Alex J O'Connor

Within Reason

Society EN ↓ 163 Folgen

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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Alex J O'Connor

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Society

Podcast-Website

www.cosmicskeptic.com

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18. Okt 2026

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Atheist Slogans You Should Stop Using - Joe Schmid 08.02.2026

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#141 Stoicism: Everything You Need to (Actually) Know - John Sellars 03.02.2026

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#140 Sean Carroll - The Limits of Scientific Explanation 26.01.2026

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#139 David Bentley Hart - All Things Are Full of Gods 18.01.2026

Get Huel today with this exclusive offer for New Customers of 15% OFF with code alexoconnor - https://huel.com/alexoconnor (Minimum $50 purchase). TIMESTAMPS: (0:00) Intro (0:32) Are All Things Full of Gods? (8:51) Subjectivity and the Scientific Third Person (18:56) What is the Materialistic Worldview? (28:45) Consciousness of the Gaps? (38:21) What’s Wrong with Emergence? (1:00:18) Why Panpsychi...

#138 Rhett McLaughlin - How to Save Christianity From Christians 11.01.2026

Get Huel today with this exclusive offer for New Customers of 15% OFF with code alexoconnor at huel.com/alexoconnor (Minimum $75 purchase). Rhett McLaughlin is a comedian best known for creating the internet’s most-watched daily talk show, Good Mythical Morning‬ , alongside Link Neal. The pair also host a weekly podcast, ‪Ear Biscuits‬ . Timestamps: 0:00 – Tour 0:32 – Did Rhett Break Christianity...

#137 Debunking Arguments for God - Graham Oppy 04.01.2026

Graham Oppy is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Research at Monash University. An Australian philosopher of religion, he is often considered one of the most thoughtful and important academic atheists in the world. Buy his book, Arguing About Gods , here . Timestamps: 00:00 - Tour 00:31 - The First Cause Argument 14:14 - Can There be an Infinite Regress? 30:46 - The Modal Fatalism Obje...

#136 Why Did The World Get So Ugly? - Alain de Botton 26.12.2025

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#135 Christmas Isn't What You Think - John Nelson 20.12.2025

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1.75m QnA - Triangles, Getting Owned by GodLogic, and Douglas Adams' Puddle 19.12.2025

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#133 Hank Green on God, Science, and Consciousness 07.12.2025

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#132 Vsauce - Does Anything Exist? 30.11.2025

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#131 Toby Ord - Will AI Destroy Humanity? 27.11.2025

For early, ad-free access to videos, and to support the channel, subscribe to my Substack: ⁠ https://www.alexoconnor.com⁠ . Toby Ord is an Australian philosopher. In 2009 he founded Giving What We Can, an international society whose members pledge to donate at least 10% of their income to effective charities, and is a key figure in the effective altruism movement, which promotes using reason and e...

#130 Philip Goff - Why I'm a Heretical Christian 16.11.2025

For early, ad-free access to videos, and to support the channel, subscribe to my Substack: ⁠ https://www.alexoconnor.com⁠ . Philip Goff is a British author, panpsychist philosopher, and professor at Durham University whose research focuses on philosophy of mind and consciousness. Specifically, how consciousness can be part of the scientific worldview. Buy Philip's books here . Timestamps (0:00...

#129 Will MacAskill - We're Not Ready for Artificial General Intelligence 09.11.2025

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#128 Bernardo Kastrup - Materialism is Complete Nonsense 02.11.2025

Bernardo Kastrup is a Dutch philosopher and computer scientist recognised for his contributions to consciousness studies, notably through his formulation of analytic idealism—a variant of metaphysical idealism rooted in the analytic tradition. Buy his books here . Timestamps: 0:00 - What is the World Really Made Of? 7:11 - Qualities vs Quantities 9:45 - Can Materialism Explain Anything? 25:06 - Is...

#127 Bear Grylls - Retelling Jesus' Life as a Thriller 26.10.2025

Bear Grylls is a British adventurer, writer, television presenter and former SAS trooper who is also a survival expert. Widely known for his television series Man vs. Wild, he was also appointed as The Scout Association’s youngest-ever Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas Territories at the age of 35. His new book, The Greatest Story Ever Told , is a retelling of the life of Jesus throug...

#126 Was Jesus an Ancient Magician? - Religion for Breakfast 19.10.2025

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#125 Emily Qureshi-Hurst - Does God Know What Time It Is? 12.10.2025

Dr. Qureshi-Hurst is a Philosopher of Religion and Science at the University of Cambridge. Her work focuses on the relationship between physics—and time in particular—and theology. Her forthcoming book,  Decoding the Cosmos: God, Physics, and the Search for Deeper Explanation , explores this relationship in depth. Improve your focus with Brain FM with 30 days free: https://www.brain.fm/withinreaso...

#124 Sisyphus 55 - So You're Having an Existential Crisis 05.10.2025

Ben Thomas is @Sisyphus55 , a YouTuber creating videos about philosophy, existentialism, nihilism, absurdism, and meaning. His new book, So You're Having an Existential Crisis: a Roadmap for Lost Souls , is available now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#123 Candida Moss - Were Early Christians Really Persecuted by Rome? 28.09.2025

Candida Moss is a historian of Christianity and author of The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#122 Robert Greene - Near-Death Experiences and the Mind Apart From the Brain 21.09.2025

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#121 John Cottingham - The Father of Modern Philosophy: René Descartes 16.09.2025

John Cottingham (born 1943) is an English philosopher. The focus of his research has been early-modern philosophy (especially Descartes ), the philosophy of religion and moral philosophy. He is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading, Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College, University of London, and Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He is also a curren...

#120 Brant Pitre - Jesus DID Claim to be God 10.09.2025

Brant Pitre is an American New Testament scholar and Distinguished Research Professor of Scripture at the Augustine Institute. He has written extensively on the historical Jesus, the Virgin Mary, Paul the Apostle, the origin of the Eucharist, and the canonical Gospels. His book, Jesus and Divine Christology , is available here . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#119 Jim Al-Khalili - The Strange World of Quantum Physics 01.09.2025

Jim Al-Khalili is an Iraqi-British theoretical physicist and science populariser. He is professor of theoretical physics and chair in the public engagement in science at the University of Surrey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#118 Joe Folley - Everything You Need to Know About Logic 24.08.2025

EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/withinreason Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee Joe Folley runs the YouTube channel Unsolicited Advice . He graduated from Cambridge University in 202with an MPhil in Philosophy, specialising in logic. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - What is Logic? 5:04 - Aristotelian vs Stoic Logic 12:47 - How Logic Provides Clarity 18:42 Ambiguities in Logical...

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