Pillars
Themes
Topics: Episodes & Series
Cosmic Fundamentals
Episodes
Topic Series
- What's Fundamental in the Cosmos? (Part I)
- What's Fundamental in the Cosmos? (Part II)
- Is there a Final Theory of Everything?
- How is the Cosmos Constructed?
- How do You Make a Cosmos?
- How do Particles Explain the Cosmos?
- Are there Extra Dimensions?
- Why do we Search for Symmetry?
- What Can't be Predicted in Physics?
Quantum Theory
Episodes
Topic Series
- Why is the Quantum So Strange?
- Why is the Quantum so Mysterious?
- What does Quantum Theory Mean? (Part I)
- What does Quantum Theory Mean? (Part II)
- Many Worlds of Quantum Theory (Part I)
- Many Worlds of Quantum Theory (Part II)
- Why is Quantum Gravity Key?
- Why is Quantum Gravity So Significant?
- What are Observers?
- Physics of the Observer (Part I)
- Physics of the Observer (Part II)
- Physics of What Happens
- Events in Quantum Mechanics and Relativity (Part I)
- Events in Quantum Mechanics and Relativity (Part II)
- What is Quantum Cosmology?
- Quantum Mechanics Experiments
Philosophy of Science
Episodes
- What is Philosophy of Science?
- Does Philosophy Help Science?
- Why Philosophy of Physics & Cosmology?
- What is Philosophy of Cosmology?
Topic Series
- Philosophy of Physics and Cosmology
- Why Philosophy of Science? (Part I)
- Why Philosophy of Science? (Part II)
- Why Philosophy of Science? (Part III)
- Philosophy of Cosmology
- How does Philosophy Illuminate the Physical World? (Part I)
- What are Possible Worlds? (Part II)
- How Does Philosophy Illuminate the Physical World? (Part II)
- How Does Philosophy Illuminate the Physical World? (Part III)
- What are Possible Worlds? (Part I)
Complexity and Emergence
Episodes
- How Can Emergence Explain Reality?
- Do General Principles Govern All Science?
- Complexity from Simplicity?
- What's Strong Emergence?
Topic Series
Mathematics as Fundamental?
Episodes
Topic Series
- Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? (Part I)
- Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? (Part II)
- Is Mathematics Eternal? (Part I)
- Is Mathematics Eternal? (Part II)
- What are Breakthroughs in Mathematics? (Part I)
- What are Breakthroughs in Mathematics? (Part II)
- How is Mathematics Truth and Beauty? (Part I)
- How is Mathematics Truth and Beauty? (Part II)
- How is Mathematics Truth and Beauty? (Part III)
- Why the ‘Unreasonable Effectiveness’ of Mathematics? (Part I)
- Why the ‘Unreasonable Effectiveness’ of Mathematics? (Part II)
- Why the ‘Unreasonable Effectiveness’ of Mathematics? (Part III)
- What's the Deep Meaning of Probability? (Part I)
- What's the Deep Meaning of Probability? (Part II)
- What's the Deep Meaning of Probability? (Part III)
- Why do Power Laws Work so Widely? (Part I)
- Why do Power Laws Work so Widely? (Part II)
Deep Discoveries in Science
Topic Series
- What are Breakthroughs in Science? (Part I)
- What are Breakthroughs in Science? (Part II)
- What are Breakthroughs in Science? (Part III)
- How do Scientific Breakthroughs Happen? (Part I)
- How do Scientific Breakthroughs Happen? (Part II)
- How do Scientific Breakthroughs Happen? (Part III)
- What are Breakthroughs in Physics? (Part I)
- What are Breakthroughs in Physics? (Part II)
- Women in Philosophy and Physics/Cosmology
Cosmic Beginnings
Episodes
- Did Our Universe have a Beginning?
- Mysteries of Cosmic Inflation
- Did the Universe have a Beginning?
- To Seek Cosmic Origins
- Cosmology and Creation
Topic Series
Fine-Tuning of the Universe?
