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“The Sense and Reference of the Essence and Energies”, Australian Catholic
University ( “Anthropomorphism, Univocity and Idolatry”, Centenary Conference of the Melbourne College of Divinity, 4-7 July 2010. “Coakley
and Analytic Theology: Correcting or Overcoming the Analytic Ambition?”,
symposium on the work of Sarah Coakley to be held in Sydney, 12-13 July 2010. “Nikos Kazantzakis and God”, Existentialist Society Lecture ( |
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“What No Eye Has Seen: The Skeptical Theist Response to Rowe’s Evidential Argument from Evil”, 8th Australasian Philosophy Postgraduate Conference University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, September 21, 2002. “Rowe’s Evidential Argument from Evil and Moral Skepticism”, Monash University Postgraduate Colloquium for Philosophy and Bioethics, October 18, 2002. “Is It True that If There is a God There Can’t Be Any Pointless Suffering?”, Monash University Philosophy Postgraduate Seminar, July 29, 2003. “God and the Problem of Natural Evil”, Pacific Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers, Biola University, La Mirada, California, USA, February 27, 2004. “The Leibnizian Problem of Evil and How It Can Be Resolved”, Monash University Philosophy Postgraduate Seminar, April 7, 2004. “Rowe’s New Evidential Argument: Problems and Prospects”, Australian National University Philosophy Society (Canberra, ACT), June 1, 2004. “Can Evil Be Reconciled with the Existence of a Loving God?”, Sea of Faith Network of Australia, June 17, 2004. “God and the Problem of Natural Evil,” Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, South Molle Island, Queensland, July 9, 2004. “Is Disagreement Epistemically Significant?”, Monash University Philosophy Postgraduate Seminar, August 25, 2004. “The Problem of Divine Hiddenness”, Biennial Conference in Philosophy, Religion and Culture, Catholic Institute of Sydney, October 3, 2004. “Evil as Evidence Against the Existence of God”, Atheist Society of Victoria, November 9, 2004. “Whither Morality in a Hard Determinist World?”, Monash University Philosophy Postgraduate Seminar, May 23, 2005. “Whither Morality in a Hard Determinist World?”, Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, University of Sydney, July 6, 2005. “The Dark Side: Philosophical Explorations of Evil and Death”, La Trobe University Philosophy Radio Program (Sub FM – 88 FM), guest speaker with Tim Oakley (Philosophy, La Trobe), September 9, 2005. “Does Determinism Render the Problem of Evil Insoluble?”, Monash University Philosophy Postgraduate Seminar, October 17, 2005. “Does Determinism Render the Problem of Evil Insoluble?”, Conference on Free Will and Moral Responsibility (of which I was the principal organiser), Monash University, November 3 & 4, 2005. Invited speakers: Derk Pereboom (University of Vermont), John Bishop (University of Auckland), J.J.C. Smart (Monash), Daniel Cohen (Australian National University), Neil Levy (University of Melbourne), Daniel Russell (Monash), and Trevor Pisciotta (University of Melbourne). “Non-Realism in Philosophy of Religion,” Centre for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame (weekly discussion group), April 13, 20 and 27, 2007. “Reply to Peter Forrest's 'In Defence of Tough-Minded Theodicy',” Conference of the Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association (APRA), 16 July 2009, University of Sydney. “Deus Loci: The God of Place and the Place of God in Philosophy and Theology”, Conference of the Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association (APRA), 17 July 2009, “Doing Philosophy in Style: A New Look at the Analytic/Continental Divide in Philosophy”, presented at Charles Sturt University (Wagga Wagga, New South Wales), October 7, 2009; the Melbourne Phenomenology-Theology Group meeting, November 5, 2009, and at the annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, “Athanasius on the Incarnation”, Monash University Orthodox Study Group, 25 November 2010; and St Dimitrios Greek Orthodox Fellowship (Moonee Ponds), 1 December 2009. Interview on my work in
philosophy of religion, with Luke Muehlhauser, 21 December 2009, available
online at http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=5769.
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