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*_LIST OF QUESTIONS_*

0:00 Intro and notes
1:04 Favorite paradox + Naturalized epistemology/metaphysics
4:06 Mentorship experiences + inspiring people
7:50 Value most in life + omnipotence explains independence?
9:33 Anthropic argument
10:21 Truth seeking, philosophy, and sheeple
12:11 Unitarianism vs Trinitarianism
13:22 Anxiety
18:46 Favorite mathematical idea
19:20 Defining ‘naturalism’
22:43 Meinongianism
25:17 Will we ever solve philosophical problems?
27:20 Zendaya
27:39 Romantic love: spark vs temporal development
28:36 Ice cream flavor
28:42 Arsenal or Spurs?
30:13 Why is there anything at all? + Substance dualism
33:21 Kuzari argument
34:35 Self-reference
34:49 Kant’s first antimony
36:22 Idealism
39:39 Pantheism
42:28 Book recs for metaphysics and epistemology
43:56 Greatest five philosophers
45:08 Philosophy YouTube channels (there are many I left out here — e.g., Friction Philosophy, Emerson Green, etc.)
46:25 Best theist and atheist philosophers
47:53 Purpose of universe?
48:33 Existential fear + fear of hell + PhD topic
51:44 Mind changes through philosophy
55:15 Psychedelics
56:15 Favorite argument for eternal past
1:03:06 Philosophy without seemings + metaphilosophy
1:06:11 Metaethical theory
1:07:02 Future-oriented Benardete paradoxes
1:08:09 When did I start wearing glasses?
1:08:44 Presuppositional apologetics
1:09:19 Searching for arguments is evidence of atheism?
1:12:18 Political leanings
1:12:52 Presupp again
1:13:04 Free will views + argument against free will
1:16:47 Would God be physical?
1:17:58 Presupp again
1:18:21 Views on sports
1:19:55 AI + China brain argument
1:21:57 Most promising response to PoE
1:22:25 Biggest problem for neo-CT
1:25:49 Non-classical logic + dialetheism + Nietzsche
1:27:32 NDEs
1:29:34 Is theism rational? Pragmatic?
1:30:12 Probabilistic ontological argument
1:39:25 Top objections to Catholicism
1:41:12 Content rec + normative ethics + philosophical regret
1:42:42 Is apologetics bad?
1:45:00 Natural law theory + conversation with past people
1:46:17 Internal and external reasons
1:47:38 Trustworthy conclusions based on axioms?
1:48:54 Which religion would I pick? + Favorite movie
1:49:47 Aesthetic realism + trinity
1:53:12 The value of history of philosophy
1:55:25 Advice for truth seeking
1:58:05 Concussions + my future children
1:59:13 Fav early analytic philosopher
1:59:54 Justification + internalism
2:00:58 Limerick about Johnny Waldrop
2:01:29 Favorite books
2:02:17 Is categorical logic obsolete?
2:03:31 Francesco Berto
2:04:26 Analytic vs. Continental philosophy
2:07:04 Veganism questions
2:11:26 Longtermism + Effective altruism
2:14:17 Arguments about world religions
2:17:25 Resurrection case + the growth of physics
2:19:35 Inverse gambler’s fallacy objection + FTA
2:21:33 Is water wet? How many holes in a straw?
2:22:05 Problem of the criterion + one-boxer? + kids?
2:22:24 Intuition vs simplicity
2:24:00 Repugnant conclusion + Pascal’s mugger + Argument from limits
2:27:15 Which infinite regresses are possible?
2:29:22 Phil Rel arguments that deserve more attention
2:34:03 Animal suffering + NDEs + philosophical struggle + living forever
2:35:11 Should everyone be agnostic? + If I were God + Atonement models
2:36:02 Timeless existence? + Matt Dillahunty + views I’ve shifted on
2:39:25 Determinism, free will, and foreknowledge + philosophical mind
2:43:23 Most controversial view? + Best version of PoE + Plan B
2:46:04 Where did I grow up? + Princeton experience + What to study?
2:47:48 Value selection hypothesis (actually my credence interval is shifted slightly higher, but only marginally)
2:48:12 Fav argument for moral realism + fav accent + miracle
2:50:05 Deism
2:51:50 Frege questions
2:52:47 Favorite arguments for theism to think about
2:53:25 Non-naturalist moral epistemology
2:55:19 Why Arsenal? + Messi Sorites + Trinity
2:57:35 Best arguments for God + first philosophical musing
2:59:17 Philosophical origin story + philosophical interests over time
3:01:52 ADHD + Chess + Single objection to Kalam’s first premise
3:04:27 Pacifism + interpretations of continental philosophy + PSR
3:06:37 Classical pragmatism + Aztec pantheism + God by definition exists
