This is the full length version of the series Pts 1-6 you can find on my YouTube channel. We examine in more detail Transcendentalism and the Transcendental Argument for God.

00:00:00 The Importance of Aesthetic appreciation
00:05:20 Something can be beautiful and functional
00:06:00 Review of previous series:
00:08:00 Theory of Types
00:10:00 Proof and the Scientific Method
00:14:20 Necessity and Probability
00:16:00 Rhetorical rephrasing – John Frame
00:19:00 Clarifying the Transcendental Argument form
00:19:45 The TAG and its critics
00:22:40 Aristotle’s argument for logic
00:24:00 The argument against breathing is possible only if you are breathing
00:26:44 The argument form – Assume X (uncontroversial). X has the presupposition Y (controversial).
00:27:00 The Reductio – defeating scepticism
00:30:00 ‘Nothing can be known’ – except that ‘Nothing can be known’
00:30:00 Summary
00:31:29 P F Strawson’s argument for particular identity
00:35:30 The particular exception does not invalidate a transcendental
00:37:00 The sceptical argument assumes what it is trying to disprove
00:38:14 Berkeley’s theory of knowledge as a reaction to materialism
00:41:20 Kant vs Strawson
00:44:00 Modern philosophy and transcendentalism
00:45:25 Option ‘A’ and Option ‘B’ arguments
00:47:15 The noumenal and the phenomenal
00:48:47 Stroud’s objection to TAs
00:49:36 The TAG and its apologetic implications
01:01:00 Option ‘A’ arguments as a rational proof
01:01:50 The Van Tillian TAG – Worldview coherence
01:03:53 Stroud and the TAG
01:04:56 Bridging the gap between Mind and World – Verificationism
01:07:00 Donald Davidson and ‘Conceptual Schemes’
01:12:20 Other Conceptual schemes?
01:13:06 God’s conceptual scheme
01:14:55 Bridged the gap between Mind and World?
01:16:17 Reliabilism
01:17:30 Representational realism
01:18:04 Naive realism
01:19:07 Reid as a response to Hume
01:19:40 Plantinga as a development of Reid
01:20:42 Plantinga’s Terminus
01:22:00 Justification and Warrant
01:24:48 Rational belief vs Living Faith
01:26:00 Religious experience
01:26:55 Kierkegaard’s rejection of reason as adequate in matters of faith
01:28:00 Natural Theology vs Natural Revelation
01:30:00 Reformed Theology
01:31:42 Pascal’s reasons of the heart
01:32:30 Van Til’s Transcendental Argument
01:32:43 The precondition for all intelligibility
01:35:00 The implicit circularity of reasoning
01:37:00 The post-modern critique
01:38:00 The transcendent transcendental – the Trinity
01:40:00 Faith and Reason
01:42:30 Pura naturalis (an independent realm of nature)
01:43:00 Covenant as the basis of natural law
01:46:00 Van Til’s Transcendentalism
01:47:50 Van Til’s Transcendental Argument restated
01:50:00 Possibility and worldview
01:51:15 The Form of Life
01:52:00 Christian Theism as the Prerequisite for Intelligibility
01:55:00 Voluntarism as a response to Kant
01:57:00 The Trinitarian concept of God alone is sufficient
02:01:00 Philosophical questions as Religious questions
02:03:26 Sartre’s ‘Words’
02:05:09 Huxley and Russell – the erotic revolt
02:07:33 Deconstruction
02:09:00 The crisis of the West
02:09:30 The technocratic elite
02:11:41 God and gods in the Public Square
02:12:10 The transhumanists and their rejection of natural rights
02:13:45 Review
02:15:30 Describing vs Explaining
02:17:30 Einstein and his nurse
02:19:00 Why Carnap worked on Sunday
02:20:17 The intellectual requirements for Christian philosophy
02:21:00 How Christianity Changed the World
02:23:00 Summary and the Power of the TA
02:30:00 God’s Thoughts and Our Thoughts
02:31:30 Plantinga and Van Til compared and contrasted
02:34:48 The Universal and the Particular
02:36:00 Final Summary and Conclusion