podcast 47 – Dr. Alan Padgett, “Informal Reason and the Idea of a Christian Philosophy”

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In this episode we hear the audio of Dr. Padgett’s talk “Informal Reason and the Idea of a Christian Philosophy” of April 25, 2014 at Claremont McKenna College, at the retirement conference in honor of Stephen T. Davis.

In this wide-ranging talk, Dr. Padgett discusses human reasoning (with special reference to science), and 20th century debates about the idea of a Christian philosophy.

You can also hear this episode on youtube.

Links for this episode:

• Dr. Padgett’s professional home page
• the problem of induction
• informal logic
• classical [formal] logic
• Jacques Maritain
• Etienne Gilson
• Alvin Plantinga’s “Advice to Christian Philosophers“
• D.Z. Philips, “Advice to Philosophers Who Are Christians”
• The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity
• Christianity and Western Thought, Vol. 3