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Not many people can make Metaphysics interesting while not screwing you up , but then, not many people are Prof. Rob Koons, Ph.D of UT Austin.

Dr. Robert Koons, Ph.D (UCLA), full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas , Austin, joins us from his librarious (should be a word) university office to help walk us through the fundamentals of metaphysics.

Metaphysics is not what Barnes & Noble says it is. At least, not in the context of 20th Century Analytic Philosophy , or even the history of philosophy.

Rather, “metaphysics” is a technical term for a field within the discipline of Philosophy that refers to the study of Reality, how everything ultimately hangs together in existence, including what kinds of things there are, ultimately. Its focus is on being as such, rather than knowledge of being, on moral or aesthetic judgments .

He is the coauthor, along with Dr. Timothy Pickavance, of a book called Metaphysics: The Fundamentals (Wiley Blackwell Publishing) for the beginning upper-level metaphysics student . (It may also be useful for graduate students or professors).

The types of issues covered include Causation, Free Will, the nature of Time (is time travel possible ?), and the very nature of possibility and necessity, itself. It’s focused yet wide ranging, and so strap in and enjoy.

Please support your local book stores. But here is a Mississippi link so you know what to ask for at the book store that you walk into: https://www.amazon.com/Metaphysics-Fundamentals-Philosophy-Robert-Koons/dp/1405195738/ref=sr_1_1?crid=15GP5DX66K3FY&keywords=fundamentals+of+metaphysics&qid=1660681637&sprefix=fundmentals+of+metaphysics%2Caps%2C147&sr=8-1

The Republican Professor is a pro-helpfully-contemplating-metaphysics, pro-getting-Reality-right, pro-awesome-professor podcast.

Therefore, welcome, Dr. Rob Koons, Ph.D., of the University of Texas (Austin) Philosophy Department, Metaphysics Mentor extraordinaire.

The co-host for this episode of TRP was Kurtis Olson, co-founder of TheRepublicanProfessor.com

The producer and host of The Republican Professor podcast is Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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Born out of wedlock, Southern California (LA County) native Karina Salcedo grew up for a time in the Spanish speaking garage of her grandma, and is now at the time of the recording (Summer 2022) she is 22 years old, married, and an intern for US Senator Ted Cruz at the US Senate Judiciary Committee, going into her 2nd year of law school at ASU.

A woman of Christian faith, she begins each day with the Lord in prayer and Bible study. She eats a great breakfast and works out 5 days a week, and goes to work on studying the Law.

With an increasingly sharp eye, Karina diagnoses what ails California. Key for her is the health of the family, its ability to make a living, and the faithfulness of government to the Constitution and natural law. (Natural law is the source of human rights).

Her church family goes shooting every weekend, her parents are still together, and are in fact married, her husband loves firearms and freedom, and she is loving the study of law and serving at the US Senate Judiciary Committee and Senator Ted Cruz (not Tom Cruise’s brother, we cleared that up).

She gives us the rundown of favorite Law school classes and what her routine is like being married, and a sense of the source of her ambition, which is to serve the country in a spirit of faithfulness to God.

Yes, we talk about immigration and Republican politics. And, yes, she is Hispanic. So she has some opinions, and so we get into that.

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Therefore, welcome, the youngest TRP guest so far, 22 year old 2 L law student, woman who reads her Bible everyday and US Senator intern for Ted Cruz, Karina Salcedo !

This is TRP Episode 76 on YouTube

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Professor of Political Science Dr. Darren Guerra, Ph.D., shares his approach to teaching Political Science from a Christian perspective to undergraduates in Lost Angeles County, California.

Professor Guerra is a Constitutional Scholar who has thought deeply about the original purpose and wise design of key features of the US Constitution and Declaration. For example, one issue is, how slow the Amendment process is, is that justified to correct it? He has written a book about Article V of the original Constitution called “Perfecting the Constitution: the Case for the Article V Amendment Process” available at your local book dealer (please support brick and mortar local bookstores !) and here on Ganges: https://www.amazon.com/Perfecting-Constitution-Case-Amendment-Process-dp-1498515444/dp/1498515444/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1660537303

Guerra thinks it’s true slavery is wrong.

Professor Guerra (Italian, pronounced Gu-air-rah) is careful to get the students talking constructively with each other about fundamental issues prior to politics per se, issues that include basic epistemology: epistemic justification, the conditions for acquiring knowledge, and the definition of truth itself.

