Jim Holt (philosopher)

For ten years Holt hosted a weekly radio spot on BBC Wales, "Living in America, with Jim Holt". He has appeared on William F. Buckley's Firing Line, NBC News with Tom Brokaw, CNN, and had a brief appearance in an episode of Billy on the Street in which he ended an impromptu interview after his interlocutor insisted he reveal his sexuality. == Awards and honors ==

• 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award, finalist, Why Does the World Exist? • 2012 The Philosophers Magazine named his book, Why Does the World Exist? as one of the best books of 2012. == Publications ==

Books • ''Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes'' New York: W.W. Norton, 2008. , • Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story London: Profile, 2011. , • When Einstein Walked With Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018. , Articles • "The Power of Catastrophic Thinking" (review of Toby Ord, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, Hachette, 2020, 468 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXVIII, no. 3 (February 25, 2021), pp. 26–29. Jim Holt writes (p. 28): "Whether you are searching for a cure for cancer, or pursuing a scholarly or artistic career, or engaged in establishing more just institutions, a threat to the future of humanity is also a threat to the significance of what you do." == References ==