The University of Utah philosophy graduate students are excited to open submissions for our 2025 conference, which will be held in-person on November 8th. We welcome submissions from all areas of philosophy but are particularly interested in topics that match the interests of our current graduate students.
Some of these areas are philosophy of science, aesthetics, political philosophy, social epistemology, formal epistemology, applied philosophy broadly construed, and ethics.
Keynote Speaker: C. Thi Nguyen (The University of Utah)
To apply, please submit a 300-500 word abstract (as a pdf) to: uofuphilgradconference@gmail.com
Abstracts must be anonymous.
Submission Deadline: September 14th, 2025.
Notification of Acceptance: September 28th, 2025.
Questions can be directed to: uofuphilgradconference@gmail.com
“Careers in Bioethics”: Q&A with Bioethicist and Associate Provost for Research @ Harvard University, Dr. Willy Lensch, Wednesday, Sept. 3 @ 4:30pm, Old Main 115
Colloquium next Thursday, August 28th @ 4:30pm in MAIN 115 with Dr. Rachel Robison-Greene on “Frankfurtian Bullshit 2.0: The Domination of “less than truth” over the New Public Square”
“Contemporary Philosophy and the Latter-day Saint Tradition“
The Latter-day Saint theological tradition includes philosophically interesting commitments that are distinctive in relation to Classical Christian traditions (e.g., that God has a body of flesh and bone; God delivers new special revelation). Such distinctive commitments interact with beliefs that are shared with followers of many other Christian traditions, such as the existence and unity of God, the nature of after life, etc.
This workshop will include presentations by philosophers working on such issues. Their presentations will be work-in-progress versions of chapters to be included in the Routledge Studies on Philosophy of Religion Volume Contemporary Philosophy and the Latter-day Saint Tradition, which will be co-edited by Taylor-Grey Miller and Katharina Paxman.
Sessions will be read-ahead. Participants who register for the conference will get access to the work-in-progress papers, and sessions will be focused on improving the in-progress manuscripts.
There is a modest registration fee of $20. Students interested in attending may request a fee waiver at the following email address: ldsphilosophyproject [at] gmail [dot] com. There will not be a publicly accessible zoom link.
There is limited seating, so registration will be limited. Priority is given on a first-come first-served basis.
Workshop Schedule: Abstracts for each talk can be found [here]
Friday Program (Aug 29)
10:00-10:50 am: Taylor-Grey Miller–Joseph Smith and the Specter of Classical Theism
11:00-11:50 am: Derek Haderlie–What Could it Mean to Say that God is Bound by Laws?
12:00-12:50am: Mark Wrathall-What Kind of Body is God’s?
Lunch
3:00-3:50pm: Joseph Lawal–God an Alien or an Alien God?
4:00-4:50pm: Mike Ashfield–Bare Theism and LDS Philosophical Theology
5:00-5:50pm: Ryan Christensen–All Their Creeds
6:45pm Workshop Participant Dinner
SaturdayProgram (Aug 30)
10:00-10:50am: Nate Rockwood–Revelation and Testimony: justifications of Latter-day Saint beliefs in the Book of Mormon
11:00-11:50am: Bryce Gessell–Human Physiology and Latter-day Saint Religious Epistemology
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