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Walden Pod

Walden Pod is a philosophy and science podcast with an emphasis on the philosophy of religion and philosophy of mind. Hosted by Emerson Green of the Counter Apologetics Podcast and the Emerson Green YouTube Channel.

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79 - The Hidden Mind: For Privacy and Against...

Walden Pod ·

2024/12/12

Today, we explore the privacy of consciousness, a feature of the mind rejected by qualia antirealists. (summary of the arguments begins at 43:45) A few of the papers and books referenced: Is Mental Privacy Defensible? Jaffer Ahmed Explaining Mental Privacy - Colin McGinn Other minds are neither seen nor inferred - Mason Westfall Understanding Knowledge - Michael Huemer Illusionism As A Theory of Consciousness Galileo's Error - Philip Goff Linktree

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78 - Ghosts? Yeah, why not. Ghosts.

Walden Pod ·

2024/12/01

Today we discuss three skeptical arguments from Wang Chong, a first-century Chinese philosopher who railed against the belief in ghosts. Although the skeptics who initially presented these arguments to me seemed to think they were decisive, I was unimpressed and wanted to explain why I think they miss the center of the spectral target. As summarized on Wang’s IEP entry: (1) Argument from physical shape: The death of a person is the result of the body losing the animating qi (vital essence), and

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23:57

77 - The Knowledge Argument Against Physicalism - A...

Walden Pod ·

2024/11/10

Today we discuss Mary the color scientist, her cousin Fred, and a colorblind Norwegian neuroscientist. Specifically, we talk about why Philip Goff thinks "phenomenal curiosity" threatens the ability hypothesis and the phenomenal concept strategy, ruling out moderate forms of physicalism. Curiosity and the Knowledge Argument - Philip Goff Linktree

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76 - Philip Goff's Conversion to Christianity

Walden Pod ·

2024/10/10

We discuss Philip Goff’s conversion, the online reaction to it, and what his “heretical Christianity” involves. Is he a real Christian? What does he think about the resurrection, the ascension, the miracles of Christ, the virgin birth, the trinity, inerrantism, the atonement, and God’s nature? Amos Wollen - Conversion Review: Christianity gains a new smart person Randal Rauser on Goff’s Conversion Nathan Ormond (DigitalGnosis)- Philosopher CONVERTS to Christianity Linktree

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24:11

75 - Why panpsychism is counterintuitive

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2024/09/06

I give three reasons why panpsychism typically strikes us as counterintuitive, and why we shouldn't credit our innate bias against it. David Papineau: Physicalists who find panpsychism counterintuitive haven’t truly freed themselves from dualist thinking Jonathan Birch on overconfidence about sentience This episode was available early to supporters at patreon.com/waldenpod Linktree

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74 - Return of the Zombies: Phenomenal Transparency

Walden Pod ·

2024/08/12

Today we continue our exploration of the conceivability argument, covering the best response in the physicalist arsenal, and why it doesn't help physicalists escape the hoard of zombies in the end.Linktree

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40:31

73 - Zombie Argument Against Physicalism

Walden Pod ·

2024/08/08

Today we discuss David Chalmers' conceivability argument against physicalism: the zombie argument.Linktree

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25:12

72 - The Core Theory vs. Strong Emergence

Walden Pod ·

2024/05/29

The core theory, weak and strong emergence, micro-reductionism, and Sean Carroll’s skeptical argument against everything. Is Dr. Carroll correct in holding that physics has ruled out the afterlife, the soul, fundamental consciousness, parapsychology, and other immaterialist claims? Linktree Sean Carroll speaking to the Freedom From Religion Foundation https://youtu.be/40eiycH077A?si=xgg4KC0JPYWnH0fU Philip Goff: Is physics different in the brain?

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202:30

AMA

Walden Pod ·

2023/11/19

I recently asked for your questions, and I posted my responses on YouTube here. We touch on compatibilism, NDEs, aliens, euthanasia, abortion, death anxiety as an atheist, idealism, incest, Islam, Mormonism, subjectivism, psychophysical harmony, and more. (For those listening via podcast, I left the introduction in to preserve the timestamps for those who want to skip around to different sections.)00:00 Intro 00:46 Atheistic platonism? 01:22 Why are you gay? 01:30 Are you still a naturalist? 05:47

