Best Sellers
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Until the End of Time
- Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
- Written by: Brian Greene
- Narrated by: Brian Greene
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4 out of 5 stars 6
In both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast and yet is governed by simple, elegant, universal mathematical laws. On this cosmic time line, our human era is spectacular but fleeting. Someday, we know, we will all die. And, we know, so too will the universe itself....
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1 out of 5 stars
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most depressing outlook on reality
- By Amazon Customer on 20-08-20
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Lost in Math
- How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
- Written by: Sabine Hossenfelder
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science....
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent, very truly and reflect the reality
- By Satyen Saha on 05-10-19
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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
- Written by: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Jeff Crawford
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Intuition Pumps offers intrepid thinkers - in all walks of life - delicious opportunities to explore their pet ideas with new powers....
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Is God a Mathematician?
- Written by: Mario Livio
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Bestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history’s greatest mathematicians to ask how - if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind - it can so perfectly explain the physical world....
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The Voice of Knowledge
- A Practical Guide to Inner Peace
- Written by: Don Miguel Ruiz
- Narrated by: Peter Coyote
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7
In The Voice of Knowledge, don Miguel Ruiz reminds us of a profound and simple truth: The only way to end our emotional suffering and restore our joy in living is to stop believing in lies....
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5 out of 5 stars
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wonderful,
- By Amazon Customer on 12-03-20
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The Enigma of Reason
- Written by: Hugo Mercier, Dan Sperber
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our wisdom. So why didn't it also evolve in other animals? And why do we produce so much thoroughly reasoned nonsense? Find out....
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Until the End of Time
- Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
- Written by: Brian Greene
- Narrated by: Brian Greene
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4 out of 5 stars 6
In both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast and yet is governed by simple, elegant, universal mathematical laws. On this cosmic time line, our human era is spectacular but fleeting. Someday, we know, we will all die. And, we know, so too will the universe itself....
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1 out of 5 stars
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most depressing outlook on reality
- By Amazon Customer on 20-08-20
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Lost in Math
- How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
- Written by: Sabine Hossenfelder
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science....
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent, very truly and reflect the reality
- By Satyen Saha on 05-10-19
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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
- Written by: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Jeff Crawford
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Intuition Pumps offers intrepid thinkers - in all walks of life - delicious opportunities to explore their pet ideas with new powers....
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Is God a Mathematician?
- Written by: Mario Livio
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Bestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history’s greatest mathematicians to ask how - if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind - it can so perfectly explain the physical world....
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The Voice of Knowledge
- A Practical Guide to Inner Peace
- Written by: Don Miguel Ruiz
- Narrated by: Peter Coyote
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7
In The Voice of Knowledge, don Miguel Ruiz reminds us of a profound and simple truth: The only way to end our emotional suffering and restore our joy in living is to stop believing in lies....
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5 out of 5 stars
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wonderful,
- By Amazon Customer on 12-03-20
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The Enigma of Reason
- Written by: Hugo Mercier, Dan Sperber
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our wisdom. So why didn't it also evolve in other animals? And why do we produce so much thoroughly reasoned nonsense? Find out....
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I Am a Strange Loop
- Written by: Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Narrated by: Greg Baglia
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks where the self comes from - and how our selves can exist in the minds of others....
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The Book of Not Knowing
- Exploring the True Nature of Self, Mind, and Consciousness
- Written by: Peter Ralston, Laura Ralston - editor
- Narrated by: Keith O'Brien
- Length: 19 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Through decades of martial arts and meditation practice, Peter Ralston discovered a curious and paradoxical fact: that true awareness arises from a state of not knowing....
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Knowledge and Decisions
- Written by: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 20 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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This reissue of Thomas Sowell’s classic study of decision making, which includes a preface by the author, updates his seminal work in the context of The Vision of the Anointed....
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Post-Truth
- Written by: Lee C. McIntyre
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples - claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote....
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A Passion for Ignorance
- What We Choose Not to Know and Why
- Written by: Renata Salecl
- Narrated by: Lisa Coleman
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Ignorance, whether passive or active, conscious or unconscious, has always been a part of the human condition, Renata Salecl argues. What has changed in our post-truth, postindustrial world is that we often feel overwhelmed by the constant flood of information and misinformation....
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The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
- Written by: Will Durant
- Narrated by: John Little
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Best-selling historian and philosopher Will Durant devoted his entire life to studying the most significant eras, individuals, and achievements of human history....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great overview of Civilizatiion
- By Anjana Kovoor on 26-02-19
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Lost in Thought
- The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
- Written by: Zena Hitz
- Narrated by: Emily Ellet
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Lost in Thought is a passionate and timely reminder that a rich life is a life rich in thought....
