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The Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion (3PR) annual conference will take place on Friday, March 21-Saturday, March 22. The conference theme is “Existential Commitments and the Ethics of Belief.” Laura Frances Callahan (University of Notre Dame) and Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado, Boulder) are the keynote speakers.
Schedule
Friday, March 21
8:30 - 9 a.m. — Light breakfast
9 - 10:10 a.m. — “Devotion, Faith, and Grit,” Paul Katsafanas (Boston University)
10:30 - 11:40 a.m. — “Kierkegaard on Moral and Religious Deference,” Z Quanbeck (Princeton University)
11:40 a.m. - 1 p.m. — Lunch
1 - 2:10 p.m. — “Pascal’s Wager Makes Being an Atheist Supererogatory,” Joshua Brecka (University of Toronto)
2:30 - 3:40 p.m. — “Mechanisms for Hume’s Skepticism,” Chuck Goldhaber (University of Florida)
4 - 5:30 p.m. — Keynote: “Intellectual Humility in Religious Commitments,” Laura Frances Callahan (University of Notre Dame)
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. — Reception
Saturday, March 22
9 - 9:30 a.m. — Light breakfast
9:30 - 10:40 a.m. — “Augustine and the Problem of Epistemic Balance Scale,” Kevin Jung (Wake Forest University)
11 a.m. - 12 p.m. — “Concepts as Commitments: A Chinese Buddhist Ethics Empty of Belief,” Rafal Stepien (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
12:10 - 1:30 p.m. — Lunch
1:30 - 2:40 p.m. — “Social Faith,” Eleanor Gordon-Smith (Princeton University)
3 - 4:10 p.m. — “Two Puzzles of Non-Doxastic Faith,” Yun-Cheng Dylan Wang (University of Rochester)
4:30 - 6 p.m. — Keynote: “Choosing Between Faith and Heresy,” Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado, Boulder)