Within Reason

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Joe Schmid is a PhD student in philosophy at Princeton University and creator of the Majesty of Reason YouTube channel. He graduated with a B.A. in philosophy from Purdue University in 2022. He has published articles in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of time, and the author of books including "Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs".
Felipe Leon’s 200 arguments for atheism: https://exapologist.blogspot.com/2023/03/200-or-so-arguments-for-atheism.html

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Tour
00:32 – Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
07:50 – There Is No Evidence for God
25:27 – Who Created God?
49:44 – Science Flies You to the Moon, Religion Flies You into Buildings
01:02:33 – Your Location Determines Your Religion
01:28:33 – Claims Are Not Evidence
01:32:50 – You Can’t Prove a Negative
01:38:35 – What Can Be Asserted Without Evidence Can Be Dismissed Without Evidence
01:43:51 – Faith Is Belief Without Evidence
01:54:59 – Religion Makes Good People Do Bad Things
01:55:32 – Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Absence
01:56:31 – Theism Is Unfalsifiable
02:01:03 – Science Books Would Come Back, Religions Would Not
02:12:58 – Evolution Disproves God

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John Sellars is a Reader in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, a visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and a Member of Wolfson College, Oxford. His books include Lessons in Stoicism, The Fourfold Remedy, Aristotle and his work has been translated into over a dozen languages.

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Tour
00:32 – Did Socrates Found Stoicism?
08:03 – The Three Eras of Stoicism
17:50 – Stoic Logic
26:19 – Empiricism: How the Stoics Got Knowledge
34:33 – Materialism: Only Physical Things Exist
43:00 – How Reason Fundamentally Animates the Universe
48:43 – Did the Stoics Believe in God?
59:37 – Do the Stoics Contradict Themselves?
01:08:17 – Stoic Ethics
01:24:24 – How Did the Stoics Deal With Evil?
01:36:32 – Can You Choose Your Outcome If Everything Is Determined?

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Sean Michael Carroll is an American theoretical physicist who specializes in quantum mechanics, cosmology, and the philosophy of science.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 – Tour
0:32 – Can Science Alone Explain the Universe?
6:08 – The Principle of Sufficient Reason
10:07 – What Are the Laws of Physics?
18:22 – The Fine-Tuning Argument
32:39 – Does the Multiverse Undermine Morality?
36:29 – Free Will and the Multiverse
42:24 – What Is Emergence?
56:21 – What “Stuff” Do Materialists Believe In?
1:02:41 – How Does Consciousness Work on Materialism?
1:17:31 – What Could Move Sean Away from Materialism?

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 – Intro
0:32 – Are All Things Full of Gods?
8:51 – Subjectivity and the Scientific Third Person
18:56 – What is the Materialistic Worldview?
28:45 – Consciousness of the Gaps?
38:21 – What’s Wrong with Emergence?
1:00:18 – Why Panpsychism is False
1:10:25 – Is There a Fundamental Unit of Consciousness?
1:23:08 – Why Are There Individual Selves?
1:27:43 – What’s Special About the Brain?
1:40:35 – Where Does the Self Go After Death?

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Rhett McLaughlin is a comedian best known for creating the internet’s most-watched daily talk show, Good Mythical Morning‬, alongside Link Neal. The pair also host a weekly podcast, ‪Ear Biscuits‬.
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Timestamps:
0:00 – Tour
0:32 – Did Rhett Break Christianity on Easter Sunday?
6:15 – What About Christianity Needs Rethinking?
12:16 – Christians Should Embrace Faith
23:39 – Christians Should Stop Relying on Evidence
37:01 – Christians Should Stop Relying on Philosophy
49:05 – Christians Should Embrace Truth
55:15 – Why Do Christians Resist Evolution?
1:02:55 – Are Alex and Rhett About to Convert to Christianity?
1:07:49 – Christians Should Embrace Jesus
1:34:30 – Rhett’s New Channel