Parker's Pensées

In this episode, I have a conversation with my friend and mentor, Dr. Jerry Root about his new book, The Neglected C.S. Lewis. We also discuss C.S. Lewis's favorite 3 books from his own corpus, Till We Have Faces, Perelandra, and The Abolition of Man. Jerry is a world-renowned C.S. Lewis scholar and you're going to want to hear what he has to say on Lewis, life, God, and faith. Enjoy!  Time Is Running by MusicLFiles Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6203-time-is-running License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In this episode we kick off our first ever Parker's Pensées Podcast interview with one of my favorite philosophers, Dr. Jim Slagle. This guy is next level. We discuss his book, The Epistemological Skyhook: Determinism, Naturalism, and Self-Defeat. We end up covering lots more philosophy and go in a bit deeper into the specifics of epistemology (the theory of knowledge). This was a dream come true. I hope you enjoy! If you do leave us a review and share this with your friends.  Time Is Running by MusicLFiles Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6203-time-is-running License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In this episode I cover the Liar Paradox, which historically has been some variant of "the sentence you are now reading is a lie". It's paradoxical in that if it's true, then it's false but if it's false then it's true. I give an overview, a couple proposed solutions, my own solution, and then I go over Jewish satirical humor in order to explain the Apostle Paul's answer to the Liar Paradox in Titus 1:12. Isn't that crazy!? The Liar Paradox made its way into the Bible lol. Enjoy. 

In this episode, we answer the question in the title by looking at the philosophy of friendship and personhood, the philosophy of artificial intelligence and some problems which arise in it, and then we look at the theology of friendship to justify asking the question in the first place. I hope you enjoy!  Time Is Running by MusicLFiles Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6203-time-is-running License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In this episode we go over the extended mind thesis of Andy Clark and David Chalmers and cover a tiny bit of the Harry Potter legendarium in order to answer the question "Is my pocket journal a horcrux?"  Time Is Running by MusicLFiles Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6203-time-is-running License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In this episode, I survey three answers to this question: a univocal, an equivocal, and an analogical answer.  Ultimately, I side with the analogical answer and I explain why. If you have no clue what any of that means, no worries, you will by the end of the podcast. Enjoy!  Time Is Running by MusicLFiles Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6203-time-is-running License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In this inaugural episode, I go over various aspects of ethics in order to more fully answer the question "is it ethical to feed mice to Giant African Bullfrogs?"