Within Reason
By Alex J O'Connor
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Episodes: 128
Oct 18, 2025
Justin Seago
Sep 2, 2025
Excellent podcast! Alex has a way of approaching complex topics that shows an abundance of intellectual humility, honesty, and curiosity that few others have. I find his conversations easy to follow and relatable. Within Reason FTW!
Apr 21, 2025
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Apr 6, 2023
Apr 30, 2019
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#132 Vsauce - Does Anything Exist?
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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#131 Toby Ord - Will AI Destroy Humanity?
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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#130 Philip Goff - Why I'm a Heretical Christian
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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#129 Will MacAskill - We're Not Ready for Artificial General Intelligence
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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#128 Bernardo Kastrup - Materialism is Complete Nonsense
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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#127 Bear Grylls - Retelling Jesus' Life as a Thriller
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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#126 Was Jesus an Ancient Magician? - Religion for Breakfast
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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#125 Emily Qureshi-Hurst - Does God Know What Time It Is?
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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#124 Sisyphus 55 - So You're Having an Existential Crisis
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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#123 Candida Moss - Were Early Christians Really Persecuted by Rome?
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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#122 Robert Greene - Near-Death Experiences and the Mind Apart From the Brain
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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#121 John Cottingham - The Father of Modern Philosophy: René Descartes
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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#120 Brant Pitre - Jesus DID Claim to be God
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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#119 Jim Al-Khalili - The Strange World of Quantum Physics
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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#118 Joe Folley - Everything You Need to Know About Logic
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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#117 Dan McClellan - The Bible Has More Than One God
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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#116 Peter Godfrey Smith - Animal Consciousness: What Can We Know?
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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#115 Phil Halper & Niayesh Afshordi - What Came Before The Big Bang?
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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#114 Simon Blackburn - What is Ethical Emotivism?
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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#113 Sabine Hossenfelder - Superdeterminism: Why Are Physicists Scared of It?
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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#112 Rick Alan Ross - Do Cult Leaders Believe Their Own Lies?
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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#111 Helen Bond - The Forgotten Female Disciples of Jesus
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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#110 The Cultural Tutor - Why Modern Love Fails and How to Rescue It
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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#109 David Pakman - The New Threat Donald Trump Poses to America
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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#108 Marcus du Sautoy - Do Numbers Exist?
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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#107 Dale Allison - Did Jesus Rise From the Dead?
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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#106 Diarmaid MacCulloch - Sex and Christianity: a Tumultuous History
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May 29, 2025 |
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#105 John Lennox - Why Science Needs God
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May 22, 2025 |
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#104 Annaka Harris - Is Consciousness Fundamental?
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May 04, 2025 |
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#103 Rhett McLaughlin - Why I Left Christianity
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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#102 David Deutsch - You're Not Smarter Than a Caveman
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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#101 Brian Greene - String Theory, Fine Tuning, and Divine Design
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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#100 Philosopher Shootout - 16 Thinkers, Ranked (With Joe Folley)
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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#99 Penn Badgley - My Religious Conflicts With Playing a Killer
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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#98 Jacob Hansen - A Mormon Explains Mormonism
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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#97 Kipp Davis - What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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#96 Music, Mormonism, and Peter Hitchens - 1.25m Subsrciber Q&A
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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#95 James McGrath: John the Baptist, the Bible's Most Mysterious Man
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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#94 Dan McClellan - What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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#93 The Etymology Nerd - How Social Media is Transforming Our Language
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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#92 Bart Ehrman - The Dark Side of Christmas
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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#91 Filip Holm - What is Sufism? Islam and Mystical Experience
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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#90 Rainn Wilson - Reclaiming Spirituality From Traditional Religion
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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#89 The Cultural Tutor - The Philosophy and Ethics of Art
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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#88 Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Why I Converted To Christianity
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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#87 Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle - Biblical Slaves, Women, and the Unforgivable Sin
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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#86 Pre-Election Podcast - Destiny on Immigration, Trump, and Voter ID
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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#85 Magnify - 7 Translation Problems in Genesis
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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#84 David Nutt - The Truth About Drugs
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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#83 Esoterica - The History of the Demiurge
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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#82 Joe Folley - 9 Questions Atheists Cannot Answer
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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#81 Nick Bostrom - How To Prevent AI Catastrophe
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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#80 The Moustache,The Bible, and The Kalam - 850k QnA
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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#79 Elaine Pagels - The Origin of Satan
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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#78 Rory Sutherland - Why Logical Thinking is Illogical
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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#77 Bart Ehrman - What is the Gospel of Judas?
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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#76 Jonathan Pageau - Deconstructing the Fall of Adam and Eve
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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#75 Destiny on Jordan Peterson, Voting, and Political Principles
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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#74 Rabbi David Wolpe - What is Judaism?
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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#73 Arguments for Atheism Tier List w/ Joe Schmid!
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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#72 John Nelson - What Did Jesus Really Look Like?
