Category - Philosophy
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Combining
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In 'Combining', Nora Bateson invites us into an ecology of communication where nothing stands alone, and every action sets off a chain of incalcula...
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Human and Machine Consciousness
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Consciousness is widely perceived as one of the most fundamental, interesting and difficult problems of our time. However, we still know next to ...
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Think Straight: An Owner's Manual for the Mind
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Put simply, Think Straight is an owner’s manual for the human brain. Drawing from the vast history of scientific and cognitive research, this boo...
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Consciousness Explained
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Daniel Dennett's "brilliant" exploration of human consciousness — named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times — is a master...
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From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"A supremely enjoyable, intoxicating work." —Nature How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists, and physici...
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On Hunting: A Definitive Study of the Mind, Body, and Ecology of the Hunter in the Modern World
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Hunting is our heritage, our heart, and our future.Where does hunting fit in the modern world? To many, it can seem outdated or even cruel, but a...
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When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreaming Are humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the min...
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The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in anima...
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Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism
PaperbackOriginal price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /From Bishop Wilberforce in the 1860s to the advocates of "creation science" today, defenders of traditional mores have condemned Darwin's theory ...
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Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the conceptual context for p...
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Changing How We Choose: The New Science of Morality
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The "new science of morality" that will change how we see each other, how we build our communities, and how we live our lives. In Changing How We C...
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Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This eye-opening book offers a "clear and captivating" (Dr. Kris Verburgh)scientific deep dive into how plants and animals have already unlocked t...
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If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals about Human Stupidity
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This funny, "extraordinary and thought-provoking" (The Wall Street Journal) book asks whether we are in fact the superior species. As it turns out,...
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Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An evolutionary case for the existence of free will Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural...
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Adorning Bodies: Meaning, Evolution, and Beauty in Humans and Animals
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /How is meaning in our bodies constructed? To what extent is meaning in bodies innate, evolved through biological adaptations? To what extent is m...
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Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This eye-opening book offers a "clear and captivating" (Dr. Kris Verburgh)scientific deep dive into how plants and animals have already unlocked...
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Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The story of a quest to uncover the evolutionary history of consciousness from a leading theoretical psychologist.We feel, therefore we are. Cons...
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Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The instant New York Times bestseller "Excellent...Outstanding for its breadth of research, the liveliness of the writing, and the depth of humanit...
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If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals about Human Stupidity
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /San Francisco Chronicle bestseller - BOOKRIOT Best Books of the Year - Next Big Idea Book Club Best Science Books of the Year "I love the book, an...
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The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not impos...
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Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live—how we eat, learn, fee...
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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A bestselling author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence that will revolutionize our understanding of the bra...
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Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“Illuminating, entertaining and wise.” —Nicholas A. Christakis, Nature Conscience, a finalist for the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing...
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Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From one of the world's leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of how biology, neuroscience, psychology, ...
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