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41:24

71 - Against Epiphenomenalism

Walden Pod ·

2023/10/25

Epiphenomenalism is the view that mental states have no effect on anything. The feeling of pain, counterintuitively, does not cause your aversion, mentally or physically. Beliefs don’t cause behavior. None of our actions occur in virtue of our thoughts, feelings, or sensations. Inspired by Matthew Adelstein’s post defending epiphenomenalism, I want to explain my opposition to the view. A few times, he referenced a podcast episode / blog post of mine from 2020, which I hadn’t read since it was first

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96:56

What is consciousness, anyway? (Appearance on Shannon Q)

Walden Pod ·

2023/10/18

Here's my interview on Shannon Q's YouTube channel where we discuss dualism, panpsychism, personal identity, and other topics in the philosophy of mind! Linktree

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70 - Substance Dualism w/ Michael Huemer

Walden Pod ·

2023/08/28

Dr. Michael Huemer joins me to defend interactionist substance dualism, the view that the mind and body are composed of different substances and can exert causal influence over each other. Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy Linktree

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69 - Alien Apologetics w/ Jimmy Akin

Walden Pod ·

2023/08/18

Wouldn’t aliens manage to avoid crashing their ships, given how advanced they’d have to be? Aren’t the distances between life-supporting planets too vast to feasibly travel? If figures in the government actually knew something, wouldn’t a cover-up involve too many people to keep the secret for long? I’m joined by Jimmy Akin to answer ten common objections to UFO phenomena and alien visitations. In the wake of recent news stories about unidentified aerial phenomena, I heard the same skeptical

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68 - Encountering Mystery w/ Dale Allison

Walden Pod ·

2023/08/14

Today I’m speaking with Dr. Dale Allison, historian and author of Encountering Mystery: Religious Experience in a Secular Age. The subtitle of the book notwithstanding, the unusual experiences we discuss are not explicitly religious. They’re usually interpreted through a religious lens (often without any reflection), but almost all of them needn’t be, which is something we return to quite a bit. Flatly disputing the phenomenon is not the only option available to the nonreligious. We talk about

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67 - The Skeptic's Error and the Moorean Shift

Walden Pod ·

2023/07/07

Today, we discuss Agrippa's trilemma and look at our hands. Epistemology Playlist Understanding Knowledge - Michael Huemer Linktree

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66 - Wittgensteinian View of Concepts (The Failure of...

Walden Pod ·

2023/06/30

Today, we discuss the idea that understanding a concept is not a matter of knowing a definition. As philosopher Michael Huemer argues, our main access to a concept comes “not through directly reflecting on the concept, but through activating the dispositions that constitute our understanding.” The Wittgensteinian view of concepts explains how it’s possible that we know how to competently use terms even though it is so hard to successfully analyze them. I can’t provide a perfect conceptual analysis

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65 - The Defeasibility Theory: What is Knowledge?

Walden Pod ·

2023/06/28

What is knowledge? What does it mean to know something? Today, we discuss the defeasibility theory, which adds a fourth condition to the famous "justified true belief" analysis of knowledge. We also touch on Gettier cases, certainty, and what contemporary analytic philosophy is all about (the answer may surprise you!). For even more epistemology, check out the new series on Counter Apologetics about mistakes atheists often make about epistemology. Understanding Knowledge - Michael

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28:14

The Hypothesis of Indifference - Breaking the Binary

Walden Pod ·

2023/06/21

We take a short break from our epistemology series to talk about the hypothesis of indifference, a limited God, natural teleology, pan-agentialism, and how value-orientation in the universe is not binary but rather comes on a continuum. For reference, Paul Draper (1989) characterizes the hypothesis of indifference as follows: “neither the nature nor the condition of sentient beings on earth is the result of benevolent or malevolent actions performed by non-human persons.” If the audio sounds

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64 - Internalism: The Nature of Justification

Walden Pod ·

2023/05/17

This is part one of a series about epistemology, the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge and justification. When does something count as knowledge? How can we be justified in accepting mathematical truths, moral truths, and truths about the external world? Can I trust my perceptual faculties, my memory, my ability to reason? Can I know anything at all? Today, we're discussing internalism vs. externalism about knowledge and justification. We also touch on the person-based nature of

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Veganism & Metaethics w/ Perspective Philosophy

Walden Pod ·

2023/04/27

Perspective Philosophy and I speak about metaethics, intervening in wild animal suffering, veganism, the toll of working in a slaughterhouse, ethical intuition, moral disagreement, and a few metaphysical questions about contingency and necessity. Full interview here Linktree

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