The Dallas Socratic Society is a group that meets on the second Monday of every month (from 7:30 to 9:30pm) in order to discuss various topics in philosophy (generally) and philosophy of religion (in particular). In a typical DSS meeting, someone reads a paper and we then have discussion.
DSS participants place a premium on clear argument, reason and evidence. The papers presented are intended to be both lucid and rigorous. The primary tools of investigation employed by the DSS are those of analytic philosophy - although other perspectives are welcome.
Steve Lee (MA.Th.), "Kierkegaard: An Irrational Rationalist?"
Dr. Robert Sloan Lee, "Peter Atkins' Case for the Incompatibility of Science and Religion"
Scott Shiffer, "The Problem of Evil: An Alternative to Plantinga's Free Will Defense"
Xavier Bannis, "Duns Scotus on the Nature of Possibility"
Steve Lee (MA.Th.), "Philosophy of History and the Resurrection"
R. Keith Loftin, "Evolutionary Naturalism's Self-referential Incoherence"
David Patillo, Theism and the Evidential Problem of Evil
Dr. Robert Sloan Lee, "Susan Haack's Phlogiston Theory of Science and Religion"
Amanda Stevens, "A Crumbling Fortress is No Place to Hide: A Defense of Divine Impassibility"
Todd Kappelman, "A Close Phenomenological Reading of Philosophical Text"
Jesse Cohen, TBA
"Beyond Paley: Renewing the Vision for Natural Theology"
