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  • The Edge of Sentience

    Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI

    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    The Edge of Sentience

    Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI

    Narrated by Graham Mack ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 44 min

    Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects, or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences? Could there even be rudimentary feelings in miniature models of the human brain, grown from human stem cells? And what about AI?These are questions about ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jesus in an Age of Enlightenment

    Radical Gospels from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson

    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores the religious concerns of Enlightenment thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. Using an innovative method, the study illuminates the intellectual history of the age through interpretations of Jesus between c.1650 and c.1826. The book demonstrates the persistence of theology in modern philosophy and the projects of social reform and amelioration associated with the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • The Mind

    Leading Scientists Explore the Brain, Memory, Personality, and Happiness

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 2 - Best of Edge Series
    "Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." —Chicago Sun-Times on This WillChange EverythingMarkingthe debut of a hard-hitting new series from Edge.org and Harper Perennial,editor John Brockman delivers a cutting-edge master class covering everythingyou need to know about ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Human

    The Science Behind What Makes Your Brain Unique

    "[A] shimmering new book . . . This is the place to look to learn about our best scientific understanding of what it means to be human." —Steven Pinker, New York Times bestselling author of The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works"A cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara (and one of the inventors of the field), takes us on a lively tour through the latest ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why We Believe

    Evolution and the Human Way of Being

    Series series Foundational Questions in Science
    An "impressive" wide-ranging argument by a renowned anthropologist that the capacity to believe is what makes us human (Justin Barret, American Scientist ).Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and hope? Philosophers, theologians, social scientists, and historians have offered explanations for centuries, but their accounts often ignore or even avoid human evolution. ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Biological Mind

    How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are

    by Alan Jasanoff ...
    A pioneering neuroscientist argues that we are more than our brainsTo many, the brain is the seat of personal identity and autonomy. But the way we talk about the brain is often rooted more in mystical conceptions of the soul than in scientific fact. This blinds us to the physical realities of mental function. We ignore bodily influences on our psychology, from chemicals in the blood to bacteria ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Evolutionary Psychology

    An Introduction

    While evolutionary psychology is a fascinating science, it is also often misunderstood. In this highly acclaimed undergraduate textbook, Workman and Reader assume no prior knowledge of evolution and instead carefully guide students towards a level of understanding where they can critically apply evolutionary theory to psychological explanation. The authors provide an engaging and balanced ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • How the Mind Changed

    A Human History of Our Evolving Brain

    The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved… and is still evolving.We’ve come a long way. The earliest human had a brain as small as a child’s fist; ours are four times bigger, with spectacular abilities and potential we are only just beginning to understand.This is How the Mind Changed, a seven-million-year journey through our own heads, packed with vivid stories, groundbreaking ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Future Loves You

    How and Why We Should Abolish Death

    A brilliant young neuroscientist explains how to preserve our minds indefinitely, enabling future generations to choose to revive usJust as surgeons once believed pain was good for their patients, some argue today that death brings meaning to life. But given humans rarely live beyond a century – even while certain whales can thrive for over two hundred years – it’s hard not to see our biological ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You, Second Edition

    Busting Myths about Human Nature

    A compelling takedown of prevailing myths about human behavior, updated and expanded to meet the current moment.There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; and men and women are wholly different in behavior, desires, and wiring. Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You counters these pervasive and pernicious myths ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Braintrust

    What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality

    A provocative new account of how morality evolvedWhat is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the biology of the brain. She describes the "neurobiological platform of bonding" that, modified by evolutionary pressures and cultural values, has led to human ... Read more

    $12.99 USD