#29 Richard Swinburne - Souls, Free Will and the Problem of Evil
Within Reason
Alex J O'Connor
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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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