70 episodes
Within Reason Alex J O'Connor
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4.9 • 446 Ratings
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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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#70 Philosophize This! - A Beginner's Guide to Philosophy
Steven West is the host of "Philosophize This!" one of the world's most popular philosophy podcasts. Listen to it here.
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#69 Iain McGilchrist - The Mind is More Than a Machine
Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, writer, and former Oxford literary scholar. McGilchrist came to prominence after the publication of his book The Master and His Emissary, subtitled The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.
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#68 Andrew Mark Henry - What is The Gospel of Thomas?
Andrew Mark Henry is a scholar of religious studies. His research focus is early Christianity and late Roman religion. He earned his PhD at Boston University. His YouTube channel is "Religion for Breakfast".
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#67 Elaine Pagels | What Are The Gnostic Gospels?
Elaine Pagels is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism.
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#66 Coleman Hughes - Should We Take Race Out of Politics?
Coleman Hughes is an American writer and podcast host. He is the author of "The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America".
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#65 Esoterica - The History of Yahweh
Justin Sledge is currently a part-time professor of philosophy and religion at several institutions in the Metro-Detroit area and a popular local educator. His YouTube channel is "Esoterica".
Customer Reviews
Fascinating, outstanding, clear
I discovered Alex O’Connor through other debate podcasts, where he is invariably effortlessly articulate and clear, and always proves to be well read and well prepared. He applies not just solid science and reason but also pragmatism, balance and empathy – a rare velvet glove in this field, as well as an iron fist.
Here, in his own podcast, Alex retains all of the above, but in addition it has given him the freedom to explore more broadly as well as play the devil’s advocate, while at no time affecting his obvious foundations of fairness and openness.
I could tell you to look out for exciting things for Alex in the future, but he’s already here.
New listener
Great podcast/podcaster. Only listened to a few up to now but quickly becoming one of my favourites.
Very good podcast
The only fault I can find in Alex is that he is too kind. Peter Hitchens should have been told to go f.. himself after two minutes, since it's not Alex's fault if Hitchens, a supposed intellectual, writes a book on drugs and then is exposed as not knowing anything about the topic. And I say that as someone opposed to legalization.
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