Within Reason

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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Every guest on Within Reason

106 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Bear Grylls

   #127 Bear Grylls - Retelling Jesus' Life as a Thriller · Oct 2025

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   Carlo Rovelli

   #60 Carlo Rovelli - Time is Weirder Than You Think · Mar 2024

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   Jim Al-Khalili

   #119 Jim Al-Khalili - The Strange World of Quantum Physics · Sep 2025

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   Philip Pullman

   #149 My Problem With C.S. Lewis - Philip Pullman · Apr 2026

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   David Nutt

   #84 David Nutt - The Truth About Drugs · Sep 2024

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   Ed Winters

   #18 Ed Winters - Veganism Reconsidered · 2 episodes

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   John Lennox

   #151 John Lennox - What Nearly Dying Taught Me About God · 2 episodes

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   Peter Boghossian

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

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   Peter Hitchens

   #43 Peter Hitchens Storms Out of My Interview · Oct 2023

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    Rhett McLaughlin

    #138 Rhett McLaughlin - How to Save Christianity From Christians · 2 episodes

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    David Bentley Hart

    #139 David Bentley Hart - All Things Are Full of Gods · Jan 2026

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    Diarmaid MacCulloch

    #106 Diarmaid MacCulloch - Sex and Christianity: a Tumultuous History · May 2025

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    Robert Barron

    #22 Bishop Robert Barron - Seeking Meaning, Finding God? · Mar 2023

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    Slavoj Žižek

    #40 Slavoj Žižek - Sex, Drugs, and Commodity Fetishism · Sep 2023

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    Niayesh Afshordi
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    Peter Godfrey-Smith

    #116 Peter Godfrey Smith - Animal Consciousness: What Can We Know? · Aug 2025

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    Phil Halper

    #115 Phil Halper & Niayesh Afshordi - What Came Before The Big Bang? · Aug 2025

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    Elaine Pagels

    #79 Elaine Pagels - The Origin of Satan · 2 episodes

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    Dan McClellan

    #117 Dan McClellan - The Bible Has More Than One God · 2 episodes

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    Kipp Davis

    #97 Kipp Davis - What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls? · Mar 2025

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    Chris Hadfield

    #161 What’s the Point of Going Back to the Moon? Chris Hadfield - · Jul 2026

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    Susan Neiman

    #56 Susan Neiman - Left is Not Woke · Feb 2024

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    Galen Strawson

    #150 Materialist AND Panpsychism are True - Galen Strawson · Apr 2026

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    John Cottingham

    #121 John Cottingham - The Father of Modern Philosophy: René Descartes · Sep 2025

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    Simon Blackburn

    #114 Simon Blackburn - What is Ethical Emotivism? · Jul 2025

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    Simon Critchley

    #156 Mysticism: The Heretics Who Got Too Close to God - Simon Critchley · May 2026

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    Bernardo Kastrup

    #128 Bernardo Kastrup - Materialism is Complete Nonsense · Nov 2025

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    Jonathan Pageau

    #76 Jonathan Pageau - Deconstructing the Fall of Adam and Eve · 2 episodes

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    Robert Lawrence Kuhn

    #160 Every Theory of Consciousness - Robert Lawrence Kuhn · Jul 2026

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    Tanya Luhrmann

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

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    Adam Neely

    #155 AI Music is Not Music - Adam Neely · May 2026

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    Alex Hershaft

    #16 Alex Hershaft - Surviving the Holocaust · Nov 2020

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    Andrew Copson

    #8 — Andrew Copson | What Is Secularism? · Aug 2019

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    Andrew Mark Henry

    #68 Andrew Mark Henry - What is The Gospel of Thomas? · 2 episodes

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    Anthony Magnabosco

    #7 — Anthony Magnabosco | How To Change Minds · Aug 2019

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    Brant Pitre

    #120 Brant Pitre - Jesus DID Claim to be God · Sep 2025

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    Cameron Bertuzzi
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    Candida Moss

    #123 Candida Moss - Were Early Christians Really Persecuted by Rome? · Sep 2025

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    Dale Allison

    #107 Dale Allison - Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? · Jun 2025

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    David Renton

    #26 David Renton - No Free Speech for Fascists · Apr 2023

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