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Ai Generated. Human edited. Introductions and summaries of important books in philosophy and the interdisciplinary cognitive sciences. Modified and curated to improve listening experience. This channel not eligible for monetization due to YouTube's "reused content" policy. If you'd like to help support us on Patreon.

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[217] The puzzle of Experience By J.J. Valberg
Nov 07, 2025
[216] The Spread Mind: Why Consciousness and the World Are One By Riccardo Manzotti
Oct 14, 2025
[215] If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All E. Yudkowsky N. Soares
Sep 26, 2025
[214] Self-knowledge for Humans By Quassim Cassam
Sep 18, 2025
[213] Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding By Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Sep 03, 2025
[212] The Phenomenal Basis of Intentionality By Angela A. Mendelovici
Aug 25, 2025
[211] Materialist Phenomenology: A Philosophy of Perception By Manuel DeLanda
Aug 10, 2025
[210] A Theory of Sentience By Austen Clark
Aug 02, 2025
[209] Becoming Human: From Pointing Gestures to Syntax By Teresa Bejarano
Jul 26, 2025
[208] The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding By Dan Sperber & Hugo Mercier
Jul 20, 2025
[207] Phenomenal Consciousness: A Naturalistic Theory By Peter Carruthers
Jul 09, 2025
[206] Wittgenstein's Poker By David Edmonds & John Eidinow
Jul 01, 2025
[205] The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences By Michel Foucault
Jun 24, 2025
[204] The Phenomenological Mind By Shaun Gallagher & Dan Zahavi
Jun 12, 2025
[203] The Intercorporeal Self: Merleau-Ponty on Subjectivity By Scott L. Marratto
Jun 04, 2025
[202] Mind: Your Consciousness is What and Where? By Ted Honderich
Jun 01, 2025
[201] Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain By Michael Gazzaniga
May 29, 2025
[200] Herald of a Restless World How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People By Emily Herring
May 26, 2025
[199] Apperception and Self-Consciousness in Kant and German Idealism By Dennis Schulting
May 23, 2025
[198] The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well By J. Baggini
May 20, 2025
[197] John McDowell on Worldly Subjectivity By Tony Cheng
May 18, 2025
[196] Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics By Martin Heidegger
May 14, 2025
[195] Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology By Edmund Husserl
May 11, 2025
[194] Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness By Philip Goff
May 08, 2025
[193] Disclosing the World: On the Phenomenology of Language By Andrew Inkpin
May 06, 2025
[192] The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems By James J. Gibson
May 04, 2025
[191] Mind and World By John McDowell
May 01, 2025
[190] Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era By James Barrat
Apr 28, 2025
[189] Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason By Manuel DeLanda
Apr 25, 2025
[188] Human Motives: Hedonism, Altruism, and the Science of Affect By Peter Carruthers
Apr 23, 2025
[187] The World of Perception By Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Apr 20, 2025
[186] What Is It Like to Be a Bat? By Thomas Nagel
Apr 18, 2025
[185] Being We: Phenomenological Contributions to Social Ontology By Dan Zahavi
Apr 16, 2025
[184] The Character of Consciousness By David J. Chalmers
Apr 11, 2025
[183] The Parallax View By Slavoj Zizek
Apr 07, 2025
[182] The World as Will and Presentation: Volume I By Arthur Schopenhauer
Apr 05, 2025
[181] Structure Phenomenology By Herbert Witzenmann
Apr 02, 2025
[180] Kant's Construction of Nature By Michael Friedman
Mar 30, 2025
[179] Self-Knowledge and Self Identity By Sydney Shoemaker
Mar 27, 2025
[178] Self-Awareness and Alterity: A Phenomenological Investigation By Dan Zahavi
Mar 23, 2025
[177] The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique By Kim Sterelny
Mar 19, 2025
[176] Descartes's Method: The Formation of the Subject of Science By Tarek R. Dika
Mar 16, 2025
[175] Self-Consciousness By Sebastian Rödl
Mar 13, 2025
[174] The Varieties of Reference By Gareth Evans
Mar 10, 2025
[173] Hume on Causation By Helen Beebee
Mar 05, 2025
[172] Origins of Objectivity By Tyler Burge
Mar 02, 2025
[171] The Given: Experience and Its Content By Michelle Montague
Feb 26, 2025
[170] Husserl and Transcendental Intersubjectivity By Dan Zahavi
Feb 21, 2025
[169] Memory, Consciousness and Temporality By Gianfranco Dalla Barba
Feb 18, 2025
[168] Becoming Human: The Ontogenesis, Metaphysics, and Expression of Human Emotionality
Feb 15, 2025
[167] The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight By Suddendorf, Redshaw & Bulley
