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Mere Morality by Dan Barker 9781634311786
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.26What drives us to be good? How do we even know how to be good? Philosophers and theologians have dealt with such questions for millennia, but Dan Barker thinks the answers are not so complicated. In... -
The Mind, The Brain And Complex Adaptive Systems by Harold J. Morowitz
Booksplease Price: $117.26Based upon a conference held in May 1993, this book discusses the intersection of neurobiology, cognitive psychology and computational approaches to cognition.About the AuthorHarold J MorowitzBook... -
Saving Belief: A Critique of Physicalism by Lynne Rudder Baker 9780691602240
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $60.94This stimulating book critically examines a wide range of physicalistic conceptions of mind in the works of Jerry A. Fodor, Stephen P. Stich, Paul M. Churchland, Daniel C. Dennett, and others. Part I... -
Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist Richard Dawkins 9781784162016
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.87THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRichard Dawkins - author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion - is one of science's greatest communicators. This anthology of more than forty... -
How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The net's impact on our minds and future John Brockman (Ed.) 9780857892485
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.70The Internet, in the memorable words of EDGE founder John Brockman, is 'the infinite oscillation of our collective consciousness interacting with itself. It's not about computers. It's not about what... -
The Will and its Brain: An Appraisal of Reasoned Free Will by Hans Helmut Kornhuber 9780761858560
Booksplease Price: $128.21In 1964-1965, Hans Helmut Kornhuber and Luder Deecke achieved a scientific breakthrough with the discovery of the Bereitschaftspotential (BP), or readiness potential. In The Will and its Brain,... -
On Philosophy and Philosophers: Unpublished Papers, 1960-2000 by Richard Rorty 9781108726368
Booksplease Price: $63.63On Philosophy and Philosophers is a volume of unpublished philosophical papers by Richard Rorty, a central figure in late-twentieth-century intellectual debates and a primary force behind the... -
The Will and its Brain: An Appraisal of Reasoned Free Will by Hans Helmut Kornhuber 9780761858621
Booksplease Price: $79.40In 1964-1965, Hans Helmut Kornhuber and Luder Deecke achieved a scientific breakthrough with the discovery of the Bereitschaftspotential (BP), or readiness potential. In The Will and its Brain,... -
The Last Unknowns: Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life by John Brockman 9780062897947
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.29Discover the universe's last unknowns-here are the unanswered questions that obsess "the world's finest minds" (The Guardian)Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author of... -
Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments by John Brockman 9780062562067
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $25.14Today's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand. Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understanding of the world... -
What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night by John Brockman 9780062296238
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $24.74Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about-and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. What should we be worried... -
In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind by Bernard J. Baars 9780195102659
Booksplease Price: $180.89The study of conscious experience has seen remarkable strides in the last ten years, reflecting important technological breakthroughs and the enormous efforts of researchers in disciplines as varied... -
In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind by Bernard J. Baars 9780195147032
Booksplease Price: $89.44The study of conscious experience has seen remarkable strides in the last ten years, reflecting important technological breakthroughs and the enormous efforts of researchers in disciplines as varied... -
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory by David J. Chalmers 9780195105537
Booksplease Price: $153.45What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These... -
Human Dignity and Bioethics by 9780268038922
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $59.07This collection of essays, commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics, explores a fundamental concept crucial to today's discourse in law and ethics in general and in bioethics in... -
The Four Horsemen: The Discussion that Sparked an Atheist Revolution Foreword by Stephen Fry by Richard Dawkins
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75_________________Includes a foreword by STEPHEN FRY'A classic for our time...And all time.' - Michael Shermer'The words of Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris and Dennett are needed more than ever. These are... -
Agents and Goals in Evolution by Samir Okasha 9780192894434
Booksplease Price: $66.19Samir Okasha approaches evolutionary biology from a philosophical perspective in Agents and Goals in Evolution, analysing a mode of thinking in biology called agential thinking. He considers how the... -
Agents and Goals in Evolution by Samir Okasha 9780198815082
Booksplease Price: $125.37Samir Okasha offers a philosophical perspective on evolutionary biology in Agents and Goals in Evolution. His focus is on "agential thinking", which is a mode of thought commonly employed in... -
Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice by Gregg D. Caruso 9781108723480
Booksplease Price: $86.88Within the criminal justice system, one of the most prominent justifications for legal punishment is retributivism. The retributive justification of legal punishment maintains that wrongdoers are... -
Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice by Gregg D. Caruso
Booksplease Price: $234.02Within the criminal justice system, one of the most prominent justifications for legal punishment is retributivism. The retributive justification of legal punishment maintains that wrongdoers are... -
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $23.96'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW SYEDDo you identify yourself by your profession or... -
Follow the Pipelines: Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil by Charlotte Dennett
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.95'Charlotte Dennett has written an excellent book summarizing the geopolitics of the Middle East historically through to current events. . . . This is an amazing piece of historical writing. . . ... -
Seeing Red: A Study in Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey 9780674030541
Booksplease Price: $57.04"Consciousness matters. Arguably it matters more than anything. The purpose of this book is to build towards an explanation of just what the matter is."Nicholas Humphrey begins this compelling...