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Podcast Profile: Within Reason

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100 episodes
2019 to 2025
Median: 79 minutes
Collections: Philosophy • SciPhi-Adjacent

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This podcast, titled "Within Reason," is a philosophy-oriented series that often engages with other disciplines. It features a wide array of guests ranging from comedians to physicists, philosophers, theologians, scientists, and public intellectuals, presenting a diverse exploration of ideas. Episodes frequently delve into deep existential questions and ethical dilemmas, examining topics such as religion, moral values, free will, and spirituality. The show includes discussions on prominent figures and religious texts, offering insights into Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and related mystical traditions. Topics of language, art, history, and the interplay between culture and beliefs also surface regularly.

Many episodes reflect on contemporary societal issues, engaging with themes of politics, identity, and social change and analyzing their philosophical implications. The integration of science and philosophy is another recurring theme, as the podcast covers cutting-edge theories in physics, cognitive science, and technology, particularly focusing on the impact of these disciplines on human understanding and the universe. Discussions frequently touch on the challenges and potential of artificial intelligence, the nature of consciousness, and the significance of scientific advancements.

Conversations within the podcast often interrogate traditional beliefs, offering critiques and alternative perspectives on well-trodden philosophical or religious concepts, while searching for new ways of thinking. By engaging with both historical and modern interpretations, the show seeks to add depth and context to ongoing debates. Overall, "Within Reason" presents an intellectual space where listeners can explore a wide-reaching spectrum of ideas that challenge conventional thinking, promote critical analysis, and encourage philosophical inquiry across various subjects.

Episodes:

#104 Annaka Harris - Is Consciousness Fundamental? 2025-May-04 92 minutes

#103 Rhett McLaughlin - Why I Left Christianity 2025-Apr-20 112 minutes

#102 David Deutsch - You're Not Smarter Than a Caveman 2025-Apr-07 115 minutes

#101 Brian Greene - String Theory, Fine Tuning, and Divine Design 2025-Apr-02 80 minutes

#100 Philosopher Shootout - 16 Thinkers, Ranked (With Joe Folley) 2025-Mar-23 188 minutes

#99 Penn Badgley - My Religious Conflicts With Playing a Killer 2025-Mar-17 116 minutes

#98 Jacob Hansen - A Mormon Explains Mormonism 2025-Mar-10 141 minutes

#97 Kipp Davis - What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls? 2025-Mar-02 135 minutes

#96 Music, Mormonism, and Peter Hitchens - 1.25m Subsrciber Q&A 2025-Mar-01 61 minutes

#95 James McGrath: John the Baptist, the Bible's Most Mysterious Man 2025-Jan-31 83 minutes

#94 Dan McClellan - What Does the Bible Say About Abortion? 2025-Jan-27 79 minutes

#93 The Etymology Nerd - How Social Media is Transforming Our Language 2025-Jan-21 69 minutes

#92 Bart Ehrman - The Dark Side of Christmas 2024-Dec-20 61 minutes

#91 Filip Holm - What is Sufism? Islam and Mystical Experience 2024-Dec-13 84 minutes

#90 Rainn Wilson - Reclaiming Spirituality From Traditional Religion 2024-Dec-06 97 minutes

#89 The Cultural Tutor - The Philosophy and Ethics of Art 2024-Nov-28 61 minutes

#88 Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Why I Converted To Christianity 2024-Nov-22 62 minutes

#87 Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle - Biblical Slaves, Women, and the Unforgivable Sin 2024-Nov-13 166 minutes

#86 Pre-Election Podcast - Destiny on Immigration, Trump, and Voter ID 2024-Oct-31 98 minutes

