• Episode 113: Determinism and the Principle of Sufficient Reason with Shaun Nichols
    Feb 16 2026

    In this episode, we talk with Shaun Nichols about folk beliefs about determinism and causal explanation.

    Shaun's website: https://sites.google.com/view/shaunbnichols/home

    Shaun's book, Bound: Essays on Free Will and Responsibility: https://academic.oup.com/book/9296

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    41 mins
  • Episode 112: Divine Luck with Andre Leo Rusavuk
    Feb 2 2026

    In this episode, we talk with Andre Rusavuk about the problem of divine luck.

    Andre's website: https://philpeople.org/profiles/andre-rusavuk

    Andre's paper, "Divine Actions and the Challenge of Present Luck": https://place.asburyseminary.edu/faithandphilosophy/vol40/iss3/1/

    Andre's paper, "The Luckiest of All Possible Beings: Divine Perfections and Constitutive Luck": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11841-023-00960-5

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    36 mins
  • Episode 111: Divine Responsibility with Nathan Bray and Stephen Kershnar
    Jan 19 2026

    This episode starts a new series of the podcast that won’t have any particular guiding theme but instead looks at various topics that scholars are working on. In this episode, we talk with Nathan Bray and Stephen Kershnar about whether God is morally responsible.

    Nathan's Website: https://philpeople.org/profiles/nathan-bray-1

    Stephen's Website: https://philpeople.org/profiles/stephen-kershnar

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    33 mins
  • Episode 110: John Duns Scotus with Thomas Williams
    Dec 22 2025

    In this episode, we talk with Thomas Williams about John Duns Scotus and his views on free will and how they differ from Anselm's and Aquinas's views.

    Thomas's website: https://www.profthomaswilliams.com/

    Thomas's chapter on Scotus's views of free will can be found in the Routledge Companion to Free Will

    Thomas also wrote the SEP article: John Duns Scotus

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    52 mins
  • Episode 109: Thomas Aquinas with Harm Goris
    Dec 8 2025

    In this episode, we talk with Harm Goris about Thomas Aquinas’s views of free will and human agency.

    Harm's website: https://tilburguniversity.academia.edu/HarmGoris

    Harm's chapter on Aquinas can be found in the Routledge Companion to Free Will.

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    44 mins
  • Episode 108: Anselm with Sandra Visser
    Nov 24 2025

    In this episode we talk with Sandra Visser about Anselm’s views of human and divine freedom.

    Sandra's website: https://hope.edu/directory/people/visser-sandra/index.html

    Sandra's chapters on Anselm can be found in the Routledge Companion to Free will

    And in the Cambridge Companion to Anselm

    See also: Anselm's Account of Freedom in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy

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    36 mins
  • Episode 107: Ibn Sīnā with Jon McGinnis
    Nov 10 2025

    In this episode, we talk with Jon McGinnis about Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) and his views about divine and human agency.

    Jon's website: https://www.medieval.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/jon-mcginnis

    Jon's book, Avicenna: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/avicenna-9780195331479?cc=us&lang=en&


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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Episode 106: Boethius with John Marenbon
    Oct 27 2025

    In this episode, we talk with John Marenbon about free will and foreknowledge in Boethius's most famous work, the Consolation of Philosophy.

    John's PhilPeople profile: https://philpeople.org/profiles/john-marenbon

    John's Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Boethius: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/boethius/


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    45 mins