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09.20.22
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Personal agency is a state, the capacity of individuals to affect things. Free will is a mental faculty of various strengths. What’s the relationship between free will...
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What is the deep nature of the world? What is the role of value? What goes beyond the physical world? What is fundamental reality? We explore Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism,...
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When believers argue that God exists, what mistakes do they make? What are their errors in logic as well as in fact? Whoever wants to believe in God must not use arguments...
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Episode 10
Season 16
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God is said to be all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good. But what is God’s private mental life like? Can we reach in to appreciate God as a supreme being? It may seem...
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Free will has traditionally been a problem in philosophy. Recently, the battleground of free will has shifted to neuroscience. Now some claim that to solve the problem of...
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What makes me a self? I see. I hear. I feel. How can separate perceptions bind together into a coherent mental unity? How can all be me? And how does my self persist through...
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Season 08
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Did art and religion co-evolve in parallel as archeology and anthropology suggest, and if so, what would be the significance? What do art and religion have in common that...
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Panentheism: Is the World in God? The search for God leads to strange ideas. Panentheism claims that the world is in God but God is more than the world. Can this new kind of...
Episode 11
Season 12
If God is the Creator, did God create the universe out of absolutely nothing? Would this mean that prior to God’s creation there was no matter-energy, no space-time, no...
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Creation is God’s glory; creating is God’s essence. We’ve heard this so often and so long it seems to make sense. But does it make sense? What does it mean...
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All who affirm that God does exist should examine the strong attacks of those who conclude that God does not exist, and then assess the sharp counterattacks of scholarly...
Episode 05
Season 04