Minds Almost Meeting
Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson
Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Minds Almost Meeting podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil
#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Peasants into Frenchmen
Weber, Eugen Joseph
#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Politics
Aristotle
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Ritual and Its Consequences
An essay on the limits of sincerity and something else I can't see here
Seligman, Weller, Witt, and Simon
#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Crisis of Culture
Olivier Roy
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Boredom
A Lively History
Peter Toohey
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Principles of philosophy
Rene Descartes
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Iron in the soul
Jean-Paul Sartre
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A conflict of visions
Thomas Sowell
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. Scott
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Republic
Plato
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The world of yesterday
Stefan Zweig
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Iliad
Homer
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Animal Farm
George Orwell
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The final pagan generation
Edward Jay Watts
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Philosophy of Money
Georg Simmel
