{"id":35220,"date":"2015-04-21T08:59:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T12:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=35220"},"modified":"2016-03-22T20:38:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T00:38:28","slug":"podcast-84-dr-william-vallicella-on-god-and-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-84-dr-william-vallicella-on-god-and-existence\/","title":{"rendered":"podcast 84 &#8211; Dr. William Vallicella on Existence and God"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_283\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-35220-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities084.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities084.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities084.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities084.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=35220-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities084.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"trinities084.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7FuUF9DZM3zhtN41n6RJ6l\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-35228\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/letter-e-235x300.png\" alt=\"letter e\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/letter-e-235x300.png 235w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/letter-e-420x536.png 420w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/letter-e-90x115.png 90w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/letter-e.png 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/>Dr. William Vallicella, aka <strong>the <a title=\"Maverick Philosopher\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maverick Philosopher<\/a><\/strong>, believes that existence exists. In this semi-autobiographical episode, we continue our discussion from last week, this time focusing on Dr. Vallicella&#8217;s views on\u00a0<strong>existence, naturalism,\u00a0and\u00a0God<\/strong>. We also touch briefly on monism and\u00a0Advaita Vedanta Hinduism.<\/p>\n<p>After you listen, check out this <a title=\"William Vallicella on God as being \" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2015\/04\/god-a-being-among-beings-or-being-itself.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>thorough, penetrating post<\/strong> by Dr. Vallicella on this idea of God as Being<\/a>. He&#8217;s &#8216;fer it, and I&#8217;m agin&#8217; it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: the conversation continues in written form <a href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/dialogue-with-the-maverick-philosopher-god-is-a-being-not-being-itself-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also <strong>listen t<\/strong><strong>o this episode on<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a title=\"trinities podcast @ stitcher\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/s?fid=54067&amp;refid=stpr\" target=\"_blank\">Stitcher<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0or <strong><a title=\"trinities @ itunes\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id690304581?mt=2&amp;uo=4&amp;at=11l5XS\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>\u00a0(please subscribe, rate, and review<\/strong>\u00a0us in either or both \u2013 <strong><a title=\"how to rate us at iTunes and Stitcher\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/review\/\" target=\"_blank\">directions here<\/a><\/strong>). It is also available on <a title=\"trinities podcast youtube playlist\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLMCt15e8gG-g7t7wo9MCq9KSDSsvGNcsm\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube <\/a>(scroll down \u2013 you can\u00a0<a title=\"youtube subscription link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/khanpadawan?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\">subscribe here<\/a>). If you would like to\u00a0<strong>upload audio feedback<\/strong> for possible inclusion in a future episode of this podcast,\u00a0<a title=\"upload audio feedback for the trinities podcast here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/filedrop\/filedrop_hosted.php?drop=96df5ea43b9b7c6582cb95b8c5a7259d7cd8109e0cd009d4a5ecd099cc7e64fb\" target=\"_blank\">put the audio file here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links for this episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>the <a title=\"Maverick Philosopher\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maverick Philosopher<\/a>\u00a0blog<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Vallicella on van Inwagen\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2015\/03\/pre-print-peter-van-inwagen-existence-essays-in-ontology.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Vallicella&#8217;s review of Peter van Inwagen&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Existence: Essays in Ontology<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Feldman on Chisholm\" href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/chisholm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roderick Chisholm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Martin Heidegger\" href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/heidegger\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Heidegger<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Castaneda at Wikipedia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H%C3%A9ctor-Neri_Casta%C3%B1eda\" target=\"_blank\">H\u00e9ctor-Neri Casta\u00f1eda<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"monism at SEP\" href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/monism\/\" target=\"_blank\">monism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Advaita Vedanta at IEP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/adv-veda\/\" target=\"_blank\">Advaita Vedanta<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<a title=\"eliminative materialism\" href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/materialism-eliminative\/\" target=\"_blank\">eliminative materialism about the mental<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Alvin Plantinga&#8217;s &#8220;<a title=\"Plantinga, Two Dozen (or so) Theistic Arguments\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calvin.edu\/academic\/philosophy\/virtual_library\/articles\/plantinga_alvin\/two_dozen_or_so_theistic_arguments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Two Dozen (or so) Theistic Arguments<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>James Beebe on <a title=\"the Logical Problem of Evil\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/evil-log\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Logical Problem of Evil<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Ed Feser blog\" href=\"http:\/\/edwardfeser.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Feser&#8217;s blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li>This week&#8217;s thinking music is &#8220;<a title=\"Adam are you free? By Pipe Choir\" href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Pipe_Choir\/Adam_Are_You_Free\/Adam_Are_You_Free\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Are You Free?<\/a>&#8221; by <a title=\"Pipe Choir at the Free Music Archive\" href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Pipe_Choir\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pipe Choir<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. William Vallicella, aka the Maverick Philosopher, believes that existence exists. In this semi-autobiographical episode, we continue our discussion from last week, this time focusing on Dr. Vallicella&#8217;s views on existence, naturalism, and God. We also touch briefly on monism and Advaita Vedanta Hinduism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,56,9,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hinduism","category-interview","category-philosophy","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37369,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35220\/revisions\/37369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}