The Society of Christian Philosophers
Eastern Regional Meeting
November 11/6/26-11/8/26
Conference Theme:
The Philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre: Virtue, Traditions, and Dependency
Keynote Speakers:
Mark Murphy (Georgetown University)
Jennifer Frey (University of Tulsa)
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Schedule
All sessions in David Student Union 2nd Floor
Friday, November 6, 2026
Check in: 8:30-9:30
Coffee Available
Concurrent Session 1: 9:30-11:10
Washington Room
Chair: Philip Woodward
Speaker 1: Tiziano Cantalupi (<tiziano.cantalupi@unicm.it>): “SCIENCE, TRANSCENDENCE AND TRACES OF GOD”
Speaker 2: Emily King (<emily_m_king@brown.edu>): “Secularizing the Author: A MacIntyrean Critique of the Barthes’s “Death of the Author”
Madison Room
Chair: Joel Warden
Speaker 1: Daniel Rubio (<danielkfrubio@gmail.com>): “Symmetry Found: Considerations on Modal Ontological Arguments”
Speaker 2: Zack Akin (<zackakin1@gmail.com>): “Why an Unsurpassable God Can Create At Least One Surpassable World”
Harrison Room
Chair: Ian DeWeese-Boyd
Speaker 1: Benjamin Frogel (<bf4711@princeton.edu>): “Alasdair MacIntyre, His Jewish Interlocutors, and the Virtues of Pluralism”
Speaker 2: Thiago Pereira Maia (<tthiagopmaia@gmail.com>): “A Pascalian wager on the value of truth”
Lunch: On your own 11:15-1:00
Concurrent Session 2: 1:00-2:40
Washington Room
Chair: Peter Wicks
Speaker 1: Andrew Garland (<adgarland@gmail.com>): “Emotion Ecology”
Speaker 2: David Vishanoff (<vishanoff@ou.edu>): “The Religiously Literate Self: Identity and Integrity in Interreligious Engagement”
Lunch: On your own 11:15-1:00
Concurrent Session 2: 1:00-2:40
Madison Room
Chair: Zack Akin
Speaker 1: Ian DeWeese-Boyd (<Ian.DeWeese-Boyd@gordon.edu>): “Now Be Witness Again:” Walt Whitman and the Practice of Wounded Hope”
Speaker 2: Abigail Bergeron (<abigail.bergeron@queensu.ca>): “Before Borgmann and After Virtue: Examining the Relationship Between Alisdair MacIntyre and Albert Borgmann” ???
Harrison Room
Chair: Chris King
Speaker 1: Shawn Assar (<shawnassar0793@gmail.com>): “Practices, Perception, and Moral Wisdom: Toward a Perceptual Account of Formation in Alasdair MacIntyre”
Speaker 2: Jacob Castleberry (<jcastleberry2@ivytech.edu>): “Two Orders of Love: Ella Lyman Cabot Versus MacIntyre on the Proper Ordering of Augustinian Virtue”
Concurrent Session 3: 3:00-4:40
Washington Room
Chair: Michael Pope
Speaker 1: Chris Gross (<cgross@divinemercy.edu>): “MacIntyre and the “Right to Die Movement”: Two Rival Versions of Dignity”
Speaker 2: Emily McCall (<emily.m.mccall@gmail.com>): “MacIntyre on Edith Stein and the Role of Philosophy in the Good Life”
Madison Room
Chair: Jeffery Nicholas
Speaker 1: Patrick Gardner (<patrick.gardner@cnu.edu>): “Meaning and MacIntyre: Virtue, Teleology, and the Divine Mind”
Speaker 2: Joel Warden (<jm.warden.co@gmail.com>): “The Clinician Who Acts as Others Believe: Prioritizing the Patient's Theological Viewpoint in Spiritually Diverse Communities of Practice”
Harrison Room
Chair: Chris Tucker
Speaker 1: Steve Sherman (<Steve.Sherman@gcu.edu>): “Taking MacIntyre’s Goods to School: Implementing Intentional Character Formation for University Well-Being”
Speaker 2: Brooklyne Oliveira (<bo8947@princeton.edu>): “Liberalism as MacIntyrean Tradition: The Creativity of Conflict in Liberal Legal Institutions”
Keynote Session: 5:00-6:15 (DSU Ballroom)
Speaker: Mark Murphy "MacIntyre on Moral Obligation and Directed Duty"
Saturday, November 7, 2026
Concurrent Session 4: 9:30-11:10
Washington Room
Chair: Daniel Rubio
Speaker 1: Stephen Napier (<stephen.napier@villanova.edu>): “Faith as Expertise”
Speaker 2: Adam Green (<greenab3@gmail.com>): “In-Group Psychology and Barriers to Knowledge of Self and Religious Other”
Madison Room
Chair: Shawn Assar
Speaker 1: Chris King (<zchrisking@gmail.com>): “Social Practices of the Body: Gender in a MacIntyrean Perspective”
Speaker 2: Peter Wicks (<peter.r.wicks@gmail.com>): “Can the Idiom of Rights Be Redeemed? MacIntyre on Natural Rights and Rights Talk”
Harrison Room
Chair: Nancy Snow
Speaker 1: Rebecca Chan (<rebecca.s.chan@sjsu.edu>): “Godly and Ungodly Attitudes”
Speaker 2: Ben Huff (<benjaminhuff@rmc.edu>): “False Universality and the Decline of Religion in the Academy”
Lunch 11:15-1:00
Concurrent Session 5: 1:00-2:40
Washington Room
Chair: Steve Sherman
Speaker 1: Chris Tucker (<cstucker@wm.edu>): “(Divine) Autonomy: How Lesser Goods Can Be Justifying Reasons”
Speaker 2: Eric Silverman: “MacIntyre & Hursthouse”
Madison Room
Chair: Andrew Garland
Speaker 1: Jeffery Nicholas (<jefferynicholas@gmail.com>): “Tradition and Subversion in Alasdair MacIntyre”
Speaker 2: Elijah Crouch (<elijahbcrouch@gmail.com>): “A Thousand Witnesses”
Harrison Room
Chair: Patrick Gardner
Speaker 1: Oren Noam (<noam.oren@mail.huji.ac.il>): “The Limits of (Religious) Deference”
Speaker 2: V. Ellsworth Lewis (<ellslewis@aol.com>): “How Christian Psychology Makes Itself True”
Concurrent Session 6: 3:00-4:40
Washington Room
Chair: Brooklyne Oliveira
Speaker 1: Lance Cole (<lance@fbcreidsville.com>): “Sovereignty and Human Responsibility in a Culture of Individualism”
Speaker 2: Nancy Snow (<nsnow@ku.edu>): “Traditions, Covenantal Pluralism, and the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X”
Madison Room
Chair: Chris Gross
Speaker 1: Emily Mccarty (<emccarty@samford.edu>): “Can God be a Moral Exemplar?: A Thomistic Suggestion for MacIntyre’s Moral Communities”
Speaker 2: Michael Pope (<m.pope@northeastern.edu>): “Trust and the Virtues of Acknowledged Dependence: Toward Wholeness”
Harrison Room
Chair: Steve Napier
Speaker 1: Philip Woodward (<pwoodward@niagara.edu>): “The Argument from Clairvoyance”
Speaker 2:
Keynote Session: 5:00-6:15 (DSU Ballroom)
Speaker: Jennifer Frey "MacIntyre on Universities"
Banquet Offsite Immediately after Keynote