The Socratic Sessions

🔍 Overview: In this clip, Yujin Nagasawa and Sam explore the scope and legitimacy of the ontological tools theists use to address the problem of evil.🤝 Support The Show 🤘⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Locals⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

18 Mar 202511min

🔍 Overview: In this clip, Yujin Nagasawa explains how the problem of evil—arising from an axiological mismatch between ‘modest optimism’ and ‘systemic evil’—could apply even to atheists.🤝 Support Th...

14 Mar 20257min

🔍 Overview: In this clip, Yujin Nagasawa unpacks Axiarchism, and we examine whether Parfit’s ‘Repugnant Conclusion’ poses a serious challenge to it.🤝 Support The Show 🤘⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Locals⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

11 Mar 20257min

🔍 Overview: Join Erik Wielenberg and me as we explore the philosophical crossroads of C.S. Lewis, David Hume, and Bertrand Russell, unpacking their debates on God, reason, faith, evil, and miracles.�...

7 Mar 20251h 44min

🔍 Overview: In this clip, Erik Wielenberg explores how David Hume, nearly a century before Darwin, refuted Paul’s early version of the argument from design in Romans 1:18-20.🤝 Support The Show 🤘⁠⁠⁠...

4 Mar 20255min

🔍 Overview: In this clip, Erik Wielenberg clarifies that Hume’s argument against miracles isn’t about denying the miraculous but rejecting the unreliable religious testimony that supports traditions....

28 Feb 20257min

🔍 Overview: In this clip, Erik Wielenberg explains why evolutionary psychology better accounts for our innate desires than C.S. Lewis’s claim that unfulfilled desires point to a supernatural realm.🤝...

25 Feb 202511min

🔍 Overview: Join Robert Plomin and me as we dive deep into the fascinating world of behavioural genetics, exploring how our DNA shapes who we are, the power of environment, and whether we can rewrite...

21 Feb 20251h 50min