P R O G R A M

The format for each paper is as follows:

– 45 minutes for paper
– 15 minutes discussion

Tuesday (20.09.2016)

09.00 – 09.10 Welcome Address

Chair: Roger Pouivet

09.10 – 10.10 Duncan Pritchard (University of  Edinburgh, Scotland) – Faith and Reason

10.25– 11.25 John Greco (Saint Louis University, USA) – Transmitting Faith

 

11.25 – 12.00 Coffee Break

Chair: Paul Clavier

12.00 – 13.00 Gabriele De Anna (University of Bamberg, Germany; and University of Udine, Italy) – How can we know a transcendent reality?

 

13.15 – 15.30 Lunch

Chair: Winfried Löffler

15.30 – 16.30 Bruce Alan Russell (Wayne State University, USA) – What Does the Total Evidence Support: Theism, Agnosticism, or Atheism?

 

16.30 – 16.50 Coffee Break

 

Chair: Christian Weidemann

16.50 – 17.50 Marek Dobrzeniecki (The Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Warsaw, Poland) – Is the fact that other people believe in God a reason to believe? Remarks on the “Consensus Gentium” Argument.

 

19.00 Dinner

 

 

 

Wednesday (21.09.2016)

Chair: Duncan Pritchard

09.15 – 10.15 Roger Pouivet (University of Lorraine, France) – Reason, Faith and Humility

10.30– 11.30 Paul Clavier (École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France) – Belief in a Revelation: a social division of belief

 

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break

Chair: John Greco

12.00 – 13.00 Winfried Löffler (University of Innsbruck, Austria) – Religious Beliefs as World-View Beliefs

 

13.15 – 15.30 Lunch

Chair: Bruce Alan Russell

15.30 – 16.30 Christian Weidemann (University of Innsbruck, Austria) – Does a Rational Theist Need a Theodicy?

 

16.30 – 16.50 Coffee Break

 

Chair: Gabriele De Anna

16.50 – 17.50 Miłosz Hołda (The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow, Poland) – The Idea of Perfect Religious Beliefs

 

19.00 Dinner