Podcasts by Within Reason
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.
Further podcasts by Alex J O'Connor
Podcast on the topic Philosophie
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#47 — Josh Rasmussen | Why is Consciousness a Philosophical Problem? from 2023-12-09T18:30
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 Listen
#46 — John Vervaeke | Meaning, Death, and Video Games from 2023-12-04T21:40
John Vervaeke is an award-winning professor of psychology, cognitive science, and Buddhist psychology at the University of...
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#45 — Graham Oppy | Atheism Requires Justification Too from 2023-11-06T15:45
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 Revi...
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#44 — Just Stop Oil | How Far Will They Go? from 2023-10-19T23:31
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, ...
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#43 — Peter Hitchens from 2023-10-16T18:18
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...
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#42 — Genetically Modified Skeptic | Why Satanism is Making a Comeback from 2023-10-04T14:46
Drew McCoy is the creator and host of the YouTube channel Genetically Modified Skeptic. His video...
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#41 — Justin Brierley | The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God from 2023-09-24T13:29
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 Be...
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#40 — Slavoj Žižek | Sex, Drugs, and Commodity Fetishism from 2023-09-08T02:11
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 h...
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#39 — Andrew Doyle | The New Puritans from 2023-08-20T16:35
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,...
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#38 — Carl Robichaud | What's the Closest We've Come to Nuclear Annihilation? from 2023-07-30T18:30
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...
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#37 — T.M. Luhrmann | How Does God Become Real? from 2023-07-24T16:46
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, a...
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#36 — Peter Boghossian | Having Better Conversations About Philosophy from 2023-06-25T17:43
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....
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#35 — Bart Ehrman | Did Jesus Even Claim to be God? from 2023-06-19T01:00
Get Bart Ehrman's course, "Did Jesus Call Himself God?": https://www.bartehrman.com/godman
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#34 — Anil Seth | A New Science of Consciousness from 2023-06-07T20:01
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 N...
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#33 — Michael Jones | Does God Send People to Hell? from 2023-05-29T15:04
Michael Jones is the founder and director of the Christian YouTube channel "Inspiring Philosophy". He has previously debated Alex twice.
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#32 — Destiny | A "Philosophical Audit" of Destiny's Ethics from 2023-05-22T22:58
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
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#31 — Peter Singer | The Limits of Utilitarianism from 2023-05-14T13:49
Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher often credited as the father of the modern animal rights movement.
Purchase Animal Liberation Now: https...
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#30 — Joshua Bowen | How the Bible Supports Slavery from 2023-05-07T21:08
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:...
#29 — Richard Swinburne | Souls, Free Will and the Problem of Evil from 2023-04-30T16:25
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 sub...
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#28 — Neil deGrasse Tyson | AI, Asteroids, and Twitter from 2023-04-23T15:16
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 Messen...
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#27 — Philip Goff | Is Everything Conscious? from 2023-04-18T20:29
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", th...
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#26 — David Renton | No Free Speech for Fascists from 2023-04-09T12:49
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" ...
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#25 — Andrew Mark Henry | What is Religion? from 2023-04-02T15:21
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 ...
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#24 — William Lane Craig | God and the Resurrection of Jesus from 2023-03-26T09:59
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 hist...
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#23 — Konstantin Kisin | Free Speech, Conservatism, and Reparations from 2023-03-19T19:09
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...
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#22 — Bishop Robert Barron | Seeking Meaning, Finding God? from 2023-03-12T18:12
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 ...
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#21 — Trent Horn, Cameron Bertuzzi&Joe Schmid | The Problem of Evil from 2023-03-12T04:24
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...
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#20 — Joe Schmid | Ranking Arguments for God's Existence in Depth from 2022-06-17T15:29
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 Sho...
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#19 — Genetically Modified Skeptic | Do We Still Feel the Same Way About Religion? from 2022-06-07T15:59:21
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.
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#18 — Ed Winters | Veganism Reconsidered from 2022-04-21T14:44:34
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 t...
#17 — Why I'm a Christian Now (April 1st, feat. Stephen Woodford) from 2022-04-21T14:39:11
Released on April 1st, this podcast details Alex's conversion to Christianity, a position he defends against the criticisms of Stephen Woodford (Rationality Rules).
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#16 — Alex Hershaft |Surviving the Holocaust from 2020-11-20T23:00
Dr. Alex Hershaft is a Holocaust survivor, animal rights activist, and co-founder and president of the Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM). He has previously had a 30-year career in materials sci...
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#15 — Michael Sandel | The Tyranny of Merit from 2020-09-09T16:29:36
Michael J. Sandel is an American political philosopher, and Professor of Government Theory at Harvard University Law School. His public lectures have been viewed by tens of millions of people ar...
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#14 — William Lane Craig | The Kalam Cosmological Argument from 2020-06-21T14:32:33
William Lane Craig is an American philosopher and Christian theologian. He holds two PHDs in philosophy and theology, and is a professor of philosophy at both Houston Baptist University and Talb...
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#13 — Joey Carbstrong | Why Won't Vegans Just Shut Up? from 2020-05-24T16:26:24
Joey Carbstrong is an Australian animal rights activist and vegan. Formerly a criminal, Joey turned his life around and now campaigns for animals, his views having been widely syndicated across ...
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#12 — David Benatar | Is It Immoral To Have Children? from 2020-04-26T20:38:17
Professor David Benatar is a South African philosopher, academic and author, and head of the philosophy department at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He is best known for his defenc...
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#11 — Douglas Murray | Gender and Activism from 2019-11-25T15:11:55
Douglas Murray is a British conservative author and journalist, and associate editor of The Spectator. In 2017 Murray wrote The Strange Death of Europe, taking on the issue of the global immigra...
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#10 — Richard Dawkins | Outgrowing God from 2019-09-19T19:26:12
Richard Dawkins is the world-famous evolutionary biologist, New York Times bestselling science writer, emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and previously Oxford University's Professor for Pu...
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#9 — Earthling Ed | Veganism Can Be Complicated from 2019-09-13T17:20:12
Ed Winters, known online as Earthling Ed, is a vegan educator and public speaker, co-founder and co-director of Surge, which founded the annual Official Animal Rights March, producer of the docu...
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#8 — Andrew Copson | What Is Secularism? from 2019-08-28T00:21:07
Andrew Copson is is Chief Executive of Humanists UK and author of Oxford University Press' Very Short Introduction to Secularism. He speaks to Alex about the meaning of secularism, its distincti...
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#7 — Anthony Magnabosco | How To Change Minds from 2019-08-09T18:45:29
Anthony Magnabosco is the founder and executive director of Street Epistemology International, a non-profit organisation formed to encourage critical thinking and scepticism while providing peop...
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#6 — Peter Singer | Utilitarianism and Animals from 2019-07-21T15:50:01
Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher and author of the seminal Animal Liberation, a book credited with initiating the modern animal rights movement. He speaks to Alex about u...
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#5 — Justin Brierley | Why I'm Still a Christian from 2019-06-12T14:10:22
Justin Brierley is the host of the popular radio show 'Unbelievable?' which platforms debates between Christians and non-Christians. He is the author of 'Unbelievable: Why, After Ten Years of Ta...
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#4 — Rationality Rules | Is Morality Objective? from 2019-05-09T14:14:38
Stephen Woodford is the owner of the YouTube channel 'Rationality Rules'. He is an atheist, moral objectivist and graphic designer, has given public talks on morality, and found considerable suc...
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#3 — Matt Dillahunty | Meta-Ethics and Veganism from 2019-04-30T19:59:33
Matt Dillahunty is an American atheist activist, former president of the Atheist Community of Austin, and host of The Atheist Experience. He is a magician, public speaker, and debater, having sh...
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#2 — Michael Shermer | Death, How To Avoid It, and Why You Shouldn't be Afraid from 2019-04-11T19:47:05
Dr Michael Shermer is an American historian of science, editor-in-chief of Skeptic magazine, and author of nearly 20 books, including Heavens On Earth, The Moral Arc, ...
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#1 — Armin Navabi | Free Speech and Leaving Islam from 2019-04-03T23:15:06
Armin Navabi is an Iranian Canadian ex-Muslim and secular activist, author, podcaster, and founder of Atheist Republic. He speaks to Alex about the troubles he faces spreading his secular messag...
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