Tuesday, 6 June 2017
13:30 - 14.30 Registration
14:30 - 15:00 Welcome and Introduction
Marco Ventura, Fondazione Bruno Kessler;
Geert Keil, Humboldt University Berlin;
Boris Rähme, Fondazione Bruno Kessler;
Paolo Costa, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
The Epistemology of Religious Disagreement
Chairs: Sami Pihlström, University of Helsinki - Christoph Schamberger, Humboldt University Berlin
15:00 - 16:15 Rationalist Resistance to Disagreement-Motivated Religious Skepticism
John Pittard, Yale University
Respondent: Katherine Dormandy, University of Innsbruck
16:15 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 17:45 Reasons, Commitment and Disagreement in Religious and Other Contexts
Winfried Löffler, University of Innsbruck
Respondent: Geert Keil, Humboldt University Berlin
17:45 - 18:15 Break
18:15 - 19:45 Keynote: Religious Disagreements: Real and Apparent
Richard Feldman, University of Rochester
20:00 Dinner
Wednesday, 7 June 2017
The Epistemology of Religious Disagreement (cont'd)
Chair: Christoph Schamberger, Humboldt University Berlin
9:00 - 10:15 Religious Disagreement as an Aid to Religious Truth
Katherine Dormandy, University of Innsbruck
Respondent: Daniele Bertini, University of Rome 2, Tor Vergata
The Goals and the Reach of Argumentative Religious Debate
Chairs: Winfried Löffler, University of Innsbruck - John Pittard, Yale University
10:15 - 11:30 Being Religiously Unmusical: What Does it Mean? And Does it Matter?
Paolo Costa, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Respondent: Sami Pihlström, University of Helsinki
11:30 - 12:00 Break
12:00 - 13:15 Religious Claims, Arguments, and Disagreements
Boris Rähme, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Respondent: Winfried Löffler, University of Innsbruck
13:15 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 16:15 Desire, Divine Hiddenness, and Atheism
Fiona Ellis, Heythrop College, University of London
Respondent: Paolo Costa, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
16:15 - 17:30 Metaphysical Realism as the Proton Pseudos of Theodicism: A Pragmatic Critique of the Argument from Evil
Sami Pihlström, University of Helsinki
Respondent: John Pittard, Yale University
17:30 - 18:00 Break
18:00 - 19:30 Keynote: Arguing Religious Ideals Towards a Humane Politics
Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University, New York
20:00 Social Dinner
Thursday, 8 June 2017
Religious Disagreement and Recognition
Chairs: Geert Keil, Humboldt University Berlin - Boris Rähme, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
09:00 - 10:15 Beyond the Wall of Separation: The Cooperation of State and Religious Communities under the German Constitution
Ralf Poscher, University of Freiburg
Respondent: Marco Ventura, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
10:15 - 11:30 The Experiential Path Towards Being Religious Peers
Daniele Bertini, University of Rome 2, Tor Vergata
Respondent: Rachel Jonker, University of Notre Dame
11:30 - 11:45 Break
11:45 -13:00 Essentially Contested Concepts and Mutual Recognition
Joonas Pennanen, University of Jyväskylä
Respondent: Christoph Schamberger, Humboldt University Berlin
13:00 - 13:30 Concluding Remarks
13:30 Lunch