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Conference Program 08:00-09:45 Tuesday - 26 th of January, 2016 Program Title: Opening Session Registration The Recitation of The Noble Quran Welcoming Lecture by Dr.

Ayatollahy Introduction of the Program and Report 08:00 08:30 08:30-08:45 08:45-09:00 09:00-09:15 09:15-09:45 Coffee Break: 09:45-10:00 Hall Ibn Sina: 10:00-12:00 Program Title: Reason and Religion

1 Conference Program 08:00-09:45 Tuesday - 26 th of January, 2016 Program Title: Opening Session Registration The Recitation of The Noble Quran Welcoming Lecture by Dr. Abbaspour The Head of the University Welcoming Lecture by Dr. Ayatollahy Introduction of the Program and Report 08:00 08:30 08:30-08:45 08:45-09:00 09:00-09:15 09:15-09:45 Coffee Break: 09:45-10:00 Hall Ibn Sina: 10:00-12:00 Program Title: Reason and Religion Science and Faith: A Model of Harmony without Compromise Relativism and Religious Language On the Epistemic Rationality of Acceptant Faith A Critique of the Barbour s Science- Religion typology and its application to the history of theology and science in Islam Chair: Mohammad Legenhausen Trent Dougherty (Baylor University, USA) Muhammad Legenhausen (The Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute, Qom, Iran) Ebrahim Azadegan (Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran) Seyed Zoheir Mirkarimi (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) 10:00-10:40 10:40-11:20 11:20-11: :10 Prayer: 12:00 13:00 Lunch break: 13:00 14:00 1

2 Hall Ibn Sina :14:00-16:00 Program Title: Religion and practical philosophy Guidelines towards the common good: The Catholic Social Doctrine between faith and reason Hegel and Alfarabi on the Political and Religious Grounds of Intentionality "Do we have a common religious/philosophical ground for dialogue?" Chair: Reinhard Hesse Winfried Löffler (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Mohammad Azadpur (Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State University) Reinhard Hesse (University of Education Freiburg, Germany) 14:00-14:40 14:40-15:10 15:10-15:40 The Reasons for Weakness of Will Zahra Khazaei ( the University of Qom) 15:40-16:05 Coffee Break: 16:00-16:15 Hall Mulla Sadra: 16:15-17:45 Program Title: Religion and life Contemporary Shifts in the Christian Doctrine of Hell in Anglo-American Philosophical Theology From Temporality to Eternity: Three Philosophical Approaches Chair: Ramon Baker Ramon Baker (CredoAkademin, Stockholm) Vincenzo Lomuscio (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy) Philosophy as a Way of Life: Wittgenstein on Contentment Malek Hosseini (IAU, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran) Hall Ibn Sina: 16:15-17:45 Program Title: Religious Experience The Religious Experience and Altered States of consciousness Hick s Theory of Religion and the Traditional Chair: Salah Alhasan Salah Alhasan Aljabry ( Baghdad University, College of Arts, Iraq) Amir Dastmalchian (Foundation for 2

3 Islamic Narrative Embodied Subjectivities of Religious Experience Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue, London) Fatima Tofighi (University of Religions and Denominations, Qom) Wednesday - 27 th of January, 2016 Hall Ibn Sina: 8:30-10:30 Program Title: Reason and Faith A "Beatitude Paradox" for Certain Monotheists? Divine Providence and Human Freedom A New review of Pascal s Wager and the Many Gods Objection Nietzsche s Dionysian Apocalypse: The Death of God & Spiritual Renewal Chair: Adam Wood Adam Wood (Wheaton College, USA) Nevin Climenhaga (University of Notre Dame, USA) and Daniel Rubio, (Rutgers University, USA) Amirhossein Zadyousefi (Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran) Karen Mc Cutcheon (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland) 8:30-09:00 09:00-09:30 09:30-10:00 10:00-10:30 Hall Mollasadra: 8:30-10:30 Program Title: Problem of Evil The Drama of Divine Providence Reflections on the Perennial Problem of Evil Metaphysics of Pain and the Nature of Evil s The Problem of Evil in Taoism Chair: Mohammad Saeedimehr Edward J Alam (Notre Dame 8:30-09:00 University-Louaize (NDU)) Mohammad Saeedimehr (Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, 09:00-09:30 IRAN) Qorban Elmi ( Associate Prof. 09:30-10:00 3

4 Problem of Evil and Theory of Compensation University of Tehran) Seyed Jaaber Mousavirad (University of Tehran, Iran) 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break: 10:30-10:45 Hall Allameh Helli: 10:45 12:15 Round Table: Problem of Evil Vince Vitale (University of Oxford, UK) Edward J Alam (Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU)) Mohammad Saeedimehr (University of Tarbiat Modares) Hall Ibn Sina: 10:45 12:15 Round Table: Reason and Faith Trent Dougherty (Baylor University) Muhammad Legenhausen (The Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute, Qom, Iran) Mohsen Javadi (The University of Qom) Hall Mollasadra: 10:45 12:15 Round Table: Meaning of Life Winfried Löffler (University of Innsbruck) Prof. Azadpur ( Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State University) Amir Abbas Alizamani (University of Tehran) Prayer: 12:15 13:00 Lunch break: 13:00 14:00 4

5 Hall Ibn Sina: 14:00 16:00 Program Title: Religion and evolution Evolution and the Nobel Qur an The Inconsistency of Darwinian Evolution and Theism Religious experience and color perception: similarities and differences Typology of Hypotheses on God and Brain Debate Chair: Seyed Hassan Hosseini Abdulla Galadari (Masdar 14:00-14:30 Institute, United Arab Emirates) Seyed Hassan Hosseini (Sharif University, Department of 14:30-15:00 Philosophy of Science.) Hadi Samadi (IAU, Science and 15:00-15:30 Research Branch, Tehran, Iran) Javad Taheri (Iranian Association for Philosophy of Religion, 15:30-16:00 Tehran, Iran) Coffee Break: 16:00-16:15 Hall Ibn Sina: 16:15-17:45 Program Title: Religion and Experience The Path: As an Example of Relation Between Belief and Life Style, Dersim Mythic Stories Learning through the Enemy: Dialectic, Intellectual Exertion and Liberation in the Work of Two Early Indian Doxographers Dreams as an Important Part of the life Chair: Karl-Stephan Bouthillette Dilşa Deniz (Nişantaşı University, Istanbul, Turkey) (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany) Nader Shokrollahi (Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran) Hall Mulla Sadra : 16:15-17:45 Program Title: meaning of life and evil The problem of evil in the thought of Jean- Jacques Rousseau "Love" and "Suffering For" (Considering Rene Girard's Theory from Shia Perspective) Is it Possible to talk about the Meaning of life in Physical world? Chair: Claudio Tugnoli Claudio Tugnoli (Italy) Habibollah Babaei (Academy of Islamic Science and Culture) Ahmad Pourghasem Shadehi (University of Tehran) 5

6 Hall Allameh Helli: 18:00 19:00 Program Title: Closing Session Chair: Dr. Ayatollahy Group Discussion 6

Philosophy of Religion

Philosophy of Religion Editorial Board: Aavani, Gholam Reza Professor, Shahid Beheshti University Ahmadi, Ahmad Professor, University of Tehran Akbari, Reza Associate Professor, Imam Sadeq University Alizamani,