Conference Schedule
Rationality, Theism, and Atheism (RTA 2021)
Conference virtual room: https://www.skyroom.online/ch/irip/rta2021/l/en
FIRST DAY - March 1, 2021 (Monday)
Opening 9:00 – 10:00 (5:30 - 6:30 GMT)
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Panel Title: Critique of Ontological argument Panel Chair: Muhammad Saeidimehr Timing: 10:00 – 12:00 (6:30 –8:30 GMT) |
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Lecturer |
Title |
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Cornel Hertogh |
Anselm’s Ontological Argument Reconsidered As a Religious Thought Experiment |
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Michael Bauwens |
Exploring the argument for God from truth |
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Javier Perez-Jara |
The God-question(s) and the Ontological Dimensions of Being |
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Hannes Schumacher |
Divine inexistence and the ontological argument |
Keynote Speaker 14:00 – 15:00 (10:30 – 11:30 GMT):
Richard Swinburne:
“Notes on ‘Why Hume and Kant were mistaken in rejecting natural theology?”
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Panel Title: Rationality of religious belief/disbelief Panel Chair: Rasoul Rasoulipour Timing: 15:00 – 17:00 (11:30 – 13:30 GMT) |
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Lecturer |
Title |
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Rik Peels |
Can Atheism Be Properly Basic? |
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Philip Hopkins |
In the Absence of Evidence: Mill and James against Hume’s “On Miracles” in Conversation with Ancient Voices and Sacred Texts |
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Mark Boespflug |
Experts and Laity: What the Social Epistemology of Science and Religion Reveals About Their Relationship |
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Mohsen Javadi |
Definition of Faith and the Question of Rationality of Theism |
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Rasoul Rasoulipour |
Plantinga and Marx/Freud De Jure Challenge to Theistic Belief |
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Panel Title: On (ir)rationality of Atheism Panel Chair: Kelly Clark Timing: 17:00 - 19:30 (13:30 – 16:00 GMT) |
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Lecturer |
Title |
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Kelly James Clark |
Atheism and inferential thinking |
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Alireza Kazemi |
What Can Evil (Rationally) Test? |
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Kyle Moore |
Atheism and the concept of religion in the early Kojève |
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Safaruk Chowdhury |
Prior Cognitive Information and An Islamic Argument from Reason |
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Zeinab Salari |
On Preferring God’s Non-Existence |
SECOND DAY - March 2, 2021 (Tuesday)
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Panel Title: Critique of God-World relation Panel Chair: Ebrahim Azadegan Timing: 10:30 - 13:00 (7:00 – 9:30 GMT) |
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Lecturer |
Title |
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Muhammad Legenhausen |
Inferentialism and Divine Necessity |
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Andrew Loke |
The Kalam Cosmological Argument and the Rationality of Theism
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Saeed Masoumi |
Some Comments on the Kalam Cosmological Argument and the First Instance of Time |
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Hamed Bikaraan-Behesht |
The Conflict between Theism and Naturalism: Methodological or Metaphysical? |
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Panel Title: Problems of traditional theistic arguments Panel Chair: Reza Akbari Timing: 14:00 – 16:00 (10:30 – 12:30 GMT) |
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Lecturer |
Title |
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Aleksandar Novakovic |
Why we do not need demonstrative proof for God’s existence to know that God exists: Robert Nozick’s case for the existence of God |
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Reza Bakhshayesh |
Kant from Agnosticism to Theism |
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Lara Scaglia |
Critique, reason, tradition. Kant and Al-Jabri on the possibility of reasonable belief in God |
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Mojgan Khalili |
Epistemic and Metaphysical Possibility or Impossibility of God’s Existence according to Wittgenstein |
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Panel Title: Problems concerning God’s Attributes Panel Chair: Ebrahim Azadegan Timing: 16:15- 18:15 (12:45 – 14:45 GMT) |
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Lecturer: |
Title: |
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Ebrahim Azadegan |
Abraham’s Plead with God |
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Jacob Quick |
In Defense of the (Non-)Existence of God: The Rationality of Christian Mystical Theism |
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Jamie Benjamin Turner |
inferential vs non-inferential interpretation of divine attributes in the Islamic tradition |
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Ehsan Karimi Torshizi Hedieh Yaghubi Bojmaeh |
The Bi-lā Kayfa Doctrine: Theological-Philosophical Perspectives |
Closing - Keynote speaker 18:30 – 19:30 (15:00 – 15:30 GMT):
Peter van Inwagen
“Is God an Unnecessary Hypothesis?”