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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); Chair: Gabriel Citron
10:30 - 11:40 a.m. — “Kierkegaard on Moral and Religious Deference,” Z Quanbeck (Princeton University); Chair: Tom Kelly
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); Chair: Lara Buchak
2:30 - 3:40 p.m. — “Mechanisms for Hume’s Skepticism,” Chuck Goldhaber (University of Florida); Chair: Austen McDougal
4 - 5:30 p.m. — Keynote: “Intellectual Humility in Religious Commitments,” Laura Frances Callahan (University of Notre Dame); Chair: Mark Johnston
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); Chair: Eric Gregory
11 a.m. - 12 p.m. — “Concepts as Commitments: A Chinese Buddhist Ethics Empty of Belief,” Rafal Stepien (Austrian Academy of Sciences); Chair: Hüseyin Güngör
12:10 - 1:30 p.m. — Lunch
1:30 - 2:40 p.m. — “Social Faith,” Eleanor Gordon-Smith (Princeton University); Chair: Andrew Chignell
3 - 4:10 p.m. — “Two Puzzles of Non-Doxastic Faith,” Yun-Cheng Dylan Wang (University of Rochester); Chair: Eve Edfors
4:30 - 6 p.m. — Keynote: “Choosing Between Faith and Heresy,” Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado, Boulder); Chair: Dan Garber