The Ultimist

On this episode I talk with PhD student Sabrina Little about her work on the role of moral exemplars and admiration in character formation. We also talk about animal ethics, classical education and much more! Sabrina Little on Twitter Academia.edu pa... more

On this episode I talk with doctoral student and author Hilary Yancey about her dissertation on hylomorphism-the thesis that material objects are most fundamentally compounds of matter and form-and how it illuminates the problem of what relationship ... more

On this episode I walk with Brandon Rickabaugh, a doctoral student at Baylor University, about the intersection of philosophy and spiritual formation, and then about substance dualism, hylomorphism and the 'bodily soul' view of the mind-body problem.... more

On this episode I talk to Calum Miller, a medical practitioner who has also completed graduate work in philosophy and biblical studies, on Bayesian reasoning and whether theism is a simple hypothesis. Calum's website Is theism a simple hypothesis? Th... more

On this episode I talk to Liz Jackson, a PhD student at the University of Notre Dame, about Pascal's famous wager on believing in God and how it might apply to John Schellenberg's famous argument from divine hiddenness against the existence of God. L... more

On this episode I talk with Josh Parikh, a recent graduate of Oxford University, about the thesis he wrote on a new version of the moral argument for God's existence that widens our lens from the isolated existence of objective moral values to the en... more

On the inaugural episode I talk with Steven Nemes, a new PhD student at Fuller Theological Seminary, about his work on universalism and theological method. We discuss two paradigmatic objections to universalism and think about the authority of Script... more