Philosophy Books
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shar…
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
The New York Times best-selling author of Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future and Hyperspace tackles the most fascinating and complex…
To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
Meet the visionaries, billionaires, professors, and programmers who are using groundbreaking technology to push the limits of the human body our s…
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection
Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean? For future generations, it won't mean any…
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
How Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, emergent AI tyrants, and limitless growth—pervert public dis…
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant…
Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
Lawrence Lessig, “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era” ( The New Yorker ), masterfully argues that never befor…
The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its a…
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize art…
An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise
Behind the familiar surfaces of the telephone, radio, and television lies a sophisticated and intriguing body of knowledge known as information th…