Episodes
- Why a Fine-Tuned Universe?
- Does Cosmic Fine-Tuning Demand Explanation?
- What's Fine-Tuning in Cosmology?
- What's Fine-Tuning in Physics?
- Is the Anthropic Principle Significant?
Topic Series
- Physics of Fine Tuning
- Fine Tuning in Cosmology
- Philosophy of Fine Tuning (Part I)
- Philosophy of Fine Tuning (Part II)
- Fallacies of Fine Tuning
- The Anthropic Principle: Meaning & Significance
- Why a Fine-Tuned Universe?
- What does a Fine-Tuned Universe Mean? (Part I)
- What does a Fine-Tuned Universe Mean? (Part II)
- Why Cosmic Fine-tuning Demands Explanation
- Why Fine-Tuning Seems Designed
Fine-Tuning the Universe for Life & Mind?
Episodes
- Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life and Mind?
- Does a Fine-Tuned Universe Lead to God?
- Is Life and Mind Inevitable in the Cosmos?
Topic Series
Far Future of the Universe
Episodes
- What's the Far Future of Intelligence in the Universe?
- What is the Far Far Future of the Universe?
- Will the Universe Ever End?
- What is the Doomsday Argument?
Topic Series
- What is the Far Far Future of the Universe?
- What Happens in the Far Far Future?
- Long Evolution of the Universe
- What is the Far Future of Intelligence in the Universe?
- What is the Far Far Future of Humans in the Universe?
- What is the Doomsday Argument?
- Will the Universe Ever End? (Part I)
- The Physics of Eternity
Breakthroughs in Science
Episodes
- What are Breakthroughs in Biology?
- Freeman Dyson, Part II: Mind, God, Religion
- What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Physics?
- What is Philosophy of the Breakthrough Process?
- How do Breakthroughs Happen in Physics?
Topic Series
- What are Breakthroughs in Science? (Part I)
- What are Breakthroughs in Science? (Part II)
- What are Breakthroughs in Science? (Part III)
- How do Scientific Breakthroughs Happen? (Part I)
- How do Scientific Breakthroughs Happen? (Part II)
- How do Scientific Breakthroughs Happen? (Part III)
- What are Breakthroughs in Physics? (Part I)
- What are Breakthroughs in Physics? (Part II)
- What are Breakthroughs in Biology? (Part I)
- What are Breakthroughs in Biology? (Part II)
Breakthroughs in Mathematics
Episodes
- What are Breakthroughs in Physics?
- Freeman Dyson, Part II: Mind, God, Religion
- Why is Mathematics True & Beautiful?
- What Does the "Unreasonable Effectiveness" of Mathematics Mean?
- What are Breakthroughs in Mathematics?
- What is the Deep Meaning of Probability?
- Why do Power Laws Work so Widely?
- Can Mathematics Explain Biology?
- Can Mathematics Elucidate Evolution?
- Roger Penrose: Mathematics & What Exists
Topic Series
- What are Breakthroughs in Mathematics? (Part I)
- What are Breakthroughs in Mathematics? (Part II)
- How is Mathematics Truth and Beauty? (Part I)
- How is Mathematics Truth and Beauty? (Part II)
- How is Mathematics Truth and Beauty? (Part III)
- Why the ‘Unreasonable Effectiveness’ of Mathematics? (Part I)
- Why the ‘Unreasonable Effectiveness’ of Mathematics? (Part II)
- Why the ‘Unreasonable Effectiveness’ of Mathematics? (Part III)
- What's the Deep Meaning of Probability? (Part I)
- What's the Deep Meaning of Probability? (Part II)
- What's the Deep Meaning of Probability? (Part III)
- Why do Power Laws Work so Widely? (Part I)
- Why do Power Laws Work so Widely? (Part II)
- Can Mathematics Explain Biology? (Part I)
- Can Mathematics Explain Biology? (Part II)
- Can Mathematics Elucidate Evolution?
Science vs. Religion?
Episodes
- Do Science & Religion Conflict?
