#29 Richard Swinburne - Souls, Free Will and the Problem of Evil

Within Reason

Alex O'Connor

Religion, Morality, Ethics, Society & Culture, Cosmicskeptic, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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🗓️ 30 April 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Richard Swinburne is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and author of a number of books on the philosophy of religion, the soul, and Christianity, amongst other subjects.

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0:00.0	Welcome to within reason. My name is Alex O'Connor. My guest today is Mr. Richard Swinburn.
0:05.9	Richard Swinburn is an emeritus professor of philosophy at Oxford University and one of the
0:10.5	most respected contributors to the field of philosophy of religion from a Christian perspective.
0:15.2	Born in 1934, Professor Swinburne has spent the last 50 years writing extensively on the philosophy of religion,
0:22.4	as well as topics including mind-body dualism and the philosophy of science.
0:26.4	He's particularly well known for a trilogy of books,
0:28.8	Faith and Reason, The Coherence of Theism, and and the existence of God.
0:33.8	I spoke to Professor Swinburn at his home in Oxford and we discussed mind-body dualism
0:38.6	as well as the existence of free will.
0:40.8	Professor Swinburn believes in the existence of libertarian free will, and as you may know, I certainly
0:46.6	do not, so I didn't want to waste an opportunity to pick this great philosopher's brain on that
0:50.9	issue.
0:51.9	We also talk about the problem of evil and the issues that this might pose for belief in the existence of a good God.
0:57.0	It was a privilege to sit down with Richard Swimburne and I do hope that you enjoy the following conversation. Professor Richard Swinburne, Swinburne, thank you so much for being here.
1:20.0	Thank you for inviting me.
1:22.0	You probably have no reason to remember this, but we did meet once before
1:26.0	after you had conducted a debate with Peter Milliken at the Oxford Union in the Oxford Union bar afterwards and I remember being
1:37.1	fascinated by just how long you've been in Oxford in academia when was it that you came here as an undergraduate?
1:44.6	I came up to Oxford in 1954 as an undergraduate. And one of the things I wanted to ask you
1:52.3	is of course I imagine that the academic space and the way that philosophy is popularly understood and taught has changed a lot since then.
2:00.0	I wonder if you could give us an indication of how and why you think that might have happened.
2:04.6	When I was an undergraduate, the Oxford atmosphere, philosophical atmosphere was dominated by what is called ordinary language
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