Philosophy audiobooks

Knowing the Score

By: David Papineau

Narrated by: Matt Amendt

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In Knowing the Score, philosopher David Papineau uses sports to illuminate some of modern philosophy's most perplexing questions. As Papineau demonstrates, the study of sports clarifies, challenges, and sometimes confuses crucial issues in philosophy. The tactics of road bicycle racing shed new light on questions of altruism, while sporting... Read more

Dreamstate: A Conspiracy Theory

By: Jed McKenna

Narrated by: Eric Vincent

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

If life is but a dream, to what do we awake?

The central premise of Dreamstate: A Conspiracy Theory, is the admittedly ridiculous but incontrovertibly true assertion that the universe does not exist.

This is something you can understand conceptually, like watching a documentary about Antarctica, or experientially, like moving to Antarctica.

There’s... Read more

Draw Your Weapons

By: Sarah Sentilles

Narrated by: Sarah Sentilles

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A single book might not change the world. But this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world—and that makes all the difference.

“How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperiled world?”

Through a dazzling combination of memoir,... Read more

The World as Will and Idea

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 17 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The original edition of The World as Will and Idea appeared in 1818, but in 1844 Schopenhauer published an expanded version. It contained the 'Criticism of the Kