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#57 David Deutsch - The Multiverse is Real Mar 05, 2024

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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.)

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#56 Susan Neiman - Left is Not Woke Feb 18, 2024

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Susan Neiman is an American moral philosopher, cultural commentator, and essayist. She is the author of "Left is Not Woke", available here.

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#55 Robert Sapolsky - Free Will Doesn't Exist. Now What? Feb 11, 2024

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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.

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#54 The Cultural Tutor - Why Is The Modern World So Ugly? Feb 05, 2024

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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.

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#53 Jason Brennan - The Case Against Democracy Jan 28, 2024

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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 they think they are.

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#52 Jonathan Pageau - The Problem With Secular Architecture Jan 20, 2024

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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.

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#51 Richard Dawkins - Religion is (Still) Appalling Jan 15, 2024

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Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and author of books including The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion.

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#50 Sisyphus 55 - Nihilism and the Manosphere Jan 07, 2024

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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.

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#49 Christmas Special with Bart Ehrman - Did Christmas Really Happen? Dec 23, 2023

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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.

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#48 Edward Feser - Aristotle's Argument for God Dec 16, 2023

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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.

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