Within Reason Alex J O'Connor
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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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#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".
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#64 Rory Stewart - We Are Addicted to a Sense of Crisis
Rory Stewart is a former UK Government minister, MP, and deputy governor in Iraq following the western invasion. He walked on foot for two years across Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, India and Nepal in 2002. He was a private tutor to both Prince William and Prince Harry. He now co-hosts The Rest is Politics with Alastair Campbell, one of the UK's most popular shows.
Customer Reviews
Episode on Yahweh
Love the show. Love Alex, even as a Christian. I really appreciate his reasonableness and fairness.
I hope he brings on someone to foil the latest episode on The History of Yahweh. If not, NT Wright’s “Christian Origins and the Question of God” series serves as a great foil to the Documentary Hypothesis/Evolution of Religion theory that he was proposing. This has been largely rendered obsolete but still holds on in some American institutions and maybe popular still by guys like Bart Ehrman. Mike F Bird of Ridley College would also be a great foil, to name just one. OT scholars like John Walton or John C Collins are more great foils.
Loved the episode nonetheless
Ham Sarris takedown
Proper philosopher gives Sam a proper asswhooping.
Peter Hitchens has convinced me that caffeine is a dangerous drug that we should criminalize!
Put down the Earl Grey, Pete!