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January 27, 2014
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January 26, 2014
Lots of great choices in today’s Kindle Daily Deal – “Top Rated Kindle Books: Novels, Nonfiction, and More” for $1.99 each, including:
Kindle Daily Deal – 'The Paradox of Choice' by Barry Schwartz for $1.99 http://t.co/QdiPN6Y04P via @amazon
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Kindle Daily Deal- 'Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics & Scientific Thinking Illuminate…' for $1.99 http://t.co/RX38n3fajV via @amazon
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Kindle Daily Deal: 'Being Wrong: Adventures on the Margin of Error' by Kathryn Schulz for $1.99 http://t.co/ZCWXvFYcO9 via @amazon
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Kindle Daily Deal- 'Who's in Charge? Free Will & the Science of the Brain,' Michael S Gazzaniga for $1.99 http://t.co/KxY1NvhTwA via @amazon
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Kindle Daily Deal – 'Human: The Science Behind What Makes Yr Brain Unique' by M Gazzaniga for $1.99 http://t.co/hdiHm7jZji via @amazon
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Kindle Daily Deal – 'Why We Run' by Bernd Heinrich for $1.99 http://t.co/IW1rWl9Tkk via @amazon
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January 24, 2014
Survival of the Nicest: How Altruism Made Us Human and Why It Pays to Get Along by Stefan Klein (The Experiment, 2014)
(kindle ed.), (amazon.co.uk), (UK kindle ed.)
Book description from the publisher:
This revelatory tour de force by an acclaimed and internationally bestselling science writer upends our understanding of “survival of the fittest”—and invites us all to think and act more altruistically
The phrase “survival of the fittest” conjures an image of the most cutthroat individuals rising to the top. But Stefan Klein, author of the #1 international bestseller The Science of Happiness and winner of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Scientific Journalism, makes the startling assertion that the key to achieving lasting personal and societal success lies in helping others. In fact, Klein argues, altruism is our defining characteristic: Natural selection favored those early humans who cooperated in groups, and with survival more assured, our altruistic ancestors were free to devote brainpower to developing intelligence, language, and culture—our very humanity. As Klein puts it, “We humans became first the friendliest and then the most intelligent apes.”
To build his persuasive case for how altruistic behavior made us human—and why it pays to get along—Klein synthesizes an extraordinary array of material: current research on genetics and the brain, economics, social psychology, behavioral and anthropological experiments, history, and modern culture. Ultimately, his groundbreaking findings lead him to a vexing question: If we’re really hard-wired to act for one another’s benefit, why aren’t we all getting along?
Klein believes we’ve learned to mistrust our generous instincts because success is so often attributed to selfish ambition. In Survival of the Nicest, he invites us to rethink what it means to be the “fittest” as he shows how caring for others can protect us from loneliness and depression, make us happier and healthier, reward us economically, and even extend our lives.
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January 22, 2014
$2.99 kindle ebook – 'Eyes Wide Open: How to Make Smart Decisions in a Confusing World' by Noreena Hertz http://t.co/imcR4fLLdY via @amazon
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Languages of Intentionality: A Dialogue Between Two Traditions on Consciousness (Continuum Studies in Philosophy) by Paul S. MacDonald (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)
Book description from the publisher:
Intentionality – the relationship between conscious states and their objects – is one of the most discussed topics in contemporary debates in philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience and the study of consciousness. Long a foundational concept in Phenomenology, it has also received considerable coverage in the writings of analytic philosophers. This book is the first study to offer an impartial, well-informed assessment of the two traditions’ approaches through an in-depth investigation of the principal thinkers’ ideas, so that their positions emerge side-by-side, converging and diverging on certain shared themes.
Beginning with a historical discussion of the development of the term in the work of Continental thinkers in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the book considers the work of Brentano and Husserl and subsequent existentialist critiques. From there, it explores how empirical-analytic philosophers took up the topic, drawn as they were to materialist and computer models of the mind. Finally MacDonald presents a new ‘hybrid’ account of intentionality that will be a crucial work for scholars working on consciousness and the mind.
