American Catholic Philosophical Association Annual Meeting on “Science, Reason and Religion” (October 28-30, 2011)

This year the ACPA meeting will be in St. Louis, on the theme “Science, Reason and Religion,” hosted by St. Louis University. The conference program and satellite session schedule are now online. The Aquinas Medal will be awarded to Jorge J. E. Gracia, who will present “Does Philosophy Have a Role to Play in Contemporary Society? The Challenges of Science and Culture.” The four plenary speakers are: 

• John Cottingham, “Confronting the Cosmos: Scientific Rationality and Human Understanding.”
• Michael Ruse, “Making Room for Faith: Does Science Have Limits?”
• John F. Haught, “Darwin, Faith and Critical Intelligence.”
• Dominic J. Balestra, “Galileo’s Legacy: Getting the Relationship In-Between Scientism and Literalism Right.” 

As usual, there will be several talks on the philosophical thought of Aquinas in the program and satellite sessions. Registration information for the conference can be found here.

American Catholic Philosophical Association Annual Meeting (November 5-7, 2010)

This year the ACPA meeting will be in Baltimore, hosted by Loyola University Maryland. The updated conference program is here. There are several sessions on the thought of Aquinas, along with the usual full slate of satellite sessions on a variety of topics. This year the Aquinas Medal will be awarded to Alasdair MacIntyre. The theme for the conference is “Philosophy and Language.” It promises to be an exciting weekend.

If you are looking for another reason to join the ACPA, here’s one: members now have electronic access to all issues the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (including The New Scholasticism), as well as all issues of the the ACPA Proceedings.

Upcoming ACPA Conference in New Orleans (November 13-15, 2009)

The American Catholic Philosophical Association’s (ACPA) upcoming conference in New Orleans is chock-full of fascinating papers and discussion, too many and too detailed to list here, save to say that philosophers from Aristotle to Aquinas, Scotus to Rawls are considered, debated, and resourced. Courtesy of Ed Houser of the Center for Thomistic Studies in Houston, however, are the programs for the conference in DOC (addendum) and PDF format.