Host

Alex O'Connor

@CosmicSkeptic

Alex O’Connor

British philosopher and YouTuber who hosts Within Reason, a long-form interview show on philosophy, science, and religion. Online under the handle CosmicSkeptic, O’Connor built an audience as a sceptic and atheist commentator before transitioning to more formally philosophical interviewing. He read Philosophy at Oxford, and his questions reflect both analytic rigour and a willingness to voice the layperson’s intuitions against trained philosophers — which gives Within Reason its characteristic tension.

Show

Within Reason — long-form philosophy and science interviews, hosted on YouTube and distributed as a podcast. Free to watch. O’Connor interviews academic philosophers, scientists, and public intellectuals, typically on foundational questions: consciousness, free will, ethics, the existence of God, and the nature of reality. Episodes run one to two hours. Available on YouTube at @CosmicSkeptic and on Substack at alexoconnor.com.

Episodes hosted