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Within Reason

Alex J O'Connor

163 episodes · Explicit

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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. #67 Elaine Pagels | What Are The Gnostic Gospels?

    · 1 h 09 min

    Elaine Pagels is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism. See…

  2. #66 Coleman Hughes - Should We Take Race Out of Politics?

    · 59 min

    Coleman Hughes is an American writer and podcast host. He is the author of "The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. #65 Esoterica - The History of Yahweh

    · 1 h 45 min

    Justin Sledge is currently a part-time professor of philosophy and religion at several institutions in the Metro-Detroit area and a popular local educator. His YouTube channel is "Esoterica". Learn more about your ad…

  4. #64 Rory Stewart - We Are Addicted to a Sense of Crisis

    · 1 h 09 min

    Rory Stewart is a former UK Government minister, MP, and deputy governor in Iraq following the western invasion. He walked on foot for two years across Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, India and Nepal in 2002. He was a…

  5. #63 A.C. Grayling - Who Will Own the Moon?

    · 1 h 03 min

    A.C. Grayling is a British philosopher and author. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London. Buy "Who Owns the Moon?" here. Learn…

  6. #62 750,000 Subscriber QnA

    · 35 min

    Thank you all for 750,000 subscribers on YouTube! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  7. #61 Sam Harris - Can Science Determine Moral Values?

    · 2 h 56 min · Explicit

    Sam Harris is a neuroscientist, philosopher, New York Times best-selling author, host of Making Sense, and creator of Waking Up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  8. #60 Carlo Rovelli - Time is Weirder Than You Think

    · 1 h 04 min

    Carlo Rovelli, an Italian theoretical physicist, is known mainly for his contributions to research in the field of quantum gravity. He is the author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, and White…

  9. #59 William Lane Craig - Is Biblical Slaughter Ethical?

    · 1 h 06 min

    William Lane Craig is a Christian philosopher and public speaker, who today makes his third appearance on Within Reason. We discuss why Richard Dawkins refuses to debate him, and whether Old Testament slaughter can be…

  10. #58 Michael Knowles - Is America a Christian Nation?

    · 1 h 24 min

    Michael Knowles is an American conservative Catholic political commentator and media host. He has worked for the Daily Wire since 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  11. #57 David Deutsch - The Multiverse is Real

    · 1 h 36 min

    David Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a visiting professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the…

  12. #56 Susan Neiman - Left is Not Woke

    · 53 min

    Susan Neiman is an American moral philosopher, cultural commentator, and essayist. She is the author of "Left is Not Woke", available here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  13. #55 Robert Sapolsky - Free Will Doesn't Exist. Now What?

    · 57 min

    Robert Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinology researcher and author. He is a professor of biology, neurology, neurological sciences, and neurosurgery at Stanford University. He is the author of "Determined: A…

  14. #54 The Cultural Tutor - Why Is The Modern World So Ugly?

    · 1 h 50 min

    Sheehan Quirke is known online as the Cultural Tutor. With over 1.6 million followers on X, he writes daily threads about art, architecture, and history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  15. #53 Jason Brennan - The Case Against Democracy

    · 58 min · Explicit

    Jason Brennan is an American philosopher and business professo at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Brennan writes about democratic theory, the ethics of voting, competence and power, freedom,…

  16. #52 Jonathan Pageau - The Problem With Secular Architecture

    · 59 min

    Jonathan Pageau is a French Canadian icon carver, public speaker and YouTuber exploring the symbolic patterns that underlie our experience of the world, how these patterns emerge and come together, manifesting in…

  17. #51 Richard Dawkins - Religion is (Still) Appalling

    · 1 h 05 min · Explicit

    Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and author of books including The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  18. #50 Sisyphus 55 - Nihilism and the Manosphere

    · 1 h 28 min

    Ben Thomas, better known online as Sisyphus 55, is a philosophy YouTuber with one million subscribers. His videos cover topics including nihilism, existentialism, love, relationships, and political philosophy. Learn…

  19. #49 Christmas Special with Bart Ehrman - Did Christmas Really Happen?

    · 1 h 04 min

    In this Christmas special of Within Reason, New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman explores the history and narrative of Jesus' birthday, and demonstrates where the accounts seem to contradict. Get Bart Erhman's courses…

  20. #48 Edward Feser - Aristotle's Argument for God

    · 1 h 34 min

    Edward Feser is an American Catholic philosopher, and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in California. He is the author of "Five Proofs of the Existence of God", and in this episode speaks…

  21. #47 Josh Rasmussen - Why is Consciousness a Philosophical Problem?

    · 1 h 32 min

    Josh Rasmussen is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Azusa Pacific University, with an expertise in analytic metaphysics. He is author of several books, including Defending the Correspondence Theory of Truth,…

  22. #46 John Vervaeke - Escaping the Meaning Crisis

    · 1 h 33 min

    John Vervaeke is an award-winning professor of psychology, cognitive science, and Buddhist psychology at the University of Toronto. He is the creator of a fifty-hour series on YouTube called "Awakening From the Meaning…

  23. #45 Graham Oppy - Atheism Requires Justification Too

    · 1 h 18 min

    Graham Oppy is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Research at Monash University, CEO of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, Chief Editor of the Australasian Philosophical Review, Associate Editor of…

  24. #44 Just Stop Oil - How Far Will They Go?

    · 1 h 05 min

    Just Stop Oil are one of the most well-known and thoroughly hated political groups in the UK. You may recognise them as the brand behind stunts such as throwing soup over Van Gogh's Sunflowers, covering the felt of a…

  25. #43 Peter Hitchens Storms Out of My Interview

    · 59 min

    Peter Hitchens is an author, broadcaster, journalist, and commentator. He writes for The Mail on Sunday. He has published numerous books, including The Abolition of Britain, The Rage Against God, The War We Never…

  26. #42 Genetically Modified Skeptic - Why Satanism is Making a Comeback

    · 1 h 02 min · Explicit

    Drew McCoy is the creator and host of the YouTube channel Genetically Modified Skeptic. His videos cover topics including atheism, cults, satanism, and Biblical scholarship. In this episode we talk about his recent…

  27. #41 Justin Brierley - The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God

    · 1 h 16 min

    Justin Brierley was, for 17 years, the host of "Unbelievable?" on Premier Christian Radio. He is a broadcaster, author, and Christian apologist whose latest book is "The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God: Why new…

  28. #40 Slavoj Žižek - Sex, Drugs, and Commodity Fetishism

    · 1 h 48 min

    Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian-born political philosopher and cultural critic. He was described by British literary theorist, Terry Eagleton, as the “most formidably brilliant” recent theorist to have emerged from…

  29. #39 Andrew Doyle - The New Puritans

    · 1 h 28 min

    Andrew Doyle is a playwright, journalist, and political satirist. He has written for the fictional character Jonathan Pie and created the character Titania McGrath. Doyle joined GB News in 2021, and hosts a weekly show…

  30. #38 Carl Robichaud - Will There Be A Nuclear War?

    · 1 h 07 min

    Carl Robichaud co-leads Longview Philanthropy’s programme on nuclear weapons and existential risk. For over a decade, Carl led grant-making in nuclear security at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a philanthropic…

  31. #37 T.M. Luhrmann - How Does God Become Real?

    · 1 h 05 min

    Tanya Marie Luhrmann is an American psychological anthropologist known for her studies of modern-day witches, charismatic Christians, and studies of how culture shapes psychotic, dissociative, and related experiences.…

  32. #36 Peter Boghossian - Having Better Conversations About Philosophy

    · 1 h 55 min

    Peter Boghossian is an American philosopher, a founding faculty member at the University of Austin, and coined the term "street epistemology" as a method of helping people to change their minds. Peter Boghossian's…

  33. #35 Bart Ehrman - Did Jesus Even Claim to be God?

    · 1 h 30 min

    Get Bart Ehrman's course, "Did Jesus Call Himself God?": https://www.bartehrman.com/godman View all of Bart Ehrman's courses: https://www.bartehrman.com/alex To support me on Patreon (thank you):…

  34. #34 Anil Seth - A New Science of Consciousness

    · 1 h 40 min

    Anil Seth is a professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. He is the author of "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness". Purchase "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness":…

  35. #33 Michael Jones - Does God Send People to Hell?

    · 1 h 10 min

    Michael Jones is the founder and director of the Christian YouTube channel "Inspiring Philosophy". He has previously debated Alex twice. Inspiring Philosophy on YouTube:…

  36. #32 Destiny - Testing Destiny's Ethics

    · 2 h 15 min · Explicit

    Steven Kenneth Bonnell II, known online as Destiny, is an American internet personality and political commentator. Find Destiny on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DESTINY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…

  37. #31 Peter Singer - The Limits of Utilitarianism

    · 1 h 04 min

    Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher often credited as the father of the modern animal rights movement. Purchase Animal Liberation Now: https://amzn.to/450BB3e Peter Singer's upcoming speaking tour: New…

  38. #30 Joshua Bowen - How the Bible Supports Slavery

    · 1 h 39 min

    Joshua Bowen is an Assyriologist, YouTuber, and author of the book, "Did the Old Testament Endorse Slavery?" Links: The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament: Volume 1: https://t.co/SrcMTKcxS6 Volume 2:…

  39. #29 Richard Swinburne - Souls, Free Will and the Problem of Evil

    · 58 min

    Richard Swinburne is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and author of a number of books on the philosophy of religion, the soul, and Christianity, amongst other subjects. To support the…

  40. #28 Neil deGrasse Tyson - What Is Earth's Biggest Threat?

    · 47 min

    Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium, and one of the most recognisable communicators of science in the world. His most recent book is Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on…

  41. #27 Philip Goff - Is Everything Conscious?

    · 2 h 07 min

    Philip Goff is an Associate Professor at Durham University whose research focuses on philosophy of mind and consciousness. He is one of the world's most prominent proponents of "panpsychism", the view that…

  42. #26 David Renton - No Free Speech for Fascists

    · 1 h 07 min

    David Renton is a barrister and historian. He is the author of "No Free Speech for Fascists", discussing the history of, and the case for, "no-platforming" fascist speakers (and only fascist speakers). To support the…

  43. #25 Andrew Mark Henry - What is Religion?

    · 1 h 11 min

    Andrew Mark Henry is a scholar of religion specialising in early Christianity and the religions of the late Roman Empire. He is also the host of "Religion for Breakfast", a YouTube channel with over 600,000 subscribers…

  44. #24 William Lane Craig - Did Jesus Rise From The Dead?

    · 1 h 04 min

    William Lane Craig is a Christian philosopher, author, and debater. He speaks to host Alex O'Connor about secularism in the US and UK, argument vs emotion in coming to faith in God, and the historical case for the…

  45. #23 Konstantin Kisin - Free Speech and Reparations

    · 1 h 04 min

    Konstantin Kisin is a satirist, comedian, journalist, and co-host of the Triggernometry Podcast. He recently went viral for a speech delivered at the Oxford Union arguing that "wokeness has gone too far", which has…

  46. #22 Bishop Robert Barron - Seeking Meaning, Finding God?

    · 1 h 07 min

    Bishop Robert Barron is the bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester and the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. His website, WordOnFire.org, reaches millions of people each year, and he is one of the world’s…

  47. #21 Trent Horn, Cameron Bertuzzi & Joe Schmid - The Problem of Evil

    · 1 h 14 min

    In this episode of the Cosmic Skeptic Podcast, Alex is joined by Joe Schmid, an agnostic, Cameron Bertuzzi, a (then) protestant, and Trent Horn, a catholic, to discuss the problem in detail, and analyse various…

  48. #20 Joe Schmid - Arguments For God Tier List

    · 1 h 55 min

    Joe Schmid is the owner of the Majesty of Reason YouTube channel, a platform dedicated to the analysis of a variety of philosophical topics. He is the author of "The Majesty of Reason: A Short Guide to Critical…

  49. #19 Genetically Modified Skeptic - Do We Still Feel the Same Way About Religion?

    · 1 h 03 min

    Drew McCoy is the host of the Genetically Modified Skeptic YouTube channel, which is, with now over 500,000 subscribers, perhaps the largest atheist YouTube channel in the world right now. The last time we collaborated…

  50. #18 Ed Winters - Veganism Reconsidered

    · 1 h 16 min

    Ed Winters ("Earthling Ed") is a vegan educator, best-selling author, public speaker and content creator, widely known for his viral debates, speeches, and video essays. Ed was on the Cosmic Skeptic Podcast in 2019,…

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