Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Philosophy • Science • Religion • Ethics • Quantum Physics • Politics • History • Logic • Consciousness • Theology • Art • Mathematics
Within Reason is a philosophy-focused podcast that delves into a diverse array of intellectual discussions, often intersecting with other disciplines. The show's content is driven by an exploration of complex themes such as logic, ethics, religion, science, and consciousness. It brings together a multitude of perspectives from renowned thinkers, scholars, and scientists, offering listeners a broad spectrum of viewpoints and insights.
Episodes frequently feature discussions on philosophical and theological concepts, exploring topics like the nature of logic, ethical theory, and the intricacies of religious texts. These discussions often involve examining the underpinnings of religious beliefs, ethical frameworks, and existential questions. The podcast also addresses significant themes within science, including the mysteries of quantum physics, the origins of the universe, and the nature of consciousness. Through dialogues with physicists and science communicators, the podcast seeks to bridge the gap between scientific inquiry and philosophical thought.
In addition to these themes, Within Reason examines societal and cultural issues, contemplating the impact of modern phenomena such as social media on language and exploring the nuances of contemporary spirituality. Episodes frequently include analyses of historical and religious narratives, providing insights into figures from religious texts and the evolution of historical religious movements.
Guests bring a rich array of expertise from fields such as physics, philosophy, history, and religious studies, contributing to a well-rounded exploration of the topics at hand. Through its multifaceted approach, this podcast provides an engaging platform for listeners interested in the intersection of philosophy, science, and culture, encouraging critical thinking and curiosity about the world.
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Episodes:
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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
66 minutes
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#118 Joe Folley - Everything You Need to Know About Logic
2025-Aug-24
94 minutes
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#117 Dan McClellan - The Bible Has More Than One God
2025-Aug-17
90 minutes
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#116 Peter Godfrey Smith - Animal Consciousness: What Can We Know?
2025-Aug-10
118 minutes
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#115 Phil Halper & Niayesh Afshordi - What Came Before The Big Bang?
2025-Aug-04
121 minutes
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#114 Simon Blackburn - What is Ethical Emotivism?
2025-Jul-28
83 minutes
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#113 Sabine Hossenfelder - Superdeterminism: Why Are Physicists Scared of It?
2025-Jul-21
62 minutes
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#112 Rick Alan Ross - Do Cult Leaders Believe Their Own Lies?
2025-Jul-13
118 minutes
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#111 Helen Bond - The Forgotten Female Disciples of Jesus
2025-Jul-06
87 minutes
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#110 The Cultural Tutor - Why Modern Love Fails and How to Rescue It
2025-Jul-01
78 minutes
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#109 David Pakman - The New Threat Donald Trump Poses to America
2025-Jun-22
69 minutes
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#108 Marcus du Sautoy - Do Numbers Exist?
2025-Jun-16
67 minutes
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#107 Dale Allison - Did Jesus Rise From the Dead?
2025-Jun-12
88 minutes
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#106 Diarmaid MacCulloch - Sex and Christianity: a Tumultuous History
2025-May-29
59 minutes
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#105 John Lennox - Why Science Needs God
2025-May-22
104 minutes
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#104 Annaka Harris - Is Consciousness Fundamental?
2025-May-04
93 minutes
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#103 Rhett McLaughlin - Why I Left Christianity
2025-Apr-20
113 minutes
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#102 David Deutsch - You're Not Smarter Than a Caveman
2025-Apr-07
116 minutes
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#101 Brian Greene - String Theory, Fine Tuning, and Divine Design
2025-Apr-02
81 minutes
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#100 Philosopher Shootout - 16 Thinkers, Ranked (With Joe Folley)
2025-Mar-23
189 minutes
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#99 Penn Badgley - My Religious Conflicts With Playing a Killer
2025-Mar-17
117 minutes
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#98 Jacob Hansen - A Mormon Explains Mormonism
2025-Mar-10
142 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
62 minutes
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#95 James McGrath: John the Baptist, the Bible's Most Mysterious Man
2025-Jan-31
84 minutes
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#94 Dan McClellan - What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?
2025-Jan-27
80 minutes
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#93 The Etymology Nerd - How Social Media is Transforming Our Language
2025-Jan-21
70 minutes
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#92 Bart Ehrman - The Dark Side of Christmas
2024-Dec-20
62 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
62 minutes
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#88 Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Why I Converted To Christianity
2024-Nov-22
63 minutes
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#87 Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle - Biblical Slaves, Women, and the Unforgivable Sin
2024-Nov-13
167 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
97 minutes
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#84 David Nutt - The Truth About Drugs
2024-Sep-22
59 minutes
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#83 Esoterica - The History of the Demiurge
2024-Sep-15
110 minutes
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#82 Joe Folley - 9 Questions Atheists Cannot Answer
2024-Sep-09
150 minutes
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#81 Nick Bostrom - How To Prevent AI Catastrophe
2024-Sep-01
62 minutes
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#80 The Moustache,The Bible, and The Kalam - 850k QnA
2024-Aug-25
53 minutes
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#79 Elaine Pagels - The Origin of Satan
2024-Aug-11
69 minutes
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#78 Rory Sutherland - Why Logical Thinking is Illogical
2024-Jul-29
109 minutes
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#77 Bart Ehrman - What is the Gospel of Judas?
