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Published Work in the CASBS-Public Books Partnership

The CASBS partnership with Public Books, launched and announced in fall 2019 (link is external), is all about books and ghosts that reside on the Center’s hilltop campus. This page displays a running list of partnership publications. 

In terms of books, it places a spotlight on select classics as well as recent accessions to the Center’s renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection.* In terms of ghosts, current fellows reflect upon impactful and inspiring “Ghosts in the Study” – former fellows who occupied their offices (called studies at CASBS) at some point since the Center’s 1954-55 inaugural year.

View all installments in the partnership (link is external)

Special Essays

  • Through an examination of a recent book on the virtues of "anthro-vision," CASBS director Margaret Levi and CASBS senior research scholar Roberta Katz describe the tools, mindset, and ways of thinking and practicing that "The 21st-Century Social Scientist (link is external)" must employ.
     
  • Public Books published an edited transcript of an episode of the CASBS podcast (link is external) Human Centered, "Developing AI Like Raising Kids." It features a conversation between Alison Gopnik and Ted Chiang on the profound ways that we humans care for one another, and what these practices might teach us about how we care for thinking machines.
     

Recent Accessions to the Tyler Collection

These take the form of author interviews.

Tyler Collection Classics

Scholars reflect upon the enduring significance and intellectual impact of a classic book in the collection. Publication anniversaries often motivate the essays.

Ghosts in the Study

CASBS fellows discuss prominent former CASBS fellows who occupied their studies, including the intellectual impact the former fellows have had on their work or their lasting importance for the field/social science at large.

*Thousands of scholarly articles and nearly 2,000 books have been initiated, drafted, worked upon, or completed by fellows at the Center. Many are classic, foundational works that exert significant influence on academic discourse, contemporary thought, and public policy – influence that often reverberates across decades. The books reside in the Center’s Ralph W. Tyler Collection. Explore the entire Tyler collection (link is external) and view recent entries (link is external).

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