Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Philosophy • Religion • Science • Ethics • Cosmology • AI • History • Consciousness • Christianity • Logic • Politics • Mysticism • Quantum Physics • Art • Social Issues
Within Reason is a philosophy podcast that delves into a rich tapestry of ideas across a multitude of disciplines. With an inquisitive nature, it explores profound questions about existence, consciousness, and ethics. The podcast frequently engages with philosophical discussions and features a diverse range of expert guests, including philosophers, scientists, religious scholars, and public intellectuals.
Recurring themes include the exploration of consciousness and the mind, the intersection between science and religion, and the implications of advanced technology, particularly artificial intelligence. Many episodes examine existential and metaphysical questions surrounding the nature of reality, theories of consciousness such as panpsychism and materialism, and concepts from quantum physics.
In addition to these philosophical topics, the podcast addresses the relationships between religion, theology, and modern science, often probing into the historical and doctrinal questions of Christianity and other religious traditions. Guests frequently discuss the historical figures, narratives, and texts associated with these traditions, and consider their impact on contemporary beliefs and society.
Within Reason also pays considerable attention to the ethical dimensions of modern issues, from the implications of artificial intelligence and AGI to questions around free will, morality, and the ethical treatment of animals. The podcast's content remains grounded in intellectual discourse, often showcasing varied perspectives and challenging commonly-held assumptions. By hosting conversations with leading thinkers from diverse disciplines, the podcast fosters a dynamic dialogue that appeals to those curious about the philosophical underpinnings of current scientific, religious, and ethical debates.
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Episodes:
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#136 Why Did The World Get So Ugly? - Alain de Botton
2025-Dec-26
59 minutes
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#135 Christmas Isn't What You Think - John Nelson
2025-Dec-20
79 minutes
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1.75m QnA - Triangles, Getting Owned by GodLogic, and Douglas Adams' Puddle
2025-Dec-19
62 minutes
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#133 Hank Green on God, Science, and Consciousness
2025-Dec-07
132 minutes
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#132 Vsauce - Does Anything Exist?
2025-Nov-30
94 minutes
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#131 Toby Ord - Will AI Destroy Humanity?
2025-Nov-27
61 minutes
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#130 Philip Goff - Why I'm a Heretical Christian
2025-Nov-16
78 minutes
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#129 Will MacAskill - We're Not Ready for Artificial General Intelligence
2025-Nov-09
79 minutes
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#128 Bernardo Kastrup - Materialism is Complete Nonsense
2025-Nov-02
114 minutes
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#127 Bear Grylls - Retelling Jesus' Life as a Thriller
2025-Oct-26
61 minutes
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#126 Was Jesus an Ancient Magician? - Religion for Breakfast
2025-Oct-19
71 minutes
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#125 Emily Qureshi-Hurst - Does God Know What Time It Is?
2025-Oct-12
62 minutes
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#124 Sisyphus 55 - So You're Having an Existential Crisis
2025-Oct-05
91 minutes
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#123 Candida Moss - Were Early Christians Really Persecuted by Rome?
2025-Sep-28
81 minutes
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#122 Robert Greene - Near-Death Experiences and the Mind Apart From the Brain
2025-Sep-21
83 minutes
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#121 John Cottingham - The Father of Modern Philosophy: René Descartes
2025-Sep-16
100 minutes
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#120 Brant Pitre - Jesus DID Claim to be God
2025-Sep-10
119 minutes
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#119 Jim Al-Khalili - The Strange World of Quantum Physics
2025-Sep-01
65 minutes
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#118 Joe Folley - Everything You Need to Know About Logic
2025-Aug-24
93 minutes
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#117 Dan McClellan - The Bible Has More Than One God
2025-Aug-17
88 minutes
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#116 Peter Godfrey Smith - Animal Consciousness: What Can We Know?
2025-Aug-10
116 minutes
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#115 Phil Halper & Niayesh Afshordi - What Came Before The Big Bang?
2025-Aug-04
120 minutes
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#114 Simon Blackburn - What is Ethical Emotivism?
2025-Jul-28
81 minutes
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#113 Sabine Hossenfelder - Superdeterminism: Why Are Physicists Scared of It?
2025-Jul-21
60 minutes
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#112 Rick Alan Ross - Do Cult Leaders Believe Their Own Lies?
2025-Jul-13
114 minutes
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#111 Helen Bond - The Forgotten Female Disciples of Jesus
2025-Jul-06
85 minutes
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#110 The Cultural Tutor - Why Modern Love Fails and How to Rescue It
2025-Jul-01
76 minutes
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#109 David Pakman - The New Threat Donald Trump Poses to America
2025-Jun-22
68 minutes
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#108 Marcus du Sautoy - Do Numbers Exist?
2025-Jun-16
66 minutes
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#107 Dale Allison - Did Jesus Rise From the Dead?
2025-Jun-12
87 minutes
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#106 Diarmaid MacCulloch - Sex and Christianity: a Tumultuous History
2025-May-29
58 minutes
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#105 John Lennox - Why Science Needs God
2025-May-22
102 minutes
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#104 Annaka Harris - Is Consciousness Fundamental?