This political epistemology, as we might call it, is geared toward equipping the student to recover from and then withstand the nonsense of moral relativism, the absurdity of the so-called “fact-value” distinction, and its ancient neighbor, metaphysical naturalism or materialism. Pedagogically, sometimes, it means slowing way down and rethinking for ourselves our commitment to the truth of certain propositions with political relevance, such as murder is wrong, or that slavery is wrong.

In the American context, historically Democrats have long been skeptical of the truth of the statement that slavery is wrong (and hence, that murder of a slave is wrong), and clearly Democrats often still do maintain skepticism of the truth of such basic political statements. Presently, Biola University is surrounded by contemporary California Democrats. The temptation to fit in with them culturally and philosophically is enormously powerful for many, I imagine. Democrats control most of popular culture in California and beyond, including the disastrous government K-12 schools that squeeze out often inarticulate, incoherent metaphysical naturalists, materialists, relativists, in short, Democrat graduates, almost as if by design.

But Republicans have always held to to truth of the statement that slavery is wrong (any counterexamples ?). We have always insisted on the know-ability of that fact (see Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural, discussed here in this episode by Prof. Mather in a college evaluation anecdote of his own), and indeed, the modern Republican party was founded upon it in 1854, and fought a war in part over that issue. On one level it may be discouraging to have to continue, in a different form, to fight that philosophical battle, as it were, so to speak, yet again in the classroom or in the culture, sometimes it’s not clear how exactly that should go.

Dr. Darren Guerra is a master at crafting the curriculum to move the ball discernibly down the road to greater true progress. (The so-called “Progressive” “progress” quite often isn’t true progress). (It’s important to distinguish “progressivism” in name only from true progress).

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We’re back for PART TWO after a successful spring 2022 US Supreme Court term, joined again by the (pro-bono) president of the 140-year old historic California Rifle and Pistol Association (he does not take a salary for the position), Chuck Michel.

In this episode, Chuck breaks down the impact of the recent Right to Bear Arms (RTBA) case at the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) handed down on Thurs 23 June 2022, NY Rifle & Pistol Assn v. Bruen (https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-843_7j80.pdf) and what California DOJ actually did after this ruling. They released private information on every law-abiding gun owner in California, including CCW holders who have proved a need for good cause, to world-wide criminals and terrorists — anyone with an internet connection.

There is a Blue Resistance to the ruling with this goal: to criminalize innocent conduct, making it harder for people to effectively defend themselves lawfully.
The flawed assumption remains: The police are your bodyguards with a duty to protect you. It’s not common knowledge, but that’s false . (This is easy to verify with a little sweat equity).

Chuck is the LA County-based Civil Rights attorney who prevailed at the 9th Circuit in the initial 3 judge panel which issued an opinion of the Court that is FAMOUS in California for being powerfully argued & beautifully written by Judge O’SCANNLAIN in Peruta v. County of San Diego in 2014 (a Right to Bear Arms case, conceal carry). That opinion was predictably reversed en banc only by ignoring the merits of the 3 judge panel opinion of the Court. SCOTUS in Bruen now changes everything for that en banc reversal.

Recall, Chuck is nationally famous as the California “Freedom Week” attorney, which, if you don’t remember, within the span of a few days in 2019, brought 1,000,000 standard capacity magazines into California. The District Court issued a wonderfully persuasive, masterfully argued Finding of Fact and Opinion of the Court Duncan v. Becerra (366 F. Supp. 3d 1131 – Dist. Court, SD California 2019). At issue there was the unConstitutionality of California’s arbitrary and capricious 10-round magazine limitation.

One can support the California Rifle and Pistol Association 501(c)3 tax-deductible educational foundation by making your book purchases through AmazonSmile, indicating you’d like to pick Jeff Bazos’ pocket by designating a charity to support. It doe not raise the price one pays for the book.

Be sure to check out Chuck’s book, “California Gun Laws: A Guide to State and Federal Firearms Regulation” 2022 9th Edition here (remember to use AmazonSmile so that a charity gets part of the $).

For more information about California Rifle and Pistol Association, check out : https://crpa.org/

For information on Chuck’s boutique Long Beach law firm, check out : https://michellawyers.com/

For links to the major California-based, very persuasively written, masterfully argued, and influentially received Second Amendment opinions rendered by federal judges and mentioned above, check out :

Peruta v. County of San Diego (2014) (Persuasive Original Three Judge Panel Opinion) : 742 F. 3d 1144 – Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit 2014.

