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.

• 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award, finalist, Why Does the World Exist?^[1]
• 2012 The Philosophers Magazine named his book, Why Does the World Exist? as one of the best books of 2012.

• Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes New York: W.W. Norton, 2008. ISBN 9780393066739, OCLC 181139422
• Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story London: Profile, 2011. ISBN 9781846682445, OCLC 749995335^[2][3][4][5]
• When Einstein Walked With Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018. ISBN 9780374146702, OCLC 1033594308

• "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."

• Jim Holt at TED
• Books of the Times – Into the Nothing, After Something
• The New York Review of Books – What Can You Really Know?
• "The Power of Catastrophic Thinking", Holt's review of The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity in The New York Review of Books
• Philosopher Jim Holt on Nothingness, the God Wars, and His New Book: “I’m a Little Unhinged”
• Has the Meaning of Nothing Changed?
• The Philosophers Magazine – The best books of 2012
• "Why Does Jim Holt Exist?". Scientific American Blog Network.
• Jim Holt, Charlie Rose, January 8, 2012