Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2022-08-11
Jordan Peterson & Iain McGilchrist: books mentioned on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast #278
278. The Matter with Things | Iain McGilchrist
The two hemispheres of the human brain are explicitly different and both incredibly complex. Dr. Iain McGilchrist joins to discuss and explore the science of philosophy, covering everything from our ability to reason to how art can cross cultures.
Iain McGilchrist discussed The master and his emissary by Iain McGilchrist, and criticized Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The master and his emissary
Discussed“um it follows on from the book that you mentioned the master and his emissary but it takes the philosophical implications of the fact that our brains are divided and that each half of the brain produces a different version of the experiential world”
Where to get it
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Critiqued“because interestingly in uh thinking fast thinking slow there's a passage where dan kahneman says some things that struck me as very odd”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The master and his emissary
“he is perhaps most well known publicly for his best-selling book the master and his emissary 2009 published by yale university press which is sold approaching 200 000 copies worldwide which is a uh what would you call all bases loaded home run for an academic book and it brought him to very wide public attention”
Plugged The Matter With Things
“yes i i would like to be able to talk to you a bit about my new book uh the matter with things which i think you have had a chance to look at but it's quite long and i know you're a very busy man so it will be good for both of us to be able to just”
Plugged Maps of Meaning
“when i wrote maps of meaning my first book i structured it in some ways similarly because the first large chapter is this chapter on neuropsychology and hemispheric function”