#85 Magnify - 7 Translation Problems in Genesis 2024-Oct-28 96 minutes

#84 David Nutt - The Truth About Drugs 2024-Sep-22 58 minutes

#83 Esoterica - The History of the Demiurge 2024-Sep-15 109 minutes

#82 Joe Folley - 9 Questions Atheists Cannot Answer 2024-Sep-09 149 minutes

#81 Nick Bostrom - How To Prevent AI Catastrophe 2024-Sep-01 61 minutes

#80 The Moustache,The Bible, and The Kalam - 850k QnA 2024-Aug-25 52 minutes

#79 Elaine Pagels - The Origin of Satan 2024-Aug-11 68 minutes

#78 Rory Sutherland - Why Logical Thinking is Illogical 2024-Jul-29 108 minutes

#77 Bart Ehrman - What is the Gospel of Judas? 2024-Jul-21 110 minutes

#76 Jonathan Pageau - Deconstructing the Fall of Adam and Eve 2024-Jul-16 119 minutes

#75 Destiny on Jordan Peterson, Voting, and Political Principles 2024-Jul-07 146 minutes

#74 Rabbi David Wolpe - What is Judaism? 2024-Jun-30 79 minutes

#73 Arguments for Atheism Tier List w/ Joe Schmid! 2024-Jun-23 155 minutes

#72 John Nelson - What Did Jesus Really Look Like? 2024-Jun-16 64 minutes

#71 Unsolicited Advice - An Introduction to Nihilism 2024-Jun-09 79 minutes

#70 Philosophize This! - A Beginner's Guide to Philosophy 2024-Jun-02 79 minutes

#69 Iain McGilchrist - The Mind is More Than a Machine 2024-May-26 100 minutes

#68 Andrew Mark Henry - What is The Gospel of Thomas? 2024-May-19 83 minutes

#67 Elaine Pagels | What Are The Gnostic Gospels? 2024-May-13 69 minutes

#66 Coleman Hughes - Should We Take Race Out of Politics? 2024-May-05 59 minutes

#65 Esoterica - The History of Yahweh 2024-Apr-28 104 minutes

#64 Rory Stewart - We Are Addicted to a Sense of Crisis 2024-Apr-21 69 minutes

#63 A.C. Grayling - Who Will Own the Moon? 2024-Apr-14 62 minutes

#62 750,000 Subscriber QnA 2024-Apr-07 34 minutes

#61 Sam Harris - Can Science Determine Moral Values? 2024-Mar-31 175 minutes

#60 Carlo Rovelli - Time is Weirder Than You Think 2024-Mar-24 63 minutes

#59 William Lane Craig - Is Biblical Slaughter Ethical? 2024-Mar-17 66 minutes

#58 Michael Knowles - Is America a Christian Nation? 2024-Mar-10 84 minutes

#57 David Deutsch - The Multiverse is Real 2024-Mar-05 95 minutes

#56 Susan Neiman - Left is Not Woke 2024-Feb-18 52 minutes

#55 Robert Sapolsky - Free Will Doesn't Exist. Now What? 2024-Feb-11 56 minutes

#54 The Cultural Tutor - Why Is The Modern World So Ugly? 2024-Feb-05 109 minutes

#53 Jason Brennan - The Case Against Democracy 2024-Jan-28 57 minutes

#52 Jonathan Pageau - The Problem With Secular Architecture 2024-Jan-20 58 minutes

#51 Richard Dawkins - Religion is (Still) Appalling 2024-Jan-15 64 minutes

#50 Sisyphus 55 - Nihilism and the Manosphere 2024-Jan-07 88 minutes

#49 Christmas Special with Bart Ehrman - Did Christmas Really Happen? 2023-Dec-23 63 minutes

#48 Edward Feser - Aristotle's Argument for God 2023-Dec-16 93 minutes

#47 Josh Rasmussen - Why is Consciousness a Philosophical Problem? 2023-Dec-09 92 minutes

#46 John Vervaeke - Escaping the Meaning Crisis 2023-Dec-04 92 minutes

#45 Graham Oppy - Atheism Requires Justification Too 2023-Nov-06 77 minutes

#44 Just Stop Oil - How Far Will They Go? 2023-Oct-19 64 minutes

#43 Peter Hitchens Storms Out of My Interview 2023-Oct-16 59 minutes

#42 Genetically Modified Skeptic - Why Satanism is Making a Comeback 2023-Oct-04 61 minutes

