Within Reason

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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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Within Reason

Episoade

#166 Are Plants Conscious? - Michael Pollan

#165 Buddhist Emptiness Explained - Jan Westerhoff

#164 The Chosen Creator: Putting Words in Jesus' Mouth?

#163 Religion is an Obligation - Ross Douthat

#162 Two Million Subscriber QnA

#161 What’s the Point of Going Back to the Moon? Chris Hadfield -

#160 Every Theory of Consciousness - Robert Lawrence Kuhn

#159 Aristotle: The World's Greatest Philosopher?

#158 Could Consciousness Be an Illusion?

#157 How a Blind Man Sees the World - Tommy Edison

#156 Mysticism: The Heretics Who Got Too Close to God - Simon Critchley

#155 AI Music is Not Music - Adam Neely

#154 Happiness: Epicurus' Ancient Guide - Jonny Thomson

#153 If Anyone Builds It, EVERYONE Dies - AI Expert on Superintelligence

#152 Why AI Will Never Be Conscious

#151 John Lennox - What Nearly Dying Taught Me About God

#150 Materialist AND Panpsychism are True - Galen Strawson

#149 My Problem With C.S. Lewis - Philip Pullman

#148 Blaise Pascal: Philosopher, Mathematician, Genius - Graham Tomlin

#147 What is PURE Consciousness? - Thomas Metzinger

#146 The Most Complicated Thing in the Universe: What is the Brain?

#145 The Algorithm is God Now - The Etymology Nerd

#144 Sam Harris - Spirituality for Atheists.

#143 Hinduism, Consciousness and Advaita Vedanta - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Atheist Slogans You Should Stop Using - Joe Schmid

#141 Stoicism: Everything You Need to (Actually) Know - John Sellars

#140 Sean Carroll - The Limits of Scientific Explanation

#139 David Bentley Hart - All Things Are Full of Gods

#138 Rhett McLaughlin - How to Save Christianity From Christians

#137 Debunking Arguments for God - Graham Oppy

#136 Why Did The World Get So Ugly? - Alain de Botton

#135 Christmas Isn't What You Think - John Nelson

1.75m QnA - Triangles, Getting Owned by GodLogic, and Douglas Adams' Puddle

#133 Hank Green on God, Science, and Consciousness

#132 Vsauce - Does Anything Exist?

#131 Toby Ord - Will AI Destroy Humanity?

#130 Philip Goff - Why I'm a Heretical Christian

#129 Will MacAskill - We're Not Ready for Artificial General Intelligence

#128 Bernardo Kastrup - Materialism is Complete Nonsense

#127 Bear Grylls - Retelling Jesus' Life as a Thriller

#126 Was Jesus an Ancient Magician? - Religion for Breakfast

#125 Emily Qureshi-Hurst - Does God Know What Time It Is?

#124 Sisyphus 55 - So You're Having an Existential Crisis

#123 Candida Moss - Were Early Christians Really Persecuted by Rome?

#122 Robert Greene - Near-Death Experiences and the Mind Apart From the Brain

#121 John Cottingham - The Father of Modern Philosophy: René Descartes

#120 Brant Pitre - Jesus DID Claim to be God

#119 Jim Al-Khalili - The Strange World of Quantum Physics

#118 Joe Folley - Everything You Need to Know About Logic

#117 Dan McClellan - The Bible Has More Than One God