In episode 85 of Philosophy Bakes Bread, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio interview Dr. William Irwin today about his most recent book, God Is a Question, Not an Answer published in December 2018 with Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Dr. Irwin is Herve A. LeBlanc Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of Philosophy at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He is also the author of The Free Market Existentialist (2015) and of Little Siddartha (2018). In addition, he is also the editor of numerous books on philosophy and popular culture, including: Seinfeld and Philosophy (1999), The Simpsons and Philosophy (2001), and The Matrix and Philosophy (2002). He was editor of these books and then General Editor of the Popular Culture and Philosophy Series through Open Court Publishing. In 2006, Irwin left Open Court to become the General Editor of The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, which includes Metallica and Philosophy (2007) and Black Sabbath and Philosophy (2012), among other volumes.
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Notes
- William Irwin’s God Is a Question, Not an Answer (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2019).
- Kamel Daoud, The Mersault Investigation (New York: Other Press, 2015).
- Albert Camus, The Stranger (New York: Knopf, 1993).
- William Irwin, Little Siddhartha: A Sequel (Brunswick, ME: Shanti Arts Publishing, 2018).
- Richard Rorty, “Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality,” in Stephen Shute, ed. On Human Rights: Oxford Amnesty Lectures (New York: Basic Books, 1994), 111-134.
- Bill’s philosophunny reference: Saturday Night Live’s “NPR Delicious Dish: Schweddy Balls,” Season 24, 1998:
You Tell Me!
For our future “You Tell Me!” segments, Bill asked the following question in this episode:
“What’s the last big issue that you could admit that you were wrong about?”
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