In this episode, Alex talks to Dr Tyler McNabb (https://www.hbu.edu/contact/tyler-mcnabb/) about Reformed Epistemology.

In this episode, Alex talks to Dr Penelope Rush (http://www.peneloperush.id.au) about the metaphysics of logic. We talked about her paper Logic or Reason? (https://philpapers.org/archive/RUSLOR.pdf), and many other interesting things.

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In this episode, I talk with Neil Sinhababu (National University of Singapore) about fine tuning. In particular, we explore the argument in his great paper, 'Fine Tuning vs Electrons in Love' https://philpapers.org/archive/SINFAP.pdf

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In this episode, Alex talks to Prof. David Benatar about the ethics of having children, and his view - anti-natalism - according to which it is always morally wrong to reproduce. They discuss the arguments mainly in his book Better Never to Have Been (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Better-Never-Have-Been-Existence/dp/0199549265), and some difficult topics, such as mortality, suicide and abortion.

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In this episode, Alex talks to Prof. Alastair Norcross about the ethics of eating meat, and in particular Prof. Norcross' paper 'Puppies, Pigs and People' (http://faculty.smu.edu/jkazez/animal%20rights/norcross-4.pdf).

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In this episode, Alex talks with Prof. Scott Berman (St. Louis University) about platonism. They talk about various competing views, such as nominalism, conceptualism, constructivism, contemporary and classic Aristotelianism, and how they stack up against platonism.

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In this episode, Alex talks with Prof. Wes Morriston (University of Colorado, Boulder) about the kalam cosmological argument. They talk about the idea of actual infinities and William Lane Craig's arguments about how they are impossible.

Many of Prof. Morriston's papers are available here: http://spot.colorado.edu/~morristo/selected-papers.html

In particular, see this: http://spot.colorado.edu/~morristo/NewKalamCritique.pdf

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In this episode, Alex talks to Prof. Graham Oppy (University of Monash) about logical problems of evil. The disussion centres around Graham's forthcoming paper in the Cambridge Companion to the Problem of Evil, edited by Chad Meister and Paul Moser. Find out more about Graham here: http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/graham-oppy/publications/

In this episode, Alex talks to Prof. Graham Priest (CUNY) about paradoxes, contradictions and the metaphysics of logic. Priest is well known for defending a theory, known as 'dialetheism', according to which some contradictions are true. He has also done considerable work on paraconsitent logic and the analysis of paradoxes.

We recommend his book, 'In Contradiction' (1987), and his website which features hundreds of free papers (http://grahampriest.net).

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In this first episode, I talk to Dr Arif Ahmed, who is a Reader in philosophy at the University of Cambridge. We talk about atheism, David Hume, and Arif's recent paper 'Hume and the Independent Witnesses' (2015). Here is Arif's academic page where you can see his research outputs and links to various public engagements he has participated in:

http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/people/teaching-research-pages/ahmed/ahmed-page

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