Dubuque anyone?
So i went to Dubuque Iowa last week with a couple friends to attend the Society of Christian Philosophers Midwest Regional Conference at the University of Dubuque. It was sweet. This years topic was Developing Character: Moral and Intellectual Virtues. so there were a variety of presentations regarding different aspects of basically virtue. i'll tell you about a few papers worth mentioning.
One of my favorites was a paper called "Free love and the problem of evil" it was basically a defense of free will in regards to love and personal relationships of maturity and reciprocity, and in so doing it was also a refutation to hard determinism and compatibilism or soft determinism, the conclusion of the paper was that either determinism is false or that there are no meaningful and mature relationships. He went about the logic of it in a very good manner.
Another paper that i really enjoyed was by one of my old philosophy professors, Dr. Paul Reasoner, his paper was about a Confucian slant on the developing of sincerity as a foundational virtue to Christianity as well as philosophically. Lastly i will mention another paper by an old prof, Dr. Andy Gustafson. His paper "the difference between Plantinga and Caputo: A Reformed Epistemological Approach to Ethics." In it he argued that there is a meaningful relationship between the way that Caputo does epistemology, and Plantinga's approach to ethics. it was really good, but a little bit too heady to make a good summary of on here, if you care ask me and i'll tell you more about it, it was really great actually.
One of my favorites was a paper called "Free love and the problem of evil" it was basically a defense of free will in regards to love and personal relationships of maturity and reciprocity, and in so doing it was also a refutation to hard determinism and compatibilism or soft determinism, the conclusion of the paper was that either determinism is false or that there are no meaningful and mature relationships. He went about the logic of it in a very good manner.
Another paper that i really enjoyed was by one of my old philosophy professors, Dr. Paul Reasoner, his paper was about a Confucian slant on the developing of sincerity as a foundational virtue to Christianity as well as philosophically. Lastly i will mention another paper by an old prof, Dr. Andy Gustafson. His paper "the difference between Plantinga and Caputo: A Reformed Epistemological Approach to Ethics." In it he argued that there is a meaningful relationship between the way that Caputo does epistemology, and Plantinga's approach to ethics. it was really good, but a little bit too heady to make a good summary of on here, if you care ask me and i'll tell you more about it, it was really great actually.