Category - Science
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The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From bestselling author Michael Shermer, an investigation of the evolution of morality that is "a paragon of popularized science and philosophy" ...
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Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only huma...
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Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Can virtuous behavior be explained by nature, and not by human rational choice? "It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But w...
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The Infinite Staircase: What the Universe Tells Us About Life, Ethics, and Mortality
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD GOLD MEDALIST — BODY, MIND, SPIRIT PRACTICES “Combining an extraordinary range of scholarship with an accessible and entertai...
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Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Is there a pill for love? What about an "anti-love drug", to help us get over an ex? This book argues that certain psychoactive substances, inclu...
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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /New York Times bestselling author Sam Harris’s first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the af...
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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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Parenting on Earth: A Philosopher's Guide to Doing Right by Your Kids and Everyone Else
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Being parents and being human: building hope for our children in a fragile world. Environmental catastrophes, pandemics, antibiotic resistance, ins...
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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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Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: "Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge" and "Moral Reality and Moral Progress." Both es...
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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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Timaeus and Critias
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus’s th...
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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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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time.If all goes well, human hi...
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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
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 urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time.If all goes well, human hi...
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