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Freud to Luria to modern neuroscience: Mark Solms on the (successful) project for a scientific psychology

Mark Solms The only cure: Freud and the neuroscience of mental healing This webpage contains the backup for our conversation: Publisher's site for Dr. Solms's book

Oct 2
55 min

Peter Carruthers on Innateness in Mind

Peter Carruthers Innateness in Mind Publisher's site for this book:

Oct 1
51 min

Anscombe's Challenge with Stephen Darwall

  Stephen Darwall Modern moral philosophy in the 19th century. Webpage accompanying this podcast: click Publisher's site for Modern Moral Philosophy in the 19

Oct 1
50 min

Swann's medical philosophy by Richard Moran

Backup podcast webpage is: click   https://richardmoranreport.com Swann's Medical Philosophy Richard Moran https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190921576.003.0006

Sep 5
25 min

Exorbitance: A grammar of overdoing

Exorbitance A Grammar of Overdoing Steven Connor   https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/exorbitance

Sep 4
53 min

political manipulation

Captive Minds A Study of Manipulation Avishai Margalit, Assaf Sharon https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674303102

Aug 27
58 min

Splendid things. Canceled lives.

The Splendid things we planned: A family portrait Canceled lives: My father, my scandal, and me Blake Bailey https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510771215/the-sp

Jun 23
54 min

The Melville Effect with Joseph Allen Boone.

The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife across the Arts. Joseph Allen Boone Columbia University Press 2026 https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-melville-effect/97802

Jun 11
56 min

John Lurz trips the Barthes fantastic.

Prof. John Lurz (Tufts University) The Barthes Fantastic: Literature, Criticism, and the Practice of Language  University of Chicago Press https://press.uchicago.ed

Jun 6
54 min

Walter Benjamin

Peter E. Gordon Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver.   https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300289459/walter-benjamin/

May 8
58 min

Wilderness and the American mind

Roderick Frazier Nash Wilderness and the American Mind   https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300190380/wilderness-and-the-american-mind/

Feb 17
53 min

The character sketch as philosophy. Katie Ebner-Landy.

Katie Ebner-Landy The Character Sketch as Philosophy: Manners, Mores, Types   https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674294127

Jan 8
53 min

Susan Stewart's Clarendon Lectures: Poetry's Nature

Susan Stewart Poetry's Nature

Sep 23 2025
35 min

Marcel Proust with Stanford professor Joshua Landy. Time, memories, literature.

Joshua Landy (Stanford University)  Proust: A very short introduction  

Aug 22 2025
48 min

Caleb Smith. Distraction and discipline.

Caleb Smith Thoreau's axe: Distraction and discipline in American culture   Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon i

Jul 30 2025
49 min

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau A Very Short Introduction Lawrence Buell The first concise account of Thoreau's life, thought, work, and impact in more than half a century Builds

Jun 16 2025
51 min

Bernard Mandeville, 1670-1733.

Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe John J. Callanan  A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work

May 22 2025
57 min

This concise book introduces phenomenology in its rigor--and its breadth: from philosophical foundation to application in psychology, psychiatry, qualitative research, critical theory, sociology, etc.

Dan Zahavi Phenomenology: The basics, 2nd Edition Two footnotes to the podcast. 1. Walter Hopp's beloved Boston University course is distilled in his Phenomenology:

Apr 17 2025
52 min

One of the preeminent philosophers of our time, Owen Flanagan, was for many years an addict. He synthesizes in this book both the science and phenomenology of addiction.

Owen Flanagan James B. Duke University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy & Professor of Neurobiology Emeritus  What Is It Like to Be an Addict?: Understanding Substanc

Feb 16 2025
44 min

Until now there were three schools of thought on how best to live one's life (Utilitarian, Kantian, and Aristotelian). Agnes Callard proposes a fourth: Socratic.

Agnes Callard Open Socrates "[C]harming, intelligent…Open Socrates encourages us to recognize how little we know, and to start thinking." —Jennifer Szalai, New York T

Feb 11 2025
37 min

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