Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion

Attention! We had a blast over the weekend hosting our annual conference - this time on attention. Thanks to our postdocs Bas Toenissen and Smriti Khanal for organizing and hosting.

https://pppr.princeton.edu/updatehub/3pr-conference-on-attention-and-the-virtues-of-mind-and-heart

Yesterday 3PR collaborated with the Cognitive Science Program to host psychologist Daryl van Tongeren for a panel discussion of themes from his recent book "Done: How To Flourish after Leaving Religion." A diverse collection of people in the audience, ranging from local community members to undergrads. The title of the event "Searching for Meaning in the Existential Chasm" (which is the title of one of the chapters in the book) seems to have caught people's eye.
https://pppr.princeton.edu/updatehub/spring-conference-2025-42tjl-gm6ds

Congratulations to our former 3PR postdoc Austen McDougal!

Congratulations to Mahmoud Jalloh (Caltech) and Austen McDougal (New York University), winners of the 2025 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize! https://www.apaonline.org/2025prizes-f

A big memorial conference in honor of Robert M. Adams on tap in Princeton, sponsored by 3PR, PTS, and the Rutgers Center for Philosophy of Religion. Registration is closing due to unexpectedly high demand!

2025 Eastern Conference of the Society of Christian Philosophers: The Philosophical Legacy of Robert Merrihew Adams The theme of the 2025 Eastern Conference of the Society of Christian Philosophers is “The Philosophical Legacy of Robert Merrihew Adams.”

New postdoc job announcement, with a deadline of January 31:

PRÉCIS Postdoctoral Research Associate The University Center for Human Values (UCHV) invites applications for Postdoctoral Research Associates. We are hiring postdoctoral associates for Lara Buchak and Andrew Chignell's research project Philosophy, Religion, and Existential Commitment in Society, part of the Princeton Project in Philosop...

Later today! The first annual PRECIS lecture in Philosophy of Religion: "Hope in the Face of Evil" by Prof. Brian Ballard:

Hope in the Face of Evil (November 11, 2024) — 3PR Looking at the world today, it’s hard not to feel overwhelmed. The environment is declining. Wars are breaking out around the world. In the face of so many evils, what reason is there for hope? In this lecture, philosopher Brian Ballard argues that the very evils that might lead us to doubt there

Presented by the Princeton Atelier and sponsored by the Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion, Mr g is an immersive staged reading adaptation of Alan Lightman’s novel.

April 19 at 8:00 p.m., Princeton University Chapel.
Free and open to the public; advance registration requested.
https://arts.princeton.edu/events/mr-g-a-play-about-the-creation/

First session of the Virtual Kant Congress with a Cosmopolitan Purpose is getting underway now. This one is curated by the Society of Kant Studies in the French language (though the talks are in English). We're gratified to see that more than 300 people have registered for the VKC so far.

VKC The depicted Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection, which represents all the land on earth, was developed in 1772 by Johann Heinrich Lambert. Kant and Lambert exchanged various letters between 1765 and 1770.