Parker's Pensées

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Thomas Ward to discuss his work. This time we discuss his new work on John Duns Scotus. We discuss Duns Scotus's unique arguments for God and his contribution to the metaphysics of haecceity and quiddity.  Grab the book here to support my podcast: https://amzn.to/3HCNrqX  If you like this podcast, then support...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Austin Freeman, author of Tolkien Dogmatics.  Grab the book here to support my podcast: https://amzn.to/3VTYXlO  If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3, $5 or more a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées sticker and instant access to all the episode as I record them instead of...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by my professor Dr. Paul Copan to discuss his new book, Is God a Vindictive Bully: Reconciling Portrayals of God in the Old and New Testaments. Dr. Copan has become the go-to guy for helping to explain difficult passages in the OT.  Grab his book here support my podcast: https://amzn.to/3UnfX2u  Check out more from Paul Copan he...

On this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Lorraine Juliano Keller to discuss her argument from intentionality (or aboutness) for the existence of God (or "propositions supernaturalized") which appears in Two Dozen (Or So) Arguments for God.  Check out more of Dr. Keller's work here: https://lorrainejulianokeller.org/  or here: https://philpeople.org/profiles/lorr...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Paul Gould to discuss his new book, A Good and True Story: Eleven Clues to Understanding Our Universe and Your Place In It. We cover 3 of his clues: Life, Species, and Happiness.  Check out this episodes sponsor, Philosophy Bookclub, a fantastic discord channel dedicated to discussing philosophy: https://discord.com/invite/jYs...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined for the 5th time by philosopher Michael Huemer. This time we discuss the nature of human rights, how we know about them, and then go in depth on the nature of the right to bear arms.  check out Dr. Huemer's substack article on the topic here: https://fakenous.substack.com/p/is-there-a-right-to-own-a-gun If you like this podcast, then...

On this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by philosopher Tim McGrew to discuss his co-authored book, with his wife Lydia, Internalism and Epistemology: the Architecture of Reason.  Check out Dr. McGrew's historical apologetics website here:  https://historicalapologetics.org/ If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3, $5 or more a month. Any amount hel...

On this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by philosopher C. Stephen Evans to discuss the definition of wisdom, why contemporary philosophy doesn't talk about it, and how we might go about getting wisdom today. If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3, $5 or more a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées sticker and instant access to all t...

On this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Lane Tipton to discuss his new book, The Trinitarian Theology of Cornelius Van Til. We Discuss the doctrine of the Trinity in general, Van Til's understanding of the Trinity, Dutch Reformed thelogy, Old Princeton, and more. We also get into Calvin's doctrine of Autotheos and Van Til's understanding of perichoresis. If you don't kno...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Linda Zagzebski, this time to discuss her new book, The Two Greatest Ideas: How Our Grasp of the Universe and Our Minds Changed Everything. Check the chapters below to see what we covered and make sure you subscribe to my substack (for free) to enter the drawing to win a copy of her book! https://parknotes.substack.com/...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Tim Pickavance to discuss his new book, Knowledge for the Love of God. We also spend a good amount of the episode discussing affective reason and what role emotions play in epistemology.  Grab the book here to support my podcast: https://amzn.to/3R7s1nJ Find more from Tim here: https://philpeople.org/profiles/timothy-pickavanc...

Parker's Pensées is partnering with Daily Wisdom Texts to bring you some of my favorite wisdom quotes and proverbs each and every day, right to your phone. Check out the link below to start a 30 day trial and check out some of my favorites:  https://www.dailywisdomtexts.com/parkers_pensees/ If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3, $5 or more a month. Any amount helps, and...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Steven Duby to discuss his new book, Jesus and the God of Classical Theism. We discuss the relation between philosophy and theology, the role of mystery in theology, specific classical doctrines like aseity, eternity, simplicity and more. We also discuss the definitions of person, substance, subsistence, and essence. We then finish...

In this live episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Richard Swinburne to go over his souped up version of Descartes's argument for the soul from his book Are We Bodies or Souls?  If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3, $5 or more a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées sticker and instant access to all the episode as I record them...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Kenny Pearce to discuss his work on the authorial analogy for the God-world relation, that is, that God relates to the world in an analogous fashion to that of an author and his/her novel.  If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3, $5 or more a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées s...

On this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Gregory B. Sadler to discuss public philosophy and Philip K. Dick. We get into definitions of philosophy, who counts as a philosopher, was PKD a philosopher, the role of philosophy of religion and much more.  Check out more from Dr. Sadler here: https://www.youtube.com/c/GregoryBSadler If you like this podcast, then support it...

In the episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Paul Herrick to discuss his new book, Philosophy, Reasoned Belief, and Faith. It's an into to philosophy text that's likewise a cumulative case for belief in God and it's great!  Grab the book here to support my podcast: https://amzn.to/3QfHNfg If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3, $5 or more a month. Any...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by my friend Jim Gruenwald to discuss lessons he learned from a lifetime of wrestling, many of which he covers in his new book, Not All Roads Lead to Gold.  Grab the book here: https://notallroadsleadtogold.com/  If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3, $5 or more a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Josh Rasmussen to discuss his forthcoming book "Who Are You Really?: A Philosopher's Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Persons".  Check out more from Josh here: https://www.youtube.com/c/WorldviewDesignChannel  If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3, $5 or more a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 yo...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Greg Parker to discuss his new translations of Herman Bavinck's theological works, What is Christianity? and Guidebook for Instruction in the Christian Religion. If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3, $5 or more a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées sticker and instant access to all...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensees Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Susan Schneider to discuss her book Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind.  Find more from Dr. Schneider here: https://schneiderwebsite.com/index.html  If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3, $5 or more a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées sticker and instant acces...

On this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, we continue our exploration of substance dualism and artificial intelligence. Dr. Kenny Boyce argues that strong artificial intelligence and/or artificial general intelligence is actually much more plausible given substance dualism than on other views of the mind. Find more from Kenny Boyce here: https://kennethboyce.wordpress.com/ If you like this...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Brian Cutter to discuss whether or not robots can have souls, especially given substance dualism.  Check out more from Dr. Cutter here: https://philosophy.nd.edu/people/faculty/brian-cutter/ If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3, $5 or more a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées...

Dr. Tomas Bogardus is coming on to discuss his dissertation, and Epistemological Approach to the Mind-Body problem and then get into all sorts of questions about the mind/soul/intellect/etc. Join us to ask your questions live! If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3, $5 or more a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées sticker and instant access to all th...

In this livestream, Dr. Dustin Crummett and I discuss his paper on the Simulation solution to the problem of natural evils as well as getting into his argument for God from psychophysical harmony and discussing its implications for the simulation hypothesis. Find more from Dustin here: http://dustincrummett.com/  If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3, $5 or more a month....