Speakers and Topics

2011: George Graham, Ph.D.

• Professor of Philosophy and Neuroscience
• Georgia State University

God Behind the Scenes:  Religious Belief and the
Imagination

2010: David Rosenthal, Ph.D.

• Professor of Philosophy
• Professor of Linguistics
• Coordinator of Cognitive Science
• City University of New York (CUNY)

The Poverty of Consciousness

2009: Janine M. Idziak, Ph.D.

• Professor of Philosophy & Religious Studies
• Director, Bioethics Resource Center
• Director, Ethics and Values across the Curriculum
• Loras College

Controversy and Genetics

2008: Del Ratzsch & Michael Ruse

Dr. Ratzsch, Ph.D.

• Professor of Philosophy
• Calvin College

Dr. Ruse, Ph.D.

• Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy
• Director, Program in the History and Philosophy and Science
• Florida State University

Is There a Place for Intelligent Design in Science:  A Debate

2007: M. David Eckel

• Associate Professor of Religion
• Director, Institute for Philosophy and Religion
• Boston University

What is Buddhist Philosophy?

2006: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

• Religion Correspondent
• National Public Radio

Religion, Politics, and the Culture Wars: Notes from a Journalist's
Notebook

2005: Eleonore Stump, Ph.D.

• Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy
• Saint Louis University

Horrendous Evil: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering

2004: Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen, Ph.D.

• Professor of Psychology & Philosophy
• Resident Scholar, Center for Christian Women in Leadership
• Eastern University

An agenda for Gender Reconciliation

2003: F.E. Peters, Ph.D.

• Professor of History, Middle East Studies and Religion
• New York University

Holy War: The Blood-Sport of Monotheism

2002: Charles Taliaferro, Ph.D.

• Professor of Philosophy
• St. Olaf College

Soul and Body

2001: Arindam Chakrabarti, D.Phil.

• Professor of Philosophy
• University of Hawaii

Aesthetics of the Ugly and the Hideous

2000: Samuel A. Meier, Ph.D.

• Associate Professor of Hebrew
• Ohio State University

Monotheism at the Millennium: Recent Developments in the History of
God

Fall 1999: Kelly James Clark, Ph.D.

• Associate Professor of Philosophy
• Calvin College

Pluralism, Dogmatism, and Tolerance

Spring 1999: Robert C. Koons, Ph.D.

• Associate Professor of Philosophy
• University of Texas, Austin

Post-Agnostic Science: How Physicists are Reviving the Argument from
Design

1998: Robert K. Fullinwider, Ph.D.

• Fellow, Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy
• University of Maryland

Religion and Politics: Don't Mix? Don't Separate?

1997: David Weinberg, Ph.D.

• Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies
• Wayne State University

The Emergence of Modern Anti-Semitism

Spring 1996: John P. Langan, S.J., Ph.D.

• Kennedy Institute of Ethics
• Georgetown University

Just Wars and Interventions

1995: Karen M. Brown, Ph.D.

• Professor of the Sociology and Anthropology of Religion
• The Graduate and Theological Schools
• Drew University

Haitian Religion in Art and Practice

1994: Peter J. Awn, Ph.D.

• Professor of Islamic Studies
• Department of Religion
• Columbia University

Islamic Fundamentalism: Its Past and Future
Role