- Can Science and Theology Find Deep Reality?
- Are Science & Religion at War?
- Why Consonance in Science and Theology?
Topic Series
- Are Science & Religion at War?
- Do Science & Religion Conflict?
- Why Are Science and Theology so Fascinating?
- Can Science & Theology Find Deep Reality?
- Can Religion Survive Science?
- What is Consonance in Science and Theology?
- Can Philosophy Clarify Science vs. Religion?
- Science & Religion (Part I)
- Science & Religion (Part II)
Science and God
Episodes
- Can Science Deal With God?
- Can Science Talk God?
- Is the Universe Religiously Ambiguous?
- Can God and Science Mix?
- Is the Universe Theologically Ambiguous?
Topic Series
The Mystery of Existence
Episodes
Topic Series
- Asking Ultimate Questions (Part I)
- Asking Ultimate Questions (Part II)
- What are the Ultimate Questions of Nature?
- What are the Ultimate Questions of All Reality? (Part I)
- What are the Ultimate Questions of All Reality? (Part II)
- Ultimate Questions: Do They Evolve?
- What is Ultimate Reality? (Part I)
- What is Ultimate Reality? (Part II)
The Mystery of Laws & Cosmos
Episodes
- Why the Laws of Nature?
- Does the Cosmos Provide Meaning?
- Why the Cosmos?
- Does the Cosmos Have a Reason?
- Can the Cosmos Have a Reason?
- Implications of Cosmology?
Topic Series
- Where Do the Laws of Nature Come From?
- What is the Origin of the Laws of Nature?
- Which Laws of Nature are Fundamental? (Part I)
- Which Laws of Nature are Fundamental? (Part II)
- Are the Laws of Nature Always Constant?
- Why the Cosmos? (Part I)
- Why the Cosmos? (Part II)
- Does the Cosmos have a Reason? (Part I)
- Does the Cosmos have a Reason? (Part II)
- Does Cosmology Provide Meaning?
- What are the Implications of Cosmology? (Part I)
- What are the Implications of Cosmology? (Part II)
- How Much More to Physical Reality?
- Does Physical Reality Go Beyond?
Metaphysics of Cosmos
Episodes
- What Things Really Exist?
- Can Metaphysics Discover Surprises?
- Does Metaphysics Reveal Reality?
- What Things are Real?
- What is Truth?
- What is Causation?
- What Exists?
- Critical Realism in Science & Theology
- What Exists II?
Topic Series
- Realism vs. Anti-realism (Part I)
- Realism vs. Anti-Realism (Part II)
- How does Metaphysics Reveal Reality?
- Can Metaphysics Discover Surprises?
- What is Causation? (Part I)
- What is Causation? (Part II)
- Realism in Science and Theology
- Critical Realism: Ernan McMullin Tribute
- What Things are Real?
- What Things Really Exist?
- What Are the Things of Existence?
- All Reality Consists of What Things?
- What Exists? (Part I)
- What Exists? (Part II)
- What Exists? (Part III)
- Fundamental Reality: Essence & Existence (Part I)
- Fundamental Reality: Essence & Existence (Part II)
- Fundamental Reality: Essence & Existence (Part III)
- Metaphysics: Essence and Existence (Part I)
- Metaphysics: Essence and Existence (Part II)
Why Anything at All?
Episodes
- Why is There "Something" Rather than "Nothing"?
- Why Anything at All?
- What is Nothing?
- Why God, Not Nothing?
- Why Anything at All II?
Topic Series
- The Mystery of Existence (Part I)
- The Mystery of Existence (Part II)
- Why is there 'Something' rather than 'Nothing'? (Part I)
- Why is there 'Something' rather than 'Nothing'? (Part II)
- Why Not Nothing? (Part I)
- Why Not Nothing? (Part II)
- Why is There Anything at All? (Part I)
- Why is There Anything at All? (Part II)
- Why is There Anything at All? (Part III)
- Why is There Anything at All? (Part IV)
- Why is There Anything at All? (Part V)
Why Philosophy of Biology?
