Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHeather White, "One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet" (Harper Horizon, 2022)
Episode 163
The climate crisis and its resulting eco-anxiety is the biggest challenge of our time. The anxiety that comes with worrying about how environmental h…
2 years, 8 months ago
Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
Episode 136
Imagine the astonishment felt by neuroscientist Rodrigo Quian Quiroga when he found a fantastically precise interpretation of his research findings i…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Happiness Myth: A Talk by Jennifer Michael Hecht
Episode 63
In 2006, Jennifer Michael Hecht spoke to the Institute about her book, The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong. Hecht is a poet and h…
2 years, 8 months ago
Chrisoula Andreou, "Choosing Well: The Good, the Bad, and the Trivial" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 320
It is common to think that rational agency involves acting in ways that, given one’s options, maximize the satisfaction of one’s preferences. This in…
2 years, 8 months ago
Petra Bueskens, "Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities: Rewriting the Sexual Contract" (Routledge, 2018)
Episode 213
Why do women in contemporary western societies experience contradiction between their autonomous and maternal selves? What are the origins of this co…
2 years, 8 months ago
Tarek Younis, "The Muslim, State, and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia" (Sage, 2022)
Episode 207
Mental health is positioned as the cure-all for society’s discontents, from pandemics to terrorism. But psychology and psychiatry are not apolitical,…
2 years, 8 months ago
Gabe Howard, "Mental Illness Is an Asshole: And Other Observations" (DGC Press, 2018)
Episode 206
Today I talked to Gabe Howard about his book Mental Illness Is an Asshole: And Other Observations (DGC Press, 2018).
Howard has an interesting story t…
2 years, 8 months ago
Dimitry Shevchenko, "Mirror of Nature, Mirror of Self: Mirror of Self: Models of Consciousness in Sāṃkhya, Yoga, and Advaita Vedānta" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 273
In Indian philosophical traditions, a reflection in a mirror frequently serves as a metaphor, suggesting that just as a face in a mirror appears wher…
2 years, 9 months ago
Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, "Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do about It" (Basic Books, 2023)
Episode 205
From phishing scams to Ponzi schemes, fraudulent science to fake art, chess cheaters to crypto hucksters, and marketers to magicians, our world brims…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Future of Food: A Discussion with Kimberly Wilson
Episode 70
We all know that as a nation our mental health is in crisis. But what most don't know is that a critical ingredient in this debate, and a crucial par…
2 years, 9 months ago