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Within Reason

Alex J O'Connorwww.cosmicskeptic.com
For the curious. 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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Episodes

#65 Esoterica - The History of Yahweh

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 choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 28, 20241 hr 45 min

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

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 private tutor to both Prince William and Prince Harry. He now co-hosts The Rest is Politics with Alastair Campbell, one of the UK's most popular shows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 21, 20241 hr 9 min

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

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 more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apr 14, 20241 hr 3 min

#62 750,000 Subscriber QnA

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

Apr 07, 202435 min

#61 Sam Harris - Can Science Determine Moral Values?

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

Mar 31, 20242 hr 56 min

#60 Carlo Rovelli - Time is Weirder Than You Think

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 Holes, amongst other works. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 24, 20241 hr 4 min

#59 William Lane Craig - Is Biblical Slaughter Ethical?

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 justified. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 17, 20241 hr 6 min

#58 Michael Knowles - Is America a Christian Nation?

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

Mar 10, 20241 hr 24 min

#57 David Deutsch - The Multiverse is Real

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 University of Oxford. (Wikipedia.) Buy David Deutsch's book, The Beginning of Infinity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mar 05, 20241 hr 36 min

#56 Susan Neiman - Left is Not Woke

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

Feb 18, 202453 min

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

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 Science of Life Without Free Will", which you can purchase here . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Feb 11, 202457 min

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

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

Feb 05, 20241 hr 50 min

#53 Jason Brennan - The Case Against Democracy

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, and the moral foundations of commercial society. (Wikipedia.) He speaks in this episode about the faults and flaws of democracy, and why people are often not as good as voting as they think they are. Buy "Against Democracy" (affiliate link): https://amzn.to/3HBA5df Buy "Democracy: ...

Jan 28, 202458 min

#52 Jonathan Pageau - The Problem With Secular Architecture

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 religion, art and in popular culture. He's also the editor of the Orthodox Arts Journal and host of the Symbolic World blog and podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 20, 202459 min

#50 Sisyphus 55 - Nihilism and the Manosphere

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 more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan 07, 20241 hr 28 min

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

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 here . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 23, 20231 hr 4 min

#48 Edward Feser - Aristotle's Argument for God

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 about one of these: the Aristotelean argument from motion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dec 16, 20231 hr 34 min

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

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 , Necessary Existence , How Reason Can Lead to God , and Is God the Best Explanation of Things . He is also the founder of the Worldview Design YouTube channel , which helps people use reason to address the big questions of life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...

Dec 09, 20231 hr 32 min

#46 John Vervaeke - Escaping the Meaning Crisis

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 Crisis". Dr. Vervaeke joins me to discuss why people are struggling to find meaning, how we might solve this problem, and whether death poses a series problem for believing in meaning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Dec 04, 20231 hr 33 min

#45 Graham Oppy - Atheism Requires Justification Too

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 the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and serves on the editorial boards of Philo, Philosopher's Compass, Religious Studies, and Sophia. He is one of the best known atheist thinkers in academia. You can buy "Atheism: the Basics" here . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

Nov 06, 20231 hr 18 min

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

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 snooker table at a world championship with orange powder, blocking traffic on busy roads, and, most recently, climbing on stage during a production of Les Misérables in London's West End. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Oct 19, 20231 hr 5 min

#43 Peter Hitchens Storms Out of My Interview

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 Fought and The Phoney Victory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 16, 202359 min

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

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 trip to SatanCon in Boston, Massachusetts, and about what the modern satanism movement is all about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Oct 04, 20231 hr 2 min

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

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 atheism grew old and secular thinkers are considering Christianity again". Get Justin's book here . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Sep 24, 20231 hr 16 min

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

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 Continental Europe. (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy) To support Within Reason on Patreon, please visit https://www.patreon.com/cosmicskeptic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Sep 08, 20231 hr 48 min

#39 Andrew Doyle - The New Puritans

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 titled Free Speech Nation. He is the author of The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...

Aug 20, 20231 hr 28 min

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

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 fund which grants over $30 million annually to strengthen international peace and security. Carl previously worked with The Century Foundation and the Global Security Institute, where his extensive research spanned arms control, international security policy, and nonproliferation. L...

Jul 30, 20231 hr 7 min

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

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. She is the author of How God Becomes Real , which asks what it means to say that a person 'believes' in gods, how and why this kind of belief is so different from mundane beliefs about the normal world, and how these gods become vividly real to some people. Find Within Reason on Yo...

Jul 24, 20231 hr 5 min
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