Episodes
Topic Series
- What is Philosophy of Biology?
- Why Philosophy of Biology? (Part I)
- Why Philosophy of Biology? (Part II)
- Why Philosophy of Biology? (Part III)
- Philosophy of Life, Biological Thinking, & Theories (Part I)
- Philosophy of Life, Biological Thinking, & Theories (Part II)
- Philosophy of Life, Biological Thinking, & Theories (Part III)
- Philosophy of Reductionism & Emergence (Part II)
- Philosophy of Reductionism & Emergence (Part I)
- Philosophy of Reductionism & Emergence (Part III)
- Philosophy of Ecology & the Environment
- What are Breakthroughs in Biology? (Part I)
- What are Breakthroughs in Biology? (Part II)
Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology
Episodes
Topic Series
- Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology (Part I)
- Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology (Part II)
- Philosophy of Species & Individuals [Classification] (Part I)
- Philosophy of Species & Individuals [Classification] (Part II)
- Philosophy of Function, Fitness, Adaptation
- Philosophy of Units / Levels of Natural Selection (Part I)
- Philosophy of Units / Levels of Natural Selection (Part II)
- Philosophy of Evolutionary Developmental Biology [Evo-Devo]
- Philosophy of Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (Part I)
- Philosophy of Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (Part II)
- Can Mathematics Elucidate Evolution?
Human Nature & Uniqueness
Topic Series
- Philosophy of Human Nature & Uniqueness (Part I)
- Philosophy of Human Nature & Uniqueness (Part II)
- Philosophy of Communications & Language
- Philosophy of Evolutionary Cognition, Emotion, & Consciousness (Part I)
- Philosophy of Evolutionary Cognition, Emotion, & Consciousness (Part II)
- Philosophy of Biological Altruism & Morality (Part I)
- Philosophy of Biological Altruism & Morality (Part II)
Evolutionary Culture and Ethics
Topic Series
Sex and Gender
Topic Series
Medicine and Healthcare
Topic Series
Mathematics and Biology
Topic Series
The Mind-Body Problem
Episodes
- What is the Mind-Body Problem?
- Solutions to the Mind-Body Problem?
- Can Dualism Explain Consciousness?
- Can Art Clarify The Mind-Body Problem?
Topic Series
Brain Structure and Function
Episodes
- How are Brains Structured?
- How Do Human Brains Think and Feel?
- How do Brains Work?
- Can the Mind Heal the Body?
- When Brains Go Bad?
- What Would Transhuman Brains Mean?
Topic Series
- What Are Brains?
- How Are Brains Structured?
- What Do Brains Do?
- How Do Brains Function?
- How Do Brains Act?
- How do Human Brains Work?
- How do Human Brains Function? (Part I)
- How do Human Brains Function? (Part II)
- How do Human Brains Think and Feel?
- When Brains Go Bad (Part I)
- When Brains Go Bad (Part II)
- Can the Mind Heal the Body?
- Transhuman Brains
Brain Explains Mind?
Episodes
- Can Brain Explain Mind?
- What Makes Brains Conscious?
- Are Brain and Mind the Same Thing?
- Can the Brain Explain Art?
Topic Series
- Can Brain Explain Mind?
- Does Brain Make Mind? (Part I)
- Does Brain Make Mind? (Part II)
- How Brain Makes Mind?
- How are Brains Conscious?
- What Makes Brains Conscious?
- Are Brain and Mind the Same Thing?
- What's the Stuff of Mind and Brain?
- How Brain Scientists Think about Consciousness
- Neuroaesthetics: How the Brain Explains Art
- Aesthetics: Physics and Neuroscience
Mystery of Consciousness
Episodes
- Is Consciousness Fundamental?
- Why is Consciousness Baffling?
- Why is Consciousness So Mysterious?
- Is Consciousness an Illusion?
- Confronting Consciousness
- What is Consciousness?
