In this episode we hear the audio of Dr. Padgett's talk “Informal Reason and the Idea of a Christian Philosophy” of April 25, 2014 at Claremont McKenna College, at the retirement conference in honor of Stephen T. Davis.

In this wide-ranging talk, Dr. Padgett discusses human reasoning (with special reference to science), and 20th century debates about the idea of a Christian philosophy.

You can also hear this episode on youtube.

Links for this episode:

Dr. Padgett's professional home page

the problem of induction

informal logic

classical [formal] logic

Jacques Maritain

Etienne Gilson

Alvin Plantinga's "Advice to Christian Philosophers"

D.Z. Philips, "Advice to Philosophers Who Are Christians"

The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity

Christianity and Western Thought, Vol. 3