2016-17 Bitar Memorial Lecture

March 15-16, 2017

Series Title: The Moral Risk of Trust: Learning from Fiction

Dr. Frances Howard-Snyder

This year′s Bitar Memorial Lecturer is Dr. Frances Howard-Snyder 

Dr. Frances Howard-Snyder earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from Syracuse University and has taught at Wayne State, Purdue, and, for most of her career, at Western Washington University. Snyder's areas of expertise include metaphysics, epistemology, logic, and aesthetics. She has written numerous papers in eithics and philosophy of religion, including "Divine Freedom," International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion (forthcoming), "Damned if you do; Damned if you don't," Philosophia (2008), and "Truth in Fiction: the Whole Story," (in William Alston, ed., Realism and Anti-Realism (Cornell, 2002). With her husband, philosopher Daniel Howard-Snyder, and Ryan Wasserman, she published The Power of Logic, no in its 5th edition (McGraw-Hill, 2012). Recently most of her publications have been philosophical fiction, several of which can be found at her website.

 

Past Bitar Lecturers include

• 2004-05: Dr. Stephen Evans, Baylor University – “Can Love be Commanded?: Kierkegaard on the Foundations of Moral Obligation”        
• 2005-06: Dr. Paul Helm – “John Calvin′s Big Idea”
• 2006-07: Dr. Nicholas Wolterstorff – "Love and Justice"
• 2007-08: Linda Zagzebski – "Self-Trust and Religious Belief"
• 2008-09: Dr. James K.A. Smith  – "A Liturgical Phenomenology for a Post-Secular Age"
• 2009-10: R.J. Snell – "Culture of Boredom, Culture of Death"
• 2010-11: Dr. Paul K. Moser  – “Expecting a Severe God.”
• 2011-12: Dr. Alvin Plantinga –  “Science, Religion and Naturalism”
• 2012-13: Dr. Nancey Murphy – "Human Nature at the Intersection of Science, Religion and Philosophy"
• 2013-14: Dr. Merold Westphal – "Getting from There to Here: From Modernity to Postmodernity"
• 2014-15: Dr. D.C. Schindler – "A Pre-Modern Response to the Post-Modern 'Lonely Mind’"
• 2015-16: Dr. Gregory R. Beabout - "Philosophical Wisdom for Business Savvy: The Character of the Manager"

Check out the schedule of public activities and their locations. For additional information, contact the Philosophy Program at 724-847-6700, or email rmfrazie@geneva.edu or emeek@geneva.edu.