University of Massachusetts, Amherst
April 9-10, 2008
Presenters
Louise Antony
Professor of Philosophy—UMass, Amherst.
As a freshman at Syracuse University Dr. Louise Antony discovered and immediately fell in love with philosophy. Antony completed her undergraduate studies in Philosophy (B.A. 1975) and went on to study at Harvard University (Ph.D. 1982). She joined the faculty at UMass/Amherst in 2006. She has held previous positions at Ohio State University, 2000-2006, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993-2000, North Carolina State University, 1986-1993, Bates College, 1983-1986, Boston University, 1981-1983, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1980-1981.
Her main research interest lies in the philosophy of mind, the theory of knowledge, and feminist theory with a special interest in philosophical questions about human nature. She has authored or edited numerous published articles, essays and books including the recently edited Philosophers Without Gods, a collection of essays by leading philosophers who happen to be atheists, and who are willing to share their personal experiences as nonbelievers, and their reflections on life without religious faith.
Other selected essays include: Multiple Realization: Keeping it Real, Atheism as Perfect Piety For the Love of Reason, Everybody Has Got It: A Defense of Non-Reductive Materialism in the Philosophy of Mind, and Because I Said So:
Toward a Feminist Theory of Authority with Rebecca Hanrahan.
Her main research interest lies in the philosophy of mind, the theory of knowledge, and feminist theory with a special interest in philosophical questions about human nature. She has authored or edited numerous published articles, essays and books including the recently edited Philosophers Without Gods, a collection of essays by leading philosophers who happen to be atheists, and who are willing to share their personal experiences as nonbelievers, and their reflections on life without religious faith.
Other selected essays include: Multiple Realization: Keeping it Real, Atheism as Perfect Piety For the Love of Reason, Everybody Has Got It: A Defense of Non-Reductive Materialism in the Philosophy of Mind, and Because I Said So:
Toward a Feminist Theory of Authority with Rebecca Hanrahan.
William Lane Craig
Research Professor of Philosophy. Talbot School of Theology
William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California. Dr. Craig pursued his undergraduate studies at Wheaton College and graduate studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A. 1974; M.A. 1975), the University of Birmingham (England) (Ph.D. 1977), and the University of Munich (Germany) (D.Theol. 1984). From 1980-86 he taught Philosophy of Religion at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has authored or edited over thirty books, including his most well-known work, Reasonable Faith. He now leads an organization called Reasonable Faith which aims to provide an intelligent and reasonable perspective to the most important issues concerning the truth of the Christian faith.