📚 14 Books mentioned in "Diana Walsh Pasulka: Aliens, Technology, Religion & the Nature of Belief | Lex Fridman Podcast #149" of Lex Fridman Podcast

the following is a conversation with diana walsh basulka a professor of philosophy and religion at uncw and author of american cosmic ufos religion and technology

The host introduces the guest as the author of this book.

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but he's um his i think his best book or the one that impacted me the most is called authors of the impossible

Diana recommends Jeffrey Kripal's book.

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she writes two books which i'll recommend one is called eichmann in jerusalem where she attend attends the nuremberg trials

Diana recommends Hannah Arendt's book.

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They have a book on purgatory that came before your uh american cosmic

Lex mentions Diana's previous book.

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uh there's a great one he's written called mutants and mystics where he talks about the comic strips

Diana mentions another book by Jeffrey Kripal.

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so another um philosopher that philosophers actually don't like at all but religious studies people do is martin heidegger so martin heidegger has some great essays one is called what is a work of art

Diana mentions a specific essay by Martin Heidegger.

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and the nietzsche's gay science is one of them

Diana mentions Nietzsche's book as one that made a large impact on her.

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He uses a religious reference even he says you could think of the matrix of the movie as a new as the new um book of genesis for our new world

Diana references the Book of Genesis in the context of the movie The Matrix.

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so emmanuel kant is one of the he was uh basically in the 1750s he wrote critiques of reason and things like that

Diana mentions Kant's work on critiques of reason.

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and then from that you can derive an ethics about how to live life like what is the what is the good ethical life and all the virtue of selfishness

Lex mentions Ayn Rand's book in the context of her philosophy.

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foucault this um other philosopher french philosopher actually takes up this idea and creates his own framework called genealogy from it so the genealogy of morals

Diana mentions the title of Nietzsche's book in the context of Foucault's work.

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they spoke the vedas which were the sacred traditions of india they wanted off

Diana mentions the Vedas as ancient sacred traditions of India.

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she has another book called the life of the mind which is gigantic and i don't think anybody will read it but frankly it's one of the best books i've ever read

Diana recommends Hannah Arendt's book.

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but when i read the um kurzweil's book about the singularity to me it read just like um religious language

Diana mentions Ray Kurzweil's book about the singularity.

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