Within Reason
A philosophy podcast that explores deep questions and ideas, often crossing into other disciplines. Host Alex J O'Connor interviews prominent thinkers such as Richard Dawkins, Douglas Murray, William Lane Craig, Peter Singer, Konstantin Kisin, and Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Episodes
#164 The Chosen Creator: Putting Words in Jesus' Mouth?
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#163 Religion is an Obligation - Ross Douthat
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#162 Two Million Subscriber QnA
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#161 What’s the Point of Going Back to the Moon? Chris Hadfield -
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#160 Every Theory of Consciousness - Robert Lawrence Kuhn
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#159 Aristotle: The World's Greatest Philosopher?
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#158 Could Consciousness Be an Illusion?
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#157 How a Blind Man Sees the World - Tommy Edison
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#156 Mysticism: The Heretics Who Got Too Close to God - Simon Critchley
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#155 AI Music is Not Music - Adam Neely
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#154 Happiness: Epicurus' Ancient Guide - Jonny Thomson
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#153 If Anyone Builds It, EVERYONE Dies - AI Expert on Superintelligence
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#152 Why AI Will Never Be Conscious
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#151 John Lennox - What Nearly Dying Taught Me About God
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#150 Materialist AND Panpsychism are True - Galen Strawson
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#149 My Problem With C.S. Lewis - Philip Pullman
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#148 Blaise Pascal: Philosopher, Mathematician, Genius - Graham Tomlin
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#147 What is PURE Consciousness? - Thomas Metzinger
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#146 The Most Complicated Thing in the Universe: What is the Brain?
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#145 The Algorithm is God Now - The Etymology Nerd
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#144 Sam Harris - Spirituality for Atheists.
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#143 Hinduism, Consciousness and Advaita Vedanta - Swami Sarvapriyananda
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Atheist Slogans You Should Stop Using - Joe Schmid
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#141 Stoicism: Everything You Need to (Actually) Know - John Sellars
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#140 Sean Carroll - The Limits of Scientific Explanation
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#139 David Bentley Hart - All Things Are Full of Gods
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#138 Rhett McLaughlin - How to Save Christianity From Christians
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#137 Debunking Arguments for God - Graham Oppy
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 the world.Buy his book, Arguing About Gods, here.Timestamps: 00:00 - Tour00:31 - The First Cause Argument14:14 - Can There be an Infinite Regress?30:46 - The Modal Fatalism Objection36
#136 Why Did The World Get So Ugly? - Alain de Botton
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#135 Christmas Isn't What You Think - John Nelson
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1.75m QnA - Triangles, Getting Owned by GodLogic, and Douglas Adams' Puddle
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#133 Hank Green on God, Science, and Consciousness
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#132 Vsauce - Does Anything Exist?
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#131 Toby Ord - Will AI Destroy Humanity?
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#130 Philip Goff - Why I'm a Heretical Christian
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#129 Will MacAskill - We're Not Ready for Artificial General Intelligence
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#128 Bernardo Kastrup - Materialism is Complete Nonsense
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 in the analytic tradition.Buy his books here.Timestamps:0:00 - What is the World Really Made Of?7:11 - Qualities vs Quantities9:45 - Can Materialism Explain Anything?25:06 - Is There
#127 Bear Grylls - Retelling Jesus' Life as a Thriller
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 Association’s youngest-ever Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas Territories at the age of 35. His new book, The Greatest Story Ever Told, is a retelling of the life of Jesus through
#126 Was Jesus an Ancient Magician? - Religion for Breakfast
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#125 Emily Qureshi-Hurst - Does God Know What Time It Is?
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 Cosmos: God, Physics, and the Search for Deeper Explanation, explores this relationship in depth.Improve your focus with Brain FM with 30 days free: https://www.brain.fm/withinreason.T
#124 Sisyphus 55 - So You're Having an Existential Crisis
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 now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#123 Candida Moss - Were Early Christians Really Persecuted by Rome?
