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Special Edition - Discussion of Moral Philosophy - part 3

freedthinker — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:39:37 +0000

In this episode we continue our joint discussion with Nicholas Bruzzese (host of The Skeptic’s Testament) and our friend Brandon Christen. We continue my presentation of Theistic Objective Moral Realism in which we touch on:
Divine Command Theory Divine Attribute Theory The Rebuff of Nihilism The Price Tag of Rejecting Theistic Objective Moral Realism Nihilism and Cognitive Dissonance

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Special Edition - Discussion of Morality part 2

freedthinker — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:26:28 +0000

This edition of The Freed Thinker Podcast we take a break from our presentation of my response to Jim Merrit’s list of Bible contradictions and continue with the second part of what will ultimately be multipart series on the questions of moral philosophy. I am joined by my friends Nicholas Bruzzese from The Skeptics Testament (and who has been a guest on the show before) and Brandon Christian, who many of your may recognize from the TST facebook page.

In this second episode, is part 1 of a discussion that we had about my position - Theistic Objective Moral Realism.

For resources on this book I recommend the following books (later episodes I’ll recommend books, podcasts, and online articles for a little more variety)

Moral Philosophy: A Reader ed. by Pojman

Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity by Gilbert Harman and Judith Jarvis Thomson

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Episode 7.1 - Response to Jim Meritt’s Bible Contradiction List

freedthinker — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:42:42 +0000

In today’s episode we begin a new series dealing with Jim Meritt’s list of Bible Contradictions found at the Internet Infidels webpage. We begin by looking at the introductory remarks by the II editor of the post as well as Meritt’s own opening remarks.

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Episode 6.7 - Book Review of Disproving Christianity part 7 - Conclusion

freedthinker — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:08:09 +0000

In this episode of The Free Thinker Podcast we wrap up the presentation of my book review of David McAfee’s book Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings. We start with his chapter entitled Atrocities and Absurdities, move on to the conclusion of Part 1 of the book then finish up by looking at the handful of small secularist reflections (really more anti-theistic than strictly secular).

You can submit your comments and questions on my blog at www.logical-theism.blogspot.com, or join us on facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/thefreedthinkerpodcast.

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Special Edition - Discussion of Moral Philosophy part 1

freedthinker — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:25:08 +0000

This edition of The Freed Thinker Podcast we take a break from our presentation of my book review of David McAfee’s book Disproving God and give the first part of what will ultimately be a 5 part series on the questions of moral philosophy. I am joined by my friends Nicholas Bruzzese from The Skeptics Testament (and who has been a guest on the show before) and new comer to the show Brandon Christian, who many of your may recognize from the TST facebook page.

In this first episode we introduce ourselves and give some of our background and then we survey some of the preliminary concepts that will be needed to navigate through this series.

As a sneak preview this is the content for the next 4 shows:

Episode 2: Tyler argues for Objective Moral Realism

Episode 3: Nicholas argues for Contextualism

Episode 4: Brandon argues for Nihilism…ish.

Episode 5: We respond to YOUR comments and questions! (so keep them coming!)

For resources on this book I recommend the following books (later episodes I’ll recommend books, podcasts, and online articles for a little more variety)

Moral Philosophy: A Reader ed. by Pojman

Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity by Gilbert Harman and Judith Jarvis Thomson

Enjoy the show!

(we are still not showing up in the search function of iTunes so here is the feed to subscribe to in iTunes: http://freedthinker.podbean.com/feed)

You can submit your comments or questions on the facebook pages or my blog:

www.facebook.com/groups/thefreedthinkerpodcast

www.facebook.com/groups/tstpodcast/

www.logical-theism.blogspot.com

Special Edition Discussion on Moral Philosophy - Part 1

freedthinker — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:11:42 +0000

In this first episode we introduce ourselves and give some of our background and then we survey some of the preliminary concepts that will be needed to navigate through this series.

As a sneak preview this is the content for the next 4 shows:

Episode 2: Tyler argues for Objective Moral Realism

Episode 3: Nicholas argues for Contextualism

Episode 4: Brandon argues for Nihilism…ish.

Episode 5: We respond to YOUR comments and questions! (so keep them coming!)

