March 16-18, 2000
Jewish and Christian Resources for Social and Political Philosophy
Thursday, March 16
2:00 - 5:00 | Registration, Bill Daniel Student Center, Second Floor |
3:30 - 5:30 | MacIntyre and Moral Philosophy Chair: John O'Callaghan |
Darin Davis (St. Louis University) "Taylor, MacIntyre, and the University" Scott Woodhouse (Valparaiso University) "First Principles and the Moral Sciences: A Return to the Garden?" Glen A. Pettigrove (University of California, Riverside) "MacIntyre on Human Rights: A Modest Critique" | |
Fides et Ratio Chair: John Pisciotta | |
J. Daryl Charles (Taylor University) "Passionately Seeking the Truth: Reflections on Fides et Ratio" Fr. Timothy Vaverek (St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Waco) Response to Charles | |
Dinner Break | |
7:30 | Plenary Presentation Chair: Scott H. Moore |
Thomas Hibbs (Boston College) "Josef Pieper: A Neglected Resource for Christian Ethical and Political Thought" |
Friday, March 17
8:30 - 10:00 | Catholic Radicalism and the Public Square Chair: Barry Harvey |
John O'Callaghan (Creighton University) "Catholic Radicalism, Tradition, and the Public Square: Posing A Friendly Amendment" Michael Baxter, CSC (University of Notre Dame) "Another Detonation, With Apologies" | |
American Philosophy Chair: William F. Cooper | |
Jon S. Moran (Southwest Missouri State University) "Christianity and Public Value Neutrality: A Roycean Interpretation" Stuart Rosenbaum (Baylor University) "How Not to Be a Secular, Humanist Pragmatist" | |
10:00 - 10:30 | Break -- refreshments on third floor landing |
10:30 - 12:00 | Friendship and Politics Chair: Michael Beaty |
Catherine Borck (University of Notre Dame) "The Political Implications of Thomistic Friendship" Christopher H. Toner (University of Notre Dame) "Politics as a Presiding Science" | |
Virtue and Character Ethics Chair: Jeff Hensley | |
Joseph Shaw (Oxford University) "Divine Commands, Autonomy, and the Virtue of Obedience" Shannon O'Roarke (Houghton College) "The Doctrine of Christian Sanctification as a Resource for Understanding the Development of Character" | |
Lunch Break | |
2:00 - 3:20 | Moral Philosophy Chair: Michael Beaty |
Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb (University of Notre Dame) "Meditations on Second Ethics" J. Todd Buras (Yale University) "Aristotle and Aquinas on the Voluntary" | |
Philosophical Reflection on Religious Conversion Chair: Stacy Patty | |
Roger Ward (Georgetown College) "Conversion: The Practice of Transformation" Harvey E. Solganick (Missouri Baptist College) "From 'Nu?' to 'New!' - From Judaism to Jesus: Perils of a Pauline Philosopher" | |
3:30 - 4:50 | Edith Stein on the State Chair: Dwight Allman |
A Reading from "Eine Untersuchung uber den Staat" by Edith Stein Translation by Walter Redmond Walter Redmond "Reflections on Edith Stein's Political Thought" | |
Recovering Augustinian Virtues Chair: Roger Ward | |
Storm Bailey (Luther College) "An Augustinian Case for Liberal Neutrality" Shawn Floyd (Malone College) "Self-Deception and Augustine's Appeal to Charity" | |
5:00 | Plenary Presentation Chair: Michael Beaty |
David Solomon (University of Notre Dame) "The Religious Significance of Applied Ethics" | |
7:00 | Banquet |
Harrington House, Baylor University |
Saturday, March 18
8:00 | Continental Breakfast -- third floor landing |
8:30 - 9:50 | Kant and Hume Chair: Elmer Duncan |
Margaret A. Watkins Tate (University of Notre Dame) "Anticipating Kant by Retrieving Aristotle? A Critique of Schneewind and Darwall on Hume" Dennis Sansom (Samford University) "Can the Virtue of Beneficence Be a Moral Duty? A Critique of Kant's Account of Beneficence and Duty" | |
Demonstration and Cognition Chair: Bruce Gordon | |
Paul A. Wagner (University of Houston - Clear Lake) "The Limits of Cognitive Theory" Creighton Rosental (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) "Demonstration and the Age of the World in Thomas Aquinas" | |
10:00 - 11:30 | Plenary Presentation Chair: Robert Baird |
Marc Ellis (Baylor University) "Jewish Resources for Social and Political Philosophy" | |
Lunch Break | |
1:00 - 2:30 | T. S. Eliot and Modernity Chair: Ralph Wood |
Christopher A. Callaway (St. Louis University) "The Culturally Impoverished Society: T. S. Eliot on Majoritarian Democracy" Randall Colton (St. Louis University) "Kierkegaard, Eliot, and Sophocles: Tragedy and the Modern Self" | |
Levinas and Arendt Chair: | |
Jeffrey Robbins (Syracuse University) "Holding Philosophy to Account: The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas" Noelle Vahanian (Le Moyne College) "Thoughtfulness: An Interpretation of Hannah Arendt's Thought" | |
2:45 - 4:15 | Religious Resources for Public Policy and Dialogue Chair: Micah Watson |
John Pisciotta (Baylor University) "Kuyper's Sphere Sovereignty and U.S. Anti-Poverty Policy" Adam C. English (Baylor University) "An Unwanted Resource? Scriptural Stories in Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogues" | |
Tolerance and Modernity/Postmodernity Chair: Stuart Rosenbaum | |
Bruce Gordon (Baylor University) "Truth, Tolerance, and the Ethics of Postmodernity" A. J. Conyers (Baylor University) "Toleration and the Character of Modernity" |
Baylor Philosophy Department
Society of Christian Philosophers