CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Intellectual Humility: Its Nature, Value, and Implications.

October 15, 2014
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May 8-11, 2015.

A three-day seminar at the Fuller Guest Center (Pasadena, California) for 15
advanced graduate students or junior faculty (no more than 10 years past the
PhD).

Faculty speakers include:

  • Joshua Alexander
  • Jason Baehr
  • Nathan Ballantyne
  • Heather Battalay
  • Jessica Brown
  • Adam Green
  • Peter
    Hill
  • Thomas Hofweber
  • Daniel Howard-Snyder
  • Thomas Kelly
  • Mark Leary
  • Sarah McGrath
  • J.L. Schellenberg
  • Dennis Whitcomb

Themes include:

  • The nature of intellectual humility
  • Empirical study of intellectual
    humility
  • Philosophical intuition
  • Metaphysical and religious modesty
  • Peer disagreement
  • Moral deference
  • Situationism
  • Fallibilism
  • Mind-reading, empathy, and intersubjectivity

$500 honorarium plus all
expenses paid. Successful applicants will commit to studying items on the
seminar syllabus prior to the seminar, and to attending the Capstone Conference
on Catalina Island, May 10-14, immediately following the seminar, all expenses
paid.

For more information and instructions on how to apply, see

http://humility.slu.edu/portfolio/mayseminar/

Direct all questions to
dan.howard-snyder@wwu.edu.
Application deadline: December 31, 2014. Winners will be announced January 15,
2015.

Supported by the Philosophy and Theology of Intellectual Humility
Project at Saint Louis University. Funded by the John Templeton Foundation.