3PR Conference on Existential Commitments and the Ethics of Belief (March 21-22, 2025)

La Clairvoyance, René Magritte (1936)

The Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion will host a conference on March 21-22, 2025, on "Existential Commitments and the Ethics of Belief," co-sponsored by the Princeton Department of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values.

The schedule for the conference is below. Attendance is free and open to all who register by filling out the form linked here (https://forms.gle/iCfq6APue7PjPFwGA).

All talks will be held in Aaron Burr Hall 219.

Friday, March 21st

8:30-9:00 Light Breakfast

9:00-10:10 “Devotion, Faith, and Grit”

Paul Katsafanas, Boston University

Chair: Gabriel Citron, Princeton University

10:30-11:40 “Kierkegaard on Moral and Religious Deference”

Z Quanbeck, Princeton University

Chair: Tom Kelly, Princeton University

11:40-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:10 “Pascal’s Wager Makes Being an Atheist Supererogatory”

Joshua Brecka, University of Toronto

Chair: Lara Buchak, Princeton University

2:30-3:40 “Mechanisms for Hume’s Skepticism”

Chuck Goldhaber, University of Florida

Chair: Austen McDougal, Princeton University

4:00-5:30 Keynote: “Intellectual Humility in Religious Commitments”

Laura Frances Callahan, University of Notre Dame

Chair: Mark Johnston, Princeton University

5:30-6:30 Reception

Saturday, March 22nd

9:00-9:30 Light Breakfast

9:30-10:40 “Augustine and the Problem of Epistemic Balance Scale”

Kevin Jung, Wake Forest University

Chair: Eric Gregory, Princeton University

11:00-12:10 “Concepts as Commitments: A Chinese Buddhist Ethics Empty of Belief”

Rafal Stepien, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Chair: Hüseyin Güngör, Princeton University

12:10-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:40 “Social Faith”

Eleanor Gordon-Smith, Princeton University

Chair: Andrew Chignell, Princeton University

3:00-4:10 “Two Puzzles of Non-Doxastic Faith”

Yun-Cheng Dylan Wang, University of Rochester

Chair: Eve Edfors, Princeton University

4:30-6:00 Keynote: “Choosing Between Faith and Heresy”

Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado, Boulder

Chair: Dan Garber, Princeton University