Teaching Philosophy: Promise Or Peril?
Date: November 17-18, 2011
Location: San Francisco, CA (Eucharist Commons, 285 Main Street)
Keynote address: Bruce Benson (Wheaton College)
Schedule:
9:00am – Welcome and Prayer
9:30-11:00am – Session 1
-Abigail Doukhan (Queens College, CUNY)
-Tennyson Samraj (Canadian University College)
11:00-12:30pm – Session 2
“Untying the Knots of Thinking:Wittgenstein and the Role of Philosophy in Adventism”
-Aleksandar S. Santrac (University of the Southern Caribbean)
-Hans Gutierrez (Italian Adventist College)
12:30pm – Lunch
2:00-3:30pm – Session 3
“Thinkers or Reflectors? Young Adult Retention, Philosophy, and Adventist Education”
-Zane Yi (Fordham University, Ph.D. candidate)
“Account of the immortality of soul in Plato’s Phaedo – Between Orphism and Fallacies”
-Gonzalo Pita (Florida Institute of Technology, Ph.D. candidate)
4:00-5:30pm – Session 4
“Peril and Promise: Teaching Philosophy in an Adventist Context”
-Richard Rice (Loma Linda University)
“Eclecticism: Peril or Promise in Adventist Philosophy Classes?”
-Shawna Vhymeister (Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies)
November 18, 2011
8:30-10:00am – Session 5
“A Proposal: Teaching Philosophy to Seventh-Day Adventist Students”
-Jim Londis (Kettering College of Medical Arts)
-Gary Land/Gary Wood (Andrews University)
-Ben McArthur (Southwestern Adventist University)
10:15-11:45pm – Panel Session – Where do we go from here?
12:00pm – Lunch
1:30pm – Keynote address – “Christian Philosophy as a Way of Life”
-Bruce Benson (Wheaton College)*