David Edmonds, best known as the co-author of Wittgenstein's Poker, and as my co-podcaster on Philosophy Bites, has recently co-written a brilliant children's book, Undercover Robot. It tells the story of a young girl-robot going to school and trying to pass as human. For this episode of the Thinking Books podcast I interviewed David about how he came to write this book and its central themes.
Listen to David Edmonds on Undercover Robot
Some books change the way you experience the world. Bianca Bosker's Cork Dork is one of these. The author quit her job as a tech journalist to train her senses of taste and smell to become a sommelier in New York. This book is about more than wine, though, it's about how we experience the world and how much we miss when we don't pay attention to the senses.
Sometimes disorder and messiness can be more efficient than planned tidiness. Tim Harford discusses his recent book, Messy, with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Thinking Books podcast. Thinking Books is also available on iTunes.
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How can we learn from our mistakes? How can we avoid catastrophes? In this first episode of the podcast Thinking Books, Matthew Syed explores how we learn from feedback in a range of situations.
Listen to Matthew Syed on Black Box Thinking:
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