3:08:52 Problem of other minds + polytheism
3:10:10 Good philosophical research + how a simple entity produces multiplicity
3:11:41 Qualia + colors + is the future religious?
3:12:53 is-ought gap + natural law arguments
3:13:42 Why am I on YouTube? + the origin of laws + content rec
3:19:13 Prior probability of explanations of fine-tuning
3:21:12 Weak vs strong agnosticism + Daoism + Intuition of design?
3:24:28 Determinism in an infinite past?
3:25:16 Argument against Christianity
3:28:36 From a priori knowledge to God? + watchmaker arguments + wife and kids
3:30:58 Most important question + book recs + favorite hand
3:31:52 More wisdom = more worries? + wife and kids
3:33:33 How Phil Rel helps addresses radical communities
3:35:01 FTA and Necessitarianism + most plausible ultimate reality
3:39:10 Free will again + sports + art + how much I read + FTA again
3:44:50 Lindybeige’s take + divine simplicity and creation
3:46:53 Sleeping beauty problem
3:54:52 Outgrowing religion + patriarchy + monarchy + influential books
3:56:42 Math: invented or discovered? + philosophical breakthrough + dreams
3:57:15 Crimes beyond forgiveness + if not philosophy, what would I study?
3:58:10 Graham Oppy and deductive arguments + anti-natalism and cognitive dissonance
4:00:23 Most annoying philosopher/philosophy + limits to reason
4:02:00 Four horsemen of new atheism
4:02:36 Modal anti-realism + when I got into philosophy + Arsenal again
4:06:38 Contingentarianism + VeNeRaGe + Kalam and Islamic philosophers + Watchmen
4:09:08 Becoming Christian? + Everyone atheist? + Best debates + miracles + psychiatry
4:11:52 PoE as decisive + What would convince me of Christianity?
4:13:03 Argument from hostility/scale
4:13:52 How am I doing? + Tips for undergrads
4:19:51 Happen to exist + Quran sounds nice? + Height + Math + Good = Privation of evil?
4:22:00 Mulla Sadra and the CTMU + Transcendental argument + Pascal’s Wager
4:22:50 Finite theism + flexibility of models of God + favorite music/bands
4:26:53 Anarcho-capitalism + social groups + snobbery + classical omni-God + Scholasticism
4:30:24 India + agnostic about CT? + models of God and the PoE + Hinduism
4:32:14 Diff kinds of necessity + anime and math + consciousness and souls
4:34:27 Me vs your sister + Kant + Indeterministic explanations and PSR
4:40:55 Multiple content recs + integrated information theory
4:43:28 O’Connor vs. Shapiro + Stoicism + How to study philosophy
4:45:28 God is a gunner + Kieran Tierney + collab
4:47:07 Psychophysical harmony + inspiring philosophers
4:50:07 Philosophy in high school? + How’s my knee
4:54:46 Detention + free will theodicy + Thinking patterns + Vervaeke
4:58:28 Skeptical theism + favorite theodicy + Book recs on PoE + Arsenal
5:00:16 God has incompatible properties? + Marriage and kids
5:00:36 Have people changed worldview because of me? + Reasons for theism
5:01:26 Agnostic all life? + Pascal’s wager + favorite philosopher + CCFs and molinism
5:03:35 Orch OR + activities of philosophers + Deconversion from Catholicism
5:04:55 McGrew stuff + animal suffering + Lewisian metaphysics
5:06:51 van Fraassen + MacIntyre + Nietzsche + novels + my career in philosophy
5:09:32 Phil Sci matters for science? + Buddhism + How art influences beliefs
5:11:32 Content rec + soteriologies centered on the content of one’s beliefs
5:13:18 Negative theology + convincing a computer + How I to into Phil Rel
5:17:03 Is-ought gap again + LDS + Polytheism
5:20:53 Grasping infinite past vs. timeless God
5:21:35 Credence in theism + Arsenal + normative ethics
5:22:33 Deconstructing Christianity + philosophical methodology + abstracta and normative facts
5:25:38 Limited vs Unlimited Theism + Swinburne’s brain transplant argument + Pyrrhonism
5:27:45 Conclusion

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[TheOtherCaleb]

You’re a legend in the making.

Thanks for the answers!

[newglof]

Lots of breadth and depth as always Joe! Thanks. Wish I knew about this AMA.
Question: do you have any favorite historical or contemporary political philosophers (or philosophers commonly understood to have a political dimension to their thought)? If so, who?

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