Topic Series
- Theories of Consciousness (Part IV)
- What Is Consciousness? (Part I)
- What Is Consciousness? (Part II)
- What is Consciousness? (Part III)
- What is Consciousness? (Part IV)
- What is Consciousness? (Part V)
- Is Consciousness an Illusion? (Part I)
- Is Consciousness an Illusion? (Part II)
- Why is Consciousness so Mysterious?
- Why is Consciousness so Baffling? (Part I)
- Why is Consciousness so Baffling? (Part II)
- Is Consciousness Fundamental?
- Is Consciousness Irreducible? (Part I)
- Is Consciousness Irreducible? (Part II)
- Is Consciousness an Ultimate Fact?
- What's the Essence of Consciousness?
- What's the Meaning of Consciousness?
- Toward a Science of Consciousness?
- Is Consciousness Unified?
- What is Panpsychism? (Part I)
- What is Panpsychism? (Part II)
- Consciousness as Ultimate (Part I)
- Consciousness as Ultimate (Part II)
Landscape of Consciousness
Episodes
- Why a Landscape of Consciousness?
- Arguing Dualism Counts
- Arguing Panpsychism Counts
- Arguing Idealism Counts
- Could Theories of Consciousness Affect Life After Death?
Topic Series
- Theories of Consciousness (Part I)
- Quantum Consciousness (Part I)
- Theories of Consciousness (Part II)
- Theories of Consciousness (Part III)
- Consciousness Studies: State of the Field (Part I)
- Consciousness Studies: State of the Field (Part II)
- Consciousness Studies: History and Future
- What Living Things are Conscious?
- What is Consciousness: Data or Information?
- How to Evaluate Theories of Consciousness?
- Materialism: Which Theories Best Contribute?
- Quantum Consciousness (Part II)
- Dualism: Arguing Pro and Con (Part I)
- Dualism: Arguing Pro and Con (Part II)
- Panpsychism: Arguing Pro and Con (Part I)
- Panpsychism: Arguing Pro and Con (Part II)
- Idealism: Arguing Pro and Con? (Part I)
- Idealism: Arguing Pro and Con? (Part II)
- Can Psi Affect Consciousness Theories?
- Can Altered States Affect Consciousness Theories?
- Can OBEs or NDEs Affect Consciousness Theories?
- Can AI Become Conscious? (Part I)
- Can AI Become Conscious? (Part II)
- Can AI Become Conscious? (Part III)
- Transhuman Consciousness? (Part I)
- Transhuman Consciousness? (Part II)
- Consciousness and Life after Death? (Part I)
- Consciousness and Life after Death? (Part II)
- Consciousness and Deep Ontology (Part I)
- Consciousness and Deep Ontology (Part II)
- Aspects of Consciousness?
- The Science of Consciousness - Barcelona 2025 (Part II)
- The Science of Consciousness - Barcelona 2025 (Part I)
Consciousness as Emergent
Topic Series
Consciousness as All Physical?
Episodes
- Can Brain Alone Explain Consciousness?
- Can Enlarged Materialism Explain Consciousness?
- Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism?
- Does Consciousness Require a Radical Explanation?
Topic Series
- Quantum Physics of Consciousness
- Is Consciousness Entirely Physical?
- Anything Non-physical about the Mind?
- Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism? (Part I)
- Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism? (Part II)
- Physics of Consciousness
- Can Consciousness be Non-Biological? (Part I)
- Can Consciousness be Non-Biological? (Part II)
States of Consciousness
Episodes
Topic Series
- What are Altered States of Consciousness?
- What is Enlightenment?
- Are Enlightenment & Transcendence Altered States?
- Powers of the Subconscious
- What is Non-Duality?
- Inner Life, Contemplative Practices (Part I)
- Inner Life, Contemplative Practices (Part II)
- Morality, Prescriptive Behavior, Evil, Suffering (Part I)
- Morality, Prescriptive Behavior, Evil, Suffering (Part II)
Purpose of Consciousness?
Episodes
- Does Consciousness have Meaning?
- Why Explore Consciousness and Cosmos?
