Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
By: Daniel C. Dennett
4.19
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of th…
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1. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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2. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
By: Brian Greene
4.13
Format: 569 pages, Paperback
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"life"-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
"Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored."-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
"наша история прошлого часто лишь информирует о наших переживаниях в настоящем."-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
"полная скорость движения любого объекта в пространстве и во времени всегда в точности равна скорости света."-Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
3. Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
By: Daniel C. Dennett
4.19
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of th… read more
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4. Mortality
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens wa… read more
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5. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
By: António Damásio
4.23
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotio… read more
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6. Philosophical Investigations
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , G.E.M. Anscombe
3.68
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Philosophische Untersuchungen is, with the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of two major works b… read more
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7. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
By: Sam Harris
3.99
Format: 512 pages,
Sam Harris' first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion… read more
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8. Letters to a Young Contrarian
By: Christopher Hitchens
4.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens ins… read more
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9. The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.37
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
Many appreciate Richard P. Feynman's contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize ho… read more
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11. The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter , Daniel C. Dennett
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, The Mind's Iis a searching, probing cosmic journey of the mind… read more
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12. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
13. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal s… read more
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14. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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- philosophy
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
15. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
By: Anil Seth
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons wo… read more
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16. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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17. Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
By: Tom Holland
4.15
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivat… read more
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18. The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
By: Coleman Hughes
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning tha… read more
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"Neoracists believe that we must indoctrinate children to cure them of racism. I say that children are racially innocent by nature, and we should protect that racial innocence for as long as possible."-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
"The majority of effort channeled toward achieving racial equity hasn't been applied to the part of life that has the biggest influence on people's skills and mindsets: namely birth to eighteen years …"-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
"By [college], many skills, attitudes, and habits have already been formed. We can have a much bigger impact on people at younger ages. Efforts to achieve true equity should focus instead on high-qual…"-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
"The common humanity and anti-racism of the civil rights movement had strong ties to Christianity. And Christianity promoted the value of interracial harmony: unity in Christ. But the appeal of Christ…"-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
19. Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
By: Kevin J. Mitchell
3.89
Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition
An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how … read more
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20. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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"She was told she had typhoid fever. Right away, as I still do today, I looked up the disease in medical books and read all about it."-Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
"Although my mother didn't know anything about science, she had a great influence on me as well. In particular, she had a wonderful sense of humor, and I learned from her that the highest form of unde…"-Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doin…"-Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
"Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of which, if you understand reality and take it compl…"-Richard P. Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
21. Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
By: Kevin J. Mitchell
4.17
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you think What make… read more
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"There is a power in accepting people the way they are—our friends, partners, workmates, children, siblings, and especially ourselves. People really are born different from each other and those differ…"-Kevin J. Mitchell, Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
