Forthcoming Presentations:

Conference and Seminar Presentations:

“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; also presented at theAustralasian Association of Philosophy Conference, University of Sydney, July 6, 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’,” APRA Conference, 16 July 2009, University of Sydney.

“Deus Loci: The God of Place and the Place of God in Philosophy and Theology”, APRA Conference, 17 July 2009, University of Sydney.

“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; Melbourne Phenomenology-Theology Group meeting, November 5, 2009; Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, 1 December 2009, Monash University.

“Athanasius on the Incarnation”, presented at Monash University Orthodox Study Group, 25 November 2009; and at St Dimitrios Greek Orthodox Fellowship (Moonee Ponds), 1 December 2009.

“The Sense and Reference of the Essence and Energies”, Australian Catholic University philosophy seminar series, 15 March 2010.

“Anthropomorphism, Univocity and Idolatry”, Centenary Conference of the Melbourne College of Divinity, 6 July 2010.

“Does Univocity entail Idolatry?”, Third International Conference of the Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association, University of Melbourne, 17 July 2010 (also principal conference organiser for this event).

“The Life and Work of Gregory of Nazianzus”, presented at the monthly lecture program of the Victorian Youth Division of the Greek Orthodox Church of Australia, 6 September 2010; and at the Monash University Orthodox Study Group, 15 September 2010.

“The Life and Work of Maximus the Confessor”, presented at the Monash University Orthodox Study Group, 23 March 2011; also presented at the Victorian Youth Division of the Greek Orthodox Church of Australia, on 1 August 2011.

“Truth, or the Futures of Philosophy of Religion”, Biennial Conference in Philosophy, Religion and Culture, Catholic Institute of Sydney, 1 October 2010; also presented to the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, 24 November 2010; the Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, 4 December 2010, University of Queensland; and “The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion” Conference, Syracuse University (USA), April 7-9 2011.

“The Problem of Evil”, presented at Living Learning Pakenham Centre, Melbourne, 29 April 2011.

“The New Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy of Religion”, presented at the Australian Catholic University philosophy seminar series, 9 May 2011; and at the La Trobe University philosophy seminar series, 1 June 2011.

“Anti-Theodicy: Problems and Prospects”, APRA Conference, University of Auckland, 16-17 July 2011.

“Answering Evil: Theodicy or Anti-Theodicy?”, workshop presentation for Anthropos in Australia project, Australian Catholic University, 22 July 2011.