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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#71 Unsolicited Advice - An Introduction to Nihilism
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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#70 Philosophize This! - A Beginner's Guide to Philosophy
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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#69 Iain McGilchrist - The Mind is More Than a Machine
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May 26, 2024 |
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#68 Andrew Mark Henry - What is The Gospel of Thomas?
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May 19, 2024 |
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#67 Elaine Pagels | What Are The Gnostic Gospels?
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May 13, 2024 |
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#66 Coleman Hughes - Should We Take Race Out of Politics?
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May 05, 2024 |
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#65 Esoterica - The History of Yahweh
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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#64 Rory Stewart - We Are Addicted to a Sense of Crisis
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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#63 A.C. Grayling - Who Will Own the Moon?
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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#62 750,000 Subscriber QnA
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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#61 Sam Harris - Can Science Determine Moral Values?
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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#60 Carlo Rovelli - Time is Weirder Than You Think
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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#59 William Lane Craig - Is Biblical Slaughter Ethical?
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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#58 Michael Knowles - Is America a Christian Nation?
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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#57 David Deutsch - The Multiverse is Real
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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#56 Susan Neiman - Left is Not Woke
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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#55 Robert Sapolsky - Free Will Doesn't Exist. Now What?
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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#54 The Cultural Tutor - Why Is The Modern World So Ugly?
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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#53 Jason Brennan - The Case Against Democracy
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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#52 Jonathan Pageau - The Problem With Secular Architecture
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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#51 Richard Dawkins - Religion is (Still) Appalling
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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#50 Sisyphus 55 - Nihilism and the Manosphere
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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#49 Christmas Special with Bart Ehrman - Did Christmas Really Happen?
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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#48 Edward Feser - Aristotle's Argument for God
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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#47 Josh Rasmussen - Why is Consciousness a Philosophical Problem?
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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#46 John Vervaeke - Escaping the Meaning Crisis
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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#45 Graham Oppy - Atheism Requires Justification Too
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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#44 Just Stop Oil - How Far Will They Go?
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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#43 Peter Hitchens Storms Out of My Interview
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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#42 Genetically Modified Skeptic - Why Satanism is Making a Comeback
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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#41 Justin Brierley - The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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#40 Slavoj Žižek - Sex, Drugs, and Commodity Fetishism
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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#39 Andrew Doyle - The New Puritans
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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#38 Carl Robichaud - Will There Be A Nuclear War?
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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#37 T.M. Luhrmann - How Does God Become Real?
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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#36 Peter Boghossian - Having Better Conversations About Philosophy
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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#35 Bart Ehrman - Did Jesus Even Claim to be God?
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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#34 Anil Seth - A New Science of Consciousness
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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#33 Michael Jones - Does God Send People to Hell?
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May 29, 2023 |
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#32 Destiny - Testing Destiny's Ethics
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May 22, 2023 |
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#31 Peter Singer - The Limits of Utilitarianism
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May 14, 2023 |
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#30 Joshua Bowen - How the Bible Supports Slavery
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May 07, 2023 |
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#29 Richard Swinburne - Souls, Free Will and the Problem of Evil
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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#28 Neil deGrasse Tyson - What Is Earth's Biggest Threat?
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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#27 Philip Goff - Is Everything Conscious?
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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#26 David Renton - No Free Speech for Fascists
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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#25 Andrew Mark Henry - What is Religion?
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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#24 William Lane Craig - Did Jesus Rise From The Dead?
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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#23 Konstantin Kisin - Free Speech and Reparations
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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#22 Bishop Robert Barron - Seeking Meaning, Finding God?
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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#21 Trent Horn, Cameron Bertuzzi & Joe Schmid - The Problem of Evil
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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#20 Joe Schmid - Arguments For God Tier List
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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#19 Genetically Modified Skeptic - Do We Still Feel the Same Way About Religion?
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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#18 Ed Winters - Veganism Reconsidered
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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#17 April 1st - Why I'm a Christian Now, with Stephen Woodford
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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#16 Alex Hershaft - Surviving the Holocaust
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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#15 — Michael Sandel | The Tyranny of Merit
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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#14 — William Lane Craig | The Kalam Cosmological Argument
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Jun 21, 2020 |
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#13 — Joey Carbstrong | Why Won't Vegans Just Shut Up?
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May 24, 2020 |
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#12 — David Benatar | Is It Immoral To Have Children?
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Apr 26, 2020 |
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#11 — Douglas Murray | Gender and Activism
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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#10 — Richard Dawkins | Outgrowing God
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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#9 — Earthling Ed | Veganism Can Be Complicated
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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#8 — Andrew Copson | What Is Secularism?
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Aug 28, 2019 |
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#7 — Anthony Magnabosco | How To Change Minds
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Aug 09, 2019 |
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#6 — Peter Singer | Utilitarianism and Animals
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Jul 21, 2019 |
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#5 — Justin Brierley | Why I'm Still a Christian
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Jun 12, 2019 |