Nathan Gilmour (Christian Humanist podcast) and Pastor Rob Dyer join Mark and Wes for to discuss the reasonableness of religious belief reading: Antony Flew, "The Presumption of Atheism" (1976) Norwood Russell Hanson, “The Agnostic’s Dilemma” (1971) Steven Cahn, "The Irrelevance of Proof to Religion" (1969) Alvin Plantinga, “Is Belief in God Properly Basic?” Continue Reading …
Topic for #129: Is Religious Faith Rational?
Our long-ago episode 43 on arguments for the existence of God left us with a question: If believers aren't swayed or even much interested in the failure of these classical arguments, then what does motivate them? Does being "reasonable" epistemically always mean that you look at the available evidence (like these arguments), and believe in accordance with that? If Kant is right Continue Reading …
Putting Philosophy into Practice: The Existential Challenge
I sometimes feel like our default position on the various figures we cover on the podcast is "well, there are some interesting ideas there, but the project as a whole is weird and misguided." Now, I'm sure that we all don't feel that way about every figure we cover, but per my statement of default skepticism to the clergy, there's some truth to that in my case, at least. I'm Continue Reading …
The Quarrel Between the Thomists and the Straussians
Brian Leiter bizarrely endorses this idiotic review by Aristotle scholar Peter Simpson of Richard G. Stevens' Political Philosophy: An Introduction. It's clear that the logic behind this endorsement is that Simpson criticizes the book because it has been written by a Straussian, and Leiter despises Straussians. Unfortunately, the logic behind the review is that Simpson is a Continue Reading …