RELI 6002 CEU University-Wide Doctoral Seminar: Reason, Unreason and Nature in Religion
Instructor:
Aziz Al-Azmeh (Department of History and Center for Religious Studies)
This doctoral seminar is designed to consider how a specific set of analytical research problems and empirical phenomena pertaining to the themes of religion, reason and nature might be approached from a multiplicity of disciplinary angles. These angles are covered by seminar sessions pertaining to philosophy, social sciences, cognitive science and history.
RELI 6002 Reason, Unreason and Nature in Religion: Lecture 1
19 January 2017
Steven Lukes (New York University)
The Sacred and the Rational: The Case of Secular Religion
RELI 6002 Reason, Unreason and Nature in Religion: Lecture 2
26 January 2017
Maurice Bloch (London School of Economics)
Why religion did not exist for 95% of human history
RELI 6002 Reason, Unreason and Nature in Religion: Lecture 3
9 February 2017
Matthias Riedl (CEU)
Reason, Nature, Law, and the Quest for Happiness: Philosophical and Theological Debates at the University of Paris, 1268-1327
RELI 6002 Reason, Unreason and Nature in Religion: Lecture 4
16 February 2017
Frédéric Keck (CNRS, Paris)
Humans are Birds: A logical enigma and its anthropological solutions
RELI 6002 Reason, Unreason and Nature in Religion: Lecture 5
2 March 2017
Herman Philipse (Utrecht University)
Religious Belief in an Age of Science: A Decision Tree for the Faithful
RELI 6002 Reason, Unreason and Nature in Religion: Lecture 6
16 March 2017
Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers)
God and the Cognitive Science of Religion
RELI 6002 Reason, Unreason and Nature in Religion: Lecture 7
30 March 2017
Helen De Cruz (VU University, Amsterdam)
The Attitude of Philosophers to Afterlife Beliefs