David Brin - Uplifting Existence
Point of Inquiry
English - December 20, 2012 05:12 - 42 minutes - 19.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 758 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality atheism freethought humanism philosophy politics reason religion science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Host: Chris Mooney
It's rare that I can say about a guest that, I read his books when I was a kid.
But David Brin is just such a guest. He's the celebrated science fiction author of the Uplift novels, The Postman, and many other books—most recently, Existence. I read the Uplift books when I was tearing through sci-fi as a teenager.
But on top of that, Brin is also a trained scientist and public policy commentator. And in his commentary, as in his novels, he's concerned with the same themes that motivate this show: How can we protect science from the forces that want to do it in? And, can people really be rational?
So, we're excited to have him on the show.