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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Oct 16, 2023 · 59 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 4, 2023 · 1 hr 1 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
Sep 24, 2023 · 1 hr 16 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 8, 2023 · 1 hr 48 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
Aug 20, 2023 · 1 hr 28 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
Jul 30, 2023 · 1 hr 7 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 24, 2023 · 1 hr 5 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 YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 25, 2023 · 1 hr 55 min
#36 Peter Boghossian - Having Better Conversations About Philosophy
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 YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@drpeterboghossian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 19, 2023 · 1 hr 30 min
#35 Bart Ehrman - Did Jesus Even Claim to be God?
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): http://www.patreon.com/cosmicskeptic To donate to my PayPal (thank you): http://www.paypal.me/cosmicskeptic Bart Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. He has written and edited 30 books, including three college textbooks. He has also authored six New York Times bestsellers. (Wikipedia) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 7, 2023 · 1 hr 40 min
#34 Anil Seth - A New Science of Consciousness
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": https://amzn.to/3NgKD53 Anil Seth's website: https://www.anilseth.com/ The Perception Census: https://perceptioncensus.dreamachine.world/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 29, 2023 · 1 hr 9 min
#33 Michael Jones - Does God Send People to Hell?
Michael Jones is the founder and director of the Christian YouTube channel "Inspiring Philosophy". He has previously debated Alex twice. Inspiring Philosophy on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5qDet6sa6rODi7t6wfpg8g Inspiring Philosophy, "Does God Send People to Hell?": https://youtu.be/tiYf6ITgWbk Michael's debate with Alex on the problem of evil: https://www.youtube.com/live/hNF9bTESZwE?feature=share Michael's debate with Alex on the moral argument for God: https://youtu.be/9Ulnmb-4v2M Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 22, 2023 · 2 hr 15 min
#32 Destiny - Testing Destiny's Ethics
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 megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 14, 2023 · 1 hr 3 min
#31 Peter Singer - The Limits of Utilitarianism
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 York: https://events.humanitix.com/peter-singer-ny Washington DC: https://events.humanitix.com/peter-singer-washington-dc LA: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/09005E68DC24308C San Fransisco: https://events.humanitix.com/peter-singer-san-francisco London: https://hackneyempire.co.uk/whats-on/peter-singer-animal-liberation-now/ Virtual Event: https://events.humanitix.com/peter-singer-live-stream Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 7, 2023 · 1 hr 38 min
#30 Joshua Bowen - How the Bible Supports Slavery
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: https://t.co/RuPDimaomv Did the Old Testament Endorse Slavery?: https://tinyurl.com/3m6prd3h Digital Hammurabi: www.youtube.com/digitalhammurabi Misquoting Jesus Podcast (Bart Ehrman and Megan Lewis): https://www.bartehrman.com/podcast/ Digital Hammurabi: Website: www.digitalhammurabi.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/digitalhammurabi Twitter: www.twitter.com/digi_hammurabi Patreon: www.patreon.com/digitalhammurabi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 30, 2023 · 58 min
#29 Richard Swinburne - Souls, Free Will and the Problem of Evil
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 podcast, please visit support.withinreasonpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 23, 2023 · 46 min
#28 Neil deGrasse Tyson - What Is Earth's Biggest Threat?
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 Civilisation: https://amzn.to/40Cdkgi (affiliate link) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 18, 2023 · 2 hr 6 min
#27 Philip Goff - Is Everything Conscious?
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 consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous property of the universe. Buy Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness (affiliate link, which supports my work): https://amzn.to/3MTfKnu To support the Within Reason Podcast financially, please visit support.withinreasonpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 9, 2023 · 1 hr 6 min
#26 David Renton - No Free Speech for Fascists
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 Within Reason Podcast and get early access to episodes, please visit support.withinreasonpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 2, 2023 · 1 hr 11 min
#25 Andrew Mark Henry - What is Religion?
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 producing informative videos on a variety of topics related to religion. Dr. Henry joins host Alex O'Connor to discuss a number of questions: what is religion? Where does it come from? Why is it so ubiquitous? To support Within Reason, please consider signing up at support.withinreasonpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 26, 2023 · 1 hr 3 min
#24 William Lane Craig - Did Jesus Rise From The Dead?
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 resurrection of Jesus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Within Reason

#43 Peter Hitchens Storms Out of My Interview

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

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

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

#39 Andrew Doyle - The New Puritans

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

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

#36 Peter Boghossian - Having Better Conversations About Philosophy

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

#34 Anil Seth - A New Science of Consciousness

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

#32 Destiny - Testing Destiny's Ethics

#31 Peter Singer - The Limits of Utilitarianism

#30 Joshua Bowen - How the Bible Supports Slavery

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

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

#27 Philip Goff - Is Everything Conscious?

#26 David Renton - No Free Speech for Fascists

#25 Andrew Mark Henry - What is Religion?

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