Parker's Pensées

In this bonus episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined again by philosopher Joe Schmid. This time we talk about what it means to be a philosopher, who gets to call themself a philosopher, why the continental philosophers are winning in the public sphere, and what analytic philosophers can do to get themselves out there.  watch my previous episode with Joe on the books that helped u...

What is a 'sortal' in philosophy? What about a phase sortal or a substance sortal? Dr. Justin Mooney came on the podcast to school me on sortals, identity over time, and the ship of Theseus.  See more from Justin here: https://www.justinmooney.net/  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 sti...

Are human beings animals? Do we have immortal souls? Can we survive the death of our bodies? In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Christopher Tomaszewski to discuss his dissertation, Mortal Persons and Their Immaterial Souls, wherein he argues for a corruptionist take on Aristotelian Animalism, i.e., we are a hylemorphic unity of form and matter, called the human anim...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Chad McIntosh to discuss his two new papers on recent work on traditional arguments for theism. We'll be looking at the nature of natural theology, it's aims, limitations, and common misconceptions.  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, Joe Schmid came back on to discuss the books that helped us learn how to do philosophy and that first got us interested in philosophy. We discuss our favorites in the history of philosophy, philosophy in general, phil of religion, metaphysics, epistemology, phil mind, free will, phil language, political philosophy, value theory, and logic. Sure we m...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined in-person by Bethel McGrew (Esther O'Reilly) and Paul Vander Klay to discuss the role of the Christian public intellectual and whether or not we need more Christians in the public arena wrestling with ideas.  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...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Tim Crane (legendary philosopher) to discuss several of his papers. We discuss Dr. Frank Jackson's knowledge argument and what it really proves, Leibniz's Mill argument and the explanatory gap, and theories of mental content and intentionality.  Find Dr. Crane's papers here: http://www.timcrane.com/ If you like this podcast, t...

Dr. Mike Huemer is an agnostic and a world class philosopher. Yet he argues that we have immaterial, immortal souls. Dr. Graham Oppy is an atheist and also a world class philosopher. He argues that we do not have immaterial, immortal souls. We're gonna talk about it. 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 Pen...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Boston University philosopher, Walter Hopp to discuss his book Phenomenology: A Contemporary Introduction. We get into consciousness, concepts, intentionality, and more.  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 acce...

Robots are here. Theologians need to be thinking through the theological implications of robots. Dr. Joshua K. Smith has been thinking about robot theology and comes on the podcast to help me think through some of the implications.  Check out more from Josh here: https://www.joshuaksmith.org/  If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3, $5 or more a month. Any amount hel...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Guillaume Bignon to discuss his new book Confessions of A French Atheist: How God Hijacked My Quest to Disprove the Christian Faith. We get into lots of his testimony from atheism to a staunch Calvinist Christianity.    Grab the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-French-Atheist-Hijacked-Christian/dp/...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Philip Goff to discuss panpsychism, cosmopsychism, and theism. We cover some of Goff's academic papers wherein he argues that an agentive cosmopsychism could account for the fine tuning of the universe just as well as theism can but that it's simpler than theism and hence should be preferred. We also discuss how a panpsychism might...

What do philosophers mean by tropes? What about properties? And what's an NFT? Philosopher, Dr. Robert Garcia, joins me to answer these questions and more in this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast.   Find more from Dr. Garcia here: http://www.robertkgarcia.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 a Parker'...

What is Biblical Theology? How does it differ from systematic theology, historical theology, exegetical theology, etc.? Dr. GK Beale is an absolute legend in the biblical theology world and he came on to school me on biblical theology in general and how to actually do biblical theology.  find more from Dr. Beale here: https://www.gkbeale.com/ Dr. Beale is a legend and has taught all over the...

If my peers are just as smart as me, and have the same evidence that I have, but come to a different conclusion than I do, then what do I do? Should I hold fast to my belief or should I withhold judgment? Whatever I decide about general cases of disagreement, should I also apply that to religious disagreement? Dr. Matthew Benton came on the podcast to school me on the epistemology of disagreement,...

Is the physical world causally closed? If so, then all causes are physical causes, or are reducible to physical causes or entities. That would seem to preclude an immaterial mind's interaction with the body. Dr. Dolores Morris help's me think through Hempel's dilemma for defining what we mean by 'physical'. We also get into lots of other topics in the philosophy of mind. Check the chapters to see...

Who is Michael PolanyI? What is tacit knowledge? What is Covenantal Epistemology? Dr. Esther Meek joins me on this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast to help me find out. 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 waiting for t...

Dean Zimmerman joins me in this episode to discuss his relationship with David Lewis, whom he eulogized. We also discussed Lewis's paper on divine evil, and how a classical theist could be a modal realist following Lewis's model.    Check out more from Dean Zimmerman here: http://fas-philosophy.rutgers.edu/zimmerman/index1.htm If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $3,...

Is religious disagreement a special case of epistemological disagreement or is it just like any other case? Dr. Richard Feldman argues that it's just like the rest and that's actually a good thing for theisms! 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 re...

"Trinititarians are charged with at least two contradictions. First, the Father is God and the Son is God, so it seems to follow that the Father is the Son. Trinitarians affirm the premises but deny the conclusion, which seems contradictory. Second, the Father is a God, the Son is a God, and the Holy Spirit is a God, but the Father is not the Son, the Father is not the Holy Spirit, and the Son is...

What is consciousness? Why is there a hard problem of explaining how consciousness relates to the physical brain? In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, Dr. Keith Frankish argues that consciousness is an illusion, a position known as illusionism. He further argues that the self, or the subject of the illusion could also be an illusion.    Check out more from Dr. Frankish here:...

How can we know that we are more than our physical bodies? Dr. William Hasker Joins me on this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast to go over his unity of consciousness argument against physicalist theories of mind. 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 episo...

What are numbers? Are the real entities out there in the world? In some other realm? Should we be Platonists about numbers? How can abstract mathematics be so applicable to our everyday existence? These are some of the questions Dr. Mark Colyvan and I discuss in this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast.   Find more of Mark's work here: http://www.colyvan.com/ If you like this podcast...

What is qualia? What is the knowledge argument against physicalist theories of mind? Did Mary really learn anything new when she left the black and white room? On this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by the legendary Dr. Frank Jackson to discuss his version of the knowledge argument and discuss why he came to reject it. If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $...

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/ If you like this podcast, then support it o...