The Giants Shoulder
Evan McGloughlin
A Neuroscience podcast. Each week I talk with experts on a range of topics from consciousness and neuroplasticity to evolution and everything in between. I have a particular interest in consciousness and understanding our inner subjective conscious experience.
Evan has a Neuroscience degree from Trinity College Dublin and is the co-founder of 2 (failed) edtech startups. He is a professional tennis coach and Triathlete enthusiast.
Evan has a Neuroscience degree from Trinity College Dublin and is the co-founder of 2 (failed) edtech startups. He is a professional tennis coach and Triathlete enthusiast.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on The Giants Shoulder podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Your Creative Brain and AI
how we learn and consciously experience art, music, and meaning
Stephen Grossberg
#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Tale of Two Receptors
Robin Carhart-Harris
David Nutt
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The vital question
Nick Lane
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Thinking about Consciousness
David Papineau
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Being You
A New Science of Consciousness
Anil Seth
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Pivotal Mental States
Harry Brewer
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Elusive Cures
Nicole Rust
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
One Hand Clapping
Unraveling the Mystery of the Human Mind
Nikolay Kukushkin
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
These Strange New Minds
Chris Summerfield
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Brain from Inside Out
György Buzsáki
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience
David Papineau
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
What a Fish Knows
The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
Jonathan Balcombe
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Incomplete Nature
Terrence Deacon
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain
Stephen Grossberg
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Livewired
The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
David Eagleman
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Language Versus Reality
Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists
Nick Enfield
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Other Minds
The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Peter Godfrey-Smith
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The symbolic species
Terrence William Deacon
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Body Keeps the Score
Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk
