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One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind examines where the self comes from – and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. “I Am a Strange Loop is a work of rigorous thinking, but it’s also an extraordinary tribute to the memory of romantic love: The Year of...

Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way of life that evades contemporary understanding. The Pirahã have no counting system and no fixed terms for color. They have no concept of war or of personal property.

Logic For Dummies, 2nd Edition explains all the varied ways we use logic in philosophy, science, and everyday life. College students taking a logic course and lifelong learners alike can benefit from this accessible guide to logic concepts―such as syllogisms, constructing proofs and...

Le politiquement correct va-t-il tuer notre langue française ? La question est posée depuis déjà quelques années. Et la réponse met en danger les multiples trésors de nos dictionnaires. Plus d'offenses, certes, mais plus de nuances non plus ! Choisir le bon mot est la base d'une expression précise. Aujourd'hui, la façon de s'exprimer est trop souvent guidée par la prudence ou la volonté de ne surtout pas réveiller les garants d'une morale parfois imaginaire.

This audiobook explores metaphor not as an ornament of language but as the fundamental mechanism of human cognition. It argues that every act of understanding—scientific, poetic, or everyday—is rooted in the transfer of structure from one experiential domain to another. Metaphor is presented as the mind’s first technology, a generative tool through which complexity is compressed into meaningful form. Far from being a deviation from literal speech, it is shown to be the very fabric of thought itself, underlying logic, mathematics, and the formation of conceptual categories.

Judith Butler analiza con lucidez el impacto de las palabras y desentraña cómo el discurso de odio, la censura y la resignificación construyen realidades políticas y sociales. Un revelador ensayo que explora cómo el lenguaje puede herir, censurar y moldear el poder en nuestras sociedades...

Se trata de una colección de poemas, oraciones, pensamientos y citas célebres que han sido escritas a través del tiempo por grandes pensadores, filósofos y humanistas, desde Confucio hasta Mario Benedetti, pasando por Séneca, San Francisco de Asís, Abraham Lincoln, Rudyard Kipling, Gibrán Jalil, Gabriela Mistral, Mahatma Gandhi, Napoleón Hill, Luther King y Og Mandino, entre otros; grandes personajes que nos brindan su particular visión de la vida.

In Signal Beyond Speech, A. J. Salara invites listeners into a provocative inquiry at the edge of consciousness, cognition, and communication. This is not a book about artificial intelligence in the usual sense—it is a philosophical reflection on the nature of intelligence itself, and the possibility of perceiving it beyond the limits of symbols, syntax, and structured language.

A funny trivia gift book built for laughs, debates, and “wait, really?” moments. The Mind-Blowing True Facts series returns with 500 more claims that sound too ridiculous, bizarre, or unbelievable to be real—until you find out they are. More True Facts That Sound Like Bull$#*t is a fast...

The Real-World Blueprint to Critical Thinking, Logic & Decision Making is the guide you need. Backed by cognitive science and grounded in real-life examples, this hands-on workbook helps you outthink bias, avoid manipulation, and make better choices in every area of life.

If you constantly second-guess yourself, overanalyze small decisions, or feel mentally drained trying to solve problems, this audiobook offers a transformative shift. Designed for busy professionals and thinkers ready to level up their logic, this powerful 10-in-1 guide gives you the clarity and structure you’ve been missing. Through modern examples, proven tools, and timeless mental models, you’ll learn how to think critically under pressure, make confident decisions, and protect yourself from manipulation, bias, and misinformation. This isn’t about learning more—it’s about thinking better.

A través de ejemplos prácticos, ejercicios fácilmente aplicables y casos de estudio contemporáneos, este libro te proporcionará las herramientas concretas para desarrollar tu propia práctica socrática y convertirla en una habilidad para toda la vida.

Modern life throws endless choices and challenges your way. Without strong critical thinking skills, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, make poor decisions, or miss opportunities. That’s why this book gives you a simple, step-by-step system to boost your mental clarity, starting with just 10 minutes a day. Whether you’re a professional, student, entrepreneur, or someone seeking better outcomes, this audiobook equips you with a practical skillset you can use for life.

El texto ofrece una explicación genealógica de los vínculos que unen el planteamiento kantiano con cuatro presuposiciones pragmáticas inevitables en la acción comunicativa: un mundo objetivo común, la responsabilidad de los sujetos racionales, la validez incondicional de las pretensiones...

From the first flicker of gesture around the prehistoric fire to the endless hum of machine speech in the digital age, this book traces the evolution of communication — and with it, the evolution of thought, culture, and consciousness itself. Language is the foundation of civilization: the matrix from which society, morality, and meaning arise. Yet it is also our most dangerous creation — capable of liberation or control, truth or deception, empathy or manipulation. Through language, we built worlds; through language, we can also destroy them.

The Artificial Mind: Thinking Beyond Machines is a rigorous philosophical exploration of intelligence at a moment when the boundaries between human and artificial cognition have become uncertain.

To Know or Not to Know is a meditation on curiosity, doubt, and the fragile brilliance of awareness—a journey through the architectures of thought toward the stillness where understanding becomes reverence.

What if every truth we hold began as a beautiful mistake? This book is a meditation on the nature of illusion—not as deception, but as one of the mind’s essential ways of knowing. Here, illusion is not debunked or dismissed; it is explored as a bridge between ignorance and understanding, a necessary fiction through which humans reach toward the incomprehensible.

This book examines language as both a tool for communication and a means of understanding, while never forgetting its built-in limitations. Language shapes our thinking, yes—but in doing so, it erects barriers that keep us from grasping the raw, unfiltered essence of reality. Words, with their multiple meanings and dependence on context, have a bad habit of distorting the message, turning conversation into an elaborate and bewildering game of charades.

This book is a profound philosophical meditation on the last frontier of human thought—the word itself. Moving between reason and instinct, between the human voice and the mechanical echo, it explores how language both illuminates and betrays our attempts to make sense of existence. From Korzybski’s search for a “map that does not deceive” to the emergence of artificial intelligence—a mind without a body, without pain, without fear—this book traces the transformation of language from a tool of clarity into a space of inner conflict, mercy, and presence.