Updates

This Spring, join PRÉCIS Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Austen McDougal for a reading group on Liberation Theology. All readings will be done during the session, and no prior familiarity is expected. All Princeton undergraduate and graduate students are warmly invited.

This Spring, join PRÉCIS Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Z Quanbeck for a reading group on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. All readings will be done during the session, and no prior familiarity with Lewis or Tolkien is expected. All Princeton undergraduate and graduate students are warmly invited.

A full program for 3PR’s spring 2025 conference, “Existential Commitments and the Ethics of Belief," is now available. The conference will take place on Friday, March 21, and Saturday, March 22, 2025.

We invite submissions of 500-word abstracts for talks on the workshop theme of Kierkegaard, Objectivity, and Subjectivity (broadly construed). This workshop, sponsored by 3PR, will take place on Wednesday, July 16, and Thursday, July 17, 2025.

Could a good God permit so much suffering? Is belief in God compatible with the moral evil in our world? These questions and others are the subject of a debate between Charity Anderson, Mark Johnston, James Sterba, and Richard Swinburne to be held on Monday, March 3, from 4:30pm-6:30pm in McCosh 28. The debate is open to the public, and undergraduates are especially encourage to attend.

In partnership with LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman's Blitzscaling project and the Keller Center, on January 21 and 22, PRÉCIS is hosting a two-day Wintersession workshop on “How to Make Big Choices: Philosophy, Careers, and Meaning.”

Looking at the world today, it’s hard not to feel overwhelmed. The environment is declining. Wars are breaking out around the world. In the face of so many evils, what reason is there for hope?

In this lecture, philosopher Brian Ballard argues that the very evils that might lead us to doubt there is a God should also lead us to hope there is a God. As long as God might exist, we can hope that all is set right in the end.

On Monday, November 4 from 4:30-6:00pm, there will be a book talk on Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin by Andrew M. Bailey, Bradley Rettler, and Craig Warmke. Prof. Andrew Chignell, co-director of the Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion (3PR), will moderate the panel.

This Fall, join PRÉCIS Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Hüseyin Güngör for a new reading group on Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Mysticism. We will be reading from Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Mysticism by Majid Fakhry. Reading in advance is not required, nor is any background in philosophy or Islam expected. All Princeton undergraduate and graduate students are warmly invited.