Becoming Human with the philosopher Samuel Loncar is a show for a species in crisis.

The show features long-form, solo series that bring scholarly depth and academic insights to today’s most pressing questions around science, religion, and philosophy. Between series, you’ll find Explorations: journeying into time, culture, art, and history, encountering the mystery of the human in free-standing episodes and conversations.

Series 1: Origins: How Philosophy Remade Science and Religion
Series 2: Søren Kierkegaard: The Poet of Existence
Series 3: Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: An Introduction

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SERIES ONE | Origins : How Philosophy Remade Religion and Science

Becoming Human: Origins, How Philosophy Remade Religion and Science is based on a decade of research at Yale on science and religion, and it launched the Becoming Human Project: a multimedia project that brings philosophy as a way of life to everyone and seeks to build a community of creators pursuing a more meaningful life.

The project was born from a new story of the human that I seek to live and share with others—the story I tell in these 10 episodes—and it brings my original research, courses, and conversations with scientists, artists, and writers to the widest possible audience.

Becoming Human: Origins tells the story of how an atheistic revolution in philosophy, beginning with Socrates and Jesus, remade religion and science, and set the stage for our post-human age. It argues that the dominant story of reason, science, and religion is a modern myth, and must be replaced if we are to make real progress.

Episodes 1-5 of Origins is available on the Becoming Human podcast, and the complete series is now available to purchase.