Existential Science

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    • A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
    • By: Sabine Hossenfelder
    • Narrated by: Gina Daniels
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 401 ratings
    • Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation....

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    • A Study in Existential Philosophy
    • By: William Barrett
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Irrational Man begins by discussing the roots of existentialism in the art and thinking of Aquinas, Pascal, Picasso, Beckett, and more....

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    • Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
    • By: Toby Ord
    • Narrated by: Toby Ord
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 653 ratings
    • This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time....

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    • Crucible, Book 1
    • By: Ryan W. Aslesen
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
    • Series: Crucible, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,376 ratings
    • It was supposed to be just another mission. Buried deep in the rugged Alaskan wilderness lies a secret that could alter the future of mankind....

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    • In Search of Character and Calling
    • By: James Hillman
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 198 ratings
    • Plato called it “daimon”, the Romans “genius”, the Christians “guardian angel”; today we use such terms as “heart,” “spirit,” and “soul.” While philosophers and psychologists from Plato to Jung have studied and debated the fundamental essence of our individuality....

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    • How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
    • By: Sebastian Junger
    • Narrated by: Sebastian Junger
    • Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 374 ratings
    • After a near-fatal health emergency, bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm Sebastian Junger shares a powerful reflection on death—and what might follow.

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    • An Existential Detective Story
    • By: Jim Holt
    • Narrated by: Steven Menasche
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 298 ratings
    • Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This "deft and consuming" narrative humanizes the profound questions of meaning and existence it confronts....

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    • The Existential Threat of Big Tech
    • By: Franklin Foer
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 254 ratings
    • Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech, and in his brilliant polemic gives us the toolkit to fight their pervasive influence. Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge and information....

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    • Builders Legacy, Book 3
    • By: Michael Chatfield
    • Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
    • Series: Builder's Legacy, Book 3
    • Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Factories toil in the darkness of space. To build weapons, to build armadas. Sphere World’s arrival brought changes that still ripple through human space....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Thomas Flynn
    • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • One of the leading philosophical movements of the 20th century, existentialism has had more impact on literature and the arts than any other school of thought. Thomas Flynn offers a concise account of existentialism, explaining individuality, free will, and personal responsibility....

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    • A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
    • By: Mark O'Connell
    • Narrated by: Mark O'Connell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • By the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine, an absorbing, deeply felt audiobook about our anxious present tense - and coming to grips with the future....

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    • Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
    • By: Max Scheler
    • Narrated by: Bruce Kramer
    • Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Upon Scheler's death in 1928, Martin Heidegger remarked that he was the most important force in philosophy at the time. The Human Place in the Cosmos, the last of the works Scheler completed, is a pivotal piece in the development of his writing as a whole....

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    • Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
    • By: Jeremy Lent
    • Narrated by: Adam Henderson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • As our civilization careens towards a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings. Yet another world is possible.....

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    • The Psychology of Zen Koans
    • By: Barry Magid
    • Narrated by: Barry Magid
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In this inspiring and incisive offering, Barry Magid uses the language of modern psychology and psychotherapy to illuminate one of Buddhism's most powerful and often mysterious technologies: the Zen koan....

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    • Tracing Action and Meaning in Merleau-Ponty's Embodied Perception
    • By: The Curious Philosopher
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Dive into the resonant world of Merleau-Ponty's philosophical ballet with "Fleshed Realities." This book navigates the profound waters of embodied ...

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    • How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age
    • By: Gordon Marino
    • Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
    • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • While offering listeners a useful primer on existentialism as an animating body of thought, Marino distills and delivers the life-altering and, in some cases, life-saving insights Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Camus....

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    • On Missing Socks, Pickup Lines, and Other Existential Puzzles
    • By: Dan Ariely
    • Narrated by: Simon Jones
    • Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 228 ratings
    • Behavioral economist Dan Ariely revolutionized the way we think about ourselves, our minds, and our actions in his books....

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