The nationally famous “Freedom Week” Federal District Court opinion that brought in about 1,000,000 standard capacity magazines in less than a week to California, Duncan v. Becerra, 366 F. Supp. 3d 1131 – Dist. Court, SD California 2019.

The 9th Circuit 3-Judge panel op: Duncan v. Becerra, 970 F. 3d 1133 – Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit 2020.

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Therefore, welcome attorney Chuck Michel, pro-bono president of the 140-year-old California Rifle & Pistol Association.

The Republican Professor is hosted and produced by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

Our guest for today’s episode is Texas State House Candidate Jonathan Schober. We discuss lessons learned in running for state legislative office in Williamson County, north of Travis County , where Austin is.

We talk Lockdowns under Republican leadership, property taxes (the problems in that, practically and philosophically) in Texas, and economic liberty (and the infringement of economic liberties), and the use of the state guard to stem the tide of vulnerable people exploited at the border by the cartels and coyotes.

The approach that Jonathan used was an “educate the voter” approach, where they put out a newspaper–it actually was a small newspaper one could hold in your hand and read–on the issues important in that area of Texas relevant to the election. Did it work ? No, it didn’t work in winning. But does that mean that that strategy should be abandoned in the future ? Not necessarily. Have a listen and tell us what you think about the approach. We’d be happy to hear from you.

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Therefore, welcome Jonathan Schober !

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“Halee, what happened to you was rape. And if you don’t call it that, you’re never going to get better,” Halee’s co-worker said to Halee when she finally told someone the true story 4 months later.

Our guest today is the Christian spiritual formation and leadership scholar Dr. Halee Gray Scott, Ph.D. She speaks with a slight, charming Texas drawl.

“I grew up in serious country,” Texas-native Dr. Halee Gray Scott, Ph.D., begins her story by saying. “I swam in crocodile-infested waters” exploring the nooks and crannies of the East-Texas wilderness. Her childhood was at the same time idyllic for an insatiably curious contrarian kid such as herself, and at the same time quite frightening. There were tornadoes coming down from the uncontrollable, unpredictable and angry giant Texas sky.

Later, her adventurous spirit directed her curiosity to scholarship into stable truths about Leadership and the Christian faith, about how young people’s attitudes are being shaped by forces we didn’t have when we were kids.

Whereas the threat of a tornado kept her up at night, now it’s the kids. It’s the church, and what they’re dealing with. It’s what the churches and seminaries are or are not doing about it. Maybe they don’t know what to do about it, or how to be.

Halee’s heart is as follows: she hopes to help others to get trained to fill the gap between the challenges facing Leadership and the training they receive.

She first got on the radio at 15 years old.

Now, she has a Ph.D., is a syndicated radio host, and author of Dare Mighty Things: Mapping the Challenges of Leadership for Christian Women.

Her latest book is Not a Hopeless Case: 6 Vital Questions from Young Adults for a Church in Crisis, available April 2023.

Check out Christian Curious Radio Program here: https://www.christiancurious.com/

In this wide-ranging discussion, we talk touch on the Kingdom of God and the ethics of eating meat, and naturally from that to hunting. I take the American Indian perspective, for the most part, on the uses of the animal. We camp out on Indian-stuff for a while, what it must have been like for the settlers.

We touch on the role of women in ministry. This is a huge part of her professional research.

We talk about her Washington Post article where she reported having been raped by her pastor in Texas when she was a young woman, how how she has and is dealing with that. You can find the article titled “#MeToo: I was Raped by my Pastor” published October 16, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/10/16/metoo-i-was-raped-by-my-pastor/

It ran in the print edition of the Post.

She had come to college there at UNT, Denton an atheist, and at the time of the rape, had only been a true Christian for 3 months.

Does Halee still believe that there is a good God as revealed in the Bible ?

Yes, she does. But it’s been a journey, and continues to be.

Her passion involves protecting the possibility of that belief in the soil of other vulnerable souls, as well. It’s what motivates her research and directs her professional steps.

It took her 4 months to tell anyone about it, and when she did, her co-worked used the appropriate term “rape.” But it took her 15 years to come to terms with that word for what happened. And she had panic attacks for years every-time she went inside a church.

But she’s healing.

We do not rush through this conversation. There is no rush. We take our time. We just enjoy the company and the conversation, and hope you do, too.

