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Within Reason

#100 Philosopher Shootout - 16 Thinkers, Ranked (With Joe Folley)

Within Reason

Alex O'Connor

Religion, Morality, Ethics, Society & Culture, Cosmicskeptic, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2025

⏱️ 189 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0

Episode 100.

0:01.0

Mm-hmm.

0:02.0

I'm joined again, ladies and gentlemen, by fan favorite Joe Foley.

0:05.0

Actually, I asked people what I should do for episode 100 of the podcast, and a number of

0:10.0

people said, just get Joe back on because we like him so much.

0:12.0

Oh, thank you.

0:13.0

That's very kind.

0:14.0

And I thought we did something a bit special.

0:15.0

We were considering doing a tier list of philosophers, but we realized that if we did like a hundred philosophers rank, if we spent

0:22.1

like two minutes on each one, that's 200 minutes. And the likelihood is that we'd actually

0:26.7

spend about half an hour on each. So we abandoned that idea quite quickly. That's why, ladies and

0:32.6

gentlemen, we have this board, which you may notice has some pencil marks on it because it took us a

0:39.6

few tries to get the layout right it's it's not exactly my forte it wasn't a great argument

0:44.9

for the practical applications of philosophy well that's that's right if only everybody here could

0:48.9

have seen us like i was like scribbling on the floor about 15 different times to try and get this layout and

0:55.8

it's about right hopefully you can see what we're doing here we're going to do a shootout of philosophers

0:59.5

yeah we just kind of do like a tournament and so we've somewhat arbitrarily chosen and organized

1:06.0

philosophers who are significant or have been relevant to the channel and we're going to see who comes out in that red line in the middle as the best philosopher of all time,

1:15.3

or at least of the ones that we thought of yesterday while putting this list together.

1:20.0

So, are you ready?

1:21.7

I'm ready.

1:22.5

We're going to start with David Hume versus René Descartes.

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