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Metaphysics
- Written by: Aristotle
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Aristotle asks, What is existence? How can things continue to exist yet change, and how can we best understand the world we live in? Find out....
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The Island of Knowledge
- The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
- Written by: Marcelo Gleiser
- Narrated by: William Neenan
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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How much can we know about the world? In this audiobook physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence....
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Why Information Grows
- The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
- Written by: César Hidalgo
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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According to MIT's anti-disciplinarian César Hidalgo, understanding the nature of economic growth demands transcending the social sciences and including the natural....
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God's Crime Scene
- A Cold-Case Detective Examines the Evidence for a Divinely Created Universe
- Written by: J. Warner Wallace
- Narrated by: Tom Hatting
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Join J. Warner Wallace, former atheist, seasoned cold-case detective, and popular national speaker, as he tackles his most important case...with you on the jury....
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The Non-Existence of the Real World
- Written by: Jan Westerhoff
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Does the real world, defined as a world of objects that exist independent of human interests, concerns, and cognitive activities, really exist? Jan Westerhoff argues that we have good reason to believe it does not....
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Epistemology: Bolinda Beginner Guides
- Written by: Robert M. Martin
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Epistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge. Without knowledge, scientific enquiry is meaningless and we can’t analyse the world around us....
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A Discourse on Method
- Meditations on the First Philosophy: Principles of Philosophy
- Written by: René Descartes
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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By calling everything into doubt, Descartes laid the foundations of modern philosophy....
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The Half-life of Facts
- Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
- Written by: Samuel Arbesman
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Whatwe know about the world is constantly changing. But it turns out there’s an order to the state of knowledge, an explanation for how we know what we know....
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Theories of Knowledge: How to Think About What You Know
- Written by: Joseph H. Shieber, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Joseph H. Shieber
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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Taught by acclaimed Professor Joseph H. Shieber of Lafayette College, these 24 mind-bending lectures take you from ancient philosophers to contemporary neurobiologists, and from wide-ranging social networks to the deepest recesses of your own brain....
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Not Born Yesterday
- The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
- Written by: Hugo Mercier
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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In this lively and provocative book, Hugo Mercier demonstrates how virtually all attempts at mass persuasion - whether by religious leaders, politicians, or advertisers - fail miserably....
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Consilience
- The Unity of Knowledge
- Written by: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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In Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities....
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A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking
- Deciding What to Do and Believe, 2nd Edition
- Written by: David A. Hunter
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking Deciding What to Do and Believe, Second Edition is an excellent textbook for courses on critical thinking and logic at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as a reference for anyone with a general interest in critical thinking skills....
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The Hidden Half
- Written by: Michael Blastland
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is 'The Hidden Half' - those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world....
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The Genealogy of Morals
- Written by: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Ellis Freeman
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic is an 1887 work by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It consists of a preface and three interconnected essays that expand on concepts Nietzsche first raised in Beyond Good and Evil (1886)....
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The World of Perception
- Written by: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The author was one of the most important thinkers of the post-war era....
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Wisdom
- From Philosophy to Neuroscience
- Written by: Stephen S. Hall
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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A compelling investigation into one of our most coveted and cherished ideals, and the efforts of modern science to penetrate the mysterious nature of this timeless virtue....
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The Queer Art of Failure
- Written by: Jack Halberstam
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives - to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism....
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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
- Written by: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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There is a cause, or a reason, behind everything that happens. This is the fundamental view behind the classical proposition the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which, in 1813, Schopenhauer chose as his subject for further examination in his doctoral dissertation....
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The Examined Mind
- A BBC Radio Collection Exploring the History, Philosophy and Science of Self-Help
- Written by: Robin Ince, Kate Williams, Byron Vincent,
- Narrated by: Bryon Vincent, Emma Barnett, Felicity Ward,
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
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This collection brings together history, science, philosophy and comedy to explore our age-old search for meaning....
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Design Revolution
- Answering the Toughest Questions About Intelligent Design
- Written by: William Dembski
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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With clarity and concision, William Dembski responds to the most vexing questions and objections on intelligent design raised by experts and non-experts....
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On Truth
- Written by: Harry G. Frankfurt
- Narrated by: George K. Wilson
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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As Frankfurt showed previously, bullshit lies within the realm of subjective perception....
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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics that Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science
- Written by: Immanuel Kant
- Narrated by: Michael Lunts
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Kant's Prolegomena, although a small book, is without doubt the most important of his writings, writes the translator, Paul Carus....
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Too Big To Know
- Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
- Written by: David Weinberger
- Narrated by: Peter Johnson
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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We used to know how to know. We got our answers from books or experts. We'd nail down the facts and move on....