Weekly Podcast Roundup (9/15)
Veracity Hill Ep 166: Gospel Allegiance What is the Gospel, exactly? Is it about what God has done for you and how you can be saved, or is something even greater at work? In this e
Terminology Tuesday: Mind-body problem
The metaphysical problem about the nature of the mind and its relation to the body. Called by philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) the “world-knot” because of its ties
Terminology Tuesday: Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712–1778)
French philosopher born in Switzerland whose influence on political theory and theories of education has been enormous. Rousseau saw human individuals as naturally good but corrupt
Terminology Tuesday: Numinous
An aspect of religious experience discussed by Rudolf Otto in The Idea of the Holy. Otto described a type of religious experience typically associated with theism in which God is e
Terminology Tuesday: Reductionism
An attempt to explain some domain or field by showing that it can be derived from or redescribed in the language of some more basic domain or field. A physicalist, for example, may