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The Work of Herbert McCabe Ten Years On
The Aquinas Institute, Blackfriars, Oxford 6th Annual Aquinas Colloquium Saturday 5 March 2011 10.00am – 5.00pm FAITH WITHIN REASON: THE WORK OF HERBERT MCCABE TEN YEARS ON The Opera Omnia, Fergus Kerr OP, Edinburgh McCabe’s Use of Wittgenstein, Paul O’Grady, Trinity College Dublin McCabe on Divine Impassibility, Sarah Coakley, Cambridge McCabe on Metaphysics and Creation, […]
CFP: Hume’s Metaphysics and Humean Metaphysics
Hume’s Metaphysics and Humean Metaphysics School of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Tampere, Finland June 20-22, 2011 Call for Papers The idea of the conference is to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Hume’s birth by promoting fruitful discussion between Hume scholars and metaphysicians. Abstract Submission Deadline: March 15, 2011 (Notification of acceptance by April […]
Culture Shocks Interviews Conor Cunningham
Conor Cunningham has appeared on the Culture Shocks show with Barry Lynn on 28 January: According to British scholar Conor Cunningham, the debate today between religion and evolution has been hijacked by extremists: on one side stand fundamentalist believers who reject evolution outright, and opposing them are fundamentalist atheists who claim that Darwin’s theory rules out […]
PhD Fellowships with the Bergen ‘Modernism and Christianity’ Project
Two Ph.D. fellowships are available at the Department of Foreign Languages from 1 August 2011. The positions are connected to the research project Modernism and Christianity. For more information, please see the following links: 2 PhD positions connected to the project “Modernism and Christianity” For the English translation of this page, click on ‘English’ at the […]
Conference: Habit and Second Nature
The British Society for Phenomenology HABIT AND SECOND NATURE 15th – 17th April 2011 St Hilda’s College, Cowley Place, Oxford Habit is undeniably an important and pervasive aspect of human life; indeed, it is so familiar to us that often we do not pause to reflect on it. Similarly, the concept of habit has played a […]
CFP: ‘MacIntyre as Critic and Educator’
ISME 5th Annual Conference Providence College July 28-31, 2011 Confirmed Plenary Speakers Marilynne Robinson Iowa Writers Workshop Author of Gilead, Home, and Absence of Mind Daniel O. Dahlstrom Boston University Author of Heidegger’s Concept of Truth and more than ninety articles James Connelly University of Hull Author of Politics and the Environment: From Theory to Practice Call for Papers: […]
Aquinas Lecture 2011
‘If Love It Is…’: Thomistic Reflections on the Psychology of Love Michael Sherwin, OP (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) Wednesday 26 January 2011 5.00pm The Aquinas Institute Blackfriars Oxford Further Information from vivian.boland@english.op.org Download the event poster here.
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s ‘Faith in the World’ Competition
“If we want to nurture a really articulate public argument about the great issues of our times, we have to make sure that younger citizens have the confidence to make themselves heard. One of the most depressing things that can happen to young people is a climate, whether in school or out of it, that […]
‘Psychology and the Other’ Conference
It is deep autumn. My neighbor, How does he live, I wonder. ~ Haiku by Matsuo Basho Psychology and the Other Conference 2011 October 1st – 3rd Cambridge, MA Plenary Addresses Jeffrey Bloechl, Ph.D., Boston College Mark Freeman, Ph.D., College of the Holy Cross Lynne Layton, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School Stuart A. Pizer, Ph.D., ABPP, […]
Italian Translation of Monstrosity of Christ
An Italian translation of Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? (by John Milbank, Slavoj Žižek, and ed. by Creston Davis) is out, with the Italian title of La mostruosità di Cristo. Paradosso o dialettica?, translated by D. Bondi and A. Gonzi. The description from the publisher reads: In La mostruosità di Cristo il filosofo Slavoj Žižek […]
“Dimensions of Goodness” International Conference
The Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) will host “Dimensions of Goodness,” a major international and interdisciplinary conference April 4-6, 2011 in McKenna Hall at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN. The conference will feature some of the most noted scholars in the arts, engineering, humanities, law, natural and physical sciences, […]
Lists of Notable Books of 2010
First Thing’s “Notable Books of 2010” by Christopher Benson ABC Religion and Ethics “2010 Was a Fine Year for Books” by Scott Stephens
Issue of Communio on the Nature of Experience
The latest issue of Commnio: International Catholic Review is a special issue on the ‘Nature of Experience’, containing articles by: David L. Schindler, Reinhard Hütter, Antonio Lopez, Conor Cunningham, D. C. Schindler, David S. Crawford, Steven A. Long, José Granados, Joseph Atkinson, Margaret Harper McCarthy, Michael Maria Waldstein, and Martin Rhonheimer. From the Introduction: The Summer, […]
Darwin’s Pious Idea now available through Amazon.com
Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong is now available through Amazon.com. (Amazon.co.uk availability still forthcoming.)
Darwin’s Pious Idea: UK Distribution Promotion
For those ordering Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong from the UK, Alban Books has a promotional offer of both 20% off as well as free shipping for a total of £18.39 (from £22.99 + shipping). Go to Albanbooks.com and enter the code DP1210 at checkout. Alternatively, this […]
Two Call for Papers: Transgression and the Sacred; The Return of Metaphysics
Below are two Call for Papers that may be of interest: Transgression and the Sacred An International Philosophy and Literature Conference, University College Dublin, 22-23 February 2011. Plenary speakers for this conference: Professor Richard Kearney (Charles B. Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College), Professor Fred Botting (Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing, Kingston […]
New and Notable
Recently out from Cascade books is Musical Beauty: Negotiating the Boundary between Subject and Object, by Ferdia J. Stone-Davis. From the publisher: This book offers an important new perspective on the Western tradition of musical aesthetics through an examination of Anicius Boethius and Immanuel Kant. Within the trajectory illuminated by these two thinkers, musical meaning […]
‘Making Democratic Socialism Meaningful’, by Alex Andrews
Alex Andrews, a PhD candidate in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham and member of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy has published a piece in the New Left Project entitled ‘Making Democratic Socialism Meaningful.’ The lede reads, ‘In the third piece in our discussion about the Labour Party […]
Darwin’s Pious Idea now in stock
Just heard from Eerdmans: Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong (Interventions) is now in stock! Click here to order from Eerdmans (Amazon links: UK | US). Also available: See the blurbs from Justin L. Barrett, John Hedley Brooke, David Depew, William Desmond, Louis Dupré, David Fergusson, David […]
‘The Big Society Depends on the Big Parish’, by John Milbank
Professor John Milbank has published an article on ABC Religion and Ethics entitled ‘The Big Society Depends on the Big Parish’. The piece begins: Last week, a motley and anachronistic crew of liberal Anglican theologians and dissenting ministers, in collaboration with the think tank Ecclesia, launched the Common Wealth: Christians for Economic and Social Justiceinitiative, whose purpose […]
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