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Dr Gwendolyn Dolske is a philosopher at Cal Poly Pomona and host of the podcast Good is in the Details. She focuses on the philosophy of Sex and Love, Moral Therapy, Existentialism, and self improvement. She is the author of the book “Tips from The Professor A Guide to College Success.” Follow her on X: https://twitter.com/GDolske Follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodisinthedetailspod/ Her website can be found at: https://www.goodisinthedetails.com/ Follow my own links at: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint/

Grant Lockridge is the co-host of the Across the Counter Podcast with his fellow co-host Jerod Tafta. They focus on issues surrounding many perspectives to Christianity. Follow him on Instagram: @acrossthecounterpod Check out all my links: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint

Eric Hernandez is a Christian apologist and minister with a background in philosophy and theology. He can be found at his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@EricHernandez Check out all of my links: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint

Daniel Sanderson is a Platonic philosopher and entrepreneur who loves applying philosophy to helping others to develop their brands and themselves. He is particularly interested in virtue, Artificial Intelligence and Conscious, Complex Systems, Ancient Philosophers, and Free Will. Find him at his website: https://www.planksip.org/author/daniel-sanderson/ Or here: https://planksip.me/CEO Or here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielplanksip/ My links: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint

Oli Anderson is an author, podcaster, life coach, and philosopher who loves helping others reach their full potential. His two books are titled "Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness" and "Shadow Life: Freedom From BS in an Unreal World". Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/olijanderson Or Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/olijanderson Or visit his website: https://www.olianderson.co.uk Or YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/olianderson Check out my links as well: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint

Bracha Goetz is a wellness expert and a children's author with over 40 books. She also is the author of a memoir about dealing with food addictions joyfully and spiritually. Find her books at: www.goetzbookshop.com Follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrachaGoetz Follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brachagoetzbooks Subscribe to her on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ygJS275FPg Check out my links: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint

Eric Brazau is an author seeking to start conversations over the rise of Islam in the West. To find a solution, we first have to determine what the question is. Find his book on Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Muslim-Reformers-vs-Fundamentalists-Multicultural-ebook/dp/B0BVVN9HLP/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1NZTNXHFNDHGE&keywords=islam+reformers+vs+fundamentalists&qid=1687362338&sprefix=islam+reformers+vs+fundamentali%2Caps%2C333&sr=8-1 Or Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Muslim-Reformers-vs-Fundamentalists-Multicultural-ebook/dp/B0BVVN9HLP/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1NZTNXHFNDHGE&keywords=islam+reformers+vs+fundamentalists&qid=1687362338&sprefix=islam+reformers+vs+fundamentali%2Caps%2C333&sr=8-1 Learn more at his website: https://learningislam.ca/ Follow me at all my links: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint

Fr Matthew Jarvis is a Dominican Friar in the English Province of the Order of Preachers. He is currently located at the Edinburgh Chaplaincy and is doing doctoral work on Dominican chant. Follow me at all my links: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint

Keith Nester is a Catholic apologist, YouTuber, and educator. His ministry is called Down 2 Earth Ministries. In this episode, we sit down and talk about Catholicism, liturgy, evangelising, and prayer. His YouTube channel can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/KeithNester More information about Down 2 Earth Ministries can be found at: https://down2earthministry.org/ Check out my links: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint

Father Albert Robertson is a Dominican Friar in the English Province of the Order of Preachers. He was previously located at the Edinburgh Chaplaincy and is now located at Fisher House, Cambridge. Follow me at all my links: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint

Noah Healy is a professional algorithm developer and recreational mathematician who has become an expert on game theory and designing marketplaces. You can learn more about him at the following links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8aOEcDV7MA https://coordisc.com/ https://www.smgravesassociates.com/2021/12/09/episode-72-are-we-here-yet-podcast/ Check out all my links: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint

John Mason is a Scottish Member of Parliament for Glasgow Shettleston. He is a member of the Scottish Nationalist Party and is active in the Scottish pro-life movement. Follow me on all my links: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint

Host Chris Wright returns to Point Counterpoint with a new look and new episodes. Keep up to date with new episodes on your favourite podcast platform and YouTube. Follow me on social media as well to get vital information. Here are my links: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint

