The Centre for Marian Studies has just announced its 2025-2026 series of research seminars. I’ll be presenting on November 12th 2025 on the topic: Did God create the world for Mary? By the way, the October seminar (also ;-)) looks fascinating: Wisdom’s Apex: Mary’s Role in the American Evolution Controversy.
Chapter published in Religion and Economy. Historical, contemporary and philosophical perspectives. Edited by Erik Sporon Fiedler, published by Edizioni Quasar in the Analecta Romana Instituti Danici. Supplementum, 60, p. 133-145.
Article published in a special issue of the Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion. Volume 5.1 (special issue, 2025, forthcoming)
Guest essay for The New Digest.
After the Sedes Sapientiae Symposium on Mary and political philosophy, there is now a call for papers for an edited volume on that topic.
Just spreading the word about this wonderful upcoming conference:
On June 19 and 20, 2025, the Erasmus Economics & Theology Institute (EETI, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands), the Institute of Leadership and Social Ethics (ILSE, ETF Leuven, Belgium) and the Economic Humanist Group will organize an international academic conference addressing this theme, focusing on the dialogue between economics and Christian theology. The conference will provide an opportunity to engage with and learn from a diverse group of global leading thinkers in these fields. Scholars are invited to submit an abstract for a paper. The full Call for Papers can be found through the link below.
Lees verder “Call for papers: Dialogue between Economics and Theology on Human Nature & Community”
In the framework of “European Future Talks” on “Values and Europe”, former President of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy, will deliver a keynote on ‘Governmental Responsibility and Personal Ethos.’ The event will be held on Wednesday, 5 June 2024, from 18:00 to 20:00 (CET) at the Chapel for Europe, Brussels. More info and registration
Lees verder “Governmental responsibility and personal ethos”
Upcoming conference on the social ontology of sovereignty, in Navarra, Spain, March 14-th-16th. Invited keynote speakers are Hans-Bernhard Schmid, Thomas Pink and Jenny Pelletier. See the website in Spanish or English and download the CFP (English). Organized by Mark Hoipkemier (Navarra), Michaël Bauwens (Antwerp), David Thunder (Strasbourg), Sergio Clavero (Navarra).
Lees verder “The social ontology of sovereignty: timeless and timely perspectives”
Forthcoming in Communio, fall 2023.
Presentation at the Sedes Sapientiae Symposium, September 16th, 2023.
Forthcoming in a special issue of Münchener Theologische Zeitschrift, (number 3) 2023.
Lees verder “Towards a spousal metaphysics of the eucharist: persons, powers and Mary”
Published in TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology, 6(2), 219–244. https://doi.org/10.14428/thl.v6i2.65613
Forthcoming presentation for the two-day conference “Apprehending Value” 15 & 16 September 2022, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Lees verder “Apprehending the value of an argument”
Upcoming presentation for the 23rd Biennial Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion: God, Time and Change, September 3-5, 2022, Oxford, UK.
Lees verder “Weber, time and the economics of the eucharist”
Presentation for the upcoming Social Ontology/Collective Intentionality 2022 conference in Vienna.
Lees verder “Where is the King of France? On the location problem in social ontology”
Just spreading the word about an interesting upcoming conference in Maynooth, Ireland.
Forthcoming in Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, Vol. 77, N°4, Causalidade: Abordagens Contemporâneas / Causality: Contemporary Approaches
Lees verder “Causes, contingency and freedom: a reply to Anscombe, Mumford and Anjum”
Presentation for the upcoming Winter Seminar on Progress in Theology, January 27-28-9 2022, at the Abraham Kuyper Center of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Lees verder “Truth, contingency and revelation: some Scotistic considerations on the possibility of progress in theology”
Upcoming presentation for the online conference “New Perspectives in Philosophy of Religion”, to be held on the 12th, 13th, and 14th of July 2021. Organized by the Centre for Logic, Epistemology, and the History of Science (CLE) of the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil.
Lees verder “The Liar and the Saint: Reconsidering Anselm’s argument”
Presentation for the upcoming Social Ontology 2021 conference, August 9-21. See the talk here.
Lees verder “On the metaphysics of property and exchange: a dispositional account”
Guest lecture for a colloquium at the Université d’Angers and the Université Catholique de l’Ouest
Forthcoming in Fittingness and Environmental Ethics (ed. C. Tulp and M. Northcott)
Presentation at the Rationality, Theism and Atheism conference in Tehran, Iran.
Philosophical News, issue 16, 2018, special issue on Dietrich von Hildebrand and Christian personalism
Presentation at the 2020 International Social Ontology Conference to be held online. July 13–16, 2020, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Abstract accepted for the ETF conference Towards an Environmental Ethic of ‘Fittingness’ (2-3 October, online)
Dissertation in philosophy, defended at the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy in 2018. Supervisor Prof. Filip Buekens, FWO Project Social Cognition and the Emergence of Institutions
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