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#37 T.M. Luhrmann - How Does God Become Real? Jul 24, 2023

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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 about the normal world, and how these gods become vividly real to some people.

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#36 Peter Boghossian - Having Better Conversations About Philosophy Jun 25, 2023

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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

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#35 Bart Ehrman - Did Jesus Even Claim to be God? Jun 19, 2023

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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 Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. He has written and edited 30 books, including three college textbooks. He has also authored six New York Times bestsellers. (Wikipedia)

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#34 Anil Seth - A New Science of Consciousness Jun 07, 2023

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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/

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#33 Michael Jones - Does God Send People to Hell? May 29, 2023

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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/hNF9bTESZwE?feature=share

Michael's debate with Alex on the moral argument for God: https://youtu.be/9Ulnmb-4v2M

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#32 Destiny - Testing Destiny's Ethics May 22, 2023

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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

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#31 Peter Singer - The Limits of Utilitarianism May 14, 2023

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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 Fransisco: https://events.humanitix.com/peter-singer-san-francisco London: https://hackneyempire.co.uk/whats-on/peter-singer-animal-liberation-now/ Virtual Event: https://events.humanitix.com/peter-singer-live-stream

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#30 Joshua Bowen - How the Bible Supports Slavery May 07, 2023

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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 Lewis): https://www.bartehrman.com/podcast/ Digital Hammurabi: Website: www.digitalhammurabi.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/digitalhammurabi Twitter: www.twitter.com/digi_hammurabi Patreon: www.patreon.com/digitalhammurabi

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#29 Richard Swinburne - Souls, Free Will and the Problem of Evil Apr 30, 2023

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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.

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#28 Neil deGrasse Tyson - What Is Earth's Biggest Threat? Apr 23, 2023

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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)

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