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out•reach - verb [out-reech], noun [out-reech]
1. to reach beyond; to exceed 2. Archaic. to reach out; to extend 3. concerned with extending community services, benefits, etc. .:raffle survey:. when: 01.28.2008 - (dinner - 5-7:30pm) where: dining commons (worcester, franklin, berkshire, hampshire) fill out a short questionnaire for a change to win great prizes like $100 cash. just come to franklin or worcester or berkshire dining commons during lunch or dinner when we're there! .:veritas forum:. when: 04.10.2008 (7:30pm) where: student union ballroom is there any rational basis for "good" if there is no God? dr. william lane craig, from talbot school of theology, and dr. louise antony, from UMass Amherst, will be debating the foundational basis for morality. -- Presenter Louise Antony is a Teaching and Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. As a freshman at Syracuse University she discovered and immediately fell in love with philosophy. Antony completed her undergraduate studies in Philosophy (B.A. 1975) and went on to study at Harvard University (Ph.D. 1982). She joined the faculty at UMass/Amherst in 2006. She has held previous positions at Ohio State University, 2000-2006, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993-2000, North Carolina State University, 1986-1993, Bates College, 1983-1986, Boston University, 1981-1983, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1980-1981 Her main research interest lies in the philosophy of mind, the theory of knowledge, and feminist theory with a special interest in philosophical questions about human nature. She has authored or edited numerous published articles, essays and books including the recently edited Philosophers Without Gods, a collection of essays by leading philosophers who happen to be atheists, and who are willing to share their personal experiences as nonbelievers, and their reflections on life without religious faith. Other selected essays include: Multiple Realization: Keeping it Real, Atheism as Perfect Piety For the Love of Reason, Everybody Has Got It: A Defense of Non-Reductive Materialism in the Philosophy of Mind, and Because I Said So: Toward a Feminist Theory of Authority with Rebecca Hanrahan. -- William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, California. He and his wife Jan have two grown children. At the age of sixteen as a junior in high school, he first heard the message of the Christian gospel and yielded his life to Christ. Dr. Craig pursued his undergraduate studies at Wheaton College (B.A. 1971) and graduate studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.A. 1974; M.A. 1975), the University of Birmingham (England) (Ph.D. 1977), and the University of Munich (Germany) (D.Theol. 1984). From 1980-86 he taught Philosophy of Religion at Trinity, during which time he and Jan started their family. In 1987 they moved to Brussels, Belgium, where Dr. Craig pursued research at the University of Louvain until assuming his position at Talbot in 1994. He has authored or edited over thirty books, including The Kalam Cosmological Argument; Assessing the New Testament Evidence for the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus; Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom; Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology; and God, Time and Eternity, as well as over a hundred articles in professional journals of philosophy and theology, including The Journal of Philosophy, New Testament Studies, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy, and British Journal for Philosophy of Science. -- Sponsored by the UMass Philosophy Department, The Navigators, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Campus Crusade for Christ, The Newman Student Association, Logos, and The Veritas Forum. |
