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Podcast: Counter Apologetics
Episode: CA66 Materialism, Consciousness, and Atheism
Description: We discuss the relationship between atheism, consciousness, and materialism after debunking arguments from consciousness formulated by Peter Kreeft and William Lane Craig. We also discuss why it’s important for naturalists to think carefully about these issues. I suspect that seemingly unrelated problems arise from our lack of a convincing story about consciousness. Consciousness and related phenomena, like morality and meaning, seem to be a major source of resistance to physicalism, naturalism, and atheism.
[Edit] Based on some of the feedback I’ve received, I feel the need to reiterate a major thesis of this episode: there is n...