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The 18th Annual
Undergraduate Philosophy & Religion Conference
Saturday, November 10, 2007
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
SUB Conference room (301)
Hosted by Truman State University Department of Philosophy and Religion
Conference Schedule
9:00 am – Welcome
9:05 am – Paper 1
Sunyata and Interbeing: An Approach to Buddhist-Christian Dialogue
By: Arthur David Gregg
Truman State University
9:35 am – Paper 2
The Whole Shebang: Science and Religion in Relationship
By: Levi M. Hadley
Southeast Missouri State University
10:05 am – Paper 3
The Logic of Paul’s Ethics: A Paradigm Shift in Literary Terms
By: Brad Smith
Truman State University
10:35 am – Break
10:40 am – Paper 4
Examining the Mean Relative to Us
By: Rick Archer
Illinois State University
11:10 am – Paper 5
The Problem of Evil and Its Solution
By: Trevor Hedberg
Baker University
11:40 am – Paper 6
Free Will and Calvinism in Jonathan Edwards
By: Kacey Proctor
Southeast Missouri State University
12:10 pm – Lunch 1 hr, 10 min
1:20 pm – Paper
Conversing With Angels and the Search for Divine Language: John Dee the Scientist, John Dee the Conjurer
By: Matt Schweizer
Truman State University
1:50 pm – Paper 8
The Cosmological and Anthropological Framework of Ibn ‘Arabi’s teaching of Union with God
By: Daniel Greeson
Western Kentucky University
2:20 pm – Paper 9
From Rules to Principles: The Transformation of a Jewish Agricultural Ethic
By: Travis Berg
Minnesota State University
2:50 pm – Paper 10
Xun Zi: An Investigation on Xun Zi’s Doctrine of Human Nature
By: Brandon Johnson
Western Kentucky University
3:20 pm – Break
3:30 pm – Paper 11
Inheriting Cosmopolitanism: Thomas Pogge and Jacques Derrida on Global Injustice
By: Samuel Timme
Creighton University
4:00 pm – Paper 12
Toward a Pluralistic, Postmodern Polis: Restructuring Foucault’s Objections to Habermas’ Discourse Ethics
By: Ivar Rodriguez
Principia College
4:30 pm – Paper 13
The Harmony of Faith and Reason in Saint Thomas Aquinas
By: Daniel De Haan
Belmont University
5:00 pm – Paper 14
The Enlightenment of God: Kenosis and the Salvation of the World
By: Chris Nation
Truman State University
5:30 pm – Paper 15
The Continuum of Communication in Christianity, with Occasional
Reference to The Moment and Late Writings
By: Michael McEvilly
Washington University in Saint Louis
6:00 pm – Closing remarks and Dinner Break
7:30 pm – Keynote speaker
Science and Religion in Islam
Dr. Taner Edis
Department of Physics, Truman State University