Philosophy Archives - FAIR

This podcast series features past FAIR Conference presentations. This presentation is from our 2021 conference. If you would like to watch all the presentations from that conference, you can still purchase the video streaming. Tarik D. LaCour, Intro to Mormon Natural Theology Tarik D. LaCour is a Ph.D student in philosophy and MA student in neuroscience […] The post FAIR Conference Podcast #80 – Tarik D. Lacour, “Intro to Mormon Natural Theology” appeared first on FAIR.

Blake Ostler discusses the fourth volume of Exploring Mormon Thought: God’s Plan to Heal Evil with Hanna. He outlines many of the common solutions to the problem of evil, but focuses on the uniquely Latter-day Saint solution as well as providing excellent commentary on what it truly means to love God and to love someone. Blake […] The post FAIR Voice Podcast #25: Interview with Blake Ostler appeared first on FAIR.

Joseph Lawal, a Classics and Philosophy student, as well as the creator of LDSPhilosophy (YouTube channel) comes on to speak about developing a worldview within apologetics to close off the philosophy series. Joseph illustrates what a worldview is, why it is effective, and how to develop one. This fascinating conversation helps us understand the interconnectedness […] The post FAIR Voice Podcast #15: Worldview Apologetics with Joseph Lawal appeared first on FAIR.

  In this episode of Best of FAIR, Wendy Ulrich, Ph.D., observes: “In my experience, neither critics nor apologists for the Church do much to convince me whether or not to believe. Debates, analysis, and scientific evidence may alternately undermine or support my beliefs, but belief itself is a choice I wrestle God for, somewhere in […] The post Best of FAIR 11: “Believest thou…?”: Faith, Cognitive Dissonance, and the Psychology of Religious Experience appeared first on FAIR.

Just in time for Thanksgiving, here’s part two of my interview with John Durham Peters, the A. Craig Baird Professor in communication studies at the University of Iowa. Peters joined me through Skype from his home in Iowa for this two-part episode on Mormonism and Communication (see part 1 here). A bibliography of Peters’s works directly […] The post FAIR Podcast, Episode 6: John Durham Peters p.2 appeared first on FAIR.

In part two, Richard Bushman discusses challenges facing Mormon graduate students, his latest book “Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction,” and other subjects including temples, the LDS sacraments, Mormon cosmology, and Zion. Bushman is an award-winning American historian, currently serving as the Howard W. Hunter Visiting Professor in Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University and Gouverneur […] The post FAIR Podcast, Episode 4: Richard L. Bushman p.2 appeared first on FAIR.