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Carlo Rovelli, an Italian theoretical physicist, is known mainly for his contributions to research in the field of quantum gravity. He is the author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, and White Holes, amongst other works. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

William Lane Craig is a Christian philosopher and public speaker, who today makes his third appearance on Within Reason. We discuss why Richard Dawkins refuses to debate him, and whether Old Testament slaughter can be justified. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Knowles is an American conservative Catholic political commentator and media host. He has worked for the Daily Wire since 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford. 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.) Buy David Deutsch's book, The Beginning of Infinity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Susan Neiman is an American moral philosopher, cultural commentator, and essayist. She is the author of "Left is Not Woke", available here . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinology researcher and author. He is a professor of biology, neurology, neurological sciences, and neurosurgery at Stanford University. He is the author of "Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will", which you can purchase here . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sheehan Quirke is known online as the Cultural Tutor. With over 1.6 million followers on X , he writes daily threads about art, architecture, and history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason Brennan is an American philosopher and business professo at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Brennan writes about democratic theory, the ethics of voting, competence and power, freedom, and the moral foundations of commercial society. (Wikipedia.) He speaks in this episode about the faults and flaws of democracy, and why people are often not as good as voting as the...

Jonathan Pageau is a French Canadian icon carver, public speaker and YouTuber exploring the symbolic patterns that underlie our experience of the world, how these patterns emerge and come together, manifesting in religion, art and in popular culture. He's also the editor of the Orthodox Arts Journal and host of the Symbolic World blog and podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and author of books including The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben Thomas, better known online as Sisyphus 55, is a philosophy YouTuber with one million subscribers. His videos cover topics including nihilism, existentialism, love, relationships, and political philosophy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this Christmas special of Within Reason, New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman explores the history and narrative of Jesus' birthday, and demonstrates where the accounts seem to contradict. Get Bart Erhman's courses here . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Edward Feser is an American Catholic philosopher, and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in California. He is the author of " Five Proofs of the Existence of God ", and in this episode speaks about one of these: the Aristotelean argument from motion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Rasmussen is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Azusa Pacific University, with an expertise in analytic metaphysics. He is author of several books, including  Defending the Correspondence Theory of Truth ,  Necessary Existence ,  How Reason Can Lead to God , and  Is God the Best Explanation of Things . He is also the founder of the  Worldview Design YouTube channel , which helps people u...

John Vervaeke is an award-winning professor of psychology, cognitive science, and Buddhist psychology at the University of Toronto. He is the creator of a fifty-hour series on YouTube called "Awakening From the Meaning Crisis". Dr. Vervaeke joins me to discuss why people are struggling to find meaning, how we might solve this problem, and whether death poses a series problem for believing in meani...

Graham Oppy is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Research at Monash University, CEO of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, Chief Editor of the Australasian Philosophical Review, Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and serves on the editorial boards of Philo, Philosopher's Compass, Religious Studies, and Sophia. He is one of the best known atheist thinker...

Just Stop Oil are one of the most well-known and thoroughly hated political groups in the UK. You may recognise them as the brand behind stunts such as throwing soup over Van Gogh's Sunflowers, covering the felt of a snooker table at a world championship with orange powder, blocking traffic on busy roads, and, most recently, climbing on stage during a production of Les Misérables in London's West...

Peter Hitchens is an author, broadcaster, journalist, and commentator. He writes for The Mail on Sunday. He has published numerous books, including The Abolition of Britain, The Rage Against God, The War We Never Fought and The Phoney Victory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drew McCoy is the creator and host of the YouTube channel Genetically Modified Skeptic . His videos cover topics including atheism, cults, satanism, and Biblical scholarship. In this episode we talk about his recent trip to SatanCon in Boston, Massachusetts, and about what the modern satanism movement is all about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Justin Brierley was, for 17 years, the host of "Unbelievable?" on Premier Christian Radio. He is a broadcaster, author, and Christian apologist whose latest book is "The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God: Why new atheism grew old and secular thinkers are considering Christianity again". Get Justin's book here . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian-born political philosopher and cultural critic. He was described by British literary theorist, Terry Eagleton, as the “most formidably brilliant” recent theorist to have emerged from Continental Europe. (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy) To support Within Reason on Patreon, please visit https://www.patreon.com/cosmicskeptic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

Andrew Doyle is a playwright, journalist, and political satirist. He has written for the fictional character Jonathan Pie and created the character Titania McGrath. Doyle joined GB News in 2021, and hosts a weekly show titled Free Speech Nation. He is the author of The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...

Carl Robichaud co-leads Longview Philanthropy’s programme on nuclear weapons and existential risk. For over a decade, Carl led grant-making in nuclear security at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a philanthropic fund which grants over $30 million annually to strengthen international peace and security. Carl previously worked with The Century Foundation and the Global Security Institute, where...

Tanya Marie Luhrmann is an American psychological anthropologist known for her studies of modern-day witches, charismatic Christians, and studies of how culture shapes psychotic, dissociative, and related experiences. She is the author of How God Becomes Real , which asks what it means to say that a person 'believes' in gods, how and why this kind of belief is so different from mundane beliefs abo...

Peter Boghossian is an American philosopher, a founding faculty member at the University of Austin, and coined the term "street epistemology" as a method of helping people to change their minds. Peter Boghossian's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@drpeterboghossian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices