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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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What is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But according to MIT's anti-disciplinarian César Hidalgo, understanding the nature of economic growth demands transcending the social sciences and including the natural sciences of information, networks, and complexity. To understand the growth of economies, Hidalgo argues, we first need to understand the growth of order.
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Original journey through information origin and principles
- By Mr. Ja Wityk on 08-09-23
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Why Information Grows
- The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 23-08-16
- Language: English
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Toying with Topology
- Beyond Poincaré Conjecture (Science and Cosmos)
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Floyd Dameron
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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What if topology were not about objects, but about transformations? Not about space, but about the conditions under which identity persists? This book invites listeners into a radical rethinking of mathematics—not as a solemn march of proofs, but as a living practice of imaginative stability, structural openness, and conceptual play. Moving through classical theory, unresolved conjectures, and emerging landscapes of abstraction, this work reframes topology as a mode of thought that thrives on deformation, ambiguity, and partial knowledge.
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Toying with Topology
- Beyond Poincaré Conjecture (Science and Cosmos)
- Narrated by: Floyd Dameron
- Series: Science and Cosmos
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 25-02-26
- Language: English
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Bitcoin
- The Inverse of Clown World
- By: Knut Svanholm, Luke de Wolf
- Narrated by: Guy Swann
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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As we stand on the cusp of a new political reality, the contours of personal freedom and autonomy are becoming increasingly well-defined. The future holds the possibility of an existence where the barriers to living life on one’s own terms are ever-diminishing, where the power of voluntarily connected individuals challenges and reshapes the statist quo. Even though the journey toward this new reality is fraught with trade-offs and challenges, it has the potential for unprecedented freedom and philosophical fulfillment.
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made factory work a lot more enjoyable
- By Anonymous on 06-02-25
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Random Angry Frozen Alien
- Breaking Trivial Cognitive Frames (Science and Cosmos)
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Ryan Darcy
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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What if the biggest obstacle to knowledge is not the difficulty of finding answers—but the impossibility of asking the right questions? Every person, every scientist, every thinker operates inside an invisible prison: a cognitive frame that determines which questions they can even imagine asking. The questions outside the frame are not too hard. They do not exist. And no amount of intelligence, data, or deductive power can reach a truth that belongs to a question you cannot formulate.
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Random Angry Frozen Alien
- Breaking Trivial Cognitive Frames (Science and Cosmos)
- Narrated by: Ryan Darcy
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 16-04-26
- Language: English
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Living for Pleasure
- An Epicurean Guide to Life (Guides to the Good Life)
- By: Emily A. Austin
- Narrated by: Diana Gardiner
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
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Pleasure feels amazing! Anxiety, however, does not. The Ancient Greek Philosopher Epicurus rolled these two strikingly intuitive claims into a simple formula for happiness and well-being—pursue pleasure without causing yourself anxiety. But wait, is that even possible? Can humans achieve lasting pleasure without suffering anxiety about failure and loss? Epicurus thinks we can, at least once we learn to pursue pleasure thoughtfully.
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Links 300 BC to the present seamlessly
- By Laptop Worker on 03-03-26
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Living for Pleasure
- An Epicurean Guide to Life (Guides to the Good Life)
- Narrated by: Diana Gardiner
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 08-04-25
- Language: English
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The Pythagorean Universe
- The Myth of Mathematical Reality (Philosophical Questions)
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Todd Curless
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
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What if numbers are not the building blocks of the universe—but reflections of the human mind? For over two thousand years, the Pythagorean vision has shaped our understanding of the cosmos: a universe ruled by harmony, order, and mathematical law. From the “music of the spheres” to modern physics, the idea that reality can be perfectly described by numbers has guided both science and philosophy. Yet as quantum mechanics, neuroscience, and information theory now suggest, this vision may be an exquisite illusion.
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The Pythagorean Universe
- The Myth of Mathematical Reality (Philosophical Questions)
- Narrated by: Todd Curless
- Series: Philosophical Questions
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 09-01-26
- Language: English
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Transformative Experience
- By: L. A. Paul
- Narrated by: LA Paul
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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As we live our lives, we repeatedly make decisions that shape our future circumstances and affect the sort of person we will be. When choosing whether to start a family, or deciding on a career, we often think we can assess the options by imagining what different experiences would be like for us. L. A. Paul argues that, for choices involving dramatically new experiences, we are confronted by the brute fact that we can know very little about our subjective futures. This has serious implications for our decisions.
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Transformative Experience
- Narrated by: LA Paul
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 02-10-25
- Language: English
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The Island of Knowledge
- The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
- By: Marcelo Gleiser
- Narrated by: William Neenan
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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How much can we know about the world? In this audiobook physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence, the origin of the universe, the nature of reality, and the limits of knowledge. In so doing he reaches a provocative conclusion: Science, like religion, is fundamentally limited as a tool for understanding the world. As science and its philosophical interpretations advance, we face the unsettling recognition of how much we don't know.
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A lot of waffle with soome poor intonation.
- By Peter on 27-04-16
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The Island of Knowledge
- The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
- Narrated by: William Neenan
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 11-02-15
- Language: English
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The Caretakers of the Cosmos
- Living Responsibly in an Unfinished World
- By: Gary Lachman
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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Why are we here? Human beings have asked themselves this question for centuries. Modern science largely argues that human beings are chance products of a purposeless universe, but other traditions believe humanity has an essential role and responsibility in creation. Lachman brings together many strands of esoteric, spiritual and philosophical thought to form a counter-argument to the nihilism that permeates the twenty-first century.
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Thought provoking and enjoyable
- By G W on 17-10-22
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The Caretakers of the Cosmos
- Living Responsibly in an Unfinished World
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 15-05-20
- Language: English
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The Right to Sex
- Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Amia Srinivasan
- Narrated by: Andia Winslow
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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“Laser-cut writing and a stunning intellect. If only every writer made this much beautiful sense.” —Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women “Amia Srinivasan is an unparalleled and extraordinary writer—no one X-rays an argument, a desire, a contradiction, a defense mechanism quite like her...
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The Right to Sex
- Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Andia Winslow
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 21-09-21
- Language: English
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Post-Truth
- By: Lee McIntyre
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples - claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote - and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial.
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Explanation as to Post Truth
- By Amazon Customer on 22-06-24
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Post-Truth
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-05-18
- Language: English
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A Manual for Creating Atheists
- By: Peter Boghossian
- Narrated by: Peter Boghossian
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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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. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others as an obligation of their faith - and are trained from an early age to spread their unique brand of religion. The result is a world broken in large part by unquestioned faith. As an urgently needed counter to this tried-and-true tradition of religious evangelism, this audiobook offers the first-ever guide not for talking people into faith - but for talking them out of it.
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An important book
- By Paul Hull on 09-08-21
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A Manual for Creating Atheists
- Narrated by: Peter Boghossian
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 26-12-13
- Language: English
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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. Drawing on a rich trove of examples, including legal treatises, cookbooks, military manuals, traffic regulations, and game handbooks, Daston demonstrates that while the content of rules is dazzlingly diverse, the forms that they take are surprisingly few and long-lived.
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narration so bad as to be unlistenable
- By Olly Buxton on 30-03-24
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Rules
- A Short History of What We Live By
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 20-12-22
- Language: English
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Epistemology
- An Audio Guide
- By: Robert M. Martin
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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Epistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge. Without knowledge, scientific enquiry is meaningless and we can’t analyse the world around us. But what exactly is knowledge and how do we obtain it? Should we trust our senses? When is belief knowledge? Presuming no prior experience, Robert Martin covers everything in the topic from scepticism and induction to Kant’s transcendentalism. Clear and readable, this audiobook is essential for philosophy students and a much needed introduction for the general reader.
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Well structured, very broad, sometimes confusing
- By Greg Gauthier on 06-04-17
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Epistemology
- An Audio Guide
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 08-05-12
- Language: English
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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? In this lively and wide-ranging meditation on the curious accidents and unexpected detours on the path of life, Daniel Milo argues that we ask these questions because we’ve embraced a faulty conception of how evolution - and human society - really works.
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One for acedmics of the subject, not the lay-person.
- By Adam Sheardown on 02-07-25
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Good Enough
- The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-06-19
- Language: English
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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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Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe - and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. 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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A must read for the politically interested
- By Kindle Customer on 22-09-25
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Not Born Yesterday
- The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 28-01-20
- Language: English
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Understanding Beliefs
- By: Nils J. Nilsson
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
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Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future. We have beliefs about other people, and we believe that they have beliefs as well. We use beliefs to predict, to explain, to create, to console, to entertain. Some of our beliefs we call theories, and we are extraordinarily creative at constructing them. Theories of quantum mechanics, evolution, and relativity are examples.
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This is an exceptional book in belief structures
- By Raj Chakraborty on 30-01-25
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Understanding Beliefs
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 25-08-15
- Language: English
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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. Making the bold assertion that the physical world consists only of ideas and thus does not exist outside the mind, this work establishes Berkeley as the founder of the immaterialist school of thought. A major influence on such later philosophers as David Hume and Immanuel Kant, Berkeley's ideas have played a role in such diverse fields as mathematics and metaphysics and continue to spark debate today.
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A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 30-09-11
- Language: English
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Vices of the Mind
- From the Intellectual to the Political
- By: Quassim Cassam
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Epistemic vices are character traits, attitudes, or thinking styles that prevent us from gaining, keeping, or sharing knowledge. In this book, Quassim Cassam gives an account of the nature and importance of these vices, which include closed-mindedness, intellectual arrogance, wishful thinking, and prejudice. In providing the first extensive coverage of vice epistemology, an exciting new area of philosophical research, Vices of the Mind uses real examples drawn primarily from the world of politics to develop a compelling theory of epistemic vice.
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a lucid read
- By Erim on 01-07-19
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Vices of the Mind
- From the Intellectual to the Political
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 19-04-19
- Language: English
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Praxeology
- The Invisible Hand That Feeds You
- By: Knut Svanholm
- Narrated by: Guy Swann
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
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Praxeology, the science of human action, is a lens through which truthfulness of the world is revealed. Truth goggles, if you will. Praxeology teaches us that everything going on in our society is rooted in the wills and desires of individuals. Starting from an irrefutable set of statements about human beings, we can come to conclusions about human behavior that are true regardless of what any political ideology might assert.
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importance of understanding your actions
- By Christian Ander on 27-08-23
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Praxeology
- The Invisible Hand That Feeds You
- Narrated by: Guy Swann
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 17-08-23
- Language: English
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