- Is Human Consciousness Special?
- Does Consciousness lead to God?
- Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality?
Topic Series
- Does Consciousness have Purpose?
- Does Human Consciousness have Special Purpose?
- Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Consciousness?
- Must the Universe Contain Consciousness? (Part I)
- Must the Universe Contain Consciousness? (Part II)
- Does Consciousness Lead to God?
- Theological Anthropology: What is Human Mind?
- Consciousness and Spirituality
- Why Explore Cosmos and Consciousness?
- Can We Explain Cosmos and Consciousness?
- Does Consciousness Cause the Cosmos?
- Is Consciousness Ultimate Reality?
Metaphysics of Consciousness
Episodes
- What Things are Conscious?
- Are There Things Not Material?
- Being in the World- A Tribute to Hubert Dreyfus
Topic Series
- Realism vs. Anti-realism (Part I)
- Realism vs. Anti-Realism (Part II)
- Realism in Science and Theology
- Metaphysics vs. Materialism? (Part I)
- Metaphysics vs. Materialism? (Part II)
- Critical Realism: Ernan McMullin Tribute
- Are There Things Not Material?
- What Things are Conscious? (Part I)
- What Things are Conscious? (Part II)
- What is Truth? (Part I)
- What is Truth? (Part II)
Personal Identity
Episodes
- What Maintains Personal Identity?
- How do Persons Maintain Their Identity?
- How does Personal Identity Persist through Time?
Topic Series
Music
Topic Series
Epistemology
Episodes
- Epistemology: How Do I Know?
- Epistemology: How Can We Know God?
- Can Art and Knowledge Enhance Each Other?
Topic Series
Mystery of Free Will
Episodes
- What is Free Will?
- Why is Free Will a Mystery?
- Is Free Will an Illusion?
- Why is Free Will a Big Question?
- Big Questions in Free Will I?
- Big Questions in Free Will II?
- Big Questions in Free Will Documentary
Topic Series
Free Will and Consciousness
Topic Series
Art and Philosophy
Episodes
- Can Art Clarify The Mind-Body Problem?
- What is Philosophy of Art?
- Can Art Engage Philosophy of Religion?
- Can Art and Knowledge Enhance Each Other?
Topic Series
Neuroscience/Cognitive Science of Music
Topic Series
Art and Religion
Topic Series
Mind, Art, Transcendence
Episodes
- Can We Explore Transcendence Via Art and Mind?
- Toward a Cognitive Science of Transcendence
- Can Art Affect Belief Systems?
- Can Art Harmonize Diverse Religions?
Topic Series
- Mind, Art, Transcendence (Part I)
- Mind, Art, Transcendence (Part II)
- What Makes Art Transcendent? (Part I)
- What Makes Art Transcendent? (Part II)
- What Makes Music Transcendent?
- What Makes Texts and Spaces Sacred?
- Toward a Cognitive Science of Transcendence (Part I)
- Toward a Cognitive Science of Transcendence (Part II)
- Toward a Cognitive Science of Aesthetics (Part I)
- Toward a Cognitive Science of Aesthetics (Part II)
- How Art Probes Mind? (Part I)
- How Art Probes Mind (Part II)
- How Art Affects the Self (Part I)
- How Art Affects the Self (Part II)
- Can Art Affect Morality? (Part I)
- Can Art Affect Morality? (Part II)
- Can Art Affect Belief Systems? (Part I)
- Can Art Affect Belief Systems? (Part II)
- Can Art Harmonize Diverse Religions?
- Mind, Art, Transcendence: Reflections (Part I)
- Mind, Art, Transcendence: Reflections (Part II)
- Mind, Art, Transcendence: A Documentary Series
Concepts of God
Episodes
- Does God Make Sense?
- Wondering About God
- What is God?
- What's God About?
- Is This God?
- What is It About God?
- Speculating About God?
Topic Series
Alternative Concepts of God
Episodes
- Alternative Concepts of God
- Pantheism: Is the World God?
- Panentheism: Is the World in God?
