A fun anecdote.
Dr. Oakley’s online learning courses have over three million users, some based on her Mindshift book. We met a few years ago at a conference, and she recently recounted our first exchange.
‘True story: Barb was talking to a fellow colloquium attendee who seemed keenly aware of philosophy. She mentioned she only really felt she understood and enjoyed one book about philosophy, but for once she couldn’t remember the title or author. She dutifully reported back after break that the book was Explaining Postmodernism, by Stephen Hicks. “Oh,” said Barb’s conversant. “That’s nice to hear, because I’m Stephen Hicks.”’
Oakley is also editor and contributor to the important volume Pathological Altruism (Oxford University Press, 2011), which I used in my “When Altruism becomes Pathological” article.
[Source. Thanks to Patrick Peterson for sending the anecdote link to me.]