Each year, IARPT’s journal, The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, hosts a lecture at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. We are pleased to announce that Dan Arnold will be this year’s speaker. The title of his lecture is: “Naturalism Needn’t Mean Physicalism: Lessons from James and Peirce.” Dan Arnold is Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Religions at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He is a scholar of Indian Buddhist philosophy, which he engages constructively and comparatively, understanding Buddhist philosophers in conversation with rival Indian philosophers as well as contemporary philosophers. He is the author of Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religion (Columbia University Press: 2005) and Brains, Buddhas, and Believing: The Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive-Scientific Philosophy of Mind (Columbia University Press: 2012). Click here for his complete bio.

The 2019 annual meeting of the AAR will take place November 23-26 in San Diego, California. Professor Arnold’s lecture will take place at the Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204A (Second Level) on Sunday evening, November 24, from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.

All are welcome.