Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchElizabeth A. Stanley, "Widen the Window" (Avery Press, 2020)
Episode 54
Stress is our internal response to an experience that our brain perceives as threatening or challenging. Trauma is our response to an experience in w…
5 years, 10 months ago
Cailin O’Connor, "The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread" (Yale UP, 2018)
Episode 49
Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequences for the …
5 years, 10 months ago
B. Earp and J. Savulescu, "Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships" (Stanford UP, 2020) )
Episode 218
Consider a couple with an infant (or two) whose lives have become so harried and difficult the marriage is falling apart. Would it be ethical for the…
5 years, 11 months ago
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Episode 193
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. …
5 years, 11 months ago
Richard G. Tedeschi, "Posttraumatic Growth: Theory, Research and Applications" (Routledge, 2018)
Episode 100
During this global pandemic, many of us will experience trauma, which the authors define as a severely stressful life-altering event. A traumatic eve…
5 years, 11 months ago
Baptiste Brossard, "Forgetting Items: The Social Experience of Alzheimer’s Disease" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Episode 135
Alzheimer's disease has not only profound medical consequences for the individual experiencing it but a life-changing impact on those around them. Fr…
5 years, 11 months ago
Peter Carruthers, "Human and Animal Minds: The Consciousness Questions Laid to Rest" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 215
Do nonhuman animals have phenomenally conscious mental states? For example, do they have the types of conscious experiences we have when, in our case…
6 years ago
George Scialabba, "How To Be Depressed" (U Penn Press, 2020)
Episode 99
George Scialabba is a prolific critic and essayist known for his incisive, wide-ranging commentary on literature, philosophy, religion, and politics.…
6 years ago
Amy Koerber, “From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History" (Penn State UP, 2018)
Episode 68
On this episode of New Books in Language, Dr. Lee Pierce (she/they) interviews Dr. Amy Koerber (she/hers), Professor at Texas Tech University, on the…
6 years ago
Anna Arstein-Kerslake, "Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities: Realizing the Right to Equal Recognition Before the Law" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 80
The right to decision making is important for all people. It allows us to choose how to we our lives – both on a daily basis, and also in terms of ho…
6 years ago