Feb 11, 2025
[166] Memory: A Self-referential Account By Jordi Fernández
Feb 08, 2025
[165] The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality By Hanno Sauer
Feb 05, 2025
[164] Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life By Agnes Callard
Feb 03, 2025
[163] Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will By Robert M. Sapolsky
Jan 31, 2025
[162] The Transcendence of the Ego By Jean-Paul Sartre
Jan 27, 2025
[161] White Queen Psychology and Other Essays for Alice By Ruth Garrett Millikan
Jan 23, 2025
[160] Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos By Jeffrey A. Bell
Jan 20, 2025
[159] Heidegger and the Problem of Consciousness By Nancy J. Holland
Jan 17, 2025
[158] Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will By Kevin J. Mitchell
Jan 14, 2025
[157] Working Memory, Thought, and Action By Alan Baddeley
Jan 13, 2025
[156] Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell By Bernardo Kastrup
Jan 11, 2025
[155] Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny By Michael Tomasello
Jan 08, 2025
[154] Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness By Henri Bergson
Jan 05, 2025
[153] Perplexities of Consciousness By Eric Schwitzgebel
Jan 04, 2025
[152] Kant and the Demands of Self-Consciousness By Pierre Keller
Jan 02, 2025
[151] Naturalizing The Mind By Fred Dretske
Dec 30, 2024
[150] The Art of Uncertainty How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck By David Spiegelhalter
Dec 29, 2024
[149] Identity and Difference: John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness By Etienne Balibar
Dec 28, 2024
[148] Attention and Effort by Daniel Kahneman
Dec 26, 2024
[147] The Self in Question Memory, The Body and Self-Consciousness By Andy Hamilton
Dec 24, 2024
[146] Charles S. Peirce's Phenomenology: Analysis and Consciousness By Richard Kenneth Atkins
Dec 22, 2024
[145] Creative Evolution By Henri Bergson
Dec 21, 2024
[144] The Spaces Between Us A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution, and Human Nature By Michael Graziano
Dec 20, 2024
[143] A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness By Merlin Donald
Dec 19, 2024
[142] Caging the Beast A Theory of Sensory Consciousness By Paula Droege
Dec 17, 2024
[141] Agents and Goals in Evolution By Samir Okasha
Dec 15, 2024
[140] Cartesian Meditations An Introduction to Phenomenology By Edmund Husserl
Dec 13, 2024
[139] Content and Consciousness By Daniel C. Dennett
Dec 11, 2024
[138] Opus Postumum By Immanuel Kant
Dec 10, 2024
[137] Mindshaping A New Framework for Understanding Human Social Cognition By Tadeusz Zawidzki
Dec 09, 2024
[136] The Singularity is Nearer When We Merge with AI By Ray Kurzweil
Dec 08, 2024
[135] Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness By Gerald M. Edelman
Dec 08, 2024
[134] Minding Minds Evolving a Reflexive Mind by Interpreting Others By Radu J. Bogdan
Dec 07, 2024
[133] Personal Agency: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action By E. J. Lowe
Dec 06, 2024
[132] Dream, death, and the self By J. J. Valberg
Dec 05, 2024
[131] Ways of Seeing: The Scope and Limits of Visual Cognition By Pierre Jacob & Marc Jeannerod
Dec 04, 2024
[130] Self Comes to Mind Constructing the Conscious Brain By Antonio Damasio
Dec 03, 2024
[129] Origins of Human Communication By Michael Tomasello
Dec 02, 2024
[128] Range How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World By David Epstein
Dec 02, 2024
[127] Elements of Episodic Memory By Endel Tulving
Nov 30, 2024
[126] The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals By Thomas Suddendorf
Nov 29, 2024
[125] Psychology from An Empirical Standpoint By Franz Brentano
Nov 28, 2024
[124] Kantian Subjects Critical Philosophy and Late Modernity By Karl Ameriks
Nov 27, 2024
[123] Sensation, Perception and Action An Evolutionary Perspective By Johannes Zanker
Nov 26, 2024
[122] The Basic Problems of Phenomenology By Martin Heidegger
Nov 25, 2024
[121] Consciousness and the Limits of Objectivity By Robert J. Howell
Nov 24, 2024
[120] Open Minds The Social Making of Agency and Intentionality By Wolfgang Prinz
Nov 22, 2024
[119] Inner Presence Consciousness as a Biological Phenomenon By Antti Revonsuo
Nov 21, 2024
[118] From a Biological Point of View Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy By Elliott Sober
Nov 20, 2024
[117] Being You A New Science of Consciousness By Anil Seth
Nov 19, 2024
[116] A New Philosophy of Society Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity By Manuel DeLanda
Nov 18, 2024
[115] Becoming Human From Pointing Gestures to Syntax By Teresa Bejarano
Nov 18, 2024
[114] The Life of the Mind An Essay on Phenomenological Externalism By Gregory McCulloch
Nov 16, 2024
[113] Why Solipsism Matters By Sami Pihlström
Nov 15, 2024
[112] Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit By Martin Heidegger
Nov 14, 2024
[111] Consciousness Demystified By Todd E. Feinberg, Jon M. Mallatt
Nov 12, 2024
[110] The Human Evolutionary Transition From Animal Intelligence to Culture
Nov 11, 2024
[109] Kant and Phenomenology By Tom Rockmore
Nov 10, 2024
[108] The Experience Machine How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality By Andy Clark
Nov 09, 2024
[107] When Animals Dream The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness By David M. Peña-Guzmán
Nov 08, 2024
[106] The Imaginary A Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination By Jean-Paul Sartre
Nov 07, 2024
[105] The Recursive Mind By Michael C. Corballis
Nov 06, 2024
[104] The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness By Edmund Husserl
Nov 05, 2024
[103] Making Space The Development of Spatial Representation and Reasoning By Newcombe, Huttenlocher
Nov 04, 2024
[102] Space and Sense By Susanna Millar
Nov 03, 2024
[101] Out of Our Heads By Alva Noë
Nov 02, 2024
[100] The Singularity Is Near When Humans Transcend Biology By Ray Kurzweil
Nov 01, 2024
[99] Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason By Martin Heidegger
Oct 31, 2024
[98] Hume on Causation By Helen Beebee
Oct 30, 2024
[97] Experienced Wholeness By Wanja Wiese
Oct 29, 2024
[96] The case for mental imagery By Kosslyn, Thompson & Ganis
Oct 28, 2024
[95] Mental Imagery Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience By Bence Nanay
Oct 27, 2024
[94] Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness By Patrick House
Oct 26, 2024
[93] Consciousness Revisited Materialism Without Phenomenal Concepts By Michael Tye
Oct 25, 2024
[92] The Edge of Sentience Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI By Jonathan Birch
Oct 25, 2024
[91] The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life By Nick Lane
Oct 24, 2024
[90] Life As No One Knows ItThe Physics of Life's Emergence By Sara Imari Walker
Oct 23, 2024
[89] Industrial Society and Its Future By Ted Kaczynski
Oct 22, 2024
[88] The Mirror of the World Subjects, Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness By Christopher Peacocke
Oct 21, 2024
[87] Feeling & Knowing Making Minds Conscious By Antonio Damasio
Oct 20, 2024
[86] Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison By Michel Foucault
Oct 19, 2024
[85] Seeing and Visualizing It's Not what You Think By Zenon W. Pylyshyn
Oct 18, 2024
[84] Organisms, Agency, and Evolution By D. M. Walsh
Oct 17, 2024
[83] The Mind's Construction: The Ontology of Mind and Mental Action By Matthew Soteriou
Oct 17, 2024
[82] Consciousness, Attention, and Conscious Attention By Montemayor & Haladjian
Oct 16, 2024
[81] Mental Representation and Consciousness By Eduard Marbach
Oct 15, 2024
[80] Think Again The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know By Adam Grant
Oct 15, 2024
[79] On Myself, and Other, Less Important Subjects By Caspar Hare
Oct 15, 2024
[78] The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience By David Papineau
Oct 14, 2024
[77] How the Body Shapes the Mind By Shaun Gallagher
Oct 14, 2024
[76] How Religion Evolved And Why It Endures By Robin Dunbar
Oct 13, 2024
[75] The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Oct 13, 2024
[74] Mechanisms and Consciousness By Marek Pokropski
Oct 13, 2024
[73] Actual Consciousness By Ted Honderich
Oct 12, 2024
[72] Extending the Extended Mind From Cognition to Consciousness By Pii Telakivi
Oct 11, 2024
[71] Darwin's Dangerous Idea By Daniel Dennett
Oct 11, 2024
[70] Waking Up A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion By Sam Harris
Oct 10, 2024
[69] War in the Age of Intelligent Machines By Manuel DeLanda
Oct 10, 2024
[68] Being and Time By Martin Heidegger
Oct 10, 2024
[66] The Better Angels of Our Nature By Steven Pinker
Oct 09, 2024
[65] Seeing Things as They are: A Theory of Perception By John R. Searle
Oct 09, 2024
[64] Thought in a hostile world By Kim Sterelny
Oct 09, 2024
[63] How infants know minds By Vasudevi Reddy
Oct 08, 2024
[62] "The Paradox of False Belief Understanding" By Julia Wolf
Oct 07, 2024
[61] The Phenomenology of Spirit By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Oct 06, 2024
[60] Thinking Without Words By José Luis Bermúdez
Oct 06, 2024
[59] Consciousness Explained By Daniel C. Dennett
Oct 05, 2024
[58] The Age of AI: And Our Human Future By Kissinger, Schmidt, & Huttenlocher
Oct 05, 2024
[57] The Laws of Human Nature By Robert Greene
Oct 04, 2024
