What would it be like to live forever? Immortality is the promise of most religions, thwarting the looming fateful finality of death. Everything in science screams...
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The three-way relationship among mind, art, and transcendence is shown to be specific and uniquely valuable; for example, how the mind appreciates art and what art does...
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Does everything need a cause? Everything in the universe surely does. But what about the universe as a whole? And what about God – assuming God exists – does God...
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Episode 12
Season 01
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Aesthetic Cognitivism is a theory about the arts as sources of understanding. What are the scholarly or scientific fields that form its foundation? Explore art’s...
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Is the ‘real you’ a special substance that is nonphysical and immortal? Most regular people would agree, but most scientists would not. What are you? A body alone...
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Can Philosophy of Religion Find God? Does God exist? What are God’s attributes and traits? How should we examine such questions about God? Can philosophy provide...
Episode 06
Season 12
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Let’s understand the arguments of atheism. Let’s examine both kinds of anti-God arguments: those that refute the existence of God and those that promote the...
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Theists and atheists debate whether God exists. But about what God are they arguing? There’s enormous variation in the kinds of Gods that populate world religions....
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Everyone knows it’s important to think ahead—but just how far do you need to go? Some say we should be looking up to 1,000 years into the next millennium, at what...
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What is the relationship between God and time? Does God exist in time, being everlasting, without beginning or end? Or does God exist outside of time, on a wholly different...
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The God of Judaism, Christianity and Islam claims to be an all powerful, omnipotent being. Can this omnipotent God do everything, make anything happen? Literally everything,...
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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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Season 06