Parker's Pensées

Grab a copy of issue one of my new philosophical science fiction & fantasy magazine here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ParkerZines In episode 286 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by my friend, Dr. Michael Tremblay. This time we try to get into his paper on stoicism and sports but I continually derail us into talking about Christianity and Stoicism. Consider supportin...

Grab a copy of issue one of my new philosophical science fiction & fantasy magazine here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ParkerZines In episode 285 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by my new friend, Joe Folley of  @unsolicitedadvice9198  . It was a genuine pleasure to talk with this dude! I had planned to talk for an hour but we were having such a great time we ended up going ove...

Check out issue 1 of my brand new philosophical science fiction and fantasy magazine, Sages, Mages, & Wisdom Machines, here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ParkerZines In episode 284 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by one of my podcasting heroes, Stephen West of  @philosophizethispodcast  We touch on some of the history of his podcast and almost all things philosophical. Conside...

In episode 283 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, Dr. Philip Goff is back to talk panpsychism once again but this time we focus in on machine consciousness in light of panpsychism. If everything is conscious, does that mean we get conscious AIs for free? Check out my work on the problems with attributing consciousness to AI here: https://parknotes.substack.com/p/if-an-ai-tells-you-its-consciousC...

Ep. 282 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast is all about commonplace books! Check out my Substack, Parker's Ponderings, here: https://parknotes.substack.com/Check out my Science Fiction and Fantasy short stories here: https://parkersfiction.substack.com/Check out Dr. Jacob Allee's Substack for more info on the Study the Great Books Commonplace Book: https://stgb.substack.com/Consider suppo...

In episode 281 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Timothy Brookins. This time we discuss Greek and Roman philosophy and how the reader of the New Testament can benefit from understanding the influential philosophy of the time period. Grab Dr. Brookins' book on Roman and Greek Philosophy here to support my work: https://amzn.to/43ooclh Grab his book on Paul's letters to t...

In ep. 280 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by the author of the Sun Eater science-fantasy series, Christopher Ruocchio. This time we talk about the philosophy of the chosen one motif that is so popular in speculative fiction stories, including his own! For more from Christopher check out  @SunEaterBooks  and check out his Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/c/ruocchio...

In episode 279 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Josh Nadeau of Sword and Pencil on instagram to talk about his fantastic new book. Grab the book here to support my podcast: https://amzn.to/4ko7n1CCheck Josh out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swordandpencil/# →Sponsors/Discounts Check out https://murdycreative.co/PARKERNOTES and use promo code PARKERNOTES at check out for 10%...

n episode 278 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Jacob Allee to discuss Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein and how it's message can be used to help call boys up into manhood. Jacob runs a fantastic Substack called Study the Great Books that you can find here: https://stgb.substack.com/Grab Starship Troopers here to support my podcast: https://amzn.to/4bixWkF→Sponsors/Discounts Ch...

In episode 277 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast I'm joined once again by Dr. Thomas Ward of the Baylor philosophy department. This time we're discussing his fantastic new book, After Stoicism: the Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher. Grab After Stoicism here to support my podcast: https://amzn.to/42t7fHs and Grab Boethius's Consolation of philosophy here: https://amzn.to/40FktQ8→Sponsors/Disco...

In episode 276 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Mike Austin to discuss his book, Humility. Grab Dr. Mike Austin's book, Humility, here to support my channel: https://amzn.to/3AU8Law→Sponsors/Discounts Check out https://murdycreative.co/PARKERNOTES and use promo code PARKERNOTES at check out for 10% off your entire order!!Grab a Field Notes notebook or memo book wallet...

In episode 275 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by book publisher and notebook historian, Roland Allen, to discuss his brand new book, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. I absolutely love this book and you can support my podcast by buying it from my affiliate link here: https://amzn.to/4hggdNr→Sponsors/Discounts Check out https://murdycreative.co/PARKERNOTES and use p...

In episode 274 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Brian Cutter to discuss arguments for and against the simulation hypothesis. Find the accompanying Substack piece on this episode here: https://parknotes.substack.com/p/why-would-anyone-believe-we-liveWatch the rest of my episodes on simulation hypothesis in this playlist here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvGER7JEH7j2...

In episode 273 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Yujin Nagasawa to discuss his new book, The Problem of Evil for Atheists. It's a fantastic book that summarizes the start of the art of the problem of evil literature in the philosophy of religion but it also breaks new ground as Dr. Nagasawa advances new problems of evil for atheists and multiverse pantheists, as well a...

In episode 272 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Philip Chase of  @PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy  and he schools me on J.R.R. Tolkien's philosophy of fiction, fantasy, faerie, speculative fiction, and more! Read Tolkien's essay here and you'll be supporting my podcast: https://amzn.to/3XvsEfi→Sponsors/Discounts Check out https://murdycreative.co/PARKERNOTES and u...

In episode 271 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again to by Dr. Selmer Bringsjord. This time we discuss his argument for God's existence from the existence of a particular type of AI which has already been achieved. We then get into his Irreversibility argument against the idea that "cognition just is computation" which has implications for the project of phen...

In episode 270 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again to by Dr. Joshua Farris. This time we discuss 5+ views on the origin of the soul, that is, how is it that God actually goes about making souls. Read my summary of the views on my Substack here: https://parknotes.substack.com/p/how-does-god-make-souls →Sponsors/Discounts Check out https://murdycreative.co/PARKERNOTES and use prom...

In episode 269 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Christopher Ruocchio, the author of the Sun Eater science-fantasy series, and Jordan Hill of the channel iWizard. Jordan and Christopher help me get my bearings as we discuss the history of science fiction, the current state of the art of science fiction, the philosophy of science fiction and fantasy, and just about everything else. Che...

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In episode 266 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Joshua Sijuwade. This time we discuss the scope of analytic metaphysics which he covers in his fantastic new book, Analytic Theism. Grab the book here to support my podcast: https://amzn.to/3YuxzPQ →Sponsors/Discounts Check out https://murdycreative.co/PARKERNOTES and use promo code PARKERNOTES at check out for 10% off yo...

In episode 265 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Dre Rusavuk to discuss the idea that God is the luckiest of all possible beings. →Sponsors/Discounts Check out https://murdycreative.co/PARKERNOTES and use promo code PARKERNOTES at check out for 10% off your entire order!! Grab a Field Notes notebook or memo book wallet like the one from the video from my affiliate link here to sup...

in episode 264 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Ben Yalow to discuss all things Science Fiction! Ben has edited From These Ashes which is the complete collection of Fredic Brown's short stories--which are some of my all time favorites!! →Sponsors/Discounts Check out https://murdycreative.co/PARKERNOTES and use promo code PARKERNOTES at check out for 10% off your entire order!! Grab a...

In episode 263 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Ed Uszynski to talk about Critical Race Theory. In this episodes we discuss Ed's new book, Untangling Critical Race Theory: What Christians Need to Know and Why It Matters. Grab the book here to support my podcast: https://amzn.to/4c6Hy1p →Sponsors/Discounts Check out https://murdycreative.co/PARKERNOTES and use promo cod...

n episode 262 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dave Munson of Saddleback Leather to discuss the story of how he started Saddleback and we also get into some good theology, including dogs in heaven and leather in the new earth. I'm finally a Saddleback affiliate so if you like their stuff buy something from my link and you can also support my work!! Super grateful. Check out the catal...

In episode 262 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Brian Ballard. This time we discuss what's come to be known as the axiology of theism, that is considering the existence of God in light of value theory. Check out the previous episode with Brian Ballard after this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAAziR0xKlM →Sponsors/Discounts Check out https://murdycreative.co/PARK...