🚨 Episode 18 of the podcast with L.A. Paul and the premiere of the new season is OUT! 🚨

If you subscribe to this newsletter, you know I've been thinking about the idea of transformative experience for a while. (Here's a previous post about that topic.)

Back in March, I wrote about philosopher L.A. Paul's appearance on the legendary Tim Ferriss Show, prompted in part by a recent profile of Paul in The New Yorker.

So I decided to invite her on my podcast. To my surprise, she agreed.

Not only did she agree, the episode opens with a nice compliment about Selling Plato. Here's why:

While she is the Millstone Family Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Cognitive Science at Yale University, she cares deeply about philosophy being useful and practical.

Since her book Transformative Experience came out nine years ago, she has been covered by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, NPR, and the BBC, among others. She has talked about her work with Sam Harris, Sean Carroll, and Dr. Drew, to name a few. The main ideas behind her book have clearly struck a chord beyond just the philosophy profession.

So she gets what I'm trying to do here, and I'll think you'll see that in the episode. I hope you enjoy it.

We talk about why existentialism is so popular and the appeal of Continental philosophy, what she learned from studying under David Lewis at Princeton (one of the most well-known and influential philosophers of the 20th century), why asking practical philosophical questions is important for the discipline, and more.

This is the first of many episodes coming up this season that I'm excited to share. Other episodes feature working philosophers as well, but you'll also see a few surprises.

Until next time.

Jared

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This Week's Free Philosophy Resource:

Title: Transformative experiences, rational decisions and​

​shark attacks​

Author: Marc-Kevin Daoust

Reading Level: Undergraduate

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