Conference on Science and Religion

This event is jointly organized by Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University (Belfast, N. Ireland).
2 - 3 September, 2020

Programme

Wednesday, 2 September

10-11am	David Glass (Ulster University), “Conjunctive Explanations”
11am-12pm	David Livingstone (Queen's University, Belfast), “The Telos of Darwin’s Troubling Metaphor: Darwin’s Pigeons, Dennett’s Cranes, Fodor’s Granny” Discussant: Rope Kojonen (University of Helsinki)
12-1pm	Rope Kojonen (University of Helsinki), “Evaluating the Darwinian case Against Conjunctive Explanations” Discussant: David Livingstone (Queen's University, Belfast)
1-2pm	Lunch
2-3pm	Aku Visala (University of Helsinki), “Free Will, Causality, and Conjunctive Explanations” Discussant: Tasia Scrutton (University of Leeds)
3-4pm	Tasia Scrutton (University of Leeds), “Psychopathology and Genuine Religious Experience?” Discussant: Aku Visala (University of Helsinki)

 

Thursday, 3 September

10-11am	Joanna Leidenhag (University of St. Andrews), “God, Consciousness, and Conjunctive Explanations” Discussant: Tom McLeish (University of York)
11am-12pm	Tom McLeish (University of York), “Complementary Causation – a Substrate for Conjunctive Explanations” Discussant: Andrew Torrance (University of St. Andrews)
12-1pm	Andrew Torrance (University of St. Andrews), “A Conjunctive Explanation of Christian Faith” Discussant: Joanna Leidenhag (University of St. Andrews)
1-2pm	Lunch
2-3pm	Gijsbert van den Brink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), “Are Theological Explanations Superfluous? The Cognitive Science of Religion and Occam’s Razor” Discussant: Alister McGrath (University of Oxford)
3-4pm	Alister McGrath (University of Oxford), “An Explanatory Mosaic: Conjunctive Explanations in Science and Religion” Discussant: Gijsbert van den Brink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
4-5pm	Closing Discussion