For resources on this book I recommend the following books (later episodes I’ll recommend books, podcasts, and online articles for a little more variety)

Moral Philosophy: A Reader ed. by Pojman

Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity by Gilbert Harman and Judith Jarvis Thomson

Enjoy the show!

You can submit your comments or questions on the facebook pages or my blog:

www.facebook.com/groups/thefreedthinkerpodcast

www.facebook.com/groups/tstpodcast/

www.logical-theism.blogspot.com

Episode 6.6 - Book Review of Disproving Christianity part 6.

freedthinker — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:21:37 +0000

In this episode of the Freed Thinker Podcast I continue my review of David McAfee’s book Disproving Christianity and Other Secular writings. We discuss the chapter entitled “Minor Contradictions” and talk about why I think this chapter fails on nearly all counts.

You can also join us on facebook on our group page at www.facebook.com/groups/thefreedthinkerpodcast

The Freed Thinker Podcast Episode 6.5 - Book Review part 5

freedthinker — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:06:49 +0000

On this episode of The Freed Thinker Podcast we continue the presentation of my book review of David McAfee’s book Disproving Christianity and Other Secular writings. We discuss his chapter entitled Contradictions in Scripture and in Practice in which McAfee attempts to show contradictions in the Biblical texts. To no avail.

For those of you who have questions or comments please join me on my blog at www.logical-theism.blogspot.com or on facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/thefreedthinkerpodcast.

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The Freed Thinker Podcast Episode 6.4 - Review of Disproving Christianity by David McAfee part 4

freedthinker — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:33:10 +0000

In today’s episode we continue the review of David McAfee’s book Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings by examining his chapter “Mainstream Theories of Disapproval.”

As many of you know I am still trying to get the podcast to come up under the search function on iTunes but to no success yet. So if you would like to subscribe here is the link to the feed that you can put subscribe to with the subscribe function in iTunes:

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The Freed Thinker Podcast has gone missing!

freedthinker — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:07:56 +0000

Wanted: Anyone with good tech support skills and knowledge of iTunes.

Ok seriously, the podcast has hit an unforseen glitch. It has stopped showing up on iTunes when it is searched for. The feed is still active and everyone can still upload new episodes if they have already subscribed or if they have the feed address, but it cannot be found through the search function and I’m not sure why. I have contacted both iTunes and Podbean and neither were really helpful and basically told me to go talk to the other one.

Sooooo…. any recommendations on how to resolve this little issue?

The Freed Thinker Episode 6.3 - Book Review of Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings

freedthinker — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:33:39 +0000

Yes it is an excellent week… TWO episodes this week! You all are so lucky. This episode we continue our review of David McAfee’s book Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings, 2nd Edition and discuss his chapter “Morality verses Worship”.

You can also find the new episode on iTunes by searching for The Freed Thinker Podcast in the iTunes store.

I look forward to hearing your responses and comments!

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The Freed Thinker Podcast - 6.2 Book Review of Disproving Christianity

freedthinker — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:02:37 +0000

In today’s episode we continue our presentation of my book review of David McAfee’s book Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings, 2^nd Edition. We discuss his two chapters “Cultural Christianity” and “Christianity in America.” I hope you enjoy!

Episode 6.1 - Book Review of David McAfee’s book Disproving Christianity, Part 1

freedthinker — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:22:32 +0000

In this episode of The Freed Thinker Podcast I begin a series in which I present my book length book review of David McAfee’s book Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings, 2^nd ed. This first episode contains the Introduction to the 2^nd edition of the book review, the Introduction to the Book Review and the Preface.

Thank you all for your continued support and I look forward to hearing your comments and questions with this new series!

The Freed Thinker Podcast - Special Edition

freedthinker — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 03:26:44 +0000

In this episode of The Freed Thinker Podcast, we take a break from our examination of the Kalam Cosmological Argument to spend some time talking to one of my all time favorite skeptics, Nicholas Bruzzese, host of The Skeptics Testament Podcast.

The discussion ranges from Biblical illiteracy, the historical critical method, scientism, and a whole host of other interesting topics.

As always you can download the episode on Itunes - just search for Freed Thinker Podcast. Or you can stream it here on the podcast feed.

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The Freed Thinker Episode 5.4 - Philosophical Reasons to Reject Kalam P2

freedthinker — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:59:15 +0000

In this episode of The Free Thinker Podcast we start out by giving some recommendations for some of my favorite new podcasts and then we look at some of the objections given by critics of the arguments to the philosophical reasons for accepting the 2nd premise that I presented in our last episode. I hope you that enjoy and continue to contact me with your questions or comments as they are a great source of material for me to know what you want me to respond to.

You can also find me on my blog at www.logical-theism.blogspot.com

Enjoy the show!

The Freed Thinker Episode 5.3 - Reasons to Accept P2

freedthinker — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:00:06 +0000

After a long sabbatical we are finally back! In this episode of the Freed Thinker Podcast, we continue our discussion of the Kalam Cosmological argument by looking at the philosophical and mathematical arguments in favor of the second premise - that the universe began to exist.

I look forward to hearing back from you and reading your comments!

Enjoy!

The Freed Thinker Podcast - Episode 5.2 (audio)

freedthinker — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:35:45 +0000

In this episode of The Freed Thinker Podcast we continue our discussion of the Kalam Cosmological Argument by discussing some of the more common objections to the first premise regarding the Principle of Sufficient Reason and evaluate those objections.

We will now be posting video and audio versions of each episode. Due to limited space on my feed server, this will limit the podcast to about 2 episodes a month.

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The Freed Thinker Podcast - Episode 5.2 (video)

freedthinker — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:33:30 +0000

We will now be posting video and audio versions of each episode. Due to limited space on my feed server, this will limit the podcast to about 2 episodes a month.

You can stream it here, or search for the Freed Thinker Podcast on itunes and subscribe to it there! Click it! Subscribe to it! Love it!

The Freed Thinker Podcast - Episode 5.1 - The Kalam

freedthinker — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:03:33 +0000

In this episode of The Freed Thinker Podcast, we continue our discussion about natural theology by starting to examine the Kalam Cosmological Argument. We cover the history of the argument, the logical form of the argument and then reasons to accept the truth of the first premise. In our next episode we will discuss the various objections to the first premise. Hope you all enjoy the show!

This podcast is available on Itunes at the Itunes store. Just search “The Freed Thinker Podcast”

The Freed Thinker Podcast - Episode 4

freedthinker — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:41:43 +0000

In this episode we begin our look at natural theology and we discuss what natural theology is and then examine the first argument for God’s existence - the argument from contingency - and explore several objections raised against it.

As always you view the podcast here or you can search for it on Itunes, download it and take it with you on your mobile device. You can also find more information about the podcast and my blog at www.logical-theism.blogspot.com.

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The Freed Thinker Podcast - Episode 3

freedthinker — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:40:43 +0000

In this episode we take a very brief look at the movement known as The New Atheism. This discussion will be admittedly brief and will focus on the key players and some of the unifying themes that bind them together. For those of you who are familiar with this movement and the literature associated with it, you will undoubtedly realize that this discussion is going to be very brief and somewhat shallow. This is intentional. I did not want this episode to be hours in length and I plan on dealing with the specific arguments and objections that these writers pose throughout this entire series so I will be getting back to most of what I either briefly touched on or did not get to in this current episode. So stay tuned!

And as always you can read more on my blog at www.logical-theism.blogspot.com or you can email me at tylervela@gmail.com

New Atheism Resources

freedthinker — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:01:44 +0000

People have asked me time and time again for a list of resources interacting with the New Atheism. I have compiled a collection of articles and essays and am now turning them over to you! I hope you enjoy!

The Freed Thinker Podcast 2 - Philosophical Prolegomena

freedthinker — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:31:16 +0000

In this episode we explore some introductory philosophical concepts and vocabulary that will be helpful in our later discussions. We talk about ontology, epistemology, logical arguments and fallacies, and what is a worldview.

The Freed Thinker Podcast 1

freedthinker — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:45:33 +0000

This is the pilot episode of the new Freed Thinker Podcast! We are kicking off with a semester on apologetics, particularly in dealing with concerns related to the rise of the New Atheism. I hope you enjoy!

Tyler

www.logical-theism.blogspot.com

tylervela@gmail.com