Summer Reading List 2024

Sunday, September 1, 2024
First Aired: 
Sunday, June 9, 2024

What Is It

Looking for some deep dives into pop culture this summer? Josh and Ray talk to Sandra Laugier from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, author of TV-Philosophy in Action: The Ethics and Politics of TV Series, and Nathaniel Goldberg from Washington & Lee University, co-author of Revising Reality: How Sequels, Remakes, Retcons, and Rejects Explain the World. And they get recommendations for philosophical science fiction from Sara Uckelman of Durham University, philosopher of language by day and writer of speculative fiction by night.
 

Transcript

Transcript

Ray Briggs  
Coming up...

Josh Landy  
This summer, how about a philosophical take on popular culture?

Sandra Laugier  
There are no good TV shows that are bad for you.