Within Reason

Alex J O'Connor

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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159 episodes
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Apr 14, 2024 · 1 hr 2 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 7, 2024 · 34 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
Mar 31, 2024 · 2 hr 55 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 24, 2024 · 1 hr 3 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 17, 2024 · 1 hr 6 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 10, 2024 · 1 hr 24 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 5, 2024 · 1 hr 35 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
Feb 18, 2024 · 52 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 11, 2024 · 56 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 5, 2024 · 1 hr 49 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
Jan 28, 2024 · 57 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: A Guided Tour": https://amzn.to/3udeuF2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 20, 2024 · 58 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 15, 2024 · 1 hr 4 min
#51 Richard Dawkins - Religion is (Still) Appalling
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
Jan 7, 2024 · 1 hr 28 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
Dec 23, 2023 · 1 hr 3 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 16, 2023 · 1 hr 33 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 9, 2023 · 1 hr 32 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/adchoices
Dec 4, 2023 · 1 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
Nov 6, 2023 · 1 hr 17 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 19, 2023 · 1 hr 4 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

Within Reason

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

#62 750,000 Subscriber QnA

#61 Sam Harris - Can Science Determine Moral Values?

#60 Carlo Rovelli - Time is Weirder Than You Think

#59 William Lane Craig - Is Biblical Slaughter Ethical?

#58 Michael Knowles - Is America a Christian Nation?

#57 David Deutsch - The Multiverse is Real

#56 Susan Neiman - Left is Not Woke

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

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

#53 Jason Brennan - The Case Against Democracy

#52 Jonathan Pageau - The Problem With Secular Architecture

#51 Richard Dawkins - Religion is (Still) Appalling

#50 Sisyphus 55 - Nihilism and the Manosphere

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

#48 Edward Feser - Aristotle's Argument for God

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

#46 John Vervaeke - Escaping the Meaning Crisis

#45 Graham Oppy - Atheism Requires Justification Too

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