In collaboration with the Philosophy Department and the University Center for Human Values, the Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion (3PR) is excited to announce a new initiative: “Philosophy, Religion, and Existential Commitments in Society” (PRÉCIS)!

Lara Buchak and Andrew Chignell will be teaching the inaugural edition of “Philosophy, Religion, and Existential Commitments” for undergraduates, this coming Spring 2024.

On the Miscarriage of All Philosophical Trials in Theodicy (1791). For Further Information Please Contact Andrew Chignell (Chignell@princeton.edu)

Thursday, May 18, 2023

9:00 AM - 5:45 PM

Location: Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Room JRR A17

Open and free to the public with registration

Location: Louis A. Simpson Building, Room 144

Start time: 8:30 AM

We will be reading Ibn Sīnā, al-Ghazālī, and possibly Ibn Rushd on the question of personal identity and the mind/body problem. Depending how things progress, at the end of the semester we may also read selections from the correspondence between Miskawayh and al-Tawhidi.

The Incubator was held virtually (Zoom) on May 25-27. 2022. The Incubator was held in conjunction with the 3PR Incubator Conference on Philosophy in the Islamic World.

The Program for Judaic Studies and the Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion hosted a conversation between Daniel Herskowitz (Oxford) and Ed Baring (Princeton).

Matthew Benton (Seattle Pacific University):

"Faith and Interpersonal Knowledge"