Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTorsa Ghosal, "Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
Episode 280
What is the relationship between aesthetic presentation of thought and scientific conceptions of cognition? Torsa Ghosal’s Out of Mind: Mode, Mediati…
2 years, 2 months ago
Nate Klemp, "Open: Living with an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World" (Sounds True, 2024)
Episode 49
With the avalanche of information we get every day, closing down our minds and hearts seems to be the only way to survive. We close down to our inner…
2 years, 2 months ago
Paul Katsafanas, "Philosophy of Devotion: The Longing for Invulnerable Ideals" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 220
Why do some of our identity-defining commitments resist reason and critical reflection, and why do we persist in them even when they threaten our hap…
2 years, 2 months ago
Joshua Paul Dale, "Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World" (Profile Books, 2023)
Episode 181
Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our brains when we see something cute? And how did cuteness go global, from Hello Kitty to …
2 years, 2 months ago
John Horgan, "Terrorist Minds: The Psychology of Violent Extremism from Al-Qaeda to the Far Right" ( Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 112
What makes a person want to become a terrorist? Who becomes involved in terrorism, and why? In what ways does participating in violent extremism chan…
2 years, 2 months ago
Vani Kant Borooah, "Economics, Religion and Happiness: God, Mammon and the Search for Spiritual and Financial Wealth" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 219
Many books on happiness suggest that we have considerable control over our level of happiness by doing or not doing specific things, like mediation, …
2 years, 2 months ago
Matthew Rubery, "Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 40
Matthew Rubery's book Reader’s Block: A History of Reading Differences (Stanford UP, 2022) explores the influence neurodivergence has on the ways ind…
2 years, 2 months ago
Ghostwriting Psychology and Overcoming Anxiety Associated with Writer’s Block
Episode 220
Barbara Richter is an accomplished author, public speaker, French-to-English translator, and founder of DIYBook and In Ink Ghostwriting. Raised in a …
2 years, 2 months ago
Harry van der Hulst, "A Mind for Language: An Introduction to the Innateness Debate" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 118
How does human language arise in the mind? To what extent is it innate, or something that is learned? How do these factors interact? The questions su…
2 years, 3 months ago
Cross-Cultural Research on Gaming and “Gaming Disorder”
Episode 211
In 1998 the phrase “internet addiction” was first used to describe problematic prolonged internet use, and encompassed a wide range of online activit…
2 years, 3 months ago