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.

Can religious people and people who have left a religion talk about it together? Alex and Todd sit down for a frank conversation about religion. Todd is a Christian and practicing Latter-day Saint. Alex has left the LDS (Mormon) church. We talk about the difficult and often uncomfortable challenges of bridging this divide.

This episode covers Aristotle’s philosophy of the soul as both matter and form, a model of the soul as a braided four-dimensional structure, ways to infer the four-dimensional structure from three dimensions, and to account for variation observed in three dimensions using design notions of tolerance and perceptual coding, why the concept of the soul need not be eliminated in modernity even if it comes to seem less mysterious in the process of investigation, and the ongoing intellectual conversation on the soul carried on from classical times through medieval and modern Christian thought.

Jared and Todd discuss meaning. Is there a current crisis of meaning? What is the source of meaning and why might it be lost? How can it be recovered?

What is the nature of the soul? In Part I we look at this question through the thought experiment of the Transporter Problem. What is it that would have to be preserved in a transportation process in order to say that the person stepping out on the other side is the same person? What are the implications for the nature of personal identity and the makeup of the human person, or soul?