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    The Rebel and the Thief

    by Jan-Philipp Sendker ...
    Narrated by Imogen Taylor, Vikas Adam ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 36 min

    From the internationally bestselling author of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, a moving tale of forbidden love and extraordinary courage in the face of disasterEighteen-year-old Niri and his family live a modest but secure life working in the villa of the wealthy Benzes. But when the pandemic comes, they are all let go, and left staring into the abyss of abject poverty. As their situation grows ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why?

    The Philosophy Behind the Question

    by Philippe Huneman ...
    Translated by Adam Hocker ...
    Series series Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
    A philosopher explores the many dimensions of a beguilingly simple question.Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Romeo love Juliet? And, most importantly, why ask why? Through an analysis of these questions and others, philosopher Philippe Huneman describes the different meanings of "why," and how those meanings can, and should (or should not), be conflated.As ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    Good Night

    by Philippe Guillaume ...
    Narrated by Adam Croasdell ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 20 min

    A busy day. Many problems. Clean your mind with something interesting to read. Unknown or forgotten moments of history. Odd mathematical problems and solutions. Some general knowledge. And even the crumbs of your bad day will disappear. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Evolution and Religion

    by Greg Graffin ...
    Questioning the beliefs of the world's eminent evolutionists. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mind, Language And Society

    Philosophy In The Real World

    by John R Searle ...
    Disillusionment with psychology is leading more and more people to formal philosophy for clues about how to think about life. But most of us who try to grapple with concepts such as reality, truth, common sense, consciousness, and society lack the rigorous training to discuss them with any confidence. John Searle brings these notions down from their abstract heights to the terra firma of real ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Doing Philosophy

    From Common Curiosity to Logical Reasoning

    by Timothy Williamson ...
    What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither? Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and provocative ways, showing how philosophy begins in common sense curiosity, and develops through our capacity to dispute rationally ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Freedom and Neurobiology

    Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power

    by John Searle ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy
    Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience. We believe ourselves to be conscious, rational, social, ethical, language-using, political agents who possess free will. Yet we know we exist in a universe that consists of mindless, meaningless, unfree, nonrational, brute physical particles. How can we resolve the conflict between these two visions?In Freedom and Neurobiology, the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem

    In Defence of Interaction

    by Karl Popper ...
    Based upon the Kenan Lectures that Karl Popper delivered at Emory University in 1969, Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem raises problems connected with human freedom, creativity, rationality, and the relationship between human beings and their actions. These are what Popper calls big issues - too big for easy answers, but too important to be ignored. In these lectures, and in the discussions that ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Mind-Body Problem

    by Jonathan Westphal ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    An introduction to the mind–body problem, covering all the proposed solutions and offering a powerful new one.Philosophers from Descartes to Kripke have struggled with the glittering prize of modern and contemporary philosophy: the mind-body problem. The brain is physical. If the mind is physical, we cannot see how. If we cannot see how the mind is physical, we cannot see how it can interact with ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Democracy of Objects

    by Levi R. Bryant ...
    Since Kant, philosophy has been obsessed with epistemological questions pertaining to the relationship between mind and world and human access to objects. In The Democracy of Objects, Bryant proposes that we break with this tradition and once again initiate the project of ontology as first philosophy. Drawing on the object-oriented ontology of Graham Harman, as well as the thought of Roy Bhaskar, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Critical Thinking Toolkit

    by Galen A. Foresman, Peter S. Fosl, Jamie C. Watson ...
    The Critical Thinking Toolkit is a comprehensive compendium that equips readers with the essential knowledge and methods for clear, analytical, logical thinking and critique in a range of scholarly contexts and everyday situations.Takes an expansive approach to critical thinking by exploring concepts from other disciplines, including evidence and justification from philosophy, cognitive biases and ... Read more

    $23.00 USD