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Lost in the Cosmos: Reconciling the Manifest and Scientific Images

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Date and Time:October 18, 2019 3:00 AM — to October 19, 2019 3:00 AM undefined
Organizer:Indiana University Department of Philosophy
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BioLogos Voices speaker Tim O’Connor is a respondent at “Lost in the Cosmos: Reconciling the Manifest and Scientific Images” on October 18-19, 2020 in Bloomington, IN.

“Is there a deep conflict between the ways we understand ourselves and the world around us in everyday life and the often strange and unfamiliar ways that the sciences describe aspects of these same realities? Is there a systematic way to dissolved perceived tension, or do the challenges need to be addressed case-by-case (with the possibility of failure in certain domains)?

Some of our speakers will approach these questions by exploring our experiential representation of such categories as physical properties, time, causation, and agency, while others will do so by querying the ontologies implicit in the physical sciences and asking how we may ‘locate’ within them the presumedly non-fundamental objects and subjects of ordinary experience.”

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Tim O'Connor

Tim O’Connor has taught philosophy at Indiana University-Bloomington, since 1993, apart from year-long research fellowships at the Universities of Notre Dame, St. Andrews, and Oxford. He has given over 160 academic and popular lectures in 22 countries. His main areas of scholarship and teaching are metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. He has published over 70 scholarly articles, edited seven books, and written two monographs, one on free will and the other on God and the quest for ultimate explanation. He is now writing a third book for a broader audience, Thinking About Faith: Philosophy, Science, and Christian Belief. On his website, he claims to be the ‘Philo-Pong World Grad Champion,’ or top table tennis player among professional philosophers.