ArgLab • Workshop

Wittgenstein, Nature, and Religion

2nd ERB Project Workshop

Is it right to think, as Daniel Dennett does, of religion as a natural phenomenon? Is religion to be explained in terms of evolutionary theory and cognitive science? Or should we perhaps explain it in cultural, economic, or philosophical terms? Are each of these kinds of explanations of religion legitimate? Are they in competition with each other? These are the kinds of questions that we hope to shed some light on in our Zoom workshop by examining cognitive science of religion and naturalistic understandings of religion in the light of Wittgenstein’s work.

Organization
This workshop is organized by Nuno Venturinha, Sofia Miguens and Robert Vinten within the framework of the FCT-funded project “Epistemology of Religious Belief: Wittgenstein, Grammar and the Contemporary World” (PTDC/FER-FIL/32203/2017), hosted by the Reasoning and Argumentation Laboratory (ArgLab) of IFILNOVA.

Attendance is free of charge. Please contact Robert Vinten at robertvinten@gmail.com for details of the Zoom workshop if you would like to attend.
Programme
09:15 – 09:30
Nuno Venturinha (Nova University of Lisbon) & Sofia Miguens (University of Porto)
Welcome
09:30 – 10:15
Robert Vinten (Nova University of Lisbon)
A Wittgensteinian Critique of Cognitive Science of Religion
10:15 – 11:00
Alexandra Dias Fortes (Nova University of Lisbon)
‘From a Religious Point of View’: Wittgenstein on Nature and Belief
Break
Modesto Gómez Alonso (University of La Laguna)
Wittgenstein, Religious Belief, and Human Agency
12:30
Break
13:30 – 14:30
Thomas D. Carroll (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
Wittgenstein, Naturalism, and Interpreting Religious Phenomena
14:30
Break
Gorazd Andrejč (University of Groningen / SRC Koper)
Wittgenstein, Religion, and Posthumanism
Break
16:30 – 17:30
Guy Axtell (Radford University)
Natural Thoughts and Unnatural Oughts: Wittgenstein, Faith, and the Inescapability of Inductive Normativity
17:30 – 18:00
Break
Duncan Pritchard (University of California, Irvine / University of Edinburgh)
Exploring Quasi-Fideism
Date
29/07/2020
Time
09:15 – 19:00
Research Projects
Epistemology of Religious Belief: Wittgenstein, Grammar and the Contemporary World
Place
NOVA FCSH
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