Philosophy of Religion Unit
In order to foster rich, innovative, and challenging intellectual conversations, the Philosophy of Religion Unit is committed to inclusion. Our Unit expects pre-arranged sessions or panel proposals to incorporate diversity of gender, race, ethnicity, and rank. We also encourage submissions from all religious and philosophical traditions.
For the 2026 Annual Meeting, the Philosophy of Religion Unit steering committee invites proposals on (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Hope, despair, and other dispositions toward the future
- Inheritance and intergenerational relationships and obligations
- Religion & afrofuturism
- Utopia and catastrophe
- Secularism, time, and temporality
- Philosophical approaches to AI and religion, including dharmic traditions on AI and embodiment
- Relational thinking and no-self in Buddhist philosophy
- Critical engagement with the legacy of Alasdair MacIntyre
In addition to individual papers, we welcome proposals for prearranged sessions (i.e., an entire session with a designated group of presenters) on these and other topics not listed here that will be of interest to philosophers of religion. Proposals that are most likely to be accepted are those written in language that is accessible to philosophers with no expertise on the specified topics or figures addressed in the proposed paper, and whose central theses and main lines of argument are lucid and succinct.
This Unit analyzes the interface between philosophy and religion, including both philosophical positions and arguments within various specific religious traditions and more generalized philosophical theories about religion. We include in our purview not only traditional topics of Western philosophy of religion but also those arising from non-Western traditions and regions and from the study of religion more broadly. We are also interested in the intersection of philosophy and diverse other methodologies and modes of inquiry.
| Chair | Dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Winters | joseph.winters@duke.edu | - | View |
| Molly Farneth | mfarneth@haverford.edu | - | View |