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2024 Midwest SCP Meeting

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2024 Midwest SCP Meeting
Oklahoma University, Nov 8-9

Keynotes: Anne Jeffrey (Baylor) and Christian Miller (Wake Forest)

Theme: An Empirically Grounded Religious Ethics

Registration fees:
Non-member: $100
Member: $55
Student/K-12/under-employed member: $20

If you'd like to join the SCP to take advantage of the lower conference rates, click here. Regular membership is $45/year; student/K-12/under-employed is $10/year.

If you're a student, K-12 teacher, or under-employed and would like to register but cannot, in good conscience, become an SCP member, contact Josh Thurow and we'll make sure you can still receive the $20 registration rate.

SCP Midwest 2024 Schedule

Day 1

All rooms in Dale Hall Tower	9^th Floor plenary room	8^th floor seminar room	9^th floor seminar room	6^th floor seminar room
8 am-8:30am	Greetings and Instructions	--	--	--
8:30-9:30	Ian Church, “Hallmarks of Indifference: Experimental Philosophy and Draper’s Probabilistic Argument from Evil”	Andrew Gustafson, “A Partial Christian Defense of Utilitarianism”	--	Alex Spieldenner, “An Anxiously Thomistic View of Fortitude”
9:40-10:40	Michael Prinzing, “Experimentally Investigating the Concept of Purpose”	Eric Silverman, “Love and the Good of a Meaningful Life”	--	Joshua Thurow, “Reconciling Feminist Critiques and Classical Theories of Atonement”
10:50-11:50	Frederich Choo, “Does Divine Command Theory Exempt Psychopaths From Morality?”	Jonathan Fuqua, “Desiring Theism: We Should Want God To Exist”	--	Katelyn O’Dell, “Divine Hiddenness: Evidence and Transcendence”
12-1pm	C. Stephen Evans, “Empirical Support For Natural Signs as Means for Natural Religious Knowledge,” chaired by Adam Green	--	--	--
1pm-2:30	<<All registrants other than grad students and plenary speakers will be guided to Dunham hall, a modest walk from the conference site where lunch may be purchased>>			<<Lunch for grad student attendees and plenary speakers will be served on the 6th floor at no cost>>
2:30-3:30	Bob Hartman, “Virtues that Mitigate the Deprivations of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” (zoom talk)	--	Emily McCarty, “Remember Job’s Friends: A Worry For Anti-Theodical Projects”	Philp Woodward, “The Unity of the Subject”
3:40-4:40	Gregory Baker, “Breaking the Knobe Effect: The Stability of Intentional Action Intuitions”	--	Jimmy Licon, “Strangers To Ourselves Before God”	Jashiel Resto-Quinones, “What If God Issued One Command Only?”
4:50-5:50	Panel, “Using Empirical Tools in the Philosophy of Religion” Ian Church, Christian Miller, and Adam Green	--	Sylwia Wilczewska, “What Can a Christian Learn From An Agnostic: Not Judging Others and Suspending Judgment”	Fidel Arnecillo, “Is There Room for a Social Contract Theory About Morality in Christian Ethics?”
6-7pm	Catered dinner is included with registration	--	--	--
7-8:30pm	Christian Miller, “TBA”, chaired by Yujin Nagasawa	--	--	--

Day 2

All rooms in Dale Hall Tower	9^th floor plenary room	9^th floor Seminar room	6^th floor Seminar room
8am-9am	Brian Ballard, “Nourished by God’s Creation: A Theistic Argument from the Empirical Benefits of Contact With Nature”	Michael Mohajer, “Divine Emanicity”	Kevin Smith, “Korsgaard and the Irreplaceable Value of Persons”
9:10am-10:10am	Marilie Coetsee, “Political Polarizer or Moral Mediator? Promises and Pitfalls of Sacred Community In A Secular Age”	Matthew Frise, “The Nature of Divine Knowledge”	Timothy Miller, “Rule Consequentialism and Theo-Ethical Equilibrium”
10:20am-11:20am	Jag Williams, “Artificial Intelligence and Other Tools For Agency: The Imago Dei In the Age of AI”	Jenna Klaasen, “Toward a Christian Philosophy of Disability”	Darrin Belousek, “Appendectomy On Demand: A Minimal Defense of Conscientious Objection In Health Care”
11:30am-12:30pm	Joel Alvarez, “Augustinian Epigenetic Ethics: The Biological Impact Of Our Choices”	Adam Pelser, “Knowing the God of All Comfort: The Epistemic and Moral Significance of Comfort As A Religious Emotion”	--
12:30pm-2pm	<<Registrants will be guided to Dunham hall. Mentor-grad mentee pairs have a room reserved for them to connect over lunch>>
2pm-3:30pm	Anne Jeffrey, “TBA,” chaired by Josh Spears	--	--
3:30pm-4:30pm	Leland Saunders, “Virtues and the Normativity of Human Flourishing”	Justin Rice, “Christian Exclusivism and the Corrupt Dissemination Argument”	David Bukenhofer, “Competence Errors Derived From Antecedent Performance Errors: A Development of David Brink’s Defense of Reasons Responsiveness”
4:30pm-6:30pm	<<Dinner on one’s own>>
6:30pm-8:30pm	<<Public-Facing Panel on God and Morality held offsite at TBD>>, moderated by Noah Jones Panelists: Anne Jeffrey, C. Stephen Evans, Marilie Coatsee, and Adam Pelser