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#50: Application of the Realism/Nominalism Debate, Part 6: Nominalism’s Role in the Collapse of the Good, True, and Beautiful
Friday, 15 May, 2026
In this episode, we discuss more ways the realism/nominalism debate is having a dramatic impact on all we think and do as we wrap up our series on this important topic. In these episodes, we discuss: Our culture’s confusion over what art is due to implicit nominalism How nominalism undercuts our knowledge of chemistry, biology, and ethics Ways in which nominalistic thinking seeps into our language and reinforces our confusion Nominalism as the seedbed for critical theory and other destructive cultural ideas The necessity of realism to understand our growth in Christ How nominalism cuts the heart out of Christian theology (and is assumed in Islamic theology) Final comments on the stakes of the realist/nominalist debate Resources mentioned during our conversation: The first episode in this series: #45 – What Makes Things What They Are? The Realist/Nominalist Debate The second episode in the series: #46 – Good Reasons to Believe in Things We Can’t See: The Realism/Nominalism Debate The third episode in this series: #47: The Beliefs, Distinctions, and Cultural Impact of Nominalism: The Realism/Nominalism Debate, The fourth episode in this series: #48: God, Universals, and the Nature of Reality: The Realism/Nominalism Debate, Part 4 (with special guest Paul Gould, Ph.D) The fifth episode in this series: #49: Application of the Realism/Nominalism Debate, Part 5: The Hidden Battle Shaping Our Lives and Culture Madeline L’Engle, A Circle of Quiet – “Art is not a mirror, but an icon…” David Hull, The Metaphysics Of Evolution Hellen Pluckrose & James Lindsay, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody Jon Kelly, The Ontology of the Soul and Pauline Renewal of the Mind: How Holistic Dualism Accounts for the Restructuring of the Soul and Human Flourishing. Dissertation, University of St. Andrews Recommended resources: P. Moreland and William Lane Craig, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview
