video Episode Is the Person All Material? Watch Next Can Art and Knowledge Enhance Each Other? Epistemology: How Can We Know God? Epistemology: How Do I Know? Science and the Future of Humanity Death Disrupted? Is Death Final? Details Share What makes a human being a "person?" What provides our sense of unity and continuity? While most people assume that to be a person is to have a soul, most philosophers-and some theologians-believe that persons are all material. Related Topics ConsciousnessPersonsPersons and Selves Featured In Season 04 Contributors Daniel Dennett Daniel Dennett worked on philosophy of mind, psychology of belief, power of evolution Alvin Plantinga Alvin Plantinga is a leading Christian analytic philosopher and Templeton Prize laureate Peter van Inwagen Peter van Inwagen works in metaphysics, philosophy of action (free will), philosophy of... John Searle John Searle contributed to philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, social philosophy David Chalmers David Chalmers works in philosophy of mind, language, science, meta-philosophy
Alvin Plantinga Alvin Plantinga is a leading Christian analytic philosopher and Templeton Prize laureate
Peter van Inwagen Peter van Inwagen works in metaphysics, philosophy of action (free will), philosophy of...
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Can humans have knowledge of God? Between humans and God, between finite and infinite, there seems an unbridgeable gap. So what can it mean to “know God”? There are... video Epistemology: How Can We Know God? Episode 08 Season 19 26:48 Watch
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Religions offer life after death. Many people are skeptical. Evidence for post-mortem survival? Again, skeptics abound. Can death ever be defeated? Are these possible ways? video Death Disrupted? Episode 01 Season 17 26:48 Watch
Death is the ultimate defeat. No matter our successes, we are all doomed to suffer the final failure. But some claim that death is not final. Can the defeat be defeated? video Is Death Final? Episode 06 Season 13 26:47 Watch