Within Reason

Mar 23 2025 100 ep. 85 mins 3.8k

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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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#100 Philosopher Shootout - 16 Thinkers, Ranked (With Joe Folley)

Mar 23 2025 188 mins

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.

#99 Penn Badgley - My Religious Conflicts With Playing a Killer

Mar 17 2025 116 mins

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.

#98 Jacob Hansen - A Mormon Explains Mormonism

Mar 10 2025 141 mins

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

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

Mar 02 2025 135 mins

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 yea

#96 Music, Mormonism, and Peter Hitchens - 1.25m Subsrciber Q&A

Feb 28 2025 61 mins

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

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

Jan 31 2025 83 mins

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".

#94 Dan McClellan - What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?

Jan 27 2025 79 mins

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

#93 The Etymology Nerd - How Social Media is Transforming Our Language

Jan 21 2025 69 mins

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.

#92 Bart Ehrman - The Dark Side of Christmas

Dec 20 2024 61 mins

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).

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

Dec 12 2024 84 mins

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.