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Serial Killers - Philosophy for Everyone investigates our profound interest in mass murderers. Exploring existential, ethical, and political questions through an examination of real and fictional serial killers, philosophy comes alive here via an exploration of grisly death. This book:
- Presents new philosophical theories about serial killing, and relates new research in cognitive science to the minds of serial killers
- Includes a philosophical look at real serial killers, such as Ian Brady, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and the Zodiac killer, as well as fictional serial killers, such as Dexter and Hannibal Lecter
- Offers a new phenomenological examination of the writings of the Zodiac Killer
- Contains an account of the disappearance of one of Ted Bundy's victims, submitted by the organization Families and Friends of Missing Persons and Violent Crime Victims
- Integrates the insights of philosophers, academics, crime writers, and police officers
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Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics by the moral philosopher Kate Manne. It argues that misogyny should not be understood primarily in terms of the hatred or hostility some men feel toward all or most women. Rather, it's primarily about controlling, policing, punishing, and exiling the "bad" women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Five Star Book w/bad Narration
- De Cherrybomb en 02-08-19
De: Kate Manne
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The Science of Good and Evil
- Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
- De: Michael Shermer
- Duración: 2 h y 21 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
In The Science of Good and Evil, psychologist and science historian Michael Shermer explores how humans evolved from social primates into moral primates, how and why morality motivates the human animal, and how the foundation of moral principles can be built upon empirical evidence. Along the way he explains the implications of scientific findings for fate and free will, the existence of pure good and pure evil, and the development of early moral sentiments among the first humans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read by author
- De Gregory A. Townsend en 04-16-23
De: Michael Shermer
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Why Honor Matters
- De: Tamler Sommers
- Narrado por: Tamler Sommers
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 106
To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. It evokes Hamilton and Burr and pistols at dawn, not visions of a well-organized society. But for philosopher Tamler Sommers, a sense of honor is essential to living moral lives. In Why Honor Matters, Sommers argues that our collective rejection of honor has come at great cost. Reliant only on Enlightenment liberalism, the United States has become the home of the cowardly, the shameless, the selfish, and the alienated. Properly channeled, honor encourages virtues like courage, integrity, and solidarity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A critical, yet seemingly impossible, topic!
- De Anonymous User en 03-10-20
De: Tamler Sommers
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The Belief Instinct
- The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life
- De: Jesse Bering
- Narrado por: Jesse Bering
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 86
Why is belief so hard to shake? Despite our best attempts to embrace rational thought and reject superstition, we often find ourselves appealing to unseen forces that guide our destiny, wondering who might be watching us as we go about our lives, and imagining what might come after death. In this lively and masterfully argued new book, Jesse Bering unveils the psychological underpinnings of why we believe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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engaging and insightful
- De juliagee en 01-02-15
De: Jesse Bering
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The Mind Club
- Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters
- De: Daniel M. Wegner, Kurt Gray
- Narrado por: David Marantz
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 759
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 672
Nothing seems more real than the minds of other people. When you consider what your boss is thinking or whether your spouse is happy, you are admitting them into the "mind club". It's easy to assume other humans can think and feel, but what about a cow, a computer, a corporation? What kinds of minds do they have? Daniel M. Wegner and Kurt Gray are award-winning psychologists who have discovered that minds - while incredibly important - are a matter of perception.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Who is the self in me? Am I part of something bigger?
- De Philomath en 03-24-16
De: Daniel M. Wegner, y otros
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Stay
- A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It
- De: Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Narrado por: Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Duración: 8 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 147
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 130
Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history’s most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, arguments she hopes to bring back into public consciousness.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Informative but oddly dispassionate
- De Scott en 01-07-14
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Would You Kill the Fat Man?
- De: David Edmonds
- Narrado por: Gareth Armstrong
- Duración: 5 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 95
A train is racing toward five men, tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. If a fat man is pushed onto the line, although he will die, his body will stop the train, saving five lives. Would you kill the fat man? As David Edmonds shows, answering the question is far more complex, and important, than it first appears. In fact, how we answer it tells us a great deal about right and wrong.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderfully Rendered Book...
