Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate

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The Great Debated is a series of fifteen lectures by Timothy McGrew, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University. The 'Great Debate' is a convenient umbrella term for a set of theological and philosophocal disputes about miracles, prophecy, and theism itself…

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    • Jun 29, 2017 LATEST EPISODE
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    Lecture 05: Populist Skepticism: Paine and Watson

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2017 44:00


    This lecture begins the account of the sceptics who appealed to the common working man, with the main focus of this first lecture on Thomas Paine, with responses by Bishop Richard Watson.

    Lecture 04: Urbane Skepticism: Mill and Arnold

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2017 52:24


    This second and final lecture on urbane scepticism deals with the work of the Utilitarian John Stuart Mill and the English poet Matthew Arnold.

    Lecture 03: Urbane Skepticism: Gibbon vs. Watson

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2017 41:00


    Urbane scepticism, an extension of English Deism, is presented in this lecture mostly through the lens of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with a response by Bishop Richard Watson.

    Lecture 02: Continental Skepticism

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2017 38:25


    The focus of this lecture is continental scepticism, primarily a French movement influenced by Deism, and its main proponents: Voltaire and Rousseau.

    Lecture 01: Introduction and Course Overview

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2017 16:24


    This lecture introduces the course and the seven sceptical challenges of the period: continental, urbane, populist, scholarly, transcendental, establishment, and Dutch and German.

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