- Why Seek an Alternative God?
- What can we Learn from Alternative Gods?
Topic Series
Faith and Belief
Episodes
- Why Believe in God?
- What Causes Religious Belief?
- Religious Faith: Rational or Rationalization?
- How Does Faith Work?
Topic Series
Conflict Among Religions
Episodes
Topic Series
- Can Art Harmonize Diverse Religions?
- Can Many Religions All Be True?
- Authentication and Conflict in Religious Belief?
- Do Religions Complement or Contradict?
- Pluralistic Hypothesis of Religion
- Do Diverse Religions Give Complementary Insights?
- Do Major Religions Worship the Same God?
- Universalism vs. Particularism in Religions
Philosophy and Analytic Theology
Episodes
- What is Analytic Theology?
- Challenges of Analytic Theology
- Jesus as God - A Philosophical Inquiry
- The Trinity - A Philosophical Inquiry
- The Incarnation - A Philosophical Inquiry
- Atonement - A Philosophical Inquiry
- Salvation - A Philosophical Inquiry
Topic Series
- Why Study Theology?
- What is Analytic Theology?
- What is Systematic Theology?
- Jesus as God
- What is the Christian Incarnation?
- Is God Incarnate in All That Is?
- Christology and Science?
- Why the Christian Incarnation?
- Why is Sin?
- How Does Salvation Work?
- How Does Atonement Work?
- New Perspectives on Paul
- Challenging Theological Doctrines
Contemporary Theological Engagement
Topic Series
How Philosophy Informs Religion
Episodes
- Is Theism Coherent?
- Can Philosophy of Religion Find God?
- Can Metaphysics Discern God I?
- Can Metaphysics Discern God II?
- Can Art Engage Philosophy of Religion?
Topic Series
- Does Philosophy Inform Religion?
- Does Philosophy Illuminate Religion?
- Can Philosophy of Religion Find God?
- Philosophy of the Bible
- Can the Bible Address Philosophical Questions?
- Is Theism Coherent?
- Is This the Best of All Possible Worlds?
- Can Metaphysics Discern God? (Part I)
- Can Metaphysics Discern God? (Part II)
- What is Perfect Being Theology? (Part I)
- What is Perfect Being Theology? (Part II)
- Did God Create Abstract Objects? (Part I)
- Did God Create Abstract Objects? (Part II)
- What is Virtue in a Theistic World?
- Art and the Philosophy of Religion
- Women in Philosophy of Religion
Eastern Traditions and the Big Questions
Episodes
- Eastern Traditions: What is World? What is Reality?
- Eastern Traditions: What is the Human Person?
- Eastern Traditions: Why are Suffering and Ritual Vital?
Topic Series
- Existence and Attributes of Foundational Reality (Part I)
- Existence and Attributes of Foundational Reality (Part II)
- The Nature of the Human Person (Part I)
- The Nature of the Human Person (Part II)
- Eschatology: The Ultimate Future (Part I)
- Eschatology: The Ultimate Future (Part II)
- Morality, Prescriptive Behavior, Evil, Suffering (Part I)
- Morality, Prescriptive Behavior, Evil, Suffering (Part II)
- Metaphysics: Essence and Existence (Part I)
- Metaphysics: Essence and Existence (Part II)
Global Philosophy of Religion
Episodes
- What is Global Philosophy of Religion?
- Global Philosophy: Is Consciousness Ultimate?
- Global Philosophy: Is God Ultimate?
- Global Philosophy: What is the Person?
- Global Philosophy: Why Inner Life Practices?
- Global Philosophy: What Life Might Come After Death?
- Global Philosophy: How Does Religion Engage Science?
- Global Philosophy: What can Global Metaphysics Discover?
- Global Philosophy: What is the World to Come?
