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Video thread for interesting philosophical discussions on YouTube and elsewhere
August 25, 2020 at 6:09 am
Like to share links to any philosophical discussions/debates you've listened to recently? Post them here in this thread.
Here's a discussion I've just got done listening to:
I'm a big fan of Graham Oppy (who is a leading philosopher of religion) because he is willing to critically examine arguments for God without hastily dismissing them and is open to adjusting his views where the evidence/logic leads. Also liking this YouTuber "Crusade Against Ignorance" the more I watch his videos. Very impressed.
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RE: Video thread for interesting philosophical discussions on YouTube and elsewhere
August 25, 2020 at 6:55 am
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2020 at 6:58 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I think you might enjoy this guy as well, using the same observations that Oppy makes - vis-a-vis naturalism offering sufficient answers to questions of religious import (and perhaps better answers) - he goes entirely the other way with it.
Where oppy's position on these issues leads him to conclude that religious naturalism is unworkable even as he insists that it does answer questions of religious import, crosby insists that this is why it's workable...and further, that this is the reality which informs us in the more narrow category of what oppy accepts as a religion - chiefly, systems or ideologies with a heavy commitment to non-natural cause.
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