#102 David Deutsch - You're Not Smarter Than a Caveman
David Deutsch is a British physicist at the University of Oxford, often described as the "father of quantum computing". 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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#101 Brian Greene - String Theory, Fine Tuning, and Divine Design
Brian Greene is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, director of its centre for theoretical physics, and the chairman of the World Science Festival. He is best known for his work on string theory, especially in his book āThe Elegant Universeā, which turns 25 this year.
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#100 Philosopher Shootout - 16 Thinkers, Ranked (With Joe Folley)
For episode 100 of Within Reason, I'm joined by Joe Folley, from the YouTube Channel "Unsolicited Advice", to tackle a completely arbitrary and ridiculous tournament of thinkers, each of whom are to some degree relevant to the show. Joe graduated from Cambridge University with an MPhil in Philosophy, specialising in logic, in 2023.
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#99 Penn Badgley - My Religious Conflicts With Playing a Killer
Penn Badgley is an actor best known for his roles in Netflixās You and the popular drama series Gossip Girl. He is less known as a podcaster and member of the BahĆ”Ź¼Ć Faith, a religion which teaches that there is a historical unity between major world religions and their prophets, having itself developed out of a branch of Twelver Shia Islam in the 19th century.
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#98 Jacob Hansen - A Mormon Explains Mormonism
Jacob Hansen is a Mormon YouTuber at the channel Thoughtful Faith.
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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