 St. Thomas Summer Seminar in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology

From June 13, 2011 to July 1, 2011, a group of twenty recent PhDs (2006 or later) and current graduate students in philosophy, theology, or religious studies participated in the 2011 St. Thomas Summer Seminar in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Each participant received a stipend of $2,900 and was provided with accommodations and meals for the duration of the seminar (funding for travel costs was not provided).

2011 Topics and Speakers

The Fine-Tuning Argument

Robin Collins (Messiah College),
John Hawthorne (Oxford),
Bradley Monton (University of Colorado-Boulder), and
Luke Barnes (Department of Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich)

Evolutionary Explanations of Religious Belief

Justin Barrett (Oxford),
Jesse Bering (Queen's University), and
John Greco (St. Louis University)

Divine Hiddenness

J. L. Schellenberg (Mount Saint Vincent University)
and
Peter van Inwagen (Notre Dame)

The Problem of Evil

Paul Draper (Purdue)
and
Eleonore Stump (St. Louis University)

 

The 2010 St. Thomas Summer Seminar in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology

From June 15, 2010 to July 2, 2010, a group of twenty recent PhDs (2005 or later) and current graduate students in philosophy, theology, or religious studies participated in the 2010 St. Thomas Summer Seminar in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Each participant received a stipend of $2,800 and was provided with accommodations and meals for the duration of the seminar (funding for travel costs was not provided).

2010 Topics and Speakers

The epistemology of religious belief Alvin Plantinga (Notre Dame) and
Richard Feldman (Rochester)
Science and religion Alvin Plantinga (Notre Dame) and
Elliott Sober (UW-Madison)
The cosmological argument Alexander Pruss (Baylor) and
Peter van Inwagen (Notre Dame)
The problem of evil Peter van Inwagen (Notre Dame) and
Evan Fales (University of Iowa)
The epistemology of disagreement Roger White (M.I.T.) and
Thomas Kelly (Princeton)
Reductionism and the philosophy of biology Alan Love (University of Minnesota)
Writing for audiences outside the academy Peter Kreeft (Boston College)

Click here for videos from the 2010 Summer Seminar.