Podcast
The Ultimist
Hosted by JD Walters · EN
The Ultimist features interviews with emerging scholars producing cutting-edge research on topics of ultimate concern
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Sabrina Little on Admiration and Moral Exemplars
Jun 18, 201900:57:55Tap to summarizeOn this episode I talk with PhD student Sabrina Little about her work on the role of moral exemplars and admiration in character formation. We also talk about animal ethics, classical education and much more! Sabrina Little on Twitter Academia.edu page
Transcribe →Hilary Yancey on Hylomorphism and Medical Ethics
Feb 3, 201901:03:15Tap to summarizeOn this episode I talk with doctoral student and author Hilary Yancey about her dissertation on hylomorphism-the thesis that material objects are most fundamentally compounds of matter and form-and how it illuminates the problem of what relationship our bodies' parts have to us. We also get into some issues in metaphysics, medical ethics, near death experiences and Robocop! Hilary Yancey's website
Transcribe →Brandon Rickabaugh on Substance Dualism and Bodily Souls
Mar 27, 201801:09:40Tap to summarizeOn this episode I walk with Brandon Rickabaugh, a doctoral student at Baylor University, about the intersection of philosophy and spiritual formation, and then about substance dualism, hylomorphism and the 'bodily soul' view of the mind-body problem. Brandon's website (see especially his papers "Neuroscience, Spiritual Formation, and Bodily Souls: A Critique of Christian Physicalism" and "What Does it Mean to Be a Bodily Soul?")
Transcribe →Calum Miller on theism as a simple hypothesis
Mar 10, 201800:56:09Tap to summarizeOn this episode I talk to Calum Miller, a medical practitioner who has also completed graduate work in philosophy and biblical studies, on Bayesian reasoning and whether theism is a simple hypothesis. Calum's website Is theism a simple hypothesis? The simplicity of omni-properties (the paper we discussed)
Transcribe →Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager and the Problem of Divine Hiddenness
Feb 19, 201800:44:34Tap to summarizeOn this episode I talk to Liz Jackson, a PhD student at the University of Notre Dame, about Pascal's famous wager on believing in God and how it might apply to John Schellenberg's famous argument from divine hiddenness against the existence of God. Liz Jackson's Website (includes a link to the paper we discussed) Stanford Encyclopedia entry on Pascal's Wager
Transcribe →Josh Parikh on the Moral Arena
Jan 15, 201800:59:00Tap to summarizeOn this episode I talk with Josh Parikh, a recent graduate of Oxford University, about the thesis he wrote on a new version of the moral argument for God's existence that widens our lens from the isolated existence of objective moral values to the entire moral arena in which we perceive and act according to our understanding of right and wrong. Josh's appearances on the Unbelievable? podcast: Does the problem of evil presuppose God? Debating the "Cosmic Dice" video with Alex O'Connor Some of Josh's pieces online: Why is God hidden? Why it's time to start talking about sex robots Could a robot have moral status? Effective Altruism and the Christian (with Randal Rauser)
Transcribe →Steven Nemes on Universalism and Theological Method
Jan 2, 201800:59:17Tap to summarizeOn the inaugural episode I talk with Steven Nemes, a new PhD student at Fuller Theological Seminary, about his work on universalism and theological method. We discuss two paradigmatic objections to universalism and think about the authority of Scripture in the context of church tradition. Steven Nemes' Webpage Academia profile
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