New Books in Big Ideas

798 Episodes

1. Philip Goff, "Why? The Purpose of the Universe" (Oxford UP, 2023)

   Published: 12/10/2023
2. The Future of Predictions: A Discussion with Christopher E. Mason

   Published: 12/9/2023
3. This is the Best Statement of the Simulation Hypothesis We've Seen

   Published: 12/8/2023
4. James A. Chamberlain, "Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work" (ILR Press, 2018)

   Published: 12/6/2023
5. Simon Joyce, "LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives" (Oxford UP, 2022)

   Published: 12/5/2023
6. Too Much Communication?

   Published: 12/2/2023
7. Samuel Clowes Huneke, "A Queer Theory of the State" (Floating Opera Press, 2023)

   Published: 11/27/2023
8. Ceri Houlbrook,"‘Ritual Litter' Redressed" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

   Published: 11/27/2023
9. Darwinian Accident or Divine Architect? (with Jay Richards)

   Published: 11/23/2023
10. Plantationocene

    Published: 11/17/2023
11. Stefan Tanaka, "History without Chronology" (Lever Press, 2019)

    Published: 11/15/2023
12. Gary Tomlinson, "The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning" (Zone Books, 2023)

    Published: 11/14/2023
13. Peter Nelson, "Computer Games As Landscape Art" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

    Published: 11/6/2023
14. Jeremy Howick, "The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Health Care" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

    Published: 11/5/2023
15. Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, "Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality" (Hurst, 2023)

    Published: 11/3/2023
16. Daniele Lorenzini, "The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

    Published: 11/1/2023
17. Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

    Published: 10/30/2023
18. Jeremy Nobel, "Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection" (Avery Publishing Group, 2023)

    Published: 10/24/2023
19. Alexandre Baril, "Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide" (Temple UP, 2023)

    Published: 10/20/2023
20. Mutual Aid and the Anarchist Radical Imagination

    Published: 10/11/2023