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  • Life, Death, and Meaning

    Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions

    by David Benatar, Margaret A. Boden, Fred Feldman, John Martin Fischer, Richard Hare, David Hume, W.D Joske, Immanuel Kant, Frederick Kaufman, John Leslie, Michaelis Michael, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, Derek Parfit, George Pitcher, Stephen E. Rosenbaum, David Schmidtz, Arthur Schopenhauer, David B. Suits, Richard Taylor, Bruce N. Waller, Bernard Williams, Christine Overall, Peter Caldwell, James Lenman, Steven Luper ...
    Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Evolution by Natural Selection

    Confidence, Evidence and the Gap

    by Michaelis Michael ...
    Series series Species and Systematics
    A persistent argument among evolutionary biologists and philosophers revolves around the nature of natural selection. Evolution by Natural Selection: Confidence, Evidence and the Gap explores this argument by using a theory of persistence as an intentional foil to examine ways in which similar theories can be misunderstood. It discusses Charles Dar ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter

    How Mind Emerged from Matter

    by Terrence W. Deacon ...
    A radical new explanation of how life and consciousness emerge from physics and chemistry.As physicists work toward completing a theory of the universe and biologists unravel the molecular complexity of life, a glaring incompleteness in this scientific vision becomes apparent. The "Theory of Everything" that appears to be emerging includes everything but us: the feelings, meanings, consciousness, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Why Only Us

    Language and Evolution

    by Robert C. Berwick, Noam Chomsky ...
    Noam Chomsky and Robert Berwick draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and our remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it.“A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon of language.”—New York Review of BooksWe are born crying, but those cries signal the first ... Read more

    $16.99 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

  • The Origin of Humanness in the Biology of Love

    by Humberto Maturana Romesín, Gerda Verden-Zöller ...
    The central concern of this book is us human beings. The authors' basic question is: 'How is it that we can live in mutual care, have ethical concerns, and at the same time deny all that through the rational justification of aggression?' The authors answer this basic question indirectly by providing a look into the fundaments of our biological constitution, concentrating on what they term ... Read more

    $20.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mind in Life

    Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind

    by Evan Thompson ...
    How is life related to the mind? The question has long confounded philosophers and scientists, and it is this so-called explanatory gap between biological life and consciousness that Evan Thompson explores in Mind in Life.Thompson draws upon sources as diverse as molecular biology, evolutionary theory, artificial life, complex systems theory, neuroscience, psychology, Continental Phenomenology, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Chance in Evolution

    Edited by Grant Ramsey, Charles H. Pence ...
    This illuminating volume explores the effects of chance on evolution, covering diverse perspectives from scientists, philosophers, and historians.The evolution of species, from single-celled organisms to multicellular animals and plants, is the result of a long and highly chancy history. But how profoundly has chance shaped life on earth? And what, precisely, do we mean by chance? Bringing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Presence of the Past

    Morphic Resonance and the Memory of Nature

    by Rupert Sheldrake ...
    Explains how self-organizing systems, from crystals to human societies, share collective memories that influence their form and behavior• Includes new evidence and research in support of the theory of morphic resonance• Explores the major role that morphic resonance plays not just in animal instincts and cultural inheritance but also in the larger process of evolution• Shows that nature is not ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Human Instinct

    How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will

    by Kenneth R. Miller ...
    From one of America’s best-known biologists, a revolutionary new way of thinking about evolution that shows “why, in light of our origins, humans are still special” (Edward J. Larson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evolution).Once we had a special place in the hierarchy of life on Earth—a place confirmed by the literature and traditions of every human tribe. But then the theory of evolution ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

    by Stephen Jay Gould ...
    The world’s most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time—a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision. With characteristic attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould first describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of classical Darwinism ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Interdependence

    Biology and Beyond

    by Kriti Sharma ...
    Series series Meaning Systems
    From biology to economics to information theory, the theme of interdependence is in the air, framing our experiences of all sorts of everyday phenomena. Indeed, the network may be the ascendant metaphor of our time. Yet precisely because the language of interdependence has become so commonplace as to be almost banal, we miss some of its most surprising and far-reaching implications.In ... Read more

    $24.69 USD