SMPT in Claremont in Less Than Two Weeks
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 10:00 pm
A reminder of the annual conference of the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology, to be held in a couple of weeks (21-23 May) at Claremont Graduate University in California:
http://www.smpt.org/conferences_2009.html
Incidentally, Gadianton has been boasting since roughly January -- long before the leadership of SMPT had sifted through presentation proposals for the conference and extended invitations to participate -- that he is on the program. He was initially talking about doing a paper on the moral defects of “Mopologists” like William Hamblin and Louis Midgley (and, very possibly, me), but has since claimed to have rethought that rather bizarre and inapropos topic in favor of a paper that “delves into the deep structure of Mopologetics.” (Perhaps such a paper really exists on the program, but I confess that I cannot see it.)
We had invited only three speakers by the time Gadianton began boasting that he was already on the conference program -- the Claremont process theologians Prof. Philip Clayton and Prof. John Cobb, and, also on the Claremont faculty, the Latter-day Saint historian Richard Bushman -- and none of them seems likely to be posting here as the atheistic Gadianton. So his claim seems dubious, at best. My own paper proposal, he says on another thread here, was only accepted late ("DCP finally got accepted too"), by which he apparently hopes to insinuate, falsely, that it was accepted after all the others on the program were, and long after his.
Moreover, also elsewhere on this board, Scratch has already branded my forthcoming SMPT presentation, entitled "Reflections on My Experience with Interfaith Dialogue," a "smear piece." But he obviously hasn't read it yet, since it doesn't exist. (I haven't written it. I returned very, very late Thursday night from the Middle East, and am only sitting down now to flesh out my thoughts for the conference.) Scratch continually accuses me of smearing various people; his description of my as-yet unwritten Claremont presentation as a "smear" illustrates rather well just how fairly and precisely he applies the term.
http://www.smpt.org/conferences_2009.html
Incidentally, Gadianton has been boasting since roughly January -- long before the leadership of SMPT had sifted through presentation proposals for the conference and extended invitations to participate -- that he is on the program. He was initially talking about doing a paper on the moral defects of “Mopologists” like William Hamblin and Louis Midgley (and, very possibly, me), but has since claimed to have rethought that rather bizarre and inapropos topic in favor of a paper that “delves into the deep structure of Mopologetics.” (Perhaps such a paper really exists on the program, but I confess that I cannot see it.)
We had invited only three speakers by the time Gadianton began boasting that he was already on the conference program -- the Claremont process theologians Prof. Philip Clayton and Prof. John Cobb, and, also on the Claremont faculty, the Latter-day Saint historian Richard Bushman -- and none of them seems likely to be posting here as the atheistic Gadianton. So his claim seems dubious, at best. My own paper proposal, he says on another thread here, was only accepted late ("DCP finally got accepted too"), by which he apparently hopes to insinuate, falsely, that it was accepted after all the others on the program were, and long after his.
Moreover, also elsewhere on this board, Scratch has already branded my forthcoming SMPT presentation, entitled "Reflections on My Experience with Interfaith Dialogue," a "smear piece." But he obviously hasn't read it yet, since it doesn't exist. (I haven't written it. I returned very, very late Thursday night from the Middle East, and am only sitting down now to flesh out my thoughts for the conference.) Scratch continually accuses me of smearing various people; his description of my as-yet unwritten Claremont presentation as a "smear" illustrates rather well just how fairly and precisely he applies the term.