Person
Sabine Hossenfelder's book recommendations
Key facts
- Sabine Hossenfelder has recommended or discussed 2 books on podcasts, as of September 3, 2022.
- Sabine Hossenfelder has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of September 3, 2022.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of September 3, 2022.
- The 2 books Sabine Hossenfelder has mentioned in the most episodes, as of September 3, 2022: Free Will and The End Of Science.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Sabine Hossenfelder aired on September 3, 2022.
Updated
Across 2 podcasts. Every show Sabine Hossenfelder appears on, in one place, not just one.
Sabine Karin Doris Hossenfelder is a German science communicator, writer, and YouTuber who previously worked as an academic theoretical physicist. After working as an academic physicist for two decades, Hossenfelder rose to prominence on YouTube in the early 2020s. By September 2026, her channel had 1.79 million subscribers. Hossenfelder is known for her controversial criticism of modern physics research. During her appearance on the Modern Wisdom podcast in September 2022 for an episode titled Are We Living In A Simulation?, Sabine Hossenfelder discussed Sam Harris's book Free Will. She stated that she agreed with Sam Harris on the topic of free will and recommended his book, noting specifically that it is a very short text which readers can get through very quickly, though she made an exception for a single paragraph in the book concerning physics. Later, during an appearance on EconTalk in September 2019, Sabine Hossenfelder brought up John Horgan's book The End Of Science while conversing about the broader topic of stagnation within the scientific community.
Books Sabine Hossenfelder recommended or discussed
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Free Will
Recommended“and so yeah I'm basically I'm I'm uh I'm with uh sam uh I like his book uh I mean to begin with it's a very short book so I can really recommend it You get through it very quickly I like the book except for the one paragraph that he has about physics when I came I think that”
Where to get it
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The End Of Science
Discussed“I mean you have probably read this book which is called the end of science by John Horgan”
Where to get it
Books by Sabine Hossenfelder
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Are We Living In A Simulation? - Sabine Hossenfelder | Modern Wisdom | 2022-09-03 | 1 |
| Sabine Hossenfelder on Physics, Reality, and Lost in Math | EconTalk | 2019-09-30 | 1 |
Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
“yeah well i think that's maybe about 10 years ago when did super intelligence come out 2014 nick bostrom's book something like that when that came out and i read that i was adamant that the artificial general intelligence apocalypse was going to be with us within 10 or 15 years”
“and so this is what my book is called lost in math”
“so the argument that I make in my book is that this believe in naturalness is an issue and that's a problem that needs to be rethought right now”