Events

Philosophy of Religion One-Day Workshop

  • 1:30-6:00pm, 1 May, 2012
  • Room UG05, Learning Centre
  • Programme:
  • 1:30-2:30pm Sam Shearn, ‘D.Z. Phillips’ Critique of Theodicies’
  • 2:30-3:30pm Ben Matheson, 'Is God's Existence Relevant to Human Life?'
  • 3:30-4:00pm Coffee
  • 4:00-5:00pm Nikk Effingham, 'Leftowian Trinitarianism'
  • 5:00-6:00pm Guest Speaker: Paul Draper (Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University), ‘The Limitations of Skeptical Theism’
  • Dinner

Public Lecture: Substance Dualism

  • Speaker: Richard Swinburne (University of Oxford) 
  • 7:00pm, 25 April, 2012
  • Main Lecture Theatre, Arts Building
  • Organised by the University of Birmingham Philosophy Society and Theology Society

Public Lecture: The Meaning of LIfe

  • Speaker: John Cottingham (University of Reading and Heythrop College, London) 
  • 6:30pm, 7 March, 2012
  • Main Lecture Theatre, Arts Building
  • Organised by the University of Birmingham Philosophy Society

Public Lecture: The Atheist's Guide to Reality

  • Speaker: Alex Rosenberg (Duke University, USA)
  • 7:00pm-9:00pm, 22 February, 2012
  • Learning Centre LG32
  • Organised by the University of Birmingham Atheist, Secular and Humanist Society

Research Seminar: On Preferring God's Non-existence

  • Speaker: Klaas Kraay (Ryerson University, Canada)
  • 4:15-6:00pm, 30 January, 2012
  • Room 149, ERI Building

Postgraduate Conference: Science and Religion

  • 17 May 2011, University of Birmingham
  • Sponsored by Robert's Funding
  • Brings together those working on the philosophy of science and the philosophy of religion to find areas of interaction or conflict between the two. 

Monthly Discussion Group: "Open End"

  • Informal philosophy of religion discussion group launched in 1967

For enquries regarding these events, please contact Dr. Yujin Nagasawa (Y.Nagasawa@bham.ac.uk).