#41 Justin Brierley - The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God 2023-Sep-24 76 minutes

#40 Slavoj Žižek - Sex, Drugs, and Commodity Fetishism 2023-Sep-08 108 minutes

#39 Andrew Doyle - The New Puritans 2023-Aug-20 88 minutes

#38 Carl Robichaud - Will There Be A Nuclear War? 2023-Jul-30 67 minutes

#37 T.M. Luhrmann - How Does God Become Real? 2023-Jul-24 65 minutes

#36 Peter Boghossian - Having Better Conversations About Philosophy 2023-Jun-25 115 minutes

#35 Bart Ehrman - Did Jesus Even Claim to be God? 2023-Jun-19 90 minutes

#34 Anil Seth - A New Science of Consciousness 2023-Jun-07 100 minutes

#33 Michael Jones - Does God Send People to Hell? 2023-May-29 69 minutes

#32 Destiny - Testing Destiny's Ethics 2023-May-22 135 minutes

#31 Peter Singer - The Limits of Utilitarianism 2023-May-14 63 minutes

#30 Joshua Bowen - How the Bible Supports Slavery 2023-May-07 98 minutes

#29 Richard Swinburne - Souls, Free Will and the Problem of Evil 2023-Apr-30 58 minutes

#28 Neil deGrasse Tyson - What Is Earth's Biggest Threat? 2023-Apr-23 46 minutes

#27 Philip Goff - Is Everything Conscious? 2023-Apr-18 126 minutes

#26 David Renton - No Free Speech for Fascists 2023-Apr-09 66 minutes

#25 Andrew Mark Henry - What is Religion? 2023-Apr-02 71 minutes

#24 William Lane Craig - Did Jesus Rise From The Dead? 2023-Mar-26 63 minutes

#23 Konstantin Kisin - Free Speech and Reparations 2023-Mar-19 63 minutes

#22 Bishop Robert Barron - Seeking Meaning, Finding God? 2023-Mar-12 67 minutes

#21 Trent Horn, Cameron Bertuzzi & Joe Schmid - The Problem of Evil 2023-Mar-12 73 minutes

#20 Joe Schmid - Arguments For God Tier List 2022-Jun-17 114 minutes

#19 Genetically Modified Skeptic - Do We Still Feel the Same Way About Religion? 2022-Jun-07 62 minutes

#18 Ed Winters - Veganism Reconsidered 2022-Apr-21 76 minutes

#17 April 1st - Why I'm a Christian Now, with Stephen Woodford 2022-Apr-21 85 minutes

#16 Alex Hershaft - Surviving the Holocaust 2020-Nov-20 64 minutes

#15 — Michael Sandel | The Tyranny of Merit 2020-Sep-09 54 minutes

#14 — William Lane Craig | The Kalam Cosmological Argument 2020-Jun-21 75 minutes

#13 ⁠— Joey Carbstrong | Why Won't Vegans Just Shut Up? 2020-May-24 65 minutes

#12 — David Benatar | Is It Immoral To Have Children? 2020-Apr-26 87 minutes

#11 — Douglas Murray | Gender and Activism 2019-Nov-25 83 minutes

#10 — Richard Dawkins | Outgrowing God 2019-Sep-19 44 minutes

#9 — Earthling Ed | Veganism Can Be Complicated 2019-Sep-13 115 minutes

#8 — Andrew Copson | What Is Secularism? 2019-Aug-28 72 minutes

#7 — Anthony Magnabosco | How To Change Minds 2019-Aug-09 52 minutes

#6 — Peter Singer | Utilitarianism and Animals 2019-Jul-21 90 minutes

#5 — Justin Brierley | Why I'm Still a Christian 2019-Jun-12 108 minutes