Metaphysics is the deepest probe of reality. It is the branch of philosophy that discerns the most general features of the world. When focused on God, metaphysics seeks...
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Arguments for God, and against God, each call the universe as witness, each count the universe as evidence. God believers invoke the universe’s apparent fine-tuning....
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Episode 08
Season 06
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What can we know about God? The easy answer is ‘nothing’: God is not like anything. Finite humans cannot know an infinite God. But that’s not good enough....
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How do Buddhism, Chinese traditions and Hinduism address Final Things—eschatology—life after death and the ultimate transformation of the world? What are reincarnation...
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Is there a supreme being, a creator of all things, a God? Can arguments—reasons, logic, ways of thinking—cut through traditions, norms, feelings? Believers bear the...
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Season 15
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Is a soul required to make a person? If there is no soul, is there no person? Almost all scientists and most philosophers find no need for a soul. Certainly, souls are not...
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Free will seems the simplest of notions. Why then is free will so vexing to philosophers? Here’s why: no one knows how free will works! Science, seemingly, permits no...
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Turn the tables on whether God exists. Atheists take their best shots at disproving God; theists deflect the arguments, defending God. Atheists come harder still; theists...
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Season 02
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Some claim their scientific study of extrasensory perception (ESP) overturns the worldview of science. Should we take these startling pronouncements seriously? If so, what...
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Creativity generates art. How can art discern or inform the nature of creativity? Conversely, how can discerning or informing art elucidate the creative process?
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