- De Douglas en 01-25-14
De: David Edmonds
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Third Edition
- Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
- De: Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson
- Narrado por: Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 167
Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelling look into how the brain is wired for self-justification. When we make mistakes, we must calm the cognitive dissonance that jars our feelings of self-worth. And so we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility, restoring our belief that we are smart, moral, and right - a belief that often keeps us on a course that is dumb, immoral, and wrong. Backed by years of research and delivered in energetic prose, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) offers a fascinating explanation of self-deception.
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2 out of 5 stars
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If you're a liberal hater - this book's for you
- De MRN en 11-13-20
De: Carol Tavris, y otros
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
- Why Violence Has Declined
- De: Steven Pinker
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 36 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6,362
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,512
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,465
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I'd kill for another book this good
- De Eric en 11-11-11
De: Steven Pinker
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What Love Is
- And What It Could Be
- De: Carrie Jenkins
- Narrado por: Carrie Jenkins
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific components.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What Philosophy Is and What It Could Be
- De Amazon Customer en 03-09-17
De: Carrie Jenkins
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What It Means to Be Moral
- Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life
- De: Phil Zuckerman
- Narrado por: Paul Brion
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
In What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life, Phil Zuckerman argues that morality does not come from God. Rather, it comes from us: our brains, our evolutionary past, our ongoing cultural development, our social experiences, and our ability to reason, reflect, and be sensitive to the suffering of others.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Praise for Faith No More
- De Amazon Customer en 12-08-19
De: Phil Zuckerman
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Moral Tribes
- Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
- De: Joshua Greene
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 14 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 636
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 528
A pathbreaking neuroscientist reveals how our social instincts turn Me into Us, but turn Us against Them - and what we can do about it. The great dilemma of our shrinking world is simple: never before have those we disagree with been so present in our lives. The more globalization dissolves national borders, the more clearly we see that human beings are deeply divided on moral lines - about everything from tax codes to sexual practices to energy consumption - and that, when we really disagree, our emotions turn positively tribal.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Science, Bad Philosophy
- De Jacob en 10-27-16
De: Joshua Greene
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The Moral Animal
- Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
- De: Robert Wright
- Narrado por: Greg Thornton
- Duración: 16 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,882
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,530
Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics - as well as their implications for our moral codes and public policies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ridiculously Insightful
- De Liron en 10-25-10
De: Robert Wright
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The Blank Slate
- The Modern Denial of Human Nature
- De: Steven Pinker
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 22 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,971
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,299
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,263
In The Blank Slate, 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. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits, denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't bother. Outdated science & poor logic...
- De ejf211 en 03-31-10
De: Steven Pinker
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The Death of Right and Wrong
- Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values
- De: Tammy Bruce
- Narrado por: Tammy Bruce
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 40
A woman of contradictions, "a gun-toting, lesbian, feminist, voted-for-Reagan activist", Tammy Bruce is standing in line to become the next Ann Coulter. The "left wing" is engaged in an enormous conspiracy to make moral values relative, to undercut pride and patriotism in our country, to destroy Christian ideology at any cost, to pollute the minds of our youth by means of leftist professors who rewrite history, and to hijack the justice system through morally bankrupt trial lawyers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A thoughtful analytical review of moral relativism
- De Book and Movie Lover en 07-26-04
De: Tammy Bruce
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Primates and Philosophers
- How Morality Evolved
- De: Frans de Waal
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
"It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality.In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, emphasizing our "selfish" genes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Having Just Read...
- De Douglas en 12-14-13
De: Frans de Waal
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What's Wrong with Homosexuality?
- De: John Corvino
- Narrado por: J. Paul Guimont
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
For the last 20 years, John Corvino - widely known as the author of the weekly column "The Gay Moralist" - has traversed the country responding to moral and religious arguments against same-sex relationships. In this timely audiobook, he shares that experience - addressing the standard objections to homosexuality and offering insight into the culture wars more generally. Is homosexuality unnatural? Does the Bible condemn it? Are people born gay (and should it matter either way)? Corvino approaches such questions with precision, sensitivity, and good humor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book and great author
- De Anonymous User en 06-21-18
De: John Corvino