New Books in Big Ideas

807 Episodes

1. Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever, "Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations" (Oxford UP, 2021)

   Published: 11/11/2021
2. Edward Slingerland, "Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization" (Hachette, 2021)

   Published: 11/10/2021
3. Tony Nader, "One Unbounded Ocean of Consciousness: Simple Answers to the Big Questions of Life" (Penguin Random House, 2021)

   Published: 11/8/2021
4. Alex Pentland and Alexander Lipton, "Building the New Economy: Data As Capital" (MIT Press, 2021)

   Published: 10/25/2021
5. Paulina Ochoa Espejo, "On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place" (Oxford UP, 2020)

   Published: 10/21/2021
6. Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale, "The Darker Angels of Our Nature: Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

   Published: 10/19/2021
7. Marco Dondi, "Outgrowing Capitalism: Rethinking Money to Reshape Society and Pursue Purpose" (Fast Company Press, 2021)

   Published: 10/18/2021
8. Vincent Ialenti, "Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now" (MIT Press, 2020)

   Published: 10/15/2021
9. Claudia Goldin, "Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity" (Princeton UP, 2021)

   Published: 10/15/2021
10. Alvin E. Roth, "Who Gets What--and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design" (HMH, 2015)

    Published: 10/5/2021
11. Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

    Published: 10/4/2021
12. Joshua Preiss, "Just Work for All: The American Dream in the 21st Century" (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

    Published: 9/29/2021
13. Samuel Gershman, "What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition" (Princeton UP, 2021)

    Published: 9/28/2021
14. Giorgio Vallortigara, "Born Knowing: Imprinting and the Origins of Knowledge" (MIT Press, 2021)

    Published: 9/28/2021
15. Bob Quinn and Liz Carlisle, "Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food" (Island Press, 2019)

    Published: 9/27/2021
16. Caitlin Petre, "All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists" (Princeton UP, 2021)

    Published: 9/10/2021
17. Juha Kaakinen: Homelessness, a Solvable Problem

    Published: 9/8/2021
18. Stephen J. Pyne, "The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next" (U California Press, 2021)

    Published: 9/8/2021
19. Hans Gersbach, "Redesigning Democracy: More Ideas for Better Rules" (Springer, 2018)

    Published: 9/3/2021
20. Anil Seth, "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness" (Dutton, 2020)

    Published: 9/2/2021