UNIVERSITY INVOLVEMENT
We have had the immense privilege of addressing faculty and students on numerous university campuses on these pertinent issues from a distinctly Christian perspective in order to challenge some of the dominant philosophies that are espoused.
Academic Lectures/ Papers Presented:
1. Harvard University:
“Ways of knowing in Religious Communities: Conceptual Limit and the Problem of Privileged Access”
2. Oxford University:
“Re-imagining Biology: How a Theology of Life can help reshape the Science of life”
3. Yale University:
“Validating Other Minds: The Tacit Empathetic Dimension of Participatory Indwelling”
4. UC Berkeley:
“Science, Methodology and the Social Context”
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT):
“Divine and Human Action in the Natural World: Why We Need to Unearth Hidden Assumptions and Reconsider Customary Presumptions”
6. Johns Hopkins University:
“Secularization and the Future of Western Society”
7. University of Pennsylvania:
“East meets West: A Critical Appraisal of Advaitic Epistemology from a Rortyian Perspective”
8. University of Chicago:
“Common Theoretical Themes within Jewish and Islamic Kalam Cosmological Arguments that influenced Christian Theology and Western Metaphysics”
9. University of Notre Dame:
“Re-evaluating Methodologies: How Human Suffering reveals our Epistemological Inadequacies”
10. University of British Columbia (Canada):
“The Scientific Enterprise: How Socio-Political and Institutional Structures Influence and Shape Scientific Endeavors”
11. Rice University:
“The Limitations of Science and the Public Good”
12. University of Warsaw (Poland):
“Theory and Practice: Why we can’t have one without the other”
13. Boston University:
“Religious Diversity and Epistemic Practices”
14. Georgetown University:
“Problem of Religious Pluralism: Conceptual Necessity and Ontological Reality”
15. Vanderbilt University:
“Looking Back: Re-descriptions of History and the Displacement of the Real”
16. Drew University:
“Thinking about the Future as History”
17. University of Texas Dallas:
” Re-engaging the Academy: The Humanities as an Unarticulated Constituent and the Emergence of a Truly Interdisciplinary Perspective”
18. Ohio State University:
“The Science of Madness and the Madness of Science”
19. University of Liege (Belgium):
“The Nature of Scientific Culture”
20. Baylor University:
“Recovery of Wisdom: Disciplinary Constraints and the Displacement of the Scientific Ideal”
21. Baylor University:
“The Jolly Trio: The Revelatory, Participatory and Correlative Dimensions of Film”
22. Baylor University:
“Appropriating Subjectivity: Plantinga’s Reformed Epistemology and the Rediscovery of Kierkegaard’s Contemporary Relevance”
23. Arizona State University:
“Changing the Paradigm: Toward a Post-Critical Philosophy”
24. University of Sao Paulo (Brazil):
“The Nature of Mental Content: Why we need to rethink the Philosophy of Mind”
25. University of North Texas:
“Religion as the Foundational Basis for Technology”
26. Taylor University (C.S. Lewis Conference):
“Arguing for God – The Unarticulated Constituent and the Emergence of a Moral Grammar”
27. Taylor University (C.S. Lewis Conference):
“Merging C.S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton: God as the Unarticulated Constituent in Mere Christianity and Orthodoxy”
28. San Jose State University:
“Displacing the Scientific Ideal: Recovery of Wisdom in our Contemporary Academy and World”
29. Azusa Pacific University:
“The Inevitable Limitations of the Scientific Method”
30. University of Texas Dallas:
“The Tyranny of Science: Re-engaging Paul Feyerabend”
These are some of the Academic Centers/ Professional Societies we have been involved with:
1. Ian Ramsey Center for Science and Religion (Oxford University):
“Divine and Human Action in the Natural World: Why We Need to Unearth Hidden Assumptions and Reconsider Customary Presumptions”
2. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
“Rethinking Science”
3. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center (Georgetown University):
“Problem of Religious Pluralism: Conceptual Necessity and Ontological Reality”
4. American Scientific Affiliation (ASA):
“Do the Laws of Physics Lie? The Representational (Metaphysical) Limitations of Science and its Implication for Theological Reflection”
5. Institute of Philosophy and The Polish Academy of Sciences (University of Warsaw):
“Theory and Practice: Why we can’t have one without the other”
6. Center for Science, Medicine and Technology (UT Dallas):
“A Truly Democratic Future: Paul Feyerabend’s Vision for the Recovery of a Free Society without the tyranny of Science”
7. American Academy of Religion (AAR):
“Ways of knowing in Religious Communities: Conceptual Limit and the Problem of Privileged Access”
8. Evangelical Philosophical Society (EPS):
“Extending the Reformation: Why Contemporary Apologetic Indulgences with the Ideality of Science needs to be Reformed”
9. Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT):
“Religion as the Foundational Basis for Technology”
10. Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World (A Division of the American Philosophical Association):
“The Nature of Wisdom: Returning to our Source of Episteme and Techne”
11. Canadian Center for Scholarship and the Christian Faith:
“The Metaphysical Limitations of Science and its Implication for Thinking about God”