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Ep. 270: Classical Indian (Vedanta and Nyaya) Design Arguments for God (Part Two for Supporters)

May 21, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Continuing from part one on God and the World’s Arrangement: Readings from Vedanta and Nyaya Philosophy of Religion after the departure of our guest, Stephen Phillips. Wes grills Seth and Mark on what's really new here philosophically: We're all familiar with the design argument, so why wade through all these unfamiliar schools and archaic formulations? So we talk more about  Continue Reading …

PREVIEW-Ep. 264: Plato’s “Timaeus” on Cosmology (Part Two)

March 8, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Plato

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode in its entirety. Citizens can get the second part here. Continuing from part one on the Timaeus. In this preview, we return to look closely at the beginning of the dialogue where Plato argues for differences between the perceived, created, impermanent world and its perfect model. In the full discussion, we get into time, space, and  Continue Reading …

Ep. 264: Plato’s “Timaeus” on Cosmology (Part One)

March 1, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Plato

Subscribe to get Part 2 of this episode. Listen to a preview. On the later Platonic dialogue from around 360 BCE, with Mark, Wes, and Dylan. How is nature put together? Plato, speaking this time through the fictional character instead of Socrates (who is present, but only Timaeus talks after the first part of the dialogue), paints a picture of the creation of the cosmos and  Continue Reading …

Ep. 264: Plato’s “Timaeus” on Cosmology (Part Two for Supporters)

February 28, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Plato

Continuing from part one on the Timaeus. In this second part, we go more or less back to the beginning of the dialogue and talk through some quotes and details. For instance, we have arguments concerning the realms of Being and Becoming, the former being the model which the Craftsman used to create the latter. Could the model itself have been created? No, anything in that  Continue Reading …

Ep. 264: Plato’s “Timaeus” on Cosmology (Part One for Supporters)

February 28, 2021 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Plato

On the later Platonic dialogue from around 360 BCE, with Mark, Wes, and Dylan. How is nature put together? Plato, speaking this time through the fictional character instead of Socrates (who is present, but only Timaeus talks after the first part of the dialogue), paints a picture of the creation of the cosmos and our place in it. The overall principle is the same as it was  Continue Reading …

Strange Bedfellows? Kuhn & Intelligent Design

December 27, 2013 by Seth Crownover 10 Comments

[From Seth Crownover, Friend of the Podcast] If we got anything from the last episode it's that Thomas Kuhn is sort of a big deal and for good reason. His picture of scientific progress as a human rather than divine endeavor is, it seems to me, plainly true in a general sense if not in all the specifics (the world itself changes when there's a paradigm shift? Really?)  That  Continue Reading …

Swinburne Contra Dawkins on Complexity and Creation

October 14, 2011 by Daniel Horne 6 Comments

http://youtu.be/F9-GbZ6G3no Watch on YouTube. A name that popped up in Episode 43 and Episode 44 was that of Oxford philosophy professor Richard Swinburne. Swinburne has made his reputation positing analytic arguments in favor of Christian theism. As Robert pointed out toward the end of Episode 43, most Christians, even if sympathetic, would probably not find Swinburne's  Continue Reading …

Episode 13: What Are the Metaphysical Implications of Quantum Physics?

January 3, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 4 Comments

Werner Heisenberg

On Werner Heisenberg’s “Physics and Philosophy" (1958), and talking about it with an actual former particle physicist, Dylan Casey. What weird stuff about reality does quantum physics imply? Is Heisenberg (of the Uncertainty Principle fame) right that we need to reject "metaphysical realism" based on this very well established scientific framework? The discussion ranges over  Continue Reading …

Episode 13: What Are the Metaphysical Implications of Quantum Physics?

January 3, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 48 Comments

Werner Heisenberg

On Werner Heisenberg’s “Physics and Philosophy" (1958), and talking about it with an actual former particle physicist, Dylan Casey. What weird stuff about reality does quantum physics imply? Is Heisenberg (of the Uncertainty Principle fame) right that we need to reject "metaphysical realism" based on this very well established scientific framework? The discussion ranges  Continue Reading …

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