81 - David Sloan Wilson - Against Individualism Two for Tea Podcast

David’s book Atlas Hugged: The Autobiography of John Gault III can be found here:
https://atlashugged.world/

Home - Evolution Institute (evolution-institute.org):
https://evolution-institute.org/

NESCent: The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center:
https://nescent.org/

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957)

B. F. Skinner, Walden Two (1948)

Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, Nudge: Improving Decisions About
Health, Wealth and Happiness (2009)

Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (1976)

Massive Modularity - Oxford Handbooks:
https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195309799.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780195309799-e-4

Selection by consequences | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/abs/selection-by-consequences/0F69B44DBC37419B8EBD90B5667738ED

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy | Steven C. Hayes, PhD:
https://stevenchayes.com/category/acceptance-and-commitment-therapy/

George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life (1871–2)

Athena Aktipis, The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us

Understand and Treat Cancer (2020)

Timestamps
2:58 How David came to be interested in this topic and why he decided to put his thoughts into novel form
13:16 The mosaic of ideas
27:08 Randian economics and the alternative
39:26 Individual versus group-level perspectives in society and biology
50:11 Cooperation and cheating
55:54 Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
01:08:05 The advantages of the fictional form
01:13:05 The novel of ideas