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May 3, 2022 • 1h 31min
Ep. 166 - What Did Foucault Really Believe? w/Dr. Chris Watkin
Did Foucault really teach that all knowledge claims are mere power plays? Why is he the most cited author on Google Scholar? What made him so influential? Dr. Chris Watkin came back on the podcast to school me on all things Foucault and contrast his philosophy with the theology of the Bible. Find more from Dr. Watkin here: https://christopherwatkin.com/
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Apr 29, 2022 • 1h 44min
Ep. 165 - The Philosophy of Philosophy?? w/Dr. Timothy Williamson
What is philosophy? Is this question itself a philosophical question or is it a "meta" philosophical question? Is armchair philosophy an appropriate method of philosophizing or should we all be in labs somewhere helping the scientists? Dr. Timothy Williamson and I discuss these and many more questions in this episode while we cover the second edition of his book, The Philosophy of Philosophy.
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Apr 25, 2022 • 1h 2min
Ep. 164 - Is Faith Moral or Epistemological? Is It Even Rational? w/Dr. Travis Dickinson
What is faith? Dr. Travis Dickinson argues that we ought to view faith in a moral realm rather than an epistemological realm. We cover one of his academic papers as well as parts of his new book, Logic and the Way of Jesus.
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Apr 22, 2022 • 1h 23min
Ep. 163 - What Would an Artificial Thinker Be Like? w/Dr. Eric Olson
Can robots think? Is artificial intelligence possible? Dr. Eric Olson argues that AI theorists focus all of their attention on artificial thought and not enough on what an artificial thinker would be like. In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, we cover Dr. Olson's chapter "The Metaphysics of Artificial Intelligence" in Consciousness and the Ontology of Properties. Dr. Olson brings out some of the problems which arise when trying to nail down just what exactly an artificial thinker would be.
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Apr 18, 2022 • 1h 27min
Ep. 162 - Some of the Best Reasons to Believe in the Soul w/Dr. Charles Taliaferro
What is substance dualism and what are the best arguments for thinking we have souls? In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast I'm joined by Dr. Charles Taliaferro to discuss some of his work on substance dualism and the existence of the soul.
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Apr 15, 2022 • 1h 10min
Ep. 161 - The Common Consent Argument for God w/Dr. Jon Matheson
Is the fact that so many people believe in God good evidence for God's existence? I'm joined by philosopher Jon Matheson to discuss the epistemology at play in the "common consent argument for God", that is, the argument that we can be justified in believe in God since so many other people believe in God.
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Apr 11, 2022 • 1h 4min
Ep. 160 - When You Should Have Known But Couldn't? w/Dr. Sandy Goldberg
Are there times when we should have known something, but don't because we don't have the evidence? Dr. Sandy Goldberg argues that the answer is yes, and more often than you might think!
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Apr 8, 2022 • 1h 34min
Ep. 159 - Why Christian Men Listen to Jordan Peterson Over Pastors w/Paul Vander Klay
Why are men in general and Christian men in particular so taken by Jordan Peterson? Paul Vander Klay (the pastor of the Intellectual Dark Web) joins me again on the podcast to help me answer this question. We get into Peterson's project in Maps of Meaning, what he means by meaning, and what he thinks about God, power dynamics, and what he gets right and wrong about Jesus's Sermon on the Mount.
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Apr 4, 2022 • 1h 7min
Ep. 158 - Religious Experience and Really Knowing God w/Dr. Harold Netland
What is religious experience? What role does it play in making arguments for God's existence? Can we be justified in our knowledge of God?? These are some of the questions we cover in this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast.
I'm joined by my old professor, Dr. Harold A. Netland of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, to discuss his fantastic new book, Religious Experience and the Knowledge of God: The Evidential Force of Divine Encounters.
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Apr 1, 2022 • 1h 10min
Ep. 157 - What is Substance Dualism? w/Dr. Stewart Goetz
In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Stewart Goetz to discuss his work on the soul and substance dualism. Dr. Goetz and I mostly focus in on his work in the Routledge Companion to Substance Dualism.
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