Book · recommended on 2 episodes
The Case for God
Karen Armstrong ISBN 1410421538
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Karen Armstrong ISBN 1410421538
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This book by Karen Armstrong has come up 2 times on Tim Ferriss. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Cal Newport, Philip Goff. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2022-02-02 and the most recent from 2025-04-09. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
A history of the human attempt to answer hard questions through religious constructions, mainly the idea of God and mostly in Western monotheistic religions, principally Christianity.
“her great book, The Case for God, which is a bad title... it's a history of religion and she divides religion into two epochs”— Philip Goff
The guest here is Philip Goff: Philosopher and academic who has built his career defending panpsychism, the view that consciousness goes all the way down to the fundamental building blocks of reality. Author of Galileo's Error and Why? The Purpose of the Universe. Philosopher Philip Goff makes the case for panpsychism, explores consciousness and quantum mechanics, and shares his return to a heretical Christianity.
“the author Karen Armstrong makes this argument very well in her book The Case for God ... I've been just trying to get people to read her”— Cal Newport
The guest here is Cal Newport: Associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University (PhD from MIT) who researches the theory of distributed systems. He is a New Yorker contributing writer, host of the Deep Questions podcast, and author of seven books including Deep Work, Digital Minimalism, and A World Without Email. Cal Newport on building a deep life through slow productivity, digital minimalism, craft, and contemplation in an age of distraction.
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