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, "Philosophy of History and the Resurrection"
R. Keith Loftin, "Evolutionary Naturalism's Self-referential Incoherence"
David Patillo, "Theism and the Evidential Problem of Evil "
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, "Reading Heidegger's Being & Time: Chap. 2, Sect. 7" [text here, pp. 49-63]
Jesse Cohen, "The Boundaries of Skeptical Theism and the Problem of Undefeated Evils"
Robert Sloan Lee, "Michael Shermer on Science & Religion: Olive Branch or Trojan Horse?"
John Ferrer, "Propositional Defeat: Critiquing the Argument from Non-Cognitivism"
Jodie L. Lyon, "Can a Theory of Causality Solve the Augustinian-Pelagian Debate?"
Robert Sloan Lee, "Victor Stenger's Pseudo-Scientific Case Against God"
Jesse Cohen, "The Mind-Body Problem"
Robert Sloan Lee, "Evolution, Moral Epistemology, and the Theistic Hypothesis"
Xavier Bannis, "Infinity and Divine Simplicity"
Keith Boozer, "Soteriological Problems for Molinism"
Dr. Robert Sloan Lee, "Carl Sagan's Extraordinary Claim"
Kip Bond, "The Argument for Atheism from Divine Hiddness" [Tentative]
Derek Sansone, Topic: TBA [Tentative]
Jesse Cohen, "Nicholas Everitt's Attack on Natural Theology"
Topic TBA
