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On the occasion of his retirement in 2016, the Dept. of 哲学 established the C. Stephen Layman Speaker Series in 哲学 in honor of Professor Emeritus of 哲学 和 long-time chair, 史蒂夫门外汉. Dr. 外行著有 God: Eight Enduring Questions (University of Notre Dame Press, 2022), Philosophical Approaches to the Atonement, Incarnation, 和 the Trinity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), Letters to Doubting Thomas: A Case for the Existence of God (Oxford University Press, 2006), 逻辑的力量， editions 1-3 (McGraw Hill, 2005, 2002, 1999), as well as numerous articles 和 book chapters. 请参阅 Dr. Layman’s faculty profile for a full list of his publications. Past Layman lecturers can be found below.

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Layman Lecture, Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 4pm, 图书馆 Seminar Room

"In, Out, Up, Down, 和 Around: Five Conversations on Analytic Theology"

住房和城市发展部哈德逊, Professor of 哲学, Western Washington University

文摘: Analytic theology has been charged with being seriously insensitive to the need to examine its aims 和 its methods with a view to what goods they promote or obstruct. T在这里 are very real dangers of an overemphasis on securing epistemic goods 和 of careless inattention to other goods that matter as well (sometimes even more). 这是, in addition to the goods of underst和ing 和 knowledge, t在这里 is also a wide range of moral, 审美, 宗教, 社会, 和 eudaimonistic goods – goods that are distinct from 和 sometimes in conflict with those epistemic goods upon which so much of analytic theology is ordinarily focused. This complaint is aimed squarely at analytic theologians just like me, 和 I’ve been thinking about the critique 和 finding some elements of it quite persuasive. 正如我的标题所示, my discussion will be centered on five conversations: one I might have with myself (这就是IN), one I might have with an intellectual peer (这就是OUT), one I might have with an intellectual superior (这是向上), one I might have with an intellectual inferior (这是向下的) – no excessive pride or false modesty, the up 和 down bits will involve uncontroversial superior/inferior pairs – 和 one on which I might be fortunate enough to eavesdrop (这就是AROUND). Reflecting on these conversations can help us to become better practitioners of analytic theology 和 also to cause fewer harms when participating in that activity.