2024-Jul-21
111 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
80 minutes
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#73 Arguments for Atheism Tier List w/ Joe Schmid!
2024-Jun-23
156 minutes
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#72 John Nelson - What Did Jesus Really Look Like?
2024-Jun-16
65 minutes
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#71 Unsolicited Advice - An Introduction to Nihilism
2024-Jun-09
80 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
101 minutes
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#68 Andrew Mark Henry - What is The Gospel of Thomas?
2024-May-19
84 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
60 minutes
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#65 Esoterica - The History of Yahweh
2024-Apr-28
105 minutes
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#64 Rory Stewart - We Are Addicted to a Sense of Crisis
2024-Apr-21
70 minutes
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#63 A.C. Grayling - Who Will Own the Moon?
2024-Apr-14
63 minutes
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#62 750,000 Subscriber QnA
2024-Apr-07
35 minutes
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#61 Sam Harris - Can Science Determine Moral Values?
2024-Mar-31
176 minutes
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#60 Carlo Rovelli - Time is Weirder Than You Think
2024-Mar-24
64 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
96 minutes
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#56 Susan Neiman - Left is Not Woke
2024-Feb-18
53 minutes
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#55 Robert Sapolsky - Free Will Doesn't Exist. Now What?
2024-Feb-11
57 minutes
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#54 The Cultural Tutor - Why Is The Modern World So Ugly?
2024-Feb-05
110 minutes
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#53 Jason Brennan - The Case Against Democracy
2024-Jan-28
58 minutes
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#52 Jonathan Pageau - The Problem With Secular Architecture
2024-Jan-20
59 minutes
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#51 Richard Dawkins - Religion is (Still) Appalling
2024-Jan-15
65 minutes
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#50 Sisyphus 55 - Nihilism and the Manosphere
2024-Jan-07
89 minutes
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#49 Christmas Special with Bart Ehrman - Did Christmas Really Happen?
2023-Dec-23
64 minutes
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#48 Edward Feser - Aristotle's Argument for God
2023-Dec-16
94 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
93 minutes
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#45 Graham Oppy - Atheism Requires Justification Too
2023-Nov-06
78 minutes
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#44 Just Stop Oil - How Far Will They Go?
2023-Oct-19
65 minutes
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#43 Peter Hitchens Storms Out of My Interview
2023-Oct-16
60 minutes
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#42 Genetically Modified Skeptic - Why Satanism is Making a Comeback
2023-Oct-04
62 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
109 minutes
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#39 Andrew Doyle - The New Puritans
2023-Aug-20
89 minutes
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#38 Carl Robichaud - Will There Be A Nuclear War?
2023-Jul-30
68 minutes
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#37 T.M. Luhrmann - How Does God Become Real?
2023-Jul-24
66 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
91 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
70 minutes
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#32 Destiny - Testing Destiny's Ethics
2023-May-22
136 minutes
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#31 Peter Singer - The Limits of Utilitarianism
2023-May-14
64 minutes
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#30 Joshua Bowen - How the Bible Supports Slavery
2023-May-07
99 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
47 minutes
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#27 Philip Goff - Is Everything Conscious?
2023-Apr-18
127 minutes
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#26 David Renton - No Free Speech for Fascists
2023-Apr-09
67 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
64 minutes
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#23 Konstantin Kisin - Free Speech and Reparations
2023-Mar-19
64 minutes
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#22 Bishop Robert Barron - Seeking Meaning, Finding God?
2023-Mar-12
68 minutes
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#21 Trent Horn, Cameron Bertuzzi & Joe Schmid - The Problem of Evil
2023-Mar-12
74 minutes
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#20 Joe Schmid - Arguments For God Tier List
2022-Jun-17
115 minutes
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#19 Genetically Modified Skeptic - Do We Still Feel the Same Way About Religion?
2022-Jun-07
63 minutes
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#18 Ed Winters - Veganism Reconsidered
2022-Apr-21
77 minutes
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#17 April 1st - Why I'm a Christian Now, with Stephen Woodford
2022-Apr-21
86 minutes
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#16 Alex Hershaft - Surviving the Holocaust
2020-Nov-20
65 minutes
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#15 — Michael Sandel | The Tyranny of Merit
2020-Sep-09
55 minutes
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#14 — William Lane Craig | The Kalam Cosmological Argument
2020-Jun-21
76 minutes
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#13 — Joey Carbstrong | Why Won't Vegans Just Shut Up?
2020-May-24
66 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
84 minutes
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#10 — Richard Dawkins | Outgrowing God
2019-Sep-19
45 minutes
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#9 — Earthling Ed | Veganism Can Be Complicated
2019-Sep-13
116 minutes
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#8 — Andrew Copson | What Is Secularism?
2019-Aug-28
73 minutes
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#7 — Anthony Magnabosco | How To Change Minds
2019-Aug-09
53 minutes
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#6 — Peter Singer | Utilitarianism and Animals
2019-Jul-21
91 minutes
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#5 — Justin Brierley | Why I'm Still a Christian
2019-Jun-12
108 minutes
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