Philosophy

Celebrated intellectual Steven Pinker offers a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum.

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....

God, the Science, the Evidence is the result of nearly four years of research involving over twenty scientists and renowned specialists. It presents the most up-to-date evidence for the existence of God.

Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science...

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Find out....

Does Revelation 8:10–11 describe an asteroid? Is the Wormwood star from Revelation 8 already headed toward Earth? Are NASA and high-level government officials aware of an asteroid that is on a collision course with our planet?

Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time—war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race—in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all....

The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology....

Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings....

Richard Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes....

Today's "machine-learning" systems, trained by data, are so effective that we've invited them to see and hear for us - and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases.

For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best....

The New York Times best-selling author of Darwin’s Doubt presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology....

The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: People are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives....

A captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose from the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe....

Listeners learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level - and then how each connects to the other....

Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God and scripture....

An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish....

Engaging, thought-provoking, and groundbreaking, The Immortal Mind shows here that some aspect of who we are is spiritual and immortal, transcending the physical body.

From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery....

Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher...

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman....

A special tenth anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd is revised and annotated with answers to important questions you never thought to ask.

The author of the best seller The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch, explores the four most fundamental strands of human knowledge: quantum physics, and the theories of knowledge, computation, and evolution - and their unexpected connections....

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....

From one of the world’s most celebrated intellectuals, a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public or “out there,” is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic lives.

God, the Science, the Evidence is the result of nearly four years of research involving over twenty scientists and renowned specialists. It presents the most up-to-date evidence for the existence of God. For more than four centuries, the combined discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin, Freud, and others, created the illusion that the Universe could be explained without a creator God. As a result, materialism became the dominant worldview by the beginning of the twentieth century.

Albert Einstein remains renowned around the world for revolutionizing our understanding of the cosmos, but very few realize that the celebrated scientist had a deep spiritual side. Einstein believed that one wondrous force was woven through all things everywhere—and this sense of the pervasive sacred influenced every aspect of his existence, from his marvelous science to his passionate pacifism.

First there was the genetic revolution—the discovery that physical structures in the cell, including DNA and RNA, shape every organism. Now, says evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg, we are overdue for another and more profound revolution. Recent findings reveal that genetic and even epigenetic sources alone cannot account for the rich dynamism of life—not even close. Some other informational source is required.

Drawing intriguing parallels between the present era of quantum physics and past episodes of scientific confusion, Beyond the Quantum tells the story of how pilot-wave theory was discovered and abandoned, revived and reconstructed, and how today it can pave the way to a new and radical physics beyond the quantum.

North America was not empty nor were its inhabitants savages when Europeans arrived in 1492. Quite the opposite, North America was thickly populated by indigenous people who lived in clean cities, had a thriving economy, and transformed the landscape into bountiful productivity. Forgotten Landscapes reveals the incredible extent to which Native Americans manipulated and shaped their surrounding environs through agricultural practices and urban engineering, resulting in one of the most prosperous civilizations of their time.

In this investigation, I have engaged in a comprehensive dialogue with DeepSeek, posing all of the following questions to it. For a comparative perspective, I have also presented a selection of these key questions to ChatGPT. By placing their answers side-by-side, my goal is to give you, the reader, a clear basis for comparison. You can evaluate their different reasoning styles and decide which analysis you find more logical, persuasive, and valuable for your own understanding. We are now in constant conversation with artificial intelligence. It answers our questions, creates our images, ...

Aristotle and the Roots of Scientific Thought: Exploring His Enduring Influence on Knowledge and Discovery takes readers on a journey into the mind of one of history’s greatest philosophers and the foundations of Western science. More than two thousand years ago, Aristotle studied the natural world with curiosity, precision, and reason, laying down methods of observation and explanation that would shape human thought for centuries. This engaging and accessible book explores Aristotle’s groundbreaking contributions to biology, physics, cosmology, psychology, and logic. From his ...

Unravel the fascinating story of mathematics in Journey Through the Ages: A Captivating History of Mathematics by Haselton Media Group. This captivating narrative traces the evolution of numbers and logic from ancient counting under starlit skies to the algorithms powering today’s world. Spanning millennia and continents, the book explores how practical needs—tallying sheep, surveying flooded Nile lands, or charting celestial maps—sparked intellectual leaps, from Mesopotamian clay tablets to Greek proofs, Islamic algebra, and the European Renaissance’s calculus revolution.Crafted ...

What if the most profound truths came not from experts, but from the simple questions of a child? In Through the Eyes of a Child: When Simple Logic Challenges Accepted Science, Julian North takes readers on a thought-provoking journey that dismantles blind acceptance and reignites true curiosity. Told through a captivating dialogue between a wide-eyed child and a well-educated adult, this book reveals how easily our beliefs are shaped—and how fragile they become when tested by pure, honest reasoning. Each chapter pulls back another layer of certainty, exposing contradictions, challenging ...