The Challenge Of Atheism For Scientific Explanation | Prof. Tomás Bogardus

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🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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This talk was given on April 28, 2022 at Mississippi State University. The slides accompanying this lecture can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/bogardusmississippi For information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the Speaker: Tomás Bogardus is associate professor of philosophy at Pepperdine University. He was born in Long Beach, California, and earned his BS in biology at UC San Diego, his MA in philosophy at Biola University, and his PhD in philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He works mainly in metaphysics and epistemology, and is most interested in the mind-body problem and the rationality of religious belief.

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0:11.0	So one of the questions that got me into philosophy was the question of why I think you can trust your religious beliefs,
0:17.0	given that there's so much disagreement about them,
0:20.0	and how easily you could have had different religious beliefs if you'd been raised in a different place or if your parents had taught you different things.
0:27.6	So it's one of the ways that got me in the philosophy.
0:30.6	But, oh, so I should tell you, I started as a biologist and as an undergrad. I studied biology.
0:35.6	I got my degree in biology at UC San Diego,
0:39.3	and I thought I was going to go to medical school or go get a PhD in biology.
0:44.3	But I had these sorts of nagging questions that I didn't even know it was called philosophy at the time
0:50.3	because I went to a university that did not advertise philosophy. It was not for philosophers.
0:55.6	It was for STEM kids. But I had a lot of philosophical questions, and so I thought I'll just go
1:01.4	get that out of my system at a two-year master's program and then go do the responsible thing and go to
1:07.0	medical school. But then instead of doing the responsible thing,
1:11.2	I went to grad school in philosophy
1:12.7	and got a PhD at the University of Texas.
1:17.7	Yeah, and then pretty much since then,
1:19.5	I've been at Pepperdane.
1:21.6	I guess I wanted to mention that
1:24.2	because this was actually one of the other,
1:26.3	one of the few questions
1:27.8	that dragged me into philosophy from biology.
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