A Templeton Colloquium at the NDIAS

Led by David Bentley Hart,Templeton Fellow at the NDIASMarch 14-15, 2016 * 104 McKenna Hall

Mind, Soul, World: Consciousness

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IMAGE: A LIFETIME OF LOOKING, DAVID PLUNKERT. *ASTERISKS DENOTE SESSION CHAIR.

Monday, March 149:00 am Introduction

11:00 am The Problems with the Materialist Reduction of Consciousness

Gerald McKenny, University of Notre DameJanet Soskice, University of Cambridge

*Luke Wright, University of Virginia

2:00 pm Can Consciousness Evolve or Emerge from Matter?

Stephen R. L. Clark, University of Liverpool *Celia Deane-Drummond, University of Notre Dame

Michael Hanby, Pontifical John Paul II Institute

4:00 pm Intentionality and the Transcendent Ends of Consciousness

John Betz, University of Notre Dame*Gretchen Reydams-Schils, University of Notre Dame

David C. Schindler, Pontifical John Paul II Institute

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Tuesday, March 159:00 am The Classical Metaphysics of the Soul

Paul Griffiths, Duke UniversityJohn Milbank, University of Nottingham

*Anna Bonta Moreland, Villanova University

11:00 am Eastern Contributions to the Understanding of Consciousness

Robert Gimello, University of Notre Dame*Bradley Malkovsky, University of Notre DameR. Trent Pomplun, Loyola University Maryland

2:00 pm The Soul and the Whole of Being William Desmond, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

*Jennifer Martin, University of Notre DameCyril O’Regan, University of Notre Dame

4:00 pm Conclusions and Discussion of Closing Thoughts and Comments

Sessions will be simulcast live on NDIAS website.For more information, visit our website: ndias.nd.edu.