2025-May-04
92 minutes
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#103 Rhett McLaughlin - Why I Left Christianity
2025-Apr-20
112 minutes
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#102 David Deutsch - You're Not Smarter Than a Caveman
2025-Apr-07
115 minutes
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#101 Brian Greene - String Theory, Fine Tuning, and Divine Design
2025-Apr-02
80 minutes
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#100 Philosopher Shootout - 16 Thinkers, Ranked (With Joe Folley)
2025-Mar-23
188 minutes
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#99 Penn Badgley - My Religious Conflicts With Playing a Killer
2025-Mar-17
116 minutes
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#98 Jacob Hansen - A Mormon Explains Mormonism
2025-Mar-10
141 minutes
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#97 Kipp Davis - What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
2025-Mar-02
135 minutes
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#96 Music, Mormonism, and Peter Hitchens - 1.25m Subsrciber Q&A
2025-Mar-01
61 minutes
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#95 James McGrath: John the Baptist, the Bible's Most Mysterious Man
2025-Jan-31
83 minutes
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#94 Dan McClellan - What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?
2025-Jan-27
79 minutes
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#93 The Etymology Nerd - How Social Media is Transforming Our Language
2025-Jan-21
69 minutes
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#92 Bart Ehrman - The Dark Side of Christmas
2024-Dec-20
61 minutes
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#91 Filip Holm - What is Sufism? Islam and Mystical Experience
2024-Dec-13
84 minutes
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#90 Rainn Wilson - Reclaiming Spirituality From Traditional Religion
2024-Dec-06
97 minutes
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#89 The Cultural Tutor - The Philosophy and Ethics of Art
2024-Nov-28
61 minutes
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#88 Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Why I Converted To Christianity
2024-Nov-22
62 minutes
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#87 Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle - Biblical Slaves, Women, and the Unforgivable Sin
2024-Nov-13
166 minutes
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#86 Pre-Election Podcast - Destiny on Immigration, Trump, and Voter ID
2024-Oct-31
98 minutes
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#85 Magnify - 7 Translation Problems in Genesis
2024-Oct-28
96 minutes
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#84 David Nutt - The Truth About Drugs
2024-Sep-22
58 minutes
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#83 Esoterica - The History of the Demiurge
2024-Sep-15
109 minutes
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#82 Joe Folley - 9 Questions Atheists Cannot Answer
2024-Sep-09
149 minutes
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#81 Nick Bostrom - How To Prevent AI Catastrophe
2024-Sep-01
61 minutes
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#80 The Moustache,The Bible, and The Kalam - 850k QnA
2024-Aug-25
52 minutes
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#79 Elaine Pagels - The Origin of Satan
2024-Aug-11
68 minutes
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#78 Rory Sutherland - Why Logical Thinking is Illogical
2024-Jul-29
108 minutes
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#77 Bart Ehrman - What is the Gospel of Judas?
2024-Jul-21
110 minutes
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#76 Jonathan Pageau - Deconstructing the Fall of Adam and Eve
2024-Jul-16
119 minutes
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#75 Destiny on Jordan Peterson, Voting, and Political Principles
2024-Jul-07
146 minutes
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#74 Rabbi David Wolpe - What is Judaism?
2024-Jun-30
79 minutes
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#73 Arguments for Atheism Tier List w/ Joe Schmid!
2024-Jun-23
155 minutes
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#72 John Nelson - What Did Jesus Really Look Like?
2024-Jun-16
64 minutes
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#71 Unsolicited Advice - An Introduction to Nihilism
2024-Jun-09
79 minutes
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#70 Philosophize This! - A Beginner's Guide to Philosophy
2024-Jun-02
79 minutes
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#69 Iain McGilchrist - The Mind is More Than a Machine
2024-May-26
100 minutes
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#68 Andrew Mark Henry - What is The Gospel of Thomas?
2024-May-19
83 minutes
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#67 Elaine Pagels | What Are The Gnostic Gospels?
2024-May-13
69 minutes
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#66 Coleman Hughes - Should We Take Race Out of Politics?
2024-May-05
59 minutes
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#65 Esoterica - The History of Yahweh
2024-Apr-28
104 minutes
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#64 Rory Stewart - We Are Addicted to a Sense of Crisis
2024-Apr-21
69 minutes
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#63 A.C. Grayling - Who Will Own the Moon?
2024-Apr-14
62 minutes
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#62 750,000 Subscriber QnA
2024-Apr-07
34 minutes
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#61 Sam Harris - Can Science Determine Moral Values?
2024-Mar-31
175 minutes
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#60 Carlo Rovelli - Time is Weirder Than You Think
2024-Mar-24
63 minutes
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#59 William Lane Craig - Is Biblical Slaughter Ethical?
2024-Mar-17
66 minutes
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#58 Michael Knowles - Is America a Christian Nation?
2024-Mar-10
84 minutes
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#57 David Deutsch - The Multiverse is Real
2024-Mar-05
95 minutes
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#56 Susan Neiman - Left is Not Woke
2024-Feb-18
52 minutes
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#55 Robert Sapolsky - Free Will Doesn't Exist. Now What?
