Schedule, Midwest SCP 2000
Society of Christian Philosophers
Midwest Regional Meeting
Baylor University

March 16-18, 2000

Jewish and Christian Resources for Social and Political Philosophy


Thursday, March 16

2:00 - 5:00Registration, Bill Daniel Student Center, Second Floor

3:30 - 5:30MacIntyre 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

7:30Plenary 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 - 10:00Catholic 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 - 10:30Break -- refreshments on third floor landing

10:30 - 12:00Friendship 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 - 3:20Moral 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 - 4:50Edith 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"

5:00Plenary Presentation
   Chair: Michael Beaty
David Solomon (University of Notre Dame)
   "The Religious Significance of Applied Ethics"

7:00Banquet
Harrington House, Baylor University

Saturday, March 18

8:00Continental Breakfast -- third floor landing

8:30 - 9:50Kant 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 - 11:30Plenary Presentation
   Chair: Robert Baird
Marc Ellis (Baylor University)
   "Jewish Resources for Social and Political Philosophy"

Lunch Break

1:00 - 2:30T. 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 - 4:15Religious 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"


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