Public Philosophy

Product List
    • How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption
    • By: Alice C. Hill, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Building a Resilient Tomorrow starts with two central facts: Climate impacts will continue to occur, and we can make changes now to mitigate their effects....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
    • By: Roman Krznaric
    • Narrated by: Joe Jameson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • A call to save ourselves and our planet by targeting the root of our inaction: extreme shortsightedness....

    Regular price: $15.56 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $15.56 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
    • By: Paul A. Offit MD
    • Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,676 ratings
    • History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating - and significant - missteps....

    Regular price: $15.56 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $15.56 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • The Science Behind the Headlines
    • By: Richard A. Muller
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
  • Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
  • Regular price: $18.17 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.17 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • The Definitive Edition
    • By: Ronald Hamowy - Edited by, F. A. Hayek
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • From the $700 billion bailout of the banking industry to president Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus package to the highly controversial passage of federal health-care reform, conservatives and concerned citizens alike have grown increasingly fearful of big government....

    Regular price: $30.09 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $30.09 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
  • Regular price: $19.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.95 or 1 credit

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Gary Thomas
    • Narrated by: Chris Reilly
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Since the early Egyptians, human beings have formalized the business of learning, setting up a designated environment of some form to pass knowledge and learning on to groups of students....

    Regular price: $13.99 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $13.99 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
    • By: Geoff Mulgan
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale....

    Regular price: $25.79 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $25.79 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Stephen Perring
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,019 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $18.00 or 1 credit

    • By: Michael J. Sandel
    • Narrated by: Michael J. Sandel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-15-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,348 ratings
    • Michael J. Sandel shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us to make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well....

    Regular price: $20.24 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.24 or 1 credit

  • Regular price: $22.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $22.49 or 1 credit

    • Going to School with a Thousand Kids
    • By: Nicholson Baker
    • Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
    • Length: 22 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district....

    Regular price: $21.92 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.92 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are
    • By: Flynn Coleman
    • Narrated by: Flynn Coleman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • A groundbreaking narrative on the urgency of ethically designed AI and a guidebook to reimagining life in the era of intelligent technology....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • ...And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education
    • By: Pedro A. Noguera
    • Narrated by: David Baker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Educators, who should be committed to helping young people realize their intellectual potential as they make their way toward adulthood, have a responsibility to help them find ways to expand identities related to race....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters
    • By: Deborah Stone
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • What do people do when they count? What do numbers really mean? We all know that people can lie with statistics, but in this groundbreaking work, eminent political scientist Deborah Stone uncovers a much deeper problem....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Ben Prendergast
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 577 ratings
    • An essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our world - exploring a wide range of topics including energy, the environment, technology, transportation, and food production....

    Regular price: $15.75 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $15.75 or 1 credit

  • Regular price: $15.56 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $15.56 or 1 credit

    • Neoliberalism & Global Order
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones
    • Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 282 ratings
    • In Profit Over People, Chomsky reveals the roots of the present crisis, tracing the history of neoliberalism....

    Regular price: $19.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.95 or 1 credit