Within Reason

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

Get Bart Ehrman's course, "Did Jesus Call Himself God?": https://www.bartehrman.com/godman View all of Bart Ehrman's courses: https://www.bartehrman.com/alex To support me on Patreon (thank you): http://www.patreon.com/cosmicskeptic To donate to my PayPal (thank you): http://www.paypal.me/cosmicskeptic Bart Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testam...

Anil Seth is a professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. He is the author of "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness". Purchase "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness":  https://amzn.to/3NgKD53 Anil Seth's website:  https://www.anilseth.com/ The Perception Census: https://perceptioncensus.dreamachine.world/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...

Michael Jones is the founder and director of the Christian YouTube channel "Inspiring Philosophy". He has previously debated Alex twice. Inspiring Philosophy on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5qDet6sa6rODi7t6wfpg8g Inspiring Philosophy, "Does God Send People to Hell?": https://youtu.be/tiYf6ITgWbk Michael's debate with Alex on the problem of evil: https://www.youtube.com/live/hNF9bTESZ...

Steven Kenneth Bonnell II, known online as Destiny, is an American internet personality and political commentator. Find Destiny on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DESTINY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher often credited as the father of the modern animal rights movement. Purchase Animal Liberation Now: https://amzn.to/450BB3e Peter Singer's upcoming speaking tour: New York: https://events.humanitix.com/peter-singer-ny Washington DC: https://events.humanitix.com/peter-singer-washington-dc LA: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/09005E68DC24308C San Fran...

Joshua Bowen is an Assyriologist, YouTuber, and author of the book, "Did the Old Testament Endorse Slavery?" Links: The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament: Volume 1: https://t.co/SrcMTKcxS6 Volume 2: https://t.co/RuPDimaomv Did the Old Testament Endorse Slavery?: https://tinyurl.com/3m6prd3h Digital Hammurabi: www.youtube.com/digitalhammurabi Misquoting Jesus Podcast (Bart Ehrman and Megan Lewi...

Richard Swinburne is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and author of a number of books on the philosophy of religion, the soul, and Christianity, amongst other subjects. To support the podcast, please visit support.withinreasonpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium, and one of the most recognisable communicators of science in the world. His most recent book is Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation: https://amzn.to/40Cdkgi (affiliate link) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Philip Goff is an Associate Professor at Durham University whose research focuses on philosophy of mind and consciousness. He is one of the world's most prominent proponents of "panpsychism", the view that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous property of the universe. Buy Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness (affiliate link, which supports my work): https://amzn...

David Renton is a barrister and historian. He is the author of " No Free Speech for Fascists ", discussing the history of, and the case for, "no-platforming" fascist speakers (and  only fascist speakers). To support the Within Reason Podcast and get early access to episodes, please visit support.withinreasonpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Mark Henry is a scholar of religion specialising in early Christianity and the religions of the late Roman Empire. He is also the host of "Religion for Breakfast", a YouTube channel with over 600,000 subscribers producing informative videos on a variety of topics related to religion. Dr. Henry joins host Alex O'Connor to discuss a number of questions: what is religion? Where does it come fr...

William Lane Craig is a Christian philosopher, author, and debater. He speaks to host Alex O'Connor about secularism in the US and UK, argument vs emotion in coming to faith in God, and the historical case for the resurrection of Jesus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Konstantin Kisin is a satirist, comedian, journalist, and co-host of the Triggernometry Podcast. He recently went viral for a speech delivered at the Oxford Union arguing that "wokeness has gone too far", which has since been viewed over 100,000,000 times across various social media platforms. Konstantin talks to host Alex O'Connor about the limits of free speech, whether he considers himself to b...

Bishop Robert Barron is the bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester and the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. His website, WordOnFire.org, reaches millions of people each year, and he is one of the world’s most followed Catholics on social media. Bishop Barron joins host Alex O'Connor to discuss the "crisis of meaning" we might be living through, the reducibility of purpose to evoluti...

In this episode of the Cosmic Skeptic Podcast, Alex is joined by Joe Schmid, an agnostic, Cameron Bertuzzi, a (then) protestant, and Trent Horn, a catholic, to discuss the problem in detail, and analyse various responses to it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Schmid is the owner of the Majesty of Reason YouTube channel, a platform dedicated to the analysis of a variety of philosophical topics. He is the author of " The Majesty of Reason: A Short Guide to Critical Thinking in Philosophy" , and in this episode joins Alex to rank eight arguments for the existence of God, and discuss them in depth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...

Drew McCoy is the host of the Genetically Modified Skeptic YouTube channel, which is, with now over 500,000 subscribers, perhaps the largest atheist YouTube channel in the world right now. The last time we collaborated was in 2017, arguing that as well as being false, religion is also mostly harmful. In this podcast we discuss our current views on that subject, and examine how they have changed. L...

Ed Winters ("Earthling Ed") is a vegan educator, best-selling author, public speaker and content creator, widely known for his viral debates, speeches, and video essays. Ed was on the Cosmic Skeptic Podcast in 2019, making him the first guest to appear for a second time. He and Alex discuss the definition and nature of veganism, the limits of "practicability", the ethics of unnecessary vegan food,...