Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a prof...
E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history—focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science—in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoris...
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have To...
David McRaneyAn entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise. You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is, but journalist David McRaney is here to tell you that you're as deluded a...
Parva Naturalia: with On the Motion o...
AristotleDavid Bolotin's translation of Aristotle's PARVA NATURALIA aims above all at fidelity to the Greek. It treats Aristotle as a teacher regarding the topics that he discusses, and hence it tries to convey the meaning, to the extent possi...
Are We There Yet? is a collection of essays grouped around three major themes: the collapse of the American empire; the question of individual identity; and some thoughts regarding the nature of a post-collapse world. The book analyz...
Murmurs of Doubt: Twelve Skeptical Gr...
Rebecca FoxA one-off literary experience. Mixing critical thinking and inspiring illustration, with a wealth of humanist and philosophical issues from around the world, Murmurs of Doubt is a beautifully drawn, global call to reason. From the tou...
"It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth." —Nietzsche In A Philosophy of Walking, a bestseller in France, leading thinker Frederic Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B – the pilgr...
Transcending the Levels of Consciousn...
David R. HawkinsThe now widely known Map of calibrated levels of Consciousness was presented in Power vs. Force in 1995 and has been translated into all the world's major languages. This was followed by The Eye of the I (2001), I: Reality an...
The Origin of Consciousness in the Br...
Julian JaynesAt the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes' still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only 3,000 years ago and is s...
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have To...
David McRaneyAn entertaining illumination of the stupid beliefs that make us feel wise, based on the popular blog of the same name. Whether you're deciding which smartphone to purchase or which politician to believe, you think you are a rational...
The Bond: Connecting Through the Spac...
Lynne McTaggartA BOLD NEW VISION FOR A NEW WORLD Our way of life isn't working anymore. People are losing their jobs, their homes, their neighborhoods—and even their hope for a just society. We urgently need a new story to live by, based on fairne...
The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism: Too...
Matthew Van NattaOptimize joy, overcome obstacles―discover the calm of stoicismBeing a stoic means embracing positivity and self-control through the ability to accept the uncertainty of outcomes. With this stoicism guide, the beginner stoic will lea...
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free...
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 - 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual hist...
Filling the Void: A Selection of Huma...
Jonathan MS PearceThere is often thought, by theists, to be a void in humanist and atheist lives; a god-shaped hole. For many atheists, though, that void is amply filled with meaning and purpose, nobly and morally built up out of philosophy and living ...
Who Am I?--And If So, How Many?: A Ph...
Richard David Precht#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERTRANSLATED INTO 23 LANGUAGES, WITH MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD What is truth? What is love? Does life have meaning? Bestselling author Richard David Precht, "the Mick Jagger of the nonfiction boo...
The Power of Meaning: Finding Fulfill...
Emily Esfahani SmithIn a culture obsessed with happiness, this wise, stirring book points the way toward a richer, more satisfying life.Too many of us believe that the search for meaning is an esoteric pursuit—that you have to travel to a distant monas...
The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism: Too...
Matthew J. Van NattaOptimize joy, overcome obstacles - discover the calm of stoicism Being a stoic means embracing positivity and self-control through the ability to accept the uncertainty of outcomes. With this stoicism guide, the beginner stoic will...
Dignity, Rank, and Rights (The Berkel...
Jeremy WaldronWriters on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical ...
Westworld and Philosophy: If You Go L...
William IrwinNo Description
Westworld and Philosophy: If You Go L...
William IrwinNo Description