Candida Moss is a historian of Christianity and author of The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#122 Robert Greene - Near-Death Experiences and the Mind Apart From the Brain
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Robert Greene is an American author of books on strategy, power, and seduction. He has written seven international bestsellers, including The 48 Laws of Power. He is working on a book about the concept of the sublime, and speaks today about its relati
#121 John Cottingham - The Father of Modern Philosophy: René Descartes
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 Philosophy at the University of Reading, Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College, University of London, and Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He is also a current
#120 Brant Pitre - Jesus DID Claim to be God
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 origin of the Eucharist, and the canonical Gospels.
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#119 Jim Al-Khalili - The Strange World of Quantum Physics
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 ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#118 Joe Folley - Everything You Need to Know About Logic
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Joe Folley runs the YouTube channel Unsolicited Advice. He graduated from Cambridge University in 202with an MPhil in Philosophy, specialising in logic.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - What is Logic?5:04 - Aristotelian vs Stoic Logic12:47 - How Logic Provides Clarity18:42 Ambiguities in Logical L
#117 Dan McClellan - The Bible Has More Than One God
Dan McClellan is an American biblical scholar and author of The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues.
Timestamps:
0:00 Why Does God Say “We”?14:36 Does God Create the Universe From Nothing?28:43 Is This Explained By The Trinity?34:32 Is There Only One God?47:39 Fake Idols or Gods?1:02:50 How English Translations Mislead Us Into Monotheism01:11:0
#116 Peter Godfrey Smith - Animal Consciousness: What Can We Know?
Peter Godfrey-Smith is an Australian philosopher of science and writer, who is currently Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. Buy his books here.
Timestamps:
0:00 How Many Times Has the Brain Independently Evolved?
4:36 What is a Nervous System?
7:12 The Differences Between the Human and Animal Brains
13:40 What Does an Octopus Brain Look Like?
25:21 What is
#115 Phil Halper & Niayesh Afshordi - What Came Before The Big Bang?
Niayesh Afshordi is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo. Phil Halper is a science communicator and YouTuber. Together, they have authored a book called "Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins", an overview of the state of modern cosmology on the nature of the big bang.
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#114 Simon Blackburn - What is Ethical Emotivism?
Simon Blackburn is well-known both as a writer of popular philosophy introductions (like Think), and also a significant figure in non-cognitivist meta-ethics, having invented the term “quasi-realism” to describe his moral philosophy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#113 Sabine Hossenfelder - Superdeterminism: Why Are Physicists Scared of It?
Sabine Hossenfelder is a German theoretical physicist, author, science communicator, and YouTuber. She is the author of Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions.
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#112 Rick Alan Ross - Do Cult Leaders Believe Their Own Lies?
Rick Alan Ross is an American deprogrammer, cult specialist, and founder and executive director of the non-profit Cult Education Institute. Frequently appearing in the news and other media, discussing groups some consider cults. Ross has intervened in more than 500 deprogramming cases in various countries. (Wikipedia)
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#111 Helen Bond - The Forgotten Female Disciples of Jesus
Helen Bond is Professor of Christian Origins at the New College, University of Edinburgh, and former head of the School of Divinity there. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
In 2023, she co-authored a book with Joan Taylor called Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples. Watch the documentary version here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#110 The Cultural Tutor - Why Modern Love Fails and How to Rescue It
Sheehan Quirke is The Cultural Tutor. A writer on history, art, and architecture with millions of followers, he is also the author of the forthcoming The Cultural Tutor: Forty-Nine Lessons You Wish You’d Learned at School, which is currently available for preorder here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#109 David Pakman - The New Threat Donald Trump Poses to America
David Pakman is an American progressive political commentator and host of @thedavidpakmanshow .
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#108 Marcus du Sautoy - Do Numbers Exist?
Marcus du Sautoy is a British mathematician, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, Fellow of New College, Oxford and author of popular mathematics and popular science books. Buy Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#107 Dale Allison - Did Jesus Rise From the Dead?
Dale Allison is an American historian and Christian theologian. His areas of expertise include the historical Jesus, the Gospel of Matthew, Second Temple Jewish literature, and the history of the interpretation and reception of the Bible. Allison is the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary (2013- ). (Wikipedia)
By Dale Allison's book, The Resurrection
#106 Diarmaid MacCulloch - Sex and Christianity: a Tumultuous History
Diarmaid MacCulloch is an English academic and historian, specialising in ecclesiastical history and the history of Christianity. Since 1995, he has been a fellow of St Cross College, Oxford; he was formerly the senior tutor.
