Podcasts · Society & Culture

Within Reason

Alex J O'Connor

163 episodes · Explicit

For the curious.

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A philosophy podcast that sometimes flirts with other disciplines, Within Reason has featured guests including Richard Dawkins, Douglas Murray, William Lane Craig, Peter Singer, Konstantin Kisin, and Neil deGrasse Tyson.

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  1. #167 There is No Ultimate Reality - Carlo Rovelli

    · 1 h 39 min

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  2. #166 Are Plants Conscious? - Michael Pollan

    · 1 h 29 min

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  3. #165 Buddhist Emptiness Explained - Jan Westerhoff

    · 1 h 44 min

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  4. #164 The Chosen Creator: Putting Words in Jesus' Mouth?

    · 2 h 15 min

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  5. #163 Religion is an Obligation - Ross Douthat

    · 1 h 49 min

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  6. #162 Two Million Subscriber QnA

    · 51 min

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  7. #161 What’s the Point of Going Back to the Moon? Chris Hadfield -

    · 57 min

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  8. #160 Every Theory of Consciousness - Robert Lawrence Kuhn

    · 2 h 20 min

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  9. #159 Aristotle: The World's Greatest Philosopher?

    · 1 h 24 min

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  10. #158 Could Consciousness Be an Illusion?

    · 2 h 07 min

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  11. #157 How a Blind Man Sees the World - Tommy Edison

    · 1 h 04 min

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  12. #156 Mysticism: The Heretics Who Got Too Close to God - Simon Critchley

    · 1 h 18 min

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  13. #155 AI Music is Not Music - Adam Neely

    · 1 h 57 min

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  14. #154 Happiness: Epicurus' Ancient Guide - Jonny Thomson

    · 1 h 49 min

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  15. #153 If Anyone Builds It, EVERYONE Dies - AI Expert on Superintelligence

    · 1 h 35 min

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  16. #152 Why AI Will Never Be Conscious

    · 1 h 42 min

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  17. #151 John Lennox - What Nearly Dying Taught Me About God

    · 1 h 19 min

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  18. #150 Materialist AND Panpsychism are True - Galen Strawson

    · 58 min

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  19. #149 My Problem With C.S. Lewis - Philip Pullman

    · 1 h 27 min

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  20. #148 Blaise Pascal: Philosopher, Mathematician, Genius - Graham Tomlin

    · 1 h 34 min

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  21. #147 What is PURE Consciousness? - Thomas Metzinger

    · 2 h 03 min

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  22. #146 The Most Complicated Thing in the Universe: What is the Brain?

    · 2 h 25 min

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  23. #145 The Algorithm is God Now - The Etymology Nerd

    · 1 h 16 min

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  24. #144 Sam Harris - Spirituality for Atheists.

    · 1 h 53 min

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  25. #143 Hinduism, Consciousness and Advaita Vedanta - Swami Sarvapriyananda

    · 1 h 55 min

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  26. Atheist Slogans You Should Stop Using - Joe Schmid

    · 2 h 56 min

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  27. #141 Stoicism: Everything You Need to (Actually) Know - John Sellars

    · 1 h 42 min

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  28. #140 Sean Carroll - The Limits of Scientific Explanation

    · 1 h 20 min

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  29. #139 David Bentley Hart - All Things Are Full of Gods

    · 1 h 49 min

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  30. #138 Rhett McLaughlin - How to Save Christianity From Christians

    · 1 h 36 min

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  31. #137 Debunking Arguments for God - Graham Oppy

    · 1 h 41 min

    Graham Oppy is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Research at Monash University. An Australian philosopher of religion, he is often considered one of the most thoughtful and important academic atheists in…

  32. #136 Why Did The World Get So Ugly? - Alain de Botton

    · 1 h 00 min

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  33. #135 Christmas Isn't What You Think - John Nelson

    · 1 h 19 min

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  34. 1.75m QnA - Triangles, Getting Owned by GodLogic, and Douglas Adams' Puddle

    · 1 h 02 min

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  35. #133 Hank Green on God, Science, and Consciousness

    · 2 h 13 min

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  36. #132 Vsauce - Does Anything Exist?

    · 1 h 35 min

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  37. #131 Toby Ord - Will AI Destroy Humanity?

    · 1 h 02 min

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  38. #130 Philip Goff - Why I'm a Heretical Christian

    · 1 h 18 min

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  39. #129 Will MacAskill - We're Not Ready for Artificial General Intelligence

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  40. #128 Bernardo Kastrup - Materialism is Complete Nonsense

    · 1 h 54 min

    Bernardo Kastrup is a Dutch philosopher and computer scientist recognised for his contributions to consciousness studies, notably through his formulation of analytic idealism—a variant of metaphysical idealism rooted…

  41. #127 Bear Grylls - Retelling Jesus' Life as a Thriller

    · 1 h 01 min

    Bear Grylls is a British adventurer, writer, television presenter and former SAS trooper who is also a survival expert. Widely known for his television series Man vs. Wild, he was also appointed as The Scout…

  42. #126 Was Jesus an Ancient Magician? - Religion for Breakfast

    · 1 h 12 min

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  43. #125 Emily Qureshi-Hurst - Does God Know What Time It Is?

    · 1 h 02 min

    Dr. Qureshi-Hurst is a Philosopher of Religion and Science at the University of Cambridge. Her work focuses on the relationship between physics—and time in particular—and theology. Her forthcoming book, Decoding the…

  44. #124 Sisyphus 55 - So You're Having an Existential Crisis

    · 1 h 31 min

    Ben Thomas is @Sisyphus55, a YouTuber creating videos about philosophy, existentialism, nihilism, absurdism, and meaning. His new book, So You're Having an Existential Crisis: a Roadmap for Lost Souls, is available…

  45. #123 Candida Moss - Were Early Christians Really Persecuted by Rome?

    · 1 h 21 min

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  46. #122 Robert Greene - Near-Death Experiences and the Mind Apart From the Brain

    · 1 h 24 min

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  47. #121 John Cottingham - The Father of Modern Philosophy: René Descartes

    · 1 h 40 min

    John Cottingham (born 1943) is an English philosopher. The focus of his research has been early-modern philosophy (especially Descartes), the philosophy of religion and moral philosophy. He is a Professor Emeritus of…

  48. #120 Brant Pitre - Jesus DID Claim to be God

    · 2 h 00 min

    Brant Pitre is an American New Testament scholar and Distinguished Research Professor of Scripture at the Augustine Institute. He has written extensively on the historical Jesus, the Virgin Mary, Paul the Apostle, the…

  49. #119 Jim Al-Khalili - The Strange World of Quantum Physics

    · 1 h 06 min

    Jim Al-Khalili is an Iraqi-British theoretical physicist and science populariser. He is professor of theoretical physics and chair in the public engagement in science at the University of Surrey. Learn more about your…

  50. #118 Joe Folley - Everything You Need to Know About Logic

    · 1 h 33 min

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