Conference Videos for “Challenges” Conference at Purdue
This website includes videos of the presentations (and replies and Q&A) at the Sept 6-8, 2012 conference at Purdue University entitled “Challenges to Religious and Moral Belief: Disagreement and Evolution” (sponsored by Purdue University and the John Templeton Foundation). Videos may be accessed by clicking on the tabs above or on the speaker’s name below.
Session 1: Robert Audi (Notre Dame), “Normative Disagreement as a Challenge to Moral Philosophy and Philosophical Theology”
Session 2: Charles Mathewes (Virginia), “Theologies of Hell and Epistemological Conflict”
Session 3: Mark Murphy (Georgetown), “Towards God’s Own Ethics”
Session 4: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke), “Disagreeing with Psychopaths”
Session 5: Timothy Jackson (Emory), “Not by Reason Alone: The Priority of Sanctity over Dignity”
Session 6: John Hare (Yale), “Conscience and the Moral Epistemology of Divine Command Theory”
Session 7: Ralph Wedgwood (USC), “Moral Disagreement among Philosophers”
Session 8: Sarah Brosnan (Georgia State), “Primate Precursors to Moral Behavior”
Session 9: Dustin Locke (Claremont McKenna), “Darwinian Normative Skepticism”
Session 10: Sharon Street (NYU), “The Existence of God as a Normative Question”
No Video: Richard Sosis and Jordan Kiper (Connecticut), “Religion is more than Belief: What Evolutionary Theories of Religion Tell us about Religious Commitments”
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