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Ep. 9 - What Has God to Do With Science Fiction? w/Jim Settecase
In this episode, I discuss science fiction stories with my dad, author Jim Settecase/Frankie Chocolate, and their relation to the Christian faith and God's world. Pops discusses his top 10 favorite s…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Ep. 8 - Where Are All the Aliens, and What Happens If We Find Them?
In this episode I go over the Fermi Paradox, i.e. the question "if the universe is teeming with Aliens... where is everybody?" and then I discuss how the discovery of aliens would impact my Christian…
Published on 5 years ago
Ep. 7 - the Forgotten C.S. Lewis w/Dr. Jerry Root
In this episode, I have a conversation with my friend and mentor, Dr. Jerry Root about his new book, The Neglected C.S. Lewis. We also discuss C.S. Lewis's favorite 3 books from his own corpus, Till …
Published on 5 years ago
Ep. 6 - Why Naturalistic Determinism is Self-Defeating w/ Dr. Jim Slagle
In this episode we kick off our first ever Parker's Pensées Podcast interview with one of my favorite philosophers, Dr. Jim Slagle. This guy is next level. We discuss his book, The Epistemological Sk…
Published on 5 years ago
Ep. 5 - All Podcasters Are Always Liars
In this episode I cover the Liar Paradox, which historically has been some variant of "the sentence you are now reading is a lie". It's paradoxical in that if it's true, then it's false but if it's f…
Published on 5 years ago
Ep. 4 - Could Alexa, Siri, or Bixby Be My Best Friend?
In this episode, we answer the question in the title by looking at the philosophy of friendship and personhood, the philosophy of artificial intelligence and some problems which arise in it, and then…
Published on 5 years ago
Ep. 3 - Is My Pocket Journal A Horcrux?
In this episode we go over the extended mind thesis of Andy Clark and David Chalmers and cover a tiny bit of the Harry Potter legendarium in order to answer the question "Is my pocket journal a horcr…
Published on 5 years ago
Ep. 2 - Can God Make a Dog That's Too Big For Him To Walk?
Episode 2
In this episode, I survey three answers to this question: a univocal, an equivocal, and an analogical answer.
Ultimately, I side with the analogical answer and I explain why. If you have no clue wha…
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago
Ep. 1 - The Ethics of Feeding Mice to Giant African Bullfrogs
Episode 1
In this inaugural episode, I go over various aspects of ethics in order to more fully answer the question "is it ethical to feed mice to Giant African Bullfrogs?"
Published on 5 years, 1 month ago