Graduate Student Conference

The Philosophy Department at Saint Louis University is pleased to announce the 2023 SLU Philosophy Graduate Student Conference. The theme of this year's conference is "Natural Theology."

Our keynote speakers are Helen De Cruz (Saint Louis University) and William Lane Craig (Houston Christian University).

Graphic reading Natural Theology PGSA Conference at Saint Louis University, September 8 and 9, 2023

The conference will be held on September 8-9, 2023. We are pleased to announce that the conference will be in person. To promote the health and safety of conference participants, we will be following all public regulations and University protocol.

Find Information About the Conference

Questions may be sent to pgsa.conf@slu.edu.

Keynote Speakers

Helen De Cruz Ph.D.

Helen De Cruz holds the Danforth Chair in the Humanities at Saint Louis University. She is author of Wonderstruck: How Awe and Wonder Shape the Way We Think (Princeton University Press, forthcoming), Religious Disagreement (Cambridge University, 2019), A Natural History of Natural Theology (MIT Press, 2015), and she has edited and illustrated Philosophy Illustrated: Forty-Two Thought Experiments to Broaden Your Mind (Oxford University Press, 2022). In addition to her Ph.D. in philosophy (2011, University of Groningen), she holds a Ph.D. in archaeology and art sciences (2007, Free University of Brussels).

William Lane Craig, Ph.D.

William Lane Craig is professor of philosophy at Houston Christian University and research professor of philosophy at Biola University's Talbot School of Theology. He has authored or edited over 30 books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology; and God Over All: Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism. In addition, Craig has published over a hundred articles in professional journals of philosophy and theology, including The Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, and British Journal for Philosophy of Science. In 2016, The Best Schools named Craig as one of the 50 most influential living philosophers.