Graduate Student Conference
The Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University will host the 2025 SLU Philosophy Graduate Student Conference on Sept. 18-19. The theme of this year's conference at SLU is "Epistemic Problems in Religion."
This year's keynote speakers are Hud Hudson, Ph.D., professor at Western Washington University, and Eleonore Stump, Ph.D., the Robert J. Henle, S.J., Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University.
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Questions may be sent to pgsa.conf@slu.edu.
Keynote Speakers
Hud Hudson, Ph.D.
Hud Hudson, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at Western Washington University where he has taught since 1992. He works primarily in the areas of metaphysics and philosophy of religion, and he has been a recipient of both the Peter J. Elich Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Paul J. Olscamp Research Award.
He is the author of five books for academic audiences: Fallenness and Flourishing (Oxford 2021), The Fall and Hypertime (Oxford 2014), The Metaphysics of Hyperspace (Oxford 2005), A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person (Cornell 2001), and Kant’s Compatibilism (Cornell 1994), and of one philosophical novel, A Grotesque in the Garden (Eerdmans 2020).).
Eleonore Stump, Ph.D.
Eleonore Stump, Ph.D., is the Robert J. Henle, S.J., Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. She has published extensively in philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. Her books include Aquinas (2003), Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (2010), Atonement (2018), and The Image of God: The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning (2022).