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In this video, I will talk about Myron Penner's book The End of Apologetics: Christian Witness in a Postmodern Context
Book: amazon.com/End-Apologetics-Christian-Witness-Postmodern/dp/0801035988
Apple Books: books.apple.com/us/book/the-end-of-apologetics/id667913921
In this video, I will talk about Myron Penner's book The End of Apologetics: Christian Witness in a Postmodern Context
Book: amazon.com/End-Apologetics-Christian-Witness-Postmodern/dp/0801035988
Apple Books: books.apple.com/us/book/the-end-of-apologetics/id667913921

![8 Critiques of Verificationism and Logical Positivism
#philosophy #philosophyofreligion #philosophyofscience #theology #apologetics #science
In this video, Ill talk about 8 big issues with Verificationism and Logical Positivism that eventually led to their demise in philosophy.
References:
[1] A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic. Courier Corporation, 1952.
[2] O. Hanfling, “Logical Positivism,” in Routledge History of Philosophy Volume IX, Routledge, 1997.
[3] J. A. Passmore, “Logical Positivism,” Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 129–153, 1944, doi: 10.1080/00048404408541199.
[4] S. Blackburn, “Verification Principle,” The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. OUP Oxford, p. 420, Aug. 21, 2008.
[5] Britannica The Editors of Encyclopaedia., “Verifiability Principle,” Encyclopedia Britannica. Apr. 26, 2016. Accessed: Sep. 09, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.britannica.com/topic/verifiability-principle
[6] J. D. Hunter, Democracy and Solidarity: on the cultural roots of america’s political crisis. in Politics and culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024.
[7] A. MacIntyre, After Virtue. A&C Black, 2013.
[8] Crossway Bibles, Ed., ESV: study Bible: English standard version, ESV text ed. Wheaton, Ill: Crossway Bibles, 2007.
[9] H. Leitgeb and A. Carus, “Rudolf Carnap,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Fall 2024., E. N. Zalta and U. Nodelman, Eds., Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2024. Accessed: Sep. 09, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2024/entries/carnap/
[10] R. Carnap, The Logical Syntax of Language. Open Court Publishing, 2002.
[11] W. van Orman Quine, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” in Can Theories be Refuted? Essays on the Duhem-Quine Thesis, S. G. Harding, Ed., Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1976, pp. 41–64. doi: 10.1007/978-94-010-1863-0_2.
[12] L. Henderson, “The Problem of Induction,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Winter 2022., E. N. Zalta and U. Nodelman, Eds., Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2022. Accessed: Sep. 16, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2022/entries/induction-problem/
[13] D. Hume, A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects, and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, vol. 1. Longmans, Green, and Company, 1878.
[14] W. Pietsch, On the Epistemology of Data Science: Conceptual Tools for a New Inductivism. Springer Nature, 2021.
[15] K. R. Popper, Conjectures and refutations: the growth of scientific knowledge, Repr. in Routledge Classics. London: Routledge, 2007.
[16] R. Carnap, “Testability and Meaning,” Philosophy of Science, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 419–471, Oct. 1936, doi: 10.1086/286432.
[17] H. Andreas, “Theoretical Terms in Science,” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Fall 2021., E. N. Zalta, Ed., Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2021. Accessed: Sep. 10, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2021/entriesheoretical-terms-science/ 8 Critiques of Verificationism and Logical Positivism](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E-ZHi8_ufFQ/mqdefault.jpg)

![Can Science Explain Anything?
#science #theology #philosophy #philosophyofreligion #philosophyofscience #gravity #newton #issacnewton #history #historyofscience
In this video, Ill explore whether science, properly understood, has any explanatory power at all.
References:
[1] J. C. Lennox, _Can Science Explain Everything?_ Good Book Company, 2019.
[2] J. C. Lennox, _God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?_ Lion Hudson plc, 2011.
[3] J. Drake, _Introduction to Logic_. Scientific e-Resources, 2018.
[4] M. Stokes, _How to Be an Atheist (Foreword by J. P. Moreland): Why Many Skeptics Aren’t Skeptical Enough_. Crossway, 2016.
[5] I. Newton, _Newton’s Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy_. D. Adee, 1848.
[6] S. Hawking and L. Mlodinow, _The Grand Design_. Random House Publishing Group, 2010.
[7] A. Chakravartty, “Scientific Realism,” in _The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy_, Summer 2017., E. N. Zalta, Ed., Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2017. Accessed: Sep. 03, 2024. [Online]. Available: [https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2017/entries/scientific-realism/](https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2017/entries/scientific-realism/)
[8] S. Hawking, _A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes_. Random House, 2009.
[9] L. Wittgenstein, _Philosophical Investigations_. John Wiley & Sons, 2009. Can Science Explain Anything?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/H7im9l2UYA8/mqdefault.jpg)

![Why is there something rather than nothing?
#philosophy #theology #christianity #god #apologetics #leibniz #theism #reasoning #reason #catholic #islam
In this video, Ill talk about Gottfried Leibniz and Thomas Aquinas ideas around why something exists
References:
[1] G. W. Leibniz, “The Principles of Nature and of Grace, Based on Reason,” in Philosophical Papers and Letters, G. W. Leibniz and L. E. Loemker, Eds., Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1989, pp. 636–642. doi: 10.1007/978-94-010-1426-7_67.
[2] G. W. Leibniz, “The Ultimate Origin of Things,” 1697.
[3] T. Aquinas, Summa Theologica. R. & T. Washbourne, 1922.
[4] (Quoted in) D. C. Lindberg and R. L. Numbers, God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science. Univ of California Press, 2023. Why is there something rather than nothing?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IdgRuVJ_gKo/mqdefault.jpg)
![My 3 Intellectual Reasons for Not Believing in God
#god #christianity #philosophy
In this video, I want to talk about my top 3 reasons for why I did not believe in God when I was a skeptic (and why these reasons were, for me, built on dubious assumptions)
References:
[1] David Wootton - The Fear of God in Early Modern Political Theory (1983)
[2] David Wootton - Humes ‘Of Miracles’: Probability and Irreligion (1990)
[3] John Earman - Hume’s Abject Failure (2000)
[4] Alasdair MacIntyre - After Virtue (1981)
[5] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/
[6] G. E. M. Anscombe - Modern Moral Philosophy (1958)
[7] C. S. Lewis - Miracles (1947)
[8] Alvin Plantinga - Where the Conflict Really Lies (2012)
[9] Charles Taylor - A Secular Age (2007) My 3 Intellectual Reasons for Not Believing in God](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IuTzSvIBScA/mqdefault.jpg)
![Pseudoskepticism (Bogus Skepticism)
In this video, Ill explain some of the issues around pseudoskepticism and why many skeptics or former skeptics have issues with mainstream skepticism as a social identity.
References:
[1] Truzzi - Zetetic Ruminations on Skepticism and Anomalies in Science (1987)
[2] Quite and Ullian - Web of Belief (1978)
[3] Bond - Why I Am No Longer a Skeptic
[4] Weinberg - Against Philosophy
[5] Hyslop - The Bias of Skepticism (1909)
#skeptic #skepticism Pseudoskepticism (Bogus Skepticism)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Jbtg5dQr-zw/mqdefault.jpg)


