Parker's Pensées

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.  Fin...

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.  Check out more from Travis here: http://www.travisdickinson.com/about/ If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount helps, a...

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 s...

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. If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées sticker and i...

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.  Check out more from Dr. Matheson here: https://jonathandmatheson.wordpress.com/ If you...

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!    Check out more from Sandy here: https://northwestern.academia.edu/SanfordGoldberg If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a...

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. If...

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 Knowle...

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.  If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 you get a Parker's Pensées sticker and instant access to...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by C.R. Wiley to discuss his new book, In the House of Tom Bombadil. We discuss the difference between dominion and domination and how to disambiguate the two through reflecting on Tom Bombadil and Saruman.  Grab the book from my affiliate link to support the pod: https://amzn.to/3LCqMdU Check out more from C.R. Wiley here: https://c...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Brian Ballard to discuss his paper Christianity and the Life Story wherein he argues that Christians are committed to narrativism, and even narrative realism, that we literally do live in a narrative.    Check out more from Brian here:   https://www.faithconsidered.com/  https://www.brianscottballard.com/ If you...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Michael Huemer. This time we discuss two of his recent papers in which he argues that the probability we are reincarnated given the infinity of the past and the future is 1, and that we are immaterial souls!  Huemer is a non-religious philosopher who argues for substance dualism and reincarnation! It's wild, but he'...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Christopher Watkin to discuss his work on Jacques Derrida and Cornelius Van Til.   Find more from Dr. Watkin here: https://christopherwatkin.com/    Check out my sponsor Bibllios Clothing through this link for 10% off of their awesome merch:  https://bibliosclothing.com/discount/PARKER If you like this podcast, then support it on P...

In this bonus episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, Dr. Ryan Mullins drops a huge announcement.  Listen to the episode then check out this link for more info on the huge news:  https://pbaschoolofministry.com/mastersphilosophyreligion/?fbclid=IwAR1l1Jc1QDj8GWX6lzIELqWH042J_aeYf7n_ZotXXyT32UuaKDh9vEcLkHM Find more from Dr. Mullins here: https://www.rtmullins.com/  Check out my spo...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Linda Zagzebski to discuss her work on "omnisubjectivity", i.e., that if God is omniscient, then He knows the qualia states or the what-it's-likeness of every creature.  Check out more of her work here: https://www.ou.edu/cas/philosophy/people/faculty/linda-zagzebski Check out my sponsor Bibllios Clothing through this link for...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast I'm joined once again by Dr. Guillaume Bignon, this time to talk about his current work on the justification debate between Protestants and Roman Catholics. Guillaume argues that Protestants and Roman Catholics continually talk past one another because they equivocate on the word "justification".    Check out my sponsor Bibllios Clothing th...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast I'm joined by philosopher Jonathan Schaffer to talk about metaphysical grounding and his ground functional theory of mind. This guy is a legend in metaphysics and a really kind and charitable guest! We had a lot of fun diving in deep!   Check out more of his work here: http://www.jonathanschaffer.org/ Check out my sponsor Bibllios Clothing throu...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined for the 5th time (!) by Dr. Taylor Cyr. This time we talk about his awesome work on moral luck. Taylor argues that constitutive moral luck should lead historicists to convert over to his brand of structuralism.  Check out more of Taylor's work here: https://taylorwcyr.com/find the Free Will Show here: https://thefreewillshow.com/ &nb...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Joshua Sijuwade, this time to talk about how David Lewis's modal realism (slightly modified) can help us reconcile two apparently disperate models of God: Classical Theism and Neo-Classical Theism.  Find Josh's paper here: https://www.academia.edu/60998062/The_Metaphysics_of_Theism_A_Classical_and_Neo_Classical_Synt...

In this episode I'm joined by Dr. Ryan Mullins about his time interviewing with Mars Hill to be Mark Driscoll's in-house ghost writer. If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 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 their release date. Check it out here: Patr...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Barry Lam, associate professor of philosophy at Vassar College, and host of the philosophy podcast, Hi-Phi nation. Barry recently released a four-part mini series on the life and work of philosopher David Lewis and in our conversation we focus in on Lewis's unique view of possible worlds. Lewis sought a reductive view of modality b...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by wunderkind, Joe Schmid. This time we are talking about the debate between the Platonist and the divine conceptualist about abstract objects. We focus in on propositions and try to figure out which view of the world provides a better explanation for the existence of propositions.    Check out his video on whether or...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Jordan Steffaniak to his work on God and relations. Jordan takes up and argument by Dr. Craig Carter against non-classical theists and argues that while he agrees with Carter's classical theism, he doesn't agree with his argument.   check out more at: https://www.thelondonlyceum.com/ If you like this podcast, then support it...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Brian Orr to discuss his work on Thomas Oord's doctrine of creation. Oord posits that God created out of preexisting stuff and that God always had to have a creation alongside Himself or he wouldn't be able to be essentially loving.    Check out more from Dr. Orr at readreflectwrite.com If you like this podcast, then supp...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Matthew Baddorf to discuss his work on divine simplicity. Matthew argues that we can still get aseity and sovereignty without simplicity and then we discuss an argument from beauty against the doctrine of divine simplicity. If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount helps, and for $5...