How can entities be picked out as individual and distinct entities? Sunny Auyang presents a Kantian model of spacetime as an absolute and indispensable structural scheme we project onto the world to organize it and to pick out individual elements, or events in it. Using fiber bundles she packs together a complex structure of individuating qualitative features that she links to individual points in spacetime.

We talk about George Lucas, his background and influences. Flash Gordon, Akira Kurosawa, Horse Opera and Spaghetti Westerns. The sequel trilogy: overall coherence, the Star Wars tradition of seeing contradictions "from a certain point of view". The sequel trilogy characters: Rey, Rose, and Vice Admiral Holdo.

It's undeniable that living in a secular age brings significant challenges to belief in God and to religious practice. And it's understandable. Still, there are reasons to give it a second look, or maybe a new first look with a fresh perspective.

One of the great things about Mesoamerican history is that we know so much about it. Names of places like Tikal, Calakmul, and Copán might inspire images of stone temples with a mysterious, long-lost history. This may have been true one hundred years ago. But today we know a great deal about their history because we can read their writing. We know the names of their rulers. We know important things that they did. In fact, they put a lot of effort into making sure their histories were preserved for posterity. Thanks to these records we have some very exciting and interesting history.

Mike and Todd discuss Adam S. Miller's "Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology", possibly the most rigorous, speculative, and systematic attempt at a professional take on Mormon philosophy ever, that never directly mentions Mormonism. We read between the lines and look at the revolutionary ideas of the Mormon moment in world religious history that are arguably still not fully realized in the ongoing Restoration.

Sunny Y. Auyang gives a useful model for thinking about the way states and state spaces of objective reality are represented in ways accessible to us and how transformations between a plurality of representations imply not relativism but common states and state spaces that they represent.

In a blast from the past Pete and Todd talk about the songs that shaped their younger years: “Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely”, “Estoy Aquí”, "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...)", “Dragostea Din Tei”, "...Baby One More Time"

In a blast from the past Pete and Todd talk about the songs that shaped their younger years: “We Built This City”, "It's Gonna Be Me", “Never Gonna Give You Up”, "All Star", “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World”

The story of God in scripture is one of active and dynamic involvement in history. It is also one of continuous change and progression, both in the relationship between God and humanity and in our understanding of God.

Hegel is much more than a precursor to Marx. His philosophy has a lot to offer in many subjects, not least in theology and the philosophy of religion.