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The Voice of Knowledge
- A Practical Guide to Inner Peace
- By: Don Miguel Ruiz
- Narrated by: Peter Coyote
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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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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Life changing
- By Carly on 08-07-20
By: Don Miguel Ruiz
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Consilience
- The Unity of Knowledge
- By: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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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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I've never read a book better than this one
- By VDS on 27-09-20
By: Edward O. Wilson
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A Manual for Creating Atheists
- By: Peter Boghossian
- Narrated by: Peter Boghossian
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another....
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An important book
- By Paul Hull on 09-08-21
By: Peter Boghossian
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I Am a Strange Loop
- By: Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Narrated by: Greg Baglia
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
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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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tedious
- By J Westwood on 07-01-20
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Conjectures and Refutations
- The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
- By: Karl Popper
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 22 hrs and 14 mins
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Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper’s most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insights into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history....
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Amazing! Karl Popper is a legend
- By Marcus on 15-08-22
By: Karl Popper
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Is God a Mathematician?
- By: Mario Livio
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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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....
By: Mario Livio
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The Voice of Knowledge
- A Practical Guide to Inner Peace
- By: Don Miguel Ruiz
- Narrated by: Peter Coyote
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Abridged
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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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Life changing
- By Carly on 08-07-20
By: Don Miguel Ruiz
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Consilience
- The Unity of Knowledge
- By: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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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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I've never read a book better than this one
- By VDS on 27-09-20
By: Edward O. Wilson
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A Manual for Creating Atheists
- By: Peter Boghossian
- Narrated by: Peter Boghossian
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another....
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An important book
- By Paul Hull on 09-08-21
By: Peter Boghossian
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I Am a Strange Loop
- 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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tedious
- By J Westwood on 07-01-20
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Conjectures and Refutations
- The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
- By: Karl Popper
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 22 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper’s most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insights into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history....
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Amazing! Karl Popper is a legend
- By Marcus on 15-08-22
By: Karl Popper
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Is God a Mathematician?
- By: Mario Livio
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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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....
By: Mario Livio
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Critique of Pure Reason
- By: Immanuel Kant
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 25 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is a core text of modern philosophy. The work brings together two opposing schools of philosophy—rationalism and empiricism—and proposes a third way, which came to be known as transcendental idealism....
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Complex. Will require repeat listens/reading
- By Kieran McLoughlin on 01-02-24
By: Immanuel Kant
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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
- By: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Jeff Crawford
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
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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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Excellent Tools For Thinking
- By Thomas on 02-11-13
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Why Information Grows
- The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
- By: César Hidalgo
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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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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Original journey through information origin and principles
- By Mr. Ja Wityk on 08-09-23
By: César Hidalgo
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Metaphysics
- By: Aristotle
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
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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....
By: Aristotle
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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics that Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science
- By: Immanuel Kant
- Narrated by: Michael Lunts
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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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....
By: Immanuel Kant
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The Weirdness of the World
- By: Eric Schwitzgebel
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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The Weirdness of the World reveals why all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the structure of the cosmos are bizarre—and why that’s a good thing....
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Lost in Math
- How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
- By: Sabine Hossenfelder
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science....
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Interesting, informative & thought provoking read
- By JHFD on 29-12-20
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Truth and Truthfulness
- By: Bernard Williams
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness....
By: Bernard Williams
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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
- By: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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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 Book of Not Knowing
- Exploring the True Nature of Self, Mind, and Consciousness
- By: Peter Ralston, Laura Ralston - editor
- Narrated by: Keith O'Brien
- Length: 19 hrs and 44 mins
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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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The most important book of all books
- By Tomasz on 18-04-24
By: Peter Ralston, and others
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Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge
- By: Karl Popper
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
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The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge is essential listening for anyone interested in Karl Popper, in the history and philosophy of science, and in the methods and theories of science itself.
By: Karl Popper
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Thomas Moore on Writing
- By: Thomas Moore
- Narrated by: Thomas Moore
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Writing, according to Thomas Moore, is sacred practice. Though we often don't think of it in these terms...
By: Thomas Moore
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The Three Wise Monkeys of Research
- Epistemology, Ontology, Methodology
- By: Tara Brabazon
- Narrated by: Tara Brabazon
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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Research is anchored by assumptions. How do we complete research—and why? This book—The Three Monkeys of Research—explores epistemology, ontology and methodology....
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not worth your time
- By ksm_ on 18-03-24
By: Tara Brabazon
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The New Organon
- By: Francis Bacon
- Narrated by: Matthew Coles
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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The New Organon is the second part of Bacon's philosophical work, The Great Instauration on the renewal of the sciences, which was published in 1620....
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Brilliant writing, terrible reading
- By Cressida Monroe on 28-06-20
By: Francis Bacon
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John Locke Collection
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Two Treatises of Government
- By: John Locke
- Narrated by: Gregory T Luzitano
- Length: 30 hrs and 34 mins
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Credited as the Father of Liberalism and revered for his ground-breaking theories, John Locke left behind a legacy which has radically shaped political and philosophical thought for over 300 years....
By: John Locke
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The Unabomber Manifesto Collection
- Industrial Society and Its Future and Ted Kaczynski's Biography
- By: Theodore Kaczynski, Quill and Heritage Productions
- Narrated by: Roberto Scarlato
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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This gripping collection features the ideologies of Ted Kaczynski, as found in 'Industrial Society and Its Future,' and includes an original biography chronicling his life up to his death on June 10th, 2023....
By: Theodore Kaczynski, and others
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Wonderstruck
- How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think
- By: Helen De Cruz
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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Wonder and awe lie at the heart of life's most profound questions. Wonderstruck shows how these emotions respond to our fundamental need to make sense of ourselves and everything around us, and how they enable us to engage with the world as if we are experiencing it for the first time.
By: Helen De Cruz
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Die Zukunft der Wahrheit
- By: Werner Herzog
- Narrated by: Werner Herzog
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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Der große Erzähler Werner Herzog fragt nach der seltsamsten aller Erzählungen: der von der Wahrheit. Was ist wahr? In einer Welt, die durch Fake News...
By: Werner Herzog
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Rules
- A Short History of What We Live By
- By: Lorraine Daston
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
- Length: 11 hrs
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In Rules, historian Lorraine Daston traces their development in the Western tradition and shows how rules have evolved from ancient to modern times....
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narration so bad as to be unlistenable
- By Olly Buxton on 30-03-24
By: Lorraine Daston
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Understanding Knowledge
- By: Michael Huemer
- Narrated by: Nathan Nguyen
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
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The world's best introduction to epistemology, Understanding Knowledge discusses basic philosophical problems in epistemology....
By: Michael Huemer
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A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
- By: George Berkeley
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
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First published in 1710, George Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge is a seminal contribution to Empiricist philosophy....
By: George Berkeley
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Good Enough
- The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
- By: Daniel S. Milo
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Why is the genome of a salamander 40 times larger than that of a human? Why does the avocado tree produce a million flowers and only a hundred fruits? Why, in short, is there so much waste in nature? Find out....
By: Daniel S. Milo
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The Non-Existence of the Real World
- By: Jan Westerhoff
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
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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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Great book.
- By Jammin042 on 19-09-22
By: Jan Westerhoff
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Not Born Yesterday
- The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
- By: Hugo Mercier
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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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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Really worth a listen…
- By Anonymous User on 22-05-23
By: Hugo Mercier