Host Chris Wright will be exploring the origins of human language regarding onomatopoeia and word echoic bases. Could it be that all words originate from the sound that the object makes in nature? Point Counterpoint links: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint References: Coker, L. (2016). Tolkien’s linguistics: The artificial languages of quenya and sindarin., 1242-1249. http://libjournals.unca.edu/ncur/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/1881-Coker-Laura-FINAL.pdf​ Elijah Omwansa Mariera. (2020). Onomatopoeic infinitives and nouns in EkeGusii: Evidence for imagic and relative iconicity. Macrolinguistics, 8(12), 36-54. https://doi.org/10.26478/ja2020.8.12.3​ Forschner, M. (1981). Die stoische Ethik: Über den Zusammenhang von Natur-, Sprach- und Moralphilosophie im altstoischen System, Darmstadt 19952, 1st ed. pp. 67–84. https://www.academia.edu/37327154/Language_and_ontology_in_Stoic_philosophy​ Green, H. (CrashCourse), (2016). Language & meaning: Crash course philosophy #26. [Video/DVD] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmwgmt7wcv8&ab_channel=CrashCourse​ Kneis, A . (2011). “10 Common Words You Had No Idea Were Onomatopoeias.” Cracked. https://ajax.cracked.com/article_19568_10-common-words-you-had-no-idea-were-onomatopoeias.html. ​ LAING, C. (2019). A role for onomatopoeia in early language: Evidence from phonological development. Language and Cognition, 11(2), 173-187. doi:10.1017/langcog.2018.23​ Lemasson, A., Ouattara, K., Bouchet, H. et al. Speed of call delivery is related to context and caller identity in Campbell’s monkey males. Naturwissenschaften 97, 1023–1027 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-010-0715-6 Mariera, E. O. (2020). Onomatopoeic infinitives and nouns in EkeGusii: Evidence for imagic and relative iconicity. Macrolinguistics, 8(12), 36-54. https://doi.org/10.26478/ja2020.8.12.3​ Online etymology dictionary. (2021). https://www.etymonline.com/​ Osaka, N. (1990). Multidimensional analysis of onomatopoeia : A note to make sensory scale from words. 音声科学研究 = Studia Phonologica, 24, 25-33. https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=jairo_______::0c333caf8e40423ec4cf2533b3b52e92​ Plato, Cratylus (c. 360 BCE). Trans. Jowett, B., https://freeclassicebooks.com/Plato/Cratylus.pdf​ Quinlan, K. C. (2021). Campbell’s mona monkey. https://www.neprimateconservancy.org/campbells-mona-monkey.html​ Ramelow, A. (2008). Language without Reduction: Aquinas and the Linguistic Turn. Angelicum. https://www.academia.edu/37997108/Language_without_Reduction_Aquinas_and_the_Linguistic_Turn​ Smith, A.R. (2017). [Review of the book A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages, by J.R.R. Tolkien]. Tolkien Studies 14, 169-184. doi:10.1353/tks.2017.0013.​ Tolkien, J. R. R. (2016). A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages. United Kingdom: HarperCollins Publishers. http://libjournals.unca.edu/ncur/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/1881-Coker-Laura-FINAL.pdf Additional Resources: Borges, J. L. (1944). Pierre Menard, Autor del Quixote. Ficciones. Buenos Aires:​ Dingemanse, M. (2012). Advances in the cross-linguistic study of ideophones. Linguistics and Language Compass, 6, 654–672.​ Dingemanse, M. 2018. Redrawing the Margins of Language: Lessons from research on ideophones [J]. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 3(1):4​ Frege, G. (1892). "On Sense and Reference" ["Über Sinn und Bedeutung"], Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philosophische Kritik, vol. 100, pp. 25–50​ Tolkien, J. R. R. (2012). The Hobbit. HarperCollins. Wittgenstein, L. (1921). Tractatus logico-philosophicus. W. Ostwald's Annalen der Naturphilosophie.

Host Chris Wright will be presenting his findings regarding the presence of tool use as an indicator of language, the syntax of tool use, and the underlying linguistic and neurological structures behind both tool use and language. This will be the first episode of the podcast that also has a video component. This visual component will only be available on Spotify and YouTube. Here are all my links: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint

Peter Sawkins is the 2020 winner of the Great British Bakeoff and student at the University of Edinburgh. He has a book out now called "Peter Bakes" and has been given the title of "Honorary Burgess" of the City of Edinburgh. The article based on this episode can be found here: https://studentnewspaper.org/article/the-british-bake-off-burgess All other links, including all the books of my guests can be found in the link below: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint

Host Chris Wright brings everyone on a magical journey through Poetry, Squid Game, Afghanistan, and monkey language to truly provide an amazing episode. All my links are right here: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint

Host Chris Wright almost named this episode "Damned if you Do, Damned if you don't, Dude". Lots of alliteration, if you know what I mean. It's time for alcohol, some history, some poetry, and more. Subscribe on Substack, and check out my BookShop page. Make sure to check out all my links: https://linktr.ee/PointCounterpoint

Host Chris Wright brings Graeson Korte back to the show. They talk about everything from podcasts, to Godzilla, to food, to new developments in the area. Let the reminiscing commence. Check out the Point Counterpoint bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/pointcounterpoint Subscribe to Point Counterpoint on Substack: https://pointcounterpoint.substack.com/ Check out the Point Counterpoint website: https://pointcounterpoint561342945.wordpress.com/ Follow Point Counterpoint on Instagram: @pointcounterpointpodcast Follow Lord Fleming on Instagram: @lordflemingsings Join the Point Counterpoint Community: https://pointcounterpoint.locals.com/ Shop everything Point Counterpoint: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/PointCounterpointPodcast/

Andrew Calderella is an entrepreneur, inspirational speaker, and author whose new book "The Way" came out in 2020. This was an absolutely fascinating and important conversation. The two talk about loads of intriguing subjects such as the biggest problems facing humanity, social media, learning disabilities, and more. Check out his website: https://7way.me/ Find his book on Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Way-Revolutionary-Meaningful-Difference-Relationships/dp/1733124926/ref=sr_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&ascsubtag=1ba00-01000-org00-mac00-other-smile-us000-gatwy-feature-SEARC&dchild=1&keywords=the+way+andrew+calderella&qid=1615055698&sr=8-1 Check out the Point Counterpoint website: https://pointcounterpoint561342945.wordpress.com/ Follow Point Counterpoint on Instagram: @pointcounterpointpodcast Follow Lord Fleming on Instagram: @lordflemingsings Join the Point Counterpoint Community: https://pointcounterpoint.locals.com/ Shop everything Point Counterpoint: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/PointCounterpointPodcast/