Pillars
Themes
Topics: Episodes & Series
Cosmic Fundamentals
Episodes
Topic Series
- What's Fundamental in the Cosmos? (Part 1)
- What's Fundamental in the Cosmos? (Part 2)
- What is the 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?
- Many Worlds of Quantum Theory
- Why is Quantum Gravity Key?
- Why is Quantum Gravity So Significant?
- What are Observers?
- Physics of the Observer
- Physics of What Happens
- Events in Quantum Mechanics and Relativity
- 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
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?
- Is Mathematics Eternal? (Part 1)
- Is Mathematics Eternal? (Part 2)
- What are Breakthroughs in Mathematics? (Part 1)
- What are Breakthroughs in Mathematics? (Part 2)
- How is Mathematics Truth and Beauty? (Part 1)
- How is Mathematics Truth and Beauty? (Part 2)
- How is Mathematics Truth and Beauty? (Part 3)
- Why the ‘Unreasonable Effectiveness’ of Mathematics? (Part 1)
- Why the ‘Unreasonable Effectiveness’ of Mathematics? (Part 2)
- Why the ‘Unreasonable Effectiveness’ of Mathematics? (Part 3)
- What's the Deep Meaning of Probability? (Part 1)
- What's the Deep Meaning of Probability? (Part 2)
- What's the Deep Meaning of Probability? (Part 3)
- Why Do Power Laws Work so Widely? (Part 1)
- Why Do Power Laws Work so Widely? (Part 2)
Deep Discoveries in Science
Topic Series
- What are Breakthroughs in Science? (Part 1)
- What are Breakthroughs in Science? (Part 2)
- What are Breakthroughs in Science? (Part 3)
- How do Scientific Breakthroughs Happen? (Part 1)
- How Do Scientific Breakthroughs Happen? (Part 2)
- How Do Scientific Breakthroughs Happen? (Part 3)
- What are Breakthroughs in Physics? (Part 1)
- What are Breakthroughs in Physics? (Part 2)
- 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 1)
- Philosophy of Fine-Tuning (Part 2)
- Fallacies of Fine-Tuning
- The Anthropic Principle: Meaning & Significance
- Why a Fine-Tuned Universe?
- What does a Fine-Tuned Universe Mean?
- 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
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 1)
- What are Breakthroughs in Science? (Part 2)
- What are Breakthroughs in Science? (Part 3)
- How do Scientific Breakthroughs Happen? (Part 1)
- How Do Scientific Breakthroughs Happen? (Part 2)
- How Do Scientific Breakthroughs Happen? (Part 3)
- What are Breakthroughs in Physics? (Part 1)
- What are Breakthroughs in Physics? (Part 2)
- 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 1)
- What are Breakthroughs in Mathematics? (Part 2)
- How is Mathematics Truth and Beauty? (Part 1)
- How is Mathematics Truth and Beauty? (Part 2)
- How is Mathematics Truth and Beauty? (Part 3)
- Why the ‘Unreasonable Effectiveness’ of Mathematics? (Part 1)
- Why the ‘Unreasonable Effectiveness’ of Mathematics? (Part 2)
- Why the ‘Unreasonable Effectiveness’ of Mathematics? (Part 3)
- What's the Deep Meaning of Probability? (Part 1)
- What's the Deep Meaning of Probability? (Part 2)
- What's the Deep Meaning of Probability? (Part 3)
- Why Do Power Laws Work so Widely? (Part 1)
- Why Do Power Laws Work so Widely? (Part 2)
- 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 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?
- Are the Laws of Nature Always Constant?
- Why the Cosmos? (Part 1)
- Why the Cosmos? (Part 2)
- Does the Cosmos have a Reason?
- Does Cosmology Provide Meaning?
- What are the Implications of Cosmology?
- 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
- How does Metaphysics Reveal Reality?
- Can Metaphysics Discover Surprises?
- What is Causation?
- Realism vs. Anti-realism
- Critical 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 1)
- What Exists? (Part 2)
- What Exists? (Part 3)
- 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 1)
- The Mystery of Existence (Part 2)
- Why is There 'Something' Rather Than 'Nothing'? (Part 1)
- Why There is 'Something' Rather than 'Nothing'? (Part 2)
- Why Not Nothing? (Part 1)
- Why Not Nothing? (Part 2)
- Why is There Anything at All? (Part 1)
- Why Is There Anything At All? (Part 2)
- Why Is There Anything At All? (Part 3)
- Why Is There Anything At All? (Part 4)
- Why is There Anything at All? (Part 5)
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 (Part I)
- Philosophy of Species & Individuals (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)
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 1)
- How do Human Brains Function? (Part 2)
- How do Human Brains Think and Feel?
- When Brains Go Bad (Part 1)
- When Brains Go Bad (Part 2)
- 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
- What Is Consciousness? (Part 1)
- What Is Consciousness? (Part 2)
- What is Consciousness? (Part 3)
- What is Consciousness? (Part 4)
- What is Consciousness? (Part 5)
- Is Consciousness an Illusion? (Part 1)
- Is Consciousness an Illusion? (Part 2)
- 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?
- 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?
- Consciousness as Ultimate (Part I)
- Consciousness as Ultimate (Part II)
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
- Is Consciousness Entirely Physical?
- Anything Non-physical about the Mind?
- Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism? (Part 1)
- Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism? (Part 2)
- Quantum Physics of Consciousness
- Can Consciousness be Non-Biological? (Part 1)
- Can Consciousness be Non-Biological? (Part 2)
- Physics of Consciousness
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?
- 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?
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?
Topic Series
Free Will and Consciousness
Topic Series
Mind, Art, Transcendence
Topic Series
- Mind, Art, Transcendence (Part 1)
- Mind, Art, Transcendence (Part 2)
- What Makes Art Transcendent? (Part 1)
- What Makes Art Transcendent? (Part 2)
- What Makes Music Transcendent?
- What Makes Texts and Spaces Sacred?
- How Art Affects the Self (Part 1)
- How Art Affects the Self (Part 2)
- Toward a Cognitive Science of Transcendence (Part 1)
- Toward a Cognitive Science of Transcendence (Part 2)
- Can Art Harmonize Diverse Religions?
- Toward a Cognitive Science of Aesthetics (Part 1)
- Toward a Cognitive Science of Aesthetics (Part 2)
- How Art Probes Mind (Part 1)
- How Art Probes Mind (Part 2)
- Can Art Affect Morality? (Part 1)
- Can Art Affect Morality? (Part 2)
- Can Art Affect Belief Systems? (Part 1)
- Can Art Affect Belief Systems? (Part 2)
- Mind, Art, Transcendence: Reflections (Part 1)
- Mind, Art, Transcendence: Reflections (Part 2)
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
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
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?
- Analytic Theology
- 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 1)
- Can Metaphysics Discern God? (Part 2)
- What is Perfect Being Theology? (Part I)
- What is Perfect Being Theology? (Part II)
- Did God Create Abstract Objects?
- 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
Topic Series
- God / Deities as Ultimate (Part III)
- World, Value, Reality (Part I)
- World, Value, Reality (Part II)
- World, Value, Reality (Part III)
- 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 1)
- Atheism's Best Arguments? (Part 2)
- Atheism's Arguments Against God
- Is Atheism a New Faith?
- Arguments for Agnosticism?
- Does Evil Disprove God? (Part II)
- Does Evil Disprove God?
- 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 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?