Kazingram Dialogue – Details, episodes & analysis

Hugh Hunter is a Philosopher, PhD Toronto. He completed his Postdoc at Humboldt University, Berlin. Hugh has taught in many universities around in USA and Canada. In 2018, he left academia permanently. He wrote How to be a Philosopher and is on a mission to show people how to be a philosopher.  Check out his current project Berkeleian Idealism Project now: https://hughhunter.substack.com/p/the-what-of-berkeleian-idealism In this episode, we discuss what it means to be a philosopher, how to do philosophy, and how the present state of academia can help and hinder genuine thinking, and what the future practice of philosophy might look like. Follow Amos on Twitter: https://twitter.com/amosdowber Follow IJ on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ijmakan Facebook - www.facebook.com/KZNGRM Instagram - www.instagram.com/kazingramdialogue Twitter - twitter.com/KZNGRM

Jim Madden is a Professor of Philosophy at Benedictine College and a martial artist. He is the author of Mind, Matter, and Nature: A Thomistic Proposal for the Philosophy of Mind and Ageless Athlete.

In this episode we discuss the type of life a philosopher must live, how one learns to become free in the face of modern nihilism, and Jim’s upcoming book Thinking about Thinking: Mind and Meaning in the Era of Technological Nihilism.

Check out Jim’s new website where you can read the intro to his new book and more.

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Adam Cohen-Aslatei is a graduate of Harvard, the founder and CEO of S'more, and formerly the managing director of Chappy, Bumble's gay dating app.

In this episode we talk to Adam about S’more, the dating app he founded that is aimed at rejecting the superficiality of online dating in favor of forming intentional long-term relationships. We also discuss the future of online dating, including the integration of virtual reality technology and artificial intelligence.

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Karen Stiller is senior editor of Faith Today, one of Canada’s leading Christian magazines. She is the host of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada’s podcast. She is a moderator of the annual Religion and Society series at the University of Toronto, a debate series between leading atheists and theologians that seeks to generate critical conversations on matters of faith, society and public interest.  

In this episode, we talk with Karen about her recently released memoir "The Minister’s Wife", what lead her to write it, the social struggles and blessings of being a minister’s wife, as well as the importance of honesty for life and writing.

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James Madden is a Professor of Philosophy and martial artist. He is the author of Mind, Matter, and Nature: A Thomistic Proposal for the Philosophy of Mind and Ageless Athlete.

In this episode, Jim returns to discuss his experience with getting Covid-19, mortality, finding meaning in one's life, the meaning of religious language, the loss of culture in North America and how this cripples our ethics, as well as raising a family in the modern world.

You can listen to Jim's latest lectures at the Thomistic institute here, here, and here.

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Sophie Thomas is a personal trainer, philosopher, psychology graduate student, and model.

In this episode, we talk to Sophie about the relation between philosophy and the value structures that underlie training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, the importance of comradery in learning martial arts, the formation of cultures, and Portuguese linguistics.

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In this episode, our editor-in-chief I.J. Makan talks to editor Amos Dowber about the importance of tradition in communicating knowledge, tradition vs traditionalism, the middle eastern sources of "Western culture," and political philosophy.

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Candice Malcolm is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of True North, an independent, non-governmental, non-partisan organization that conducts research and investigative journalism into important public issues in Canada. She is an author, an investigative journalist, a nationally syndicated columnist with the Toronto Sun. 

In this episode, we talk to Candice about Trudeau's WE charity scandal and the bias against independent journalism in Canada's mainstream media. 

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Lyman Stone is is an Adjunct Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies. Lyman was formerly a consultant for businesses on demographic trends, a Lutheran missionary in Hong Kong, and an agricultural economist at USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service. He has an MA in international trade policy from the George Washington University.

In this episode Amos sits down with Lyman stone to discuss the current slump in North American birthrate, why that might spell economic downturn as well as social unrest in our near future, and potential solutions to the problem.
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Paul Franks is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tyndale University where he has taught for over ten years. Paul specializes in the philosophy of religion and has written extensively on free-will, the existence of God, and the problem of evil in relation to the question of God's existence.

In this episode, Paul discusses the book he recently edited Explaining Evil: Four Views, the problem of evil, the nature of evil, the role of suffering in human life, the publishing industry, and political correctness.

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