{"id":1081,"date":"2026-07-18T06:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T06:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.iaphilor.org\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=1081"},"modified":"2026-07-18T06:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T06:20:07","slug":"the-14th-international-conference-on-philosophy-of-religion-cpr2026","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"http:\/\/en.iaphilor.org\/?portfolio=the-14th-international-conference-on-philosophy-of-religion-cpr2026","title":{"rendered":"The 14th International Conference on Philosophy of Religion (CPR2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Iranian Association for the Philosophy of Religion<\/strong>, in cooperation with <strong>Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU)<\/strong>, presents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Theme: Divine Agency<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3>Conference Themes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4>Divine Agency in the History of Thought and Religions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Divine agency in Western philosophy (Aristotle, Plato, the Neoplatonists, etc.)<\/li><li>Divine agency in Eastern philosophy (Indian philosophy, Chinese philosophy, etc.)<\/li><li>Divine agency in Islamic philosophy (Avicenna [Ibn S\u012bn\u0101], Suhraward\u012b, M\u012br D\u0101m\u0101d, Mull\u0101 \u1e62adr\u0101, etc.)<\/li><li>Divine agency in Islamic theology and Jewish and Christian theology<\/li><li>Divine agency in mysticism<\/li><li>The semantics of divine actions<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4>Semantics of Divine Action<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Conceptual analysis of action in the divine and human realms (equivocity, univocity, etc.)<\/li><li>The semantics of direct and indirect divine action<\/li><li>The semantics of general and particular divine action<\/li><li>The conceptual distinction between action and related concepts in the divine realm (causality, origination, creation, etc.)<\/li><li>The conceptual relationship between divine agency and opposing concepts (hiddenness, silence, etc.)<\/li><li>The semantics of propositions concerning divine actions<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4>Ontology of Divine Agency<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Models of divine agency (agency by manifestation, agency by intention, agency by consent, etc.)<\/li><li>God and causality (quantum indeterminism models, top-down causation, vertical and horizontal causality, etc.)<\/li><li>Theories of general and particular divine action and their relation to the laws of nature<\/li><li>Divine agency and human beings (theories of free will, divine decree and destiny, <em>kasb<\/em> [acquisition], etc.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4>Epistemology of Divine Agency<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Naturalistic and non-naturalistic accounts of divine agency<\/li><li>Cognitive biases in attributing actions to nature or to God<\/li><li>Criteria for identifying divine agency<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4>Methodology of the Study of Divine Agency<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Modeling divine agency (primary and secondary causation, divine interaction, continuous creation, quantum models, etc.)<\/li><li>Challenges in modeling divine agency and criteria for evaluating models<\/li><li>Methods of critical interaction between science and theology in the study of divine agency<\/li><li>Source-based approaches to the study of divine agency (revelation, tradition, experience, etc.)<\/li><li>Phenomenological approaches to the study of divine agency<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4>Competing Theories of Divine Agency<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Naturalism<\/li><li>Deism<\/li><li>Pantheism<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conference Chair:<\/strong> Reza Akbari<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scientific Secretary:<\/strong> Majid Mollayousefi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conference Dates:<\/strong> <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">17\u201318 November 2026<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract Submission Deadline:<\/strong> 18 September 2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Notification of Acceptance:<\/strong> 9 October 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">The conference will be held in a hybrid format (both virtually and in person)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Submission Guidelines<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">To register for CPR2026, you must first submit your abstract through the conference submission page. (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.iaphilor.org\/?page_id=1082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To submit an abstract, you should prepare the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>An abstract of <strong>200\u2013350 words<\/strong><\/li><li>At least <strong>three keywords<\/strong><\/li><li>Author information, including:<ul><li>Full name(s)<\/li><li>Current academic status or highest academic degree<\/li><li>Institutional affiliation (authors who prefer not to list an institution may use the designation <strong>&#8220;Independent Scholar&#8221;<\/strong>)<\/li><li>Email address(es)<\/li><li>Contact phone number(s)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the conference referees and will receive one of the following decisions: Accepted, Rejected, Accepted subject to revisions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The registration fee is payable <strong>only after the abstract has been accepted<\/strong>. Authors must send a scanned copy or photograph of the payment receipt in reply to the acceptance email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authors whose papers are selected for oral presentation are expected to submit an <strong>extended abstract of approximately 2,000 words<\/strong> to the conference secretariat before the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authors may submit <strong>multiple abstracts<\/strong>. However, after peer review and acceptance, <strong>only one single-authored paper and one co-authored paper per author<\/strong> will be published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Registration Fees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>University faculty members, seminary instructors, and non-student participants:<\/strong> <strong>100 \u20ac<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>University students and seminary students:<\/strong> <strong>50 \u20ac<\/strong> (upon presentation of valid student identification)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Payment instructions will be provided to authors of accepted abstracts. Catering costs during the conference will be calculated separately and announced to participants before the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>High-resolution conference<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Conference Secretariat Contact<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Phone:<\/strong> +98 902 908 0340<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:philorconf@gmail.com\">philorconf@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian Association for the Philosophy of Religion, in cooperation with Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU), presents: Theme: Divine Agency Conference Themes Divine Agency in the History of Thought and Religions Divine agency in Western philosophy (Aristotle, Plato, the Neoplatonists, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.iaphilor.org\/?portfolio=the-14th-international-conference-on-philosophy-of-religion-cpr2026\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1085,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"portfolio-type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/en.iaphilor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/1081"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/en.iaphilor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/en.iaphilor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/en.iaphilor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/en.iaphilor.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/en.iaphilor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/en.iaphilor.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio-type","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/en.iaphilor.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio-type&post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}