In this episode, Kevin and I discuss the issue of free will, the evidential problem of evil, the nature of character traits, the contours of agency, and much more. Kevin Timpe is the William H. Jellema Chair in Christian Philosophy at Calvin University. His primary research interests range across the metaphysics of free will, philosophy of disability, virtue theory, and philosophical theology
Great point about Pascal's Wager. I've been arguing that point (that it only holds true if all forms of theism are fungible for the purpose of afterlife assignment) since I learned about it from Gregg Easterbrook's TMQ column a decade ago, and you are the only other person I've come across who has mentioned that. I've seen it used often as a 'gotcha' essentially because "there's math," even though the premise is absolute garbage.
Great point about Pascal's Wager. I've been arguing that point (that it only holds true if all forms of theism are fungible for the purpose of afterlife assignment) since I learned about it from Gregg Easterbrook's TMQ column a decade ago, and you are the only other person I've come across who has mentioned that. I've seen it used often as a 'gotcha' essentially because "there's math," even though the premise is absolute garbage.