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Therefore, welcome Dr. Halee Gray Scott, Ph.D., Curious Christian

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

Few episodes have given me more joy to produce than this one with the man behind Made by Jimbob, Mr. Jimbob himself.

He’s on his like 4th Instagram account now having been banned on social media for his cartoons, for his art and social commentary. His cultural observations through art and cartoons are apparently “unsafe” or “dangerous” for a certain group of people who run social media. Does he stop ? No, he keeps going, sometimes with an even bigger smile on his face than before. Mr. Jimbob (or, Jimbobb now, with 2 b’s–he just keeps adding b’s when he needs for new accounts if old ones get shutdown by the Thought Police) keeps on keeping on, and in fact he produces the art you can hang on your wall, that you can touch, art that lasts.

You’ll find that the man is incredibly well-thought out (he uses the term ‘metaphysics’ casually and accurately, for instance, just as an example) and that he is mature and purposeful in what he does for MadebyJimbob. He’s and also quite funny and down to earth, all at the same time.

For more information, check out https://madebyjimbob.com/ and look him up and follow him on social media.

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Therefore, welcome cartoonist, artist, and humorous social critic Mr. Jimbob, the man behind MadeByJimbob !

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

It’s our great honor to welcome the founder of Apologetics.com, the delightfully humorous Lion of Christian Apologetics, Dr. Harry Edwards.

Dr. Edwards is ethnically Filipino, speaks Tagalog fluently having grown up there in the big city on Luzon. Harry moved to the US lawfully when he was a very young man.

There were many, many years when every time you went into the Biola University bookstore, back when they sold, well, books instead of everything else besides books (you can buy coffee mugs, skis, hunting rifles, used Toyota trucks, and rare military insignia, but not like hard cover books anymore at the Biola Book Store since the decline began)(actually, hunting rifles would be progress, but), you would see Harry Edwards there, the king of the Biola Bookstore Commonwealth. And that’s because fundamentally Harry is a nerd, sure, but more superficially, it’s because Harry was the Biola Bookstore Manager.

In other words, you thought of Harry, you thought, books. Books, books, books. And he loves books, and he had and has a passion for introducing people to books, books, and more books.

That alone would be a good reason to be a fan of Dr. Harry Edwards.

Harry has jet black hair (and he’s old, and he does not dye it), he’s got dark skin, and he grew up elsewhere, yet he is a red-blooded American.

Dr. Harry Edwards has a passion for reaching the lost in America, especially Generation Z, with the wonderful news (true, defensible news) of the historic, biblical Christian Gospel and all the truths of general revelation that flow out of and are consistent with that view of the world. His doctoral dissertation was on reaching Generation Z with Apologetics. His doctorate is a D.Min., a Doctor of Ministry, with emphasis in Apologetics from the epicenter of scholarship on Christian Apologetics, Southern California’s Biola University, Talbot School of Theology, in Lost Angeles County.

(D. Min. is ironically pronounced “dmon” — ironic because there’s nothing dmonic about it, actually).

Many years ago Harry founded Apologetics.com which he still runs while on the pastoral staff of Christian church in Orange County, California. Part of that effort involves a late-night radio program and podcast in Lost Angeles which helps listeners develop, refine, correct, and progress in the best way to understand Christianity and the world.

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Therefore, welcome Dr. Harry Edwards, D.Min. (in Christian Apologetics, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, California).

The co-host for this episode is Kurtis Olson, co-founder of TheRepublicanProfessor.com

The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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A helpful note on the numbering of TRP episodes:

This is Episode 70 of The Republican Professor on YouTube.

The last two audio-only episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. (featuring a topic on which YouTube censors free discussion) featured Dr. John R. Lott, Ph.D. and Jon Matthews. The last YouTube episode, The Fatty Truth on Instagram on Political Censorship, was numbered episode 68 on YouTube because our Good Friday and Easter episodes 2022 were not numbered. But this is the 70th episode uploaded to The Republican Professor channel on YouTube.

The Audio only version of The Republican Professor podcast included Episode 1 on Abortion, recorded January 2021 with K-12 Public School Teacher Aaron Axtell, published late 2021. Episode 2 was published early 2022. Episode 2 of the audio-only line-up is Episode 1 on YouTube, since the real Episode 1 with Aaron Axtell on Abortion did not have video.

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Hey TRPers,

This is a conversation with Jon Matthews of Election Integrity Project California which has settled one lawsuit and is in the middle of appealing another right now at the 9th Circuit.