Topic Series
- God / Deities as Ultimate (Part III)
- World, Value, Reality (Part Ia)
- World, Value, Reality (Part IIa)
- God / Deities as Ultimate (Part I)
- Person, Self, Soul, Spirit (Part I)
- Person, Self, Soul, Spirit (Part II)
- Death, Life After Death, Reincarnation (Part I)
- Person, Self, Soul, Spirit (Part III)
- Evil & Suffering, Morality & Ethics (Part I)
- Evil & Suffering, Morality & Ethics (Part II)
- Death, Life After Death, Reincarnation (Part II)
- Eschatology: The World to Come (Part II)
- Death, Life After Death, Reincarnation (Part III)
- Eschatology: The World to Come (Part I)
- Science & Religion (Part I)
- Science & Religion (Part II)
- Inner Life, Contemplative Practices (Part I)
- Inner Life, Contemplative Practices (Part II)
- Consciousness as Ultimate (Part I)
- Fundamental Reality: Essence & Existence (Part I)
- Fundamental Reality: Essence & Existence (Part II)
- Fundamental Reality: Essence & Existence (Part III)
- Consciousness as Ultimate (Part II)
Arguing God's Existence
Episodes
- Arguing God's Existence
- How To Think About God's Existence
- Current Arguments for God
- How to Argue for God?
Topic Series
Philosophical Arguments For God
Episodes
- Arguing God from First Cause
- Arguing God from Design
- Arguing God from Being
- Arguing God from Natural Theology?
- Arguing God with Analytic Philosophy
Topic Series
- Arguing God from Design?
- Arguing God from Teleology?
- Arguing God from Order and Purpose?
- Arguing God from First Cause?
- Arguing God from Causation?
- Arguing God from Being?
- Arguing God from Pure Existence?
- Arguing God from Natural Theology?
- Arguing God with Analytic Philosophy?
- Arguing God with Unusual Reasons?
- Diverse Arguments for God?
Experiential Arguments For God
Episodes
- Arguing God from Morality
- Arguing God from Miracles & Revelations
- Arguing God from Consciousness
- Can Design Point to God?
Topic Series
Arguments Against God
Episodes
- Would Intelligent Aliens Undermine God?
- Arguments Against God?
- Arguments for Atheism?
- Does Evil Disprove God?
- Arguing for Agnosticism?
- Would Multiple Universes Undermine God?
- Can God Face Up Evil?
- Fallacies in Proving God Exists
- Is God Responsible for Evil?
- Fallacies in Arguing for God?
Topic Series
- Fallacies in Arguing for God?
- Fallacies in Proving God Exists?
- Arguments Against God?
- Arguments Contra God?
- Arguments for Atheism?
- Atheism's Best Arguments? (Part I)
- Atheism's Best Arguments? (Part II)
- Atheism's Arguments Against God?
- Is Atheism a New Faith?
- Arguments for Agnosticism?
- Does Evil Disprove God? (Part II)
- Does Evil Disprove God? (Part I)
- Does Evil Refute God's Existence?
- Does Evil Abolish God?
- Can God Face Up To Evil?
- Would Intelligent Aliens Undermine God?
- Would Sentient Aliens Demoralize Religion?
God's Nature?
Episodes
- What is God Like?
- Is God a "Person"?
- Does God have a Nature?
- What Would it Feel Like to be God?
- Can the Divine be a Person?
- What is God's Own Being?
- Can Art Reveal God's Traits?
Topic Series
God's World?
Episodes
- Do Angels and Demons Exist?
- Did God Create Evil?
- Is Evil Necessary in God's World?
- How Could God Intervene in the Universe?
Topic Series
- Did God Create Evil? (Part II)
- What Kind of World did God Create?
- Did God Create Evil? (Part I)
- Is Evil Necessary in God's World?
- If God Exists, Why Natural Evil?
- Evolution and God?
- Evolution and Theology (Part I)
- Evolution and Theology (Part II)
- Did God Make Animals Suffer in Evolution?
- Skeptical Theism
- Do Angels and Demons Exist?
God's Knowledge and Future Events?
Episodes
- How Could God Know the Future?
- If God Knows the Future, What is Free Will?
- Can Free Will Survive God's Foreknowledge?