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Podcast Profile: Within Reason

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126 episodes
2019 to 2025
Median: 79 minutes
Collections: PhilosophySciPhi-Adjacent


Description (podcaster-provided):

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.


Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):

➤ Philosophy • Religion • Science • Ethics • History • Christianity • Culture • Interviews with experts and public figures • Controversial topics • Exploration of spirituality and existential questions

This podcast, titled "Within Reason," offers a diverse exploration of philosophy and its intersections with various disciplines, as suggested by the show description. It frequently features discussions that blend philosophical inquiry with religious, scientific, and historical perspectives. The content of the podcast varies widely, including episodes that delve into the philosophical debates surrounding religion, such as the historical Jesus, interpretations of the Bible, and the relationship between science and religious belief. Notable scholars and thinkers contribute insights on subjects like early Christianity, scriptural interpretation, and ethical considerations.

Additionally, the podcast addresses topics in the philosophy of science, discussing complex issues such as quantum physics, consciousness, time, and the nature of the universe. It often hosts prominent scientists and philosophers to discuss cutting-edge scientific theories, the interplay between science and theology, and the philosophical implications of scientific discoveries. Furthermore, the podcast covers topics in existentialism, logic, and moral philosophy, sometimes exploring personal narratives related to belief and doubt. Discussions also span into cultural and social topics, with episodes analyzing the philosophical underpinnings of art, language, and media.

The podcast not only tackles theoretical and historical themes but also engages with contemporary topics, including political issues, ethical dilemmas related to new technologies, and modern societal challenges. Some episodes include discussions on topics like artificial intelligence, societal norms, and cultural analysis.

Overall, "Within Reason" aims to offer listeners an insightful and often thought-provoking engagement with a wide array of subjects, all viewed through a philosophical lens, thereby appealing to the curious mind interested in a deeper understanding of the world.


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