We talk about Election Integrity. The key to moving forward with shoring up Election Integrity is transparency.

I normally publish the episode to my YouTube channel, The Republican Professor, before it goes out to the rest of the world on Apple podcasts through TRP’s website. But I hesitate to do that for this episode and the one which came before with Dr. John Lott.

YouTube censors discussion about Election Integrity.

They took down one of TRP’s videos early on when my co-host and I, Kurtis Olson, interviewed the film producer and book publisher Brad Cummings (The Shack, book and film). In three hours, Brad said his opinion that there a lack of integrity and transparency in our election system twice. That’s right, in 3 hours of conversation about everything else, he briefly mentioned just twice, very quickly, his personal opinion about how much work we have to do to shore up Election Integrity in the United States, and YouTube took it down for “spreading misinformation” about a very specific election for a specific office during a specific year, details Brad hadn’t even bothered to mention, his comments were so brief.

Democrats run YouTube, and we had a strike, or warning of a strike against my YouTube channel (you get 3 before your channel is gone).

I did appeal and they did republish the video, so verify yourself — go watch Brad Cummings’ episode and see for yourself whether that video is “harmful” to the community.

The bottom line for me is that although YouTube reinstated the video , they did so at their sole discretion without any explanation (or expectation that they owed us or anyone any explanation) as to why they changed their minds, or how specifically they make their decisions, nor did they offer an apology for their admitted mistake. And so I’m left with a chilling effect on frank discussion about that topic on YouTube. By the way, YouTube sure seems to be run by Democrats, certainly not by Republicans.

Enjoy this episode with our guest Jon Matthews with Election Integrity Project Californai, and look for the video on Rumble if you want to see us.

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Therefore, welcome Jon Matthews of Election Integrity Project, California.

The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. (Ph.D. UCLA, Economics) is best known to us as a researcher on the harms and myths of the effectiveness of gun control, but Dr. Lott joins The Republican Professor podcast this episode to discuss his recent Hillsdale College Imprimis piece called “Is Ensuring Election Integrity Anti-Democratic?” (October 2021, to 6.1 million readers). Dr. Lott provides a comparison of the US with the rest of the World on efforts to shore up election integrity.

What he writes is shocking.

I normally publish the episode to my YouTube channel, The Republican Professor, before it goes out to the rest of the world on Apple podcasts through TRP’s website. But I hesitate to do that for this episode and the one to follow. YouTube censors free discussion about Election Integrity.

They took down one of TRP’s videos early on when my co-host, Kurtis Olson, and I interviewed the film producer and book publisher Brad Cummings (The Shack, book and film). In his three hour episode, Brad expressed his opinion twice, within a span of about 10 seconds, that there a lack of integrity and transparency in our election system.

That’s right, in 3 hours of conversation about everything else, he briefly mentioned just twice, very quickly, his personal opinion about how much work we have to do to shore up Election Integrity in the United States.

YouTube took it down for “spreading misinformation” about a very specific election for a specific office during a specific year, details Brad hadn’t even bothered to mention, his comments were so brief. And they threatened my TRP channel with a strike.

Democrats run YouTube, and we had a strike, or warning of a strike against my YouTube channel (you get 3 before your channel is gone).

I appealed and they did republish the video. So verify yourself — go watch Brad Cummings’ episode and see for yourself whether that video is “harmful” to the community.

The bottom line for me is that although YouTube reinstated the video , they did so at their sole discretion without any explanation (or expectation that they owed us or anyone any explanation) as to why they changed their minds, or how specifically they made their decisions, nor did they offer an apology for their admitted mistake. And so I’m left with a chilling effect on frank and free discussion about that topic on YouTube. By the way, YouTube sure seems to be run by Democrats, certainly not by Republicans.

Enjoy this episode with our esteemed guest, Dr. John R. Lott, Jr., Ph.D., and look for the video on Rumble if you want to see us.

The Republican Professor is a pro-secure-elections, pro-shoring-up-election-integrity, pro-Free-Speech-about-election-integrity-on-any-platform, pro-producing-people-who-can-think-for-themselves-instead-of-having-Youtube-run-by-Democrats-censor-the-information-they-may-need-to-make-up-their-own-minds-intelligently, pro-transparency-in-elections podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. John R. Lott, Jr., Ph.D.

My co-host for this episode was Kurtis Olson.

The Republican Professor podcast is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.