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Dr. Crummett responds to the following questions submitted by a patron.
"1) What is the interaction problem for dualism and what’s the best way a dualist can respond?
2) There are cases where humans have suffered a brain injury (nail spike through the brain) or abnormality (tumor in the brain), and it appears to completely alter or diminish their entire personality. Does this evidence show that substance dualism is probably false and physicalism is probably true?”
Link to No Pairing Problem Paper: andrewmbailey.com/PairingForthcoming.pdf
Link to Dr. Crummett's Psychophysical Harmony Argument:
youtu.be/j9WsfjPGFgI
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Dr. Crummett responds to the following questions submitted by a patron.
"1) What is the interaction problem for dualism and what’s the best way a dualist can respond?
2) There are cases where humans have suffered a brain injury (nail spike through the brain) or abnormality (tumor in the brain), and it appears to completely alter or diminish their entire personality. Does this evidence show that substance dualism is probably false and physicalism is probably true?”
Link to No Pairing Problem Paper: andrewmbailey.com/PairingForthcoming.pdf
Link to Dr. Crummett's Psychophysical Harmony Argument:
youtu.be/j9WsfjPGFgI
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![A Defense of the Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (Dr. Andrew Moon)
0:00 Introduction
01:14 What got you interested in the evolutionary argument against naturalism?
02:47 What is the Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism (EAAN)?
05:03 What are the specific premises and conclusion of EAAN?
11:40 Definition of terms in order to understand the Defense of Premise 1 [P(R|N&E) is low]: Materialism, Mental Properties, Content Properties, NP, Reductive Materialism, Non-reductive materialism
13:57 How does Plantinga defend premise 1 [P(R|N&E) is low]?
15:06 Defense of Premise 1: what follows from non-reductive materialism?
19:30 Defense of Premise 1: what happens if reductive materialism is true?
27:59 Objection to Premise 1: But doesn’t it still seem like having faculties that produce true beliefs are more likely to make a creature survive?
32:53 Defense of Premise 2: Anyone who accepts (believes) N&E and see that [P(R|N&E) is low has a defeater for R.
37:04 Objection 1 to EAAN: EAAN depends on externalism
43:17 Objection 2 to EAAN: EAAN is self-defeating
47:50 Question #1: if the naturalist holds a concept of truth other than the correspondentist one (like Putnam’s internal realism), does the EAAN still work against him? Greetings from Brazil!
49:50 Question #1 follow-up: Does the argument presuppose correspondence theory of truth?
50:20 Question #2: Dr. Moon, do you think that if the probability of our cognitive faculties being reliable is inscrutable, the argument would still work?
52:44 Question #3: What is the conditional objection aka objection 3?
57:43 Question #4: What do you say about Richard Swinburne’s objections to Plantinga’s argument?
58:31 Question #5: Are there any books or resources to learn about the discussion of mind/soul, neuroscience and materialism that you’d recommend to mortals like me?
59:47 Question #6: Could a bias towards simplicity solve the problem? A possible world where belief contents are randomly associated with neurological states (i.e. if you change a single, or a single atom in a neuron or environment, you don’t automatically generate a random belief).
01:04:34 Question #7: Does this argument work the same if someone holds to dualism, idealism or Thomism?
01:07:04 Question #8: Why do the content propositions need to be selected for because of their true in order for the cognitive faculties to be reliable? Isn’t it enough that they supervene on things which are selected for?
01:08:38 Question #9: Do you think evolutionary debunking arguments against moral realism that presupposes naturalism has a self-defeating argument?
01:10:24 Question #10: Does Plantinga think that we are left with a certain choice to make in rejecting either naturalism, evolution or both?
01:11:52 Question #11: What do you think of the following argument? 1. Our cognitive faculties are generally unreliable. 2. (1) is more expected given Naturalism rather than Theism. 3. So, (1) is evidence for N.
In this interview, Dr. Andrew Moon will summarize Plantingas Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (EAAN), then respond to some objections. For a short animated summary of the argument, check out the video linked below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qap_FyQxILM
To go more in depth, check out Dr. Moons recent paper, Global Debunking Arguments linked below.
https://philpapers.org/rec/MOOGDA
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![STOP Sanitizing the Bible’s Violence — How Churches Should Really Handle It
Link to Dr. Seiberts book:
https://www.amazon.com/Redeeming-Violent-Verses-Troublesome-Ministry/dp/0664264689
0:00 Intro
0:36 Prevalence of Violence in the Bible
2:04 Three Categories of Violent Texts
4:32 Violent Verses in Church?
9:35 Seven Strategies for Redeeming Violent Verses
25:33 Deconstructing Violent Views of God
32:40 Objection: You Ignore the Violent Side of Jesus in the NT
36:58 Objection: Your View is Neo-Marcionism
42:43 Where to Go Next
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![Hope in the Face of Evil
This is a recording of the inaugural PRECÍS Lecture in Philosophy and Religion at Princeton University. PRECÍS stands for “philosophy, religion, and existential commitment in society.” It’s the public-facing branch of 3PR (the Princeton Project in Philosophy of Religion) run by Lara Buchak and Andrew Chignell. Brian Ballard gave the lecture. Hes a professor at Loyola Marymount.
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![How to DEFEAT Belief in God
Im joined by Dr. Josh Thurow to discuss his book, God and the Problem of Epistemic Defeaters, published by Cambridge University Press.
Link to the book:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/god-and-the-problem-of-epistemic-defeaters/067D6FCF47D4222BFF7F71E87A87AA53
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction: The Challenge to Belief in God
00:33 Defining the Modern Intellectually Mature Believer
03:56 Understanding Epistemic Defeaters
06:47 Types of Defeaters: Rebutting vs. Undercutting
12:35 Exploring Advanced Defeaters
23:21 Responses to Common Defeaters
28:47 The Case of the Missing Letter
29:22 First-Person Perspective and Evidence
30:21 Religious Experiences and Rational Belief
31:00 Divine Revelation and Evidence
32:34 The Lincoln Analogy
34:43 Genealogical Debunking Arguments
37:10 Rationalization Arguments
41:52 Cumulative Case Competence Defeater
44:01 Evaluating Competence Defeaters
49:10 Responses to the Cumulative Case Defeater
56:34 Conclusion and Book Recommendation
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