Time for Summer Reading
August 23, 2020
First Aired: June 14, 2020
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When John and Ken began shopping around their idea for a philosophy-on-the-radio show nearly 20 years ago, many believed it would never work, let alone stay on the air. Nearly two decades later, the program that questions everything (except your intelligence) has hit 500 episodes—just in time for current co-hosts Josh and Ray to spend our annual summer reading special thinking about time and books about time.
- Physicist Carlo Rovelli, author of The Order of Time
- Political scientist Elizabeth Cohen, author of The Political Value of Time
- Poet and essayist Jane Hirshfield, author of Ledger
- Philosopher Jorah Dannenberg on Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life.
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Carlo Rovelli, Professor of Physics, Aix-Marseille University
Elizabeth Cohen, Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University
Poet Jane Hirshfield
Jorah Dannenberg, Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University
Elizabeth Cohen, Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University
Poet Jane Hirshfield
Jorah Dannenberg, Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University
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- David Brin, The Postman
- Jorge Luis Borges, “A New Refutation of Time”
- Gordon Dickenson, Wolf and Iron
- Jack Finney, Time and Again
- Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
- Lewis Hyde, A Primer for Forgetting
- Janet Levin, Black Hole Blues
- Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams
- Bruce Lipton & Steve Bhaerman, Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future (And a Way to Get There from Here)
- Terry Prachett, Thief of Time
- Carol Yoon, Naming Nature
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