Parker's Pensées

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Gavin Ortlund. This time we discuss his brand new book, Why God Makes Sense in a World that Doesn't. We cover his apologetic methodology and get into some of his abductive arguments from math, music, and love.    Grab his book here: https://amzn.to/3EMPofPcheck out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/Tr...

in this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Klaas Kraay to discuss his new Cambridge Elements book, the Axiology of Theism. This sub-field of philosophy of religion deals with whether or not we should want God to exist, not necessarily whether or not He does exist. If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount helps, and for $5 yo...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Thomas Ward to discuss his Cambridge Elements book Divine Ideas. In episode 111 we discussed a broad range of implications from his particular take on divine ideas, i.e. that they are exemplars of aspects of the divine nature. This time we focus in on how we can believe in divine ideas and still hold a form of divine sim...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Ross Inman to discuss his book Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar. We talk about what is must fundamental, metaphysically speaking. It's awesome!   Grab his book here to support the podcast: https://amzn.to/3v7EopN If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount hel...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Rutgers philosopher, Dr. Michael Glanzberg, to discuss his take on the modern correspondence theory of truth, classical verse other kinds of logics, and how to handle the dreaded liar paradox.    Find more of his work here: https://michaelglanzberg.org/  Grab his books here to support the show [affiliate links]:   F...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Owen Anderson to discuss some more of his work. This time we talk about a paper he wrote on the phenomena of psuedo-intellectualism and how it relates to Christianity and our ability to demonstrate the existence of God. If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $3, or $5 a month. Any amount helps, and...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Eric Funkhouser to discuss his book Self-Deception, which is another in the Routledge series on New Problems of Philosophy. It's awesome!    Grab the book here: https://amzn.to/3EwuBgX 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...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Alex Malpass and Dr. James Anderson to discuss the argument for God from the existence of the necessary propositions of logic like the law of noncontradiction. Anderson and Dr. Greg Welty have come up with a unique argument from logic for God and Dr. Malpass has recently published some criticism. In this episode we get into them!&n...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by the legendary Michael Ward to discuss his fantastic new book, After Humanity, which is a guide to reading C.S. Lewis's book, The Abolition of Man.   Find more of Dr. Ward's work here: https://michaelward.net/ 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...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Dr. Mark Sainsbury to discuss another one of his fantastic books. This time it's Fiction and Fictionalism, another book in the Routledge New Problems of Philosophy series. How can we talk about fictional objects if there is nothing there to actually refer to? Dr. Sainsbury helps me think it through.    Grab the boo...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Joshua Sijuwade to discuss his fascinating work on 'Monarchical' Trinitarianism, i.e., that the name 'God' refers to the Father alone while the Son and the Spirit are still divine persons. 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...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Tanner Serpa to discuss his journey into full time YouTubing as well as his thoughts on beauty and the meaning of life. I'm a huge fan of what he's up to!  Check out his channels:  https://www.youtube.com/user/SerpaDesign https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjZVhmSWxE9tR_jNYDWuT_Q If you like this podcast, then support it on Pat...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Adrian Bardon to discuss transcendental arguments in general, Kant's transcendental refutation of idealism, and whether or not there are any successful transcendental arguments out there. 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 a...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Noodles, my tattoo artist, for another conversation in the "life" category. We talk about Noodles journey into tats as well as his deconversion from and reconversion into Eastern Orthodox Christianity.    Check out Noodles's tattoos here: http://noodlestattoo.com/ If you like this podcast, then support it on Patreon for $1, $...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Sanford Goldberg to discuss his work on Hilary Putnam's reply to the brain-in-a-vat skeptical scenario. We discuss the idea that meaning just ain't in the head, i.e. content or semantic externalism, and much more. This was a really fascinating one and I hope to have many more conversations with Dr. Goldberg as he has thoughts on so...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Paul Gould for a third time. This time we cover some of his work on the boredom objection to eternal or everlasting life. This argument has become more and more popular lately and can be summarized as "I don't want to live forever because you would get so bored" and is closely related to the thought that it is the scarcity and fini...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées, I'm joined by one of my favorite YouTubers, Ed the Pond Professor of   Aquascape to discuss the science of water movement, micro ecosystems, and limnology (the study of the biological, chemical, and physical features of lakes and other bodies of fresh water.) I learned more in an hour with Ed than in my entire bachelors of science degree! We went on to...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Ike Miller to discuss his book, Seeing By the Light: Illumination in Augustine and Barth's reading of John. We discuss various aspects of the doctrine of divine illumination and then get into Augustine and Barth's individual treatments of the doctrine and then get into Ike's unique addition to the field of study.  Grab his boo...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once more by Dr. David Owen Filson to discuss his dissertation on the theology and apologetic of Cornelius Van Til. This is somewhat of a part 2 of our discussion from last time which you can find in episode 39. 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...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Greg Wittstock: the Pond Guy,   to talk about his journey in building the pond empire know as Aquascape Construction. Greg is one of the world's foremost pond builders and pond suppliers with many patents and lots and lots of beautiful pond builds under his belt. I really like this dude and look forward to working with him on some...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once more by the hosts of the Free Will Show, Drs. Taylor Cyr and Matthew Flummer to discuss the philosophy at play in the Disney+ show, Loki. We discuss free will, foreknowledge, personal identity, theories of mind, and other philosophical concepts which pop up in the show.    Check out there show here: https://thefreewillshow....

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Scott Harrower to talk about his book God of All Comfort: A Trinitarian Response to the Horrors of this World. We discuss horrors and trauma and then Scott explains how a Trinitarian model of recovery can help those traumatized by the horrors of this world.    Grab the book here to support my podcast: https://amzn.to/3ezS...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by philosopher Dr. Jennifer Lackey to discuss her new book The Epistemology of Groups. We get into various ways in which philosophers think about groups and how the philosophy, and particularly, the epistemology of groups can help us hold corporations morally responsible.    Grab her book here to support the podcast: https://amz...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined once again by Joe Schmid to discuss another one of his academic papers. This time we talk about modal collapse arguments and a whole branch of them which are unsuccessful.   Check out Joe's paper here: https://majestyofreason.wordpress.com/2021/07/04/the-fruitful-death-of-modal-collapse-arguments/ If you like this podcast, then suppo...

In this episode of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, Dr. Gray Sutanto came back on, this time to talk about a maximal doctrine of divine simplicity and why Dr. Oliver Crisp's model doesn't quite go far enough. 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...