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Within Reason

Alex J O"Connor

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.

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#107 Dale Allison - Did Jesus Rise From the Dead?

Within Reason ·

2025/06/12

Dale Allison is an American historian and Christian theologian. His areas of expertise include the historical Jesus, the Gospel of Matthew, Second Temple Jewish literature, and the history of the interpretation and reception of the Bible. Allison is the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary (2013- ). (Wikipedia)By Dale Allison's book, The Resurrection of Jesus, here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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#106 Diarmaid MacCulloch - Sex and Christianity: a...

Within Reason ·

2025/05/29

Diarmaid MacCulloch is an English academic and historian, specialising in ecclesiastical history and the history of Christianity. Since 1995, he has been a fellow of St Cross College, Oxford; he was formerly the senior tutor.Buy Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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#105 John Lennox - Why Science Needs God

Within Reason ·

2025/05/22

John Lennox is a Northern Irish mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian apologist originally from Northern Ireland. He has written many books on religion, ethics, the relationship between science and God, and has had public debates with atheists including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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#104 Annaka Harris - Is Consciousness Fundamental?

Within Reason ·

2025/05/04

Annaka Harris is an American writer. Her work touches on neuroscience, meditation, philosophy of mind and consciousness. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind.Get Annaka Harris’ documentary Lights On here.

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01:52:59

#103 Rhett McLaughlin - Why I Left Christianity

Within Reason ·

2025/04/20

Rhett McLaughlin is a comedian best known for creating the internet’s most-watched daily talk show, Good Mythical Morning along side Link Neal; their award-winning weekly podcast The pair also host a weekly podcast, Ear Biscuits; and the instant #1 New York Times bestseller Rhett & Link’s Book of Mythicality.

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01:55:29

#102 David Deutsch - You're Not Smarter Than a Caveman

Within Reason ·

2025/04/07

David Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford, often described as the "father of quantum computing". He is a visiting professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. (Wikipedia)

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01:20:29

#101 Brian Greene - String Theory, Fine Tuning, and...

Within Reason ·

2025/04/02

Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, director of its centre for theoretical physics, and the chairman of the World Science Festival. He is best known for his work on string theory, especially in his book “The Elegant Universe”, which turns 25 this year.

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03:08:47

#100 Philosopher Shootout - 16 Thinkers, Ranked (With...

Within Reason ·

2025/03/23

For episode 100 of Within Reason, I'm joined by Joe Folley, from the YouTube Channel "Unsolicited Advice", to tackle a completely arbitrary and ridiculous tournament of thinkers, each of whom are to some degree relevant to the show. Joe graduated from Cambridge University with an MPhil in Philosophy, specialising in logic, in 2023.

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01:56:27

#99 Penn Badgley - My Religious Conflicts With...

Within Reason ·

2025/03/17

Penn Badgley is an actor best known for his roles in Netflix’s You and the popular drama series Gossip Girl. He is less known as a podcaster and member of the Baháʼí Faith, a religion which teaches that there is a historical unity between major world religions and their prophets, having itself developed out of a branch of Twelver Shia Islam in the 19th century.

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02:21:54

#98 Jacob Hansen - A Mormon Explains Mormonism

Within Reason ·

2025/03/10

Jacob Hansen is a Mormon YouTuber at the channel Thoughtful Faith.

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02:15:07

#97 Kipp Davis - What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Within Reason ·

2025/03/02

Kipp Davis (‪@DrKippDavis‬) is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway, where he specialises in the assignment and reconstruction of fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls and their interpretation. (Google Books) The Dead Sea Scrolls are a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered over a period of 10 years, between 1946 and 1956, at the Qumran Caves near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the northern shore of the Dead Sea

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01:01:47

#96 Music, Mormonism, and Peter Hitchens - 1.25m...

Within Reason ·

2025/03/01

A Q&A to celebrate hitting 1.25 million subscribers on YouTube.

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01:23:48

#95 James McGrath: John the Baptist, the Bible's Most...

Within Reason ·

2025/01/31

James Frank McGrath is the Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University. He is the author of two books on John the Baptist: "John of History, Baptist of Faith: The Quest for the Historical Baptiser", and "Christmaker: A Life of John the Baptist".

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01:19:57

#94 Dan McClellan - What Does the Bible Say About...

Within Reason ·

2025/01/27

Dan McClellan is an American public scholar of the Bible and religion. His forthcoming book, "The Bible Says So", is available here.

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01:09:40

#93 The Etymology Nerd - How Social Media is...

Within Reason ·

2025/01/21

Adam Aleksic is a linguist known online as "The Etymology Nerd". His educational videos are watched regularly by millions. His forthcoming book "Algospeak" is currently available for preorder.

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01:01:17

#92 Bart Ehrman - The Dark Side of Christmas

Within Reason ·

2024/12/20

Bart Ehrman is a New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. Get Bart Ehrman's new course, The Dark Side of Christmas (affiliate link).

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01:24:03

#91 Filip Holm - What is Sufism? Islam and Mystical...

Within Reason ·

2024/12/13

Filip Holm is the creator and host of "Lets Talk Religion", a YouTube channel which aims to educate on the subject of religion from an academic perspective. He joins the show to discuss Sufism, which can broadly be defined as the mystical tradition within Islam.

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01:37:14

#90 Rainn Wilson - Reclaiming Spirituality From...

Within Reason ·

2024/12/06

Rainn Wilson is the actor and comedian best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the The Office (US), for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He is also the host of ‪‪Soul Boom‬, a podcast discussing spirituality, and authored a book of the same name exploring how we can use spiritual tools to help solve some of life's problems.

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01:01:43

#89 The Cultural Tutor - The Philosophy and Ethics of...

Within Reason ·

2024/11/28

Sheehan Quirke is the Cultural Tutor, a writer with 1.7 million followers on X. His work on art, history, and architecture is some of the most widely-enjoyed in the world. He writes a newsletter called the Areopagus.

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01:02:38

#88 Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Why I Converted To Christianity

Within Reason ·

2024/11/22

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born Dutch-American writer, activist and former politician. Once an advocate for the new atheist movement, she last year announced her conversion to Christianity.

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