[56] The Animal Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Animal Cognition By Kristin Andrews
Oct 04, 2024
[55] Understanding the Representational Mind By Josef Perner
Oct 04, 2024
[54] Phenomenology of Perception By Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Oct 03, 2024
[53] Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI By Ethan Mollick
Oct 03, 2024
[52] The Rise of Consciousness and the Development of Emotional Life By Michael Lewis
Oct 02, 2024
[51] The Conscious Mind By Zoltan Torey
Oct 02, 2024
[50] Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion By William Fish
Oct 02, 2024
[49] Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind By Paul Churchland
Oct 01, 2024
[48] Transparency and Self-knowledge By Alex Byrne
Sep 30, 2024
[47] The Third ChimpanzeeThe Evolution and Future of the Human Animal By Jared Diamond
Sep 30, 2024
[46] Revenge of the Tipping Point By Malcolm Gladwell
Sep 29, 2024
[45] Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-person Perspective By Dan Zahavi
Sep 29, 2024
[44] Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI By Yuval Noah Harari
Sep 28, 2024
[43] Primate Cognition By Michael Tomasello & Josep Call
Sep 28, 2024
[42] The Centered Mind By Peter Carruthers
Sep 27, 2024
[41] The Self and Its Disorders By Shaun Gallagher
Sep 27, 2024
[40] Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies By Nick Bostrom
Sep 26, 2024
[39] The Evolution of Consciousness: Representing the Present Moment By Paula Droege
Sep 26, 2024
[38] Self and World By Quassim Cassam
Sep 26, 2024
[37] On the Genealogy of Morality By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Sep 25, 2024
[36] The Evolution of Agency Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans By Michael Tomasello
Sep 25, 2024
[35] Being and Nothingness: An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology By Jean-Paul Sartre
Sep 24, 2024
[34] Principles of Synthetic Intelligence PSI An Architecture of Motivated Cognition By Joscha Bach
Sep 24, 2024
[33] Perception First Form of Mind By Tyler Burge
Sep 24, 2024
[32] Consciousness and the Social Brain By Michael S. A. Graziano
Sep 24, 2024
[31] Difference and Repetition By Gilles Deleuze
Sep 24, 2024
[30] Folk Physics for Apes: The Chimpanzee's Theory of how the World Works By Daniel J. Povinelli
Sep 24, 2024
[29] The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes By Donald Hoffman
Sep 24, 2024
[28] Being No One The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity By Thomas Metzinger
Sep 24, 2024
[27] Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy By Manuel DeLanda
Sep 24, 2024
[26] Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus By Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sep 24, 2024
[25] The Paradox of Self-consciousness By José Luis Bermúdez
Sep 24, 2024
[24] Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters By Steven Pinker
Sep 24, 2024
[23] The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception By James J. Gibson
Sep 24, 2024
[22] Subjective Consciousness: A Self-Representational Theory By Uriah Kriegel
Sep 24, 2024
[21] Pre-reflective Consciousness Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind Morando,Preyer, Miguens
Sep 24, 2024
[20] The Paradox of Subjectivity: The Self in the Transcendental Tradition By David Carr
Sep 24, 2024
[19] A Natural History of Human Thinking By Michael Tomasello
Sep 24, 2024
[18] Transformer The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death By Nick Lane
Sep 24, 2024
[17] Thinking, Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman
Sep 24, 2024
[16] Vagueness and the Evolution of Consciousness Through the Looking Glass By Michael Tye
Sep 24, 2024
[15] The Creative Spark How Imagination Made Humans Exceptional By Agustín Fuentes
Sep 24, 2024
[14] Mental Time Travel Episodic Memory and Our Knowledge of the Personal Past By Kourken Michaelian
Sep 24, 2024
[13] The Philosophy of Metacognition Mental Agency and Self-Awareness By Joëlle Proust
Sep 24, 2024
[12] Motor Cognition: What actions tell the self: What actions tell the self By Marc Jeannerod
Sep 24, 2024
[11] Consciousness and the World By Brian O'Shaughnessy
Sep 24, 2024
[10] Others in Mind Social Origins of Self-Consciousness By Philippe Rochat
Sep 24, 2024
[9] The Conscious Mind By David Chalmers
Sep 24, 2024
[7] Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind By Simon Baron-Cohen
Sep 24, 2024
[6] I Am: A Philosophical Inquiry into First-Person Being By Raymond Tallis
Sep 24, 2024
[4] Critique of Pure Reason By Immanuel Kant
Sep 24, 2024
[2] Thinking about Oneself From Nonconceptual Content to the Concept of a Self By Kristina Musholt
Sep 24, 2024