In this talk given at the Faraday Institute in 2006, neuropsychologist and neuroscience researcher Dr Warren S. Brown gives a fascinating lecture entitled Reconciling Neuropsychology & Theology. Listen to or view the lecture here (enter “Warren Brown” in the search box). The talk is dated 18 July 2006.
Continue Reading...Dr Marc Cortez is Assistant Professor of Theology and Academic Dean at Western Seminary in Portland, Oregan. In this fascinating talk given as part of a Faraday Institute Summer conference in July 2011, Dr Cortez gives an excellent overview of philosophical and theological anthropology – what makes us human – with particular emphasis on the various [...]
Continue Reading...In this 3 part Reasonable Faith Podcast series, professional philosopher William Lane Craig critiques theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss on the muddled thinking and sloppy semantics of the arguments presented in Krauss’s book A Universe From Nothing. Craig schools Krauss in the basics of rational thinking, linguistics, semantics and logical deduction – all important elements of the [...]
Continue Reading...This is an excellent talk given at the Faraday Institute in Cambridge by one of my favourite philosophers, Keith Ward. An excellent discussion of science, philosophy, cosmology, materialism, metaphysics and the rationality of theism. God, Science and the New Atheism (Hint: Type “Keith Ward” into the search box and select)
Continue Reading...Some modern philosophers pride themselves on their “naturalism” but real naturalism begins with a proper perspective on our specifically human intelligence. Palaeoanthropologists have taught us that the human brain gradually evolved from ancestral brains, particularly in concert with practical toolmaking, centring on the anatomy of the human hand. This history shaped and constrained the form [...]
Continue Reading...In the podcast episode of Microphilosophy, British philosopher Julian Baggini has a charmingly post-Christendom British chat with member of the British peerage and House of Lords, Baroness Mary Warnock about how annoying it is to have pesky, opinionated Christian bishops in the House of Lords, putting forth their vexing form of Christian morality and anthropology. [...]
Continue Reading...Brain Science Podcast Episode 81 marks the return of philosopher Patricia Churchland, who was first interviewed back in Episode 55. This conversation with BSP host Dr Ginger Campbell focuses on her latest book, Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality. We discuss the historical background and contrast Churchland’s approach to that of Sam Harris in [...]
Continue Reading...Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity Author(s): Raymond Tallis ISBN: 1844652726 ISBN-13: 9781844652723 Publication Date: 30 Jun 2011 Pages: 400 (234 x 156mm) Format: Hardback In a devastating critique Raymond Tallis exposes the exaggerated claims made for the ability of neuroscience and evolutionary theory to explain human consciousness, behaviour, culture and [...]
Continue Reading...This week on The Philosopher’s Zone we’re wagering on God. Well, why not? What have we got to lose? If God doesn’t exist, we lose nothing; if he does, we gain everything. This is the famous argument known as ‘Pascal’s wager’ after the great seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal. This week, we examine the wager [...]
Continue Reading...This great podcast discussion on the nature of religious faith by Kiwi philosopher Glenn Peoples. This episode asks the question: “What is Faith”? Is it, as some maintain, just believing things for no good reason? When Christian thinkers over the years have spoken of having faith, what have they been talking about? Listen and find [...]
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