Philosophy Conference Schedule
March 22
Registration and Check-in, Atwood I, 101
Undergraduate Paper Sessions, 10:15-11:30
Session UA, Atwood I, 111-- Nicholas Van Cleve, “A Brief Epistemological Case Study: Why the Biblical Worldview?” HBU and Matthew B. Weatherford, “The Baptism of the Imagination: C. S. Lewis' Imaginatively Inspired Apologetics,” The University of St. Thomas
Session UB, Atwood I, 113-- Jeremy Klutts, “But I Am a Body: Dualism and the Incarnation,” HBU and Megan Joy Rials, “C. S. Lewis's Faces of Knowing and of Transformation: The Journey Toward the Divine in Till We Have Faces,” Louisiana State University
Lunch on your own
Concurrent Session 1, 1:00-2:15
Session 1A, Atwood I, 111-- Francis J. Caponi, “Materialism, Metaphors, and Miracles: C.S. Lewis on Squaring the Circle and Stilling the Waves,” Villanova University and Philip Tallon, “Practicing Hope: Shaping the Christian Imagination through J. R. R. Tolkien’s Eucatastrophe,” Christ Church United Methodist, Memphis
Session 1B, Atwood I, 113--Ryan Haecker, “The Historicism and Providence of Middle-Earth,” University of Texas and John D. Ferrer, “Amputees in the Image of God--A Treatment of the Amputee Objection to God's Goodness in light of An Imago Dei Theodicy,” Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Southern Evangelical Seminary
Session 1C, Atwood I, 116--Mark Warnock, “The Unusual Objective of C. S. Lewis’ Moral Argument,” The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Joel Heck, “’Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism' Revisited,” Concordia University Texas
Concurrent Session 2, 2:30-3:45
Session 2A, Atwood I, 111-- Stephen Barnes, “Further “Toward a Christian Esthetic”: Dorothy Sayers and Louise Cowan on the Ontology of Tragedy,” University of Mary Hardin – Baylor and James Watkins, “Trinitarian Expressionism: Philosophy and Theology in Dorothy Sayers’ The Mind of the Maker”
Session 2B, Atwood I, 113-- Doug Jackson, “Naked in Narnia: Four Coats and Four Thrones in C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” Logsdon Seminary/South Texas School of Christian Studies and Holly Ordway, “The Inside and the Outside View: Charles Williams and CS Lewis on Damnation,” HBU
Session 2C, Atwood I, 116-- Josh Rasmussen & Jerry Walls, “A New York Symphony Argument for Fundamental Mentality,” Azusa Pacific University and Keith Hess, “Christ Incarnate: Physicalism and the Incarnation,” UC Santa Barbara
Concurrent Session 3, 4:00-5:15
Session 3A, Atwood I, 111-- Blake McAllister, “A Reductive Account of the Sensus Divinitatis,” Baylor University and Andrew Koehl, “George MacDonald and the Dwarves,” Roberts Wesleyan College
Session 3B, Atwood I, 113—Panel on Virtue Ethics, Paul T. Berghaus, John Forcey, and Nathan L. Cartagena, Texas A&M University
Session 3C, Atwood I, 116-- David A. Horner, “C. S. Lewis on Happiness,” Biola University and Marianne DiQuattro, “Equipped for Acting: The Dramatic Legacy of the Inklings,” Point Park University
Dinner on your own
Keynote, 7:00-8:30, Belin Chapel, Lou Markos, “C.S. Lewis on Theology: Trinity, Incarnation & New Life in Christ”
March 23
Check-in and Coffee, Atwood I, 101
Concurrent Session 4, 9:00-10:15
Session 4A, Atwood I, 111-- James C. McGlothlin, “Surprised by Horror: Lewisian Joy and Cosmic Fear,” The Ohio State University and John Bishop, “Religious Pluralism and Religious Perception,” Baylor University
Session 4B, Atwood I, 113--Crystal Hurd, “God and Government?: C.S. Lewis’s Opposition to Theocracy,” East Tennessee State University and John D. Wilsey, “Religious Freedom and American Exceptionalism: Are They Compatible?” Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Session 4C, Atwood I, 116—John Mark Reynolds, “Timaeus in the work of C.S. Lewis,” HBU and Andrew Lazo, “Correcting the Chronology: Correcting the Date of C. S. Lewis's Theistic Conversion,” Houston Christian High School
Worship 10:45-11:15, Fine Arts Museum, University Academic Center
Keynote, 11:30-12:30, Belin Chapel, Jerry Walls “C.S. Lewis and the Case for Mere Purgatory”
Lunch, included in registration, Baugh Center, 12:30-1:30
Concurrent Session 5, 1:45-3:00
Session 5A, Atwood I, 111-- Justin D. Barnard, “Murine Eschatology and Epistemological Dwarfism: Love, Hope, and Sight in C.S. Lewis’s Christian Vision of Knowledge,” Union University and Joshua C. Thurow, “Lewis's Arguments from Desire and the Cognitive Science of Religion,” The University of Texas at San Antonio
Session 5B, Atwood I, 113-- Karl Aho, “Tolkien's Morally Exemplary Communities,” Baylor and Gregory E. Trickett, “Human and Divine Imagination: Tolkien’s ‘Sub-creation’ and Divine Epistemology,” Weatherford College
Session 5C, Atwood I, 116-- David M. DiQuattro, “Till We Have Faces: Reflections on a Lewisian Image,” Grove City College and Bruce Gordon, “Sin and Atonement: C.S. Lewis and the Metaphysics of Guilt and Grace,” HBU
Concurrent Session 6, 3:15-4:30
Session 6A, Atwood I, 111—Cole Matson, "Wisdom, Beauty and Incantation: C.S. Lewis on the Moral Responsibility of the Christian Artist," Institute for Theology, Imagination & the Arts, University of St Andrews and J. Daryl Hinze, “The Tao of Emotional Intelligence: Lewis' argument for objectively ‘just sentiments’ and its application to organizational ethics,” HBU
Session 6B, Atwood I, 113-- Kyle Worley, “Presuppositional Apologetics: An Apologetic that Preaches,” Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Glenn G. Smith, “Full Assurance? A Critique of Presuppositional Apologetics from a Classical Perspective,” Ratio Christi
Session 6C, Atwood I, 116-- Janelle L. Aijian, “Where the Conflict about Miracles really lies: Lewis and Plantinga on the Relationship between Science and Religion,” Biola University and Robert K. Garcia, "Loved into Lovable and Uniquely-Loving Existence: C. S. Lewis, Divine Sustenance, and Tropes," Texas A&M University
Refreshment Break, Atwood I, 101
Concurrent Session 7, 4:45-6:00
Session 7A, Atwood I, 111-- Ross Parker, "Soren Kierkegaard and C. S. Lewis On Indirect Communication of Christian Truth," Baylor University and Paul Wagner, “Praying for and Praying to,” University of Houston, Clear Lake
Session 7B, Atwood I, 113-- Harris Bechtol, “The Disclosive Event of Death in Derrida’s Gift of Death,” Texas A&M University and Alyssan Taylor Barnes, “’Rival Sisters of the Trivium’: Dorothy Sayers and Marshall McLuhan on Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric,” Texas Woman's University