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#105 John Lennox - Why Science Needs God
John Lennox is a Northern Irish mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian apologist originally from Northern Ireland. He has written many books on religion, ethics, the relationship between science and God, and has had public debates with atheists including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#104 Annaka Harris - Is Consciousness Fundamental?
Annaka Harris is an American writer. Her work touches on neuroscience, meditation, philosophy of mind and consciousness. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind. Get Annaka Harris’ documentary Lights On here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#103 Rhett McLaughlin - Why I Left Christianity
Rhett McLaughlin is a comedian best known for creating the internet’s most-watched daily talk show, Good Mythical Morning along side Link Neal; their award-winning weekly podcast The pair also host a weekly podcast, Ear Biscuits; and the instant #1 New York Times bestseller Rhett & Link’s Book of Mythicality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#102 David Deutsch - You're Not Smarter Than a Caveman
David Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford, often described as the "father of quantum computing". 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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#101 Brian Greene - String Theory, Fine Tuning, and Divine Design
Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, director of its centre for theoretical physics, and the chairman of the World Science Festival. He is best known for his work on string theory, especially in his book “The Elegant Universe”, which turns 25 this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#100 Philosopher Shootout - 16 Thinkers, Ranked (With Joe Folley)
For episode 100 of Within Reason, I'm joined by Joe Folley, from the YouTube Channel "Unsolicited Advice", to tackle a completely arbitrary and ridiculous tournament of thinkers, each of whom are to some degree relevant to the show. Joe graduated from Cambridge University with an MPhil in Philosophy, specialising in logic, in 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#99 Penn Badgley - My Religious Conflicts With Playing a Killer
Penn Badgley is an actor best known for his roles in Netflix’s You and the popular drama series Gossip Girl. He is less known as a podcaster and member of the Baháʼí Faith, a religion which teaches that there is a historical unity between major world religions and their prophets, having itself developed out of a branch of Twelver Shia Islam in the 19th century. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi
#98 Jacob Hansen - A Mormon Explains Mormonism
Jacob Hansen is a Mormon YouTuber at the channel Thoughtful Faith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#97 Kipp Davis - What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Kipp Davis (@DrKippDavis) is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway, where he specialises in the assignment and reconstruction of fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls and their interpretation. (Google Books) The Dead Sea Scrolls are a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered over a period of 10 years, between 1946 and
#96 Music, Mormonism, and Peter Hitchens - 1.25m Subsrciber Q&A
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#95 James McGrath: John the Baptist, the Bible's Most Mysterious Man
James Frank McGrath is the Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University. He is the author of two books on John the Baptist: "John of History, Baptist of Faith: The Quest for the Historical Baptiser", and "Christmaker: A Life of John the Baptist". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#94 Dan McClellan - What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?
Dan McClellan is an American public scholar of the Bible and religion. His forthcoming book, "The Bible Says So", is available here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#93 The Etymology Nerd - How Social Media is Transforming Our Language
Adam Aleksic is a linguist known online as "The Etymology Nerd". His educational videos are watched regularly by millions. His forthcoming book "Algospeak" is currently available for preorder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#92 Bart Ehrman - The Dark Side of Christmas
Bart Ehrman is a New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. Get Bart Ehrman's new course, The Dark Side of Christmas (affiliate link). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#91 Filip Holm - What is Sufism? Islam and Mystical Experience
Filip Holm is the creator and host of "Lets Talk Religion", a YouTube channel which aims to educate on the subject of religion from an academic perspective. He joins the show to discuss Sufism, which can broadly be defined as the mystical tradition within Islam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#90 Rainn Wilson - Reclaiming Spirituality From Traditional Religion
Rainn Wilson is the actor and comedian best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the The Office (US), for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He is also the host of Soul Boom, a podcast discussing spirituality, and authored a book of the same name exploring how we can use spiritual tools to help solve some of life's
#89 The Cultural Tutor - The Philosophy and Ethics of Art
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