Within Reason

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TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) Is Religious Belief An Obligation?
(17:44) Pantheism vs Theism
(23:35) The Connection Between Mind and Universe
(43:32) The Fine-Tuning Argument
(49:18) The Problem of Evil
(1:06:26) Is Belief in God Enough?
(1:20:53) Animal Suffering
(1:34:37) Is Heaven Hierarchical?

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TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) – Intro
(0:18) – My YouTube Watch History
(01:33) – What Do I Want to Be Remember For?
(10:13) – Will I Do a PhD?
(13:06) – Warzone
(13:28) – How Many Philosophers Does It Take to Screw in a Light Bulb?
(14:14) – My Music Channel
(14:30) – My Career if I Wasn't a YouTuber
(15:49) – Things I Struggle With
(17:58) – Favourite Beatles Song?
(19:20) – Daily Life and Episode Prep
(23:09) – Favourite Debate?
(27:17) – Which Country Do I Want to Visit?
(27:30) – Which Country Do I Never Want to Visit?
(28:09) – Which Person from History Would I Want to Talk To?
(31:47) – Who Am I a Fan Of?
(32:18) – Favourite Sport and Club?
(39:25) – Favourite Dish and Beverage?
(40:23) – What Is One Thing You Regret?
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Chris Hadfield is a retired Royal Canadian Air Force colonel, test pilot, and CSA astronaut. As the first Canadian to perform extravehicular activity in outer space, he has flown two Space Shuttle missions and also served as commander of the International Space Station. Get Chris's book Final Orbit.

TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) Have We Lost Interest in Space Travel?
(3:56) What Is There To Learn In Space?
(12:01) Is Space Exploration National Or Global?
(18:00) Will Civilians Need Training To Go To Space?
(22:35) The Psychological Challenges of Space Exploration
(26:28) Are Astronauts Thrill Seekers?
(34:33) Writing Fiction As An Astronaut
(42:58) How Chris Became a Novelist
(50:32) The Biggest Risk Chris Has Ever Taken
(53:09) How Chris Tackles Fear

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Robert Lawrence Kuhn is an American public intellectual and investment banker. He is also an author, television producer, columnist and commentator, especially on topics related to China. Kuhn is the creator of the PBS series ⁠ @CloserToTruthTV ⁠.View the Landscape of Consciousness Map ⁠here⁠.

TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) The Landscape of Consciousness Map
(16:32) Materialism
(26:58) What Counts As Materialism?
(45:12) The Difference Between Panpsychism and Materialism
(49:36) What’s the Difference Between Panpsychism and Idealism?
(58:12) Idealism and Monism
(1:03:51) Do All These “Theories” Really Differ?
(1:08:40) Dualism and Property Dualism
(1:20:30) Are Psychedelic Experiences Significant?
(1:32:02) The “Challenge” Category
(1:42:36) Quantum Theories of Consciousness
(1:47:57) Integrated Information Theory
(2:01:53) Theological Approaches to Consciousness
(2:15:33) How Theory of Mind Brings Us Together

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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.

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TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) What’s So Great About Aristotle?
(03:06) Actuality and Potentiality
(12:59) Forms: Aristotle vs Plato
(20:02) The Four Causes
(25:16) Evolution and Final Causation
(29:40) Did Aristotle Believe In God?
(32:38) The Unmoved Mover
(38:58) The Soul (Is Not What You Might Think)
(48:51) How Aristotle Invented Formal Logic
(55:54) The Nicomachean Ethics
(01:15:56) Ethics as Descriptive
(01:21:04) Where To Start With Aristotle

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