Wesleyan Philosophical Society
2006 Annual Conference Schedule
Thursday, March 2nd 2006
 

The Tradition of Christian Love
 

7:30 – 8:30 a.m.          Registration
8:30 – 10:00 a.m.        Session IA - Does Love Change God?

Kent Dunnington (Duke University) – Divine Love and Impassibility

Donald Wayne Viney (Pittsburg State University) – Process, Parturition and Perfect Love: Diotima’s Rather Non-Platonic Metaphysic of Eros  

Session IB - What Kind of Experience is Love? Analyses Across Traditions                  

Gregory S. Clapper (University of Indianapolis) – Is Love an Affection or an Emotion?

Horace Shelton Horton-Parker (Regent University Divinity School) - The Light That Charity Knows: Tsong-ka-pa and Maximus the Confessor on Love

 10:00 – 10:30 a.m.     Morning Break

 10:30 – 12:00 p.m.     Session IIA – Love and Community

Mark Thames (El Centro College) – Habermas, Kierkegaard, and the Political Duty to Love

Nancy Mardas (Saint Joseph College) – Love and Ethics in a Postmodern World 

                                    Session IIB – Love in Relational and Process Philosophy

Thomas Jay Oord (Northwest Nazarene University) – Relational Categories for Unlimited Love

Young Woon Ko (Methodist Theological Seminary) – Whitehead and Jung on Love 

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.        Lunch and Business Meeting

1:00- 2:00 p.m.            Presidential Address: Eric Manchester -- Political Philia and Sacramental Love

2:00– 3:30 p.m.           Session IIIA – God as Love in Personalism and Poetry

Maria Fedoryka  (Ave Maria University) - Metaphysics of the Person: Love as Foundation and Fulfillment 

Eric Berg Aristotle's Poetics and Aquinas' 4th way                                   

                                    Session IIIB – Metaphysical Themes in the Philosophy of Love

Teri Merrick (Azusa Pacific University) – Naturalism: A Crude Instrument in the Search of a Beloved?

Brint Montgomery (Southern Nazarene University) – A Prolegomena to Love: Demotivating the Problem of Other Minds

3:30 – 4:00 p.m.          Afternoon Break

4:00 – 5:30 p.m.          Session IVA – Love and the Problem of Evil

Aaron Cobb (St. Louis University) – Skeptical Theism and Good Reasons to Believe

Adam Green (St. Louis University) – Love, Pattern Experience, and the Problem of Evil 

Session IVB – Can Love be Self-Interested?

John Lippitt (University of Hertfordshire) –Second Selves and Genuine Others: Kierkegaard and Aristotle on Friendship and Self-Love

Alan Vincelette (St. John’s Seminary) – Three Contemporary Positions within the Philosophy of Love: Edwards, Hopkins, and Nygren

6:30 p.m.                     Dinner

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