2024-Feb-11
56 minutes
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#54 The Cultural Tutor - Why Is The Modern World So Ugly?
2024-Feb-05
109 minutes
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#53 Jason Brennan - The Case Against Democracy
2024-Jan-28
57 minutes
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#52 Jonathan Pageau - The Problem With Secular Architecture
2024-Jan-20
58 minutes
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#51 Richard Dawkins - Religion is (Still) Appalling
2024-Jan-15
64 minutes
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#50 Sisyphus 55 - Nihilism and the Manosphere
2024-Jan-07
88 minutes
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#49 Christmas Special with Bart Ehrman - Did Christmas Really Happen?
2023-Dec-23
63 minutes
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#48 Edward Feser - Aristotle's Argument for God
2023-Dec-16
93 minutes
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#47 Josh Rasmussen - Why is Consciousness a Philosophical Problem?
2023-Dec-09
92 minutes
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#46 John Vervaeke - Escaping the Meaning Crisis
2023-Dec-04
92 minutes
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#45 Graham Oppy - Atheism Requires Justification Too
2023-Nov-06
77 minutes
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#44 Just Stop Oil - How Far Will They Go?
2023-Oct-19
64 minutes
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#43 Peter Hitchens Storms Out of My Interview
2023-Oct-16
59 minutes
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#42 Genetically Modified Skeptic - Why Satanism is Making a Comeback
2023-Oct-04
61 minutes
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#41 Justin Brierley - The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God
2023-Sep-24
76 minutes
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#40 Slavoj Žižek - Sex, Drugs, and Commodity Fetishism
2023-Sep-08
108 minutes
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#39 Andrew Doyle - The New Puritans
2023-Aug-20
88 minutes
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#38 Carl Robichaud - Will There Be A Nuclear War?
2023-Jul-30
67 minutes
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#37 T.M. Luhrmann - How Does God Become Real?
2023-Jul-24
65 minutes
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#36 Peter Boghossian - Having Better Conversations About Philosophy
2023-Jun-25
115 minutes
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#35 Bart Ehrman - Did Jesus Even Claim to be God?
2023-Jun-19
90 minutes
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#34 Anil Seth - A New Science of Consciousness
2023-Jun-07
100 minutes
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#33 Michael Jones - Does God Send People to Hell?
2023-May-29
69 minutes
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#32 Destiny - Testing Destiny's Ethics
2023-May-22
135 minutes
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#31 Peter Singer - The Limits of Utilitarianism
2023-May-14
63 minutes
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#30 Joshua Bowen - How the Bible Supports Slavery
2023-May-07
98 minutes
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#29 Richard Swinburne - Souls, Free Will and the Problem of Evil
2023-Apr-30
58 minutes
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#28 Neil deGrasse Tyson - What Is Earth's Biggest Threat?
2023-Apr-23
46 minutes
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#27 Philip Goff - Is Everything Conscious?
2023-Apr-18
126 minutes
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#26 David Renton - No Free Speech for Fascists
2023-Apr-09
66 minutes
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#25 Andrew Mark Henry - What is Religion?
2023-Apr-02
71 minutes
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#24 William Lane Craig - Did Jesus Rise From The Dead?
2023-Mar-26
63 minutes
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#23 Konstantin Kisin - Free Speech and Reparations
2023-Mar-19
63 minutes
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#22 Bishop Robert Barron - Seeking Meaning, Finding God?
2023-Mar-12
67 minutes
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#21 Trent Horn, Cameron Bertuzzi & Joe Schmid - The Problem of Evil
2023-Mar-12
73 minutes
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#20 Joe Schmid - Arguments For God Tier List
2022-Jun-17
114 minutes
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#19 Genetically Modified Skeptic - Do We Still Feel the Same Way About Religion?
2022-Jun-07
62 minutes
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#18 Ed Winters - Veganism Reconsidered
2022-Apr-21
76 minutes
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#17 April 1st - Why I'm a Christian Now, with Stephen Woodford
2022-Apr-21
85 minutes
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#16 Alex Hershaft - Surviving the Holocaust
2020-Nov-20
64 minutes
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#15 — Michael Sandel | The Tyranny of Merit
2020-Sep-09
54 minutes
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#14 — William Lane Craig | The Kalam Cosmological Argument
2020-Jun-21
75 minutes
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#13 — Joey Carbstrong | Why Won't Vegans Just Shut Up?
2020-May-24
65 minutes
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#12 — David Benatar | Is It Immoral To Have Children?
2020-Apr-26
87 minutes
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#11 — Douglas Murray | Gender and Activism
2019-Nov-25
83 minutes
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#10 — Richard Dawkins | Outgrowing God
2019-Sep-19
44 minutes
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#9 — Earthling Ed | Veganism Can Be Complicated
2019-Sep-13
115 minutes
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#8 — Andrew Copson | What Is Secularism?
2019-Aug-28
72 minutes
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#7 — Anthony Magnabosco | How To Change Minds
2019-Aug-09
52 minutes
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#6 — Peter Singer | Utilitarianism and Animals
2019-Jul-21
90 minutes
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#5 — Justin Brierley | Why I'm Still a Christian
2019-Jun-12
108 minutes
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