Thursday
10.15 Welcome
Session 1: William Abraham (SMU), The challenge of unbelief and skepticism in the book of exodus
11.30 break
11.45 Session 2 David Efird (York), Knowing the unknowable (personally):
Divine ineffability and the beatific vision revisited
12.45 Lunch
14.15 Session 3, Olli-Pekka Vainio (Helsinki), Religious faith, certainty, and doubt
15.15 break
15.30 Session 4 Calum Miller (Oxford), Probabilistic reasoning for religious knowledge
16.30 Tour at University Libraries and the Cathedrals
Friday
9.15 Session 5: Victoria Harrison (Macau), How can we come to know theological truths?
10.30 break
10.45 Session 6 Tony Bolos (Virginia Commonwealth University) and James Collin (Edinburgh), Understanding and action-oriented theological epistemology
11.45 Lunch
13.00 Session 7, student papers, Ilmari Hirvonen (Helsinki), The Grandson of Great Pumpkin: The problem of arbitrariness in Alvin Plantinga’s apologetic programme; Oskari Juurikkala (Rome), Theoria between rationality and vision: Lessons for theological epistemology from the Patristic doctrine of contemplation; Jonathan Fugua (Purdue), How God can save philosophy
14.30 break
14.45 Session 8, Kegan Shaw (Edinburgh), A Plea for the Theist in the Street: In Defense of a ‘Moorean’-style Proof for the Existence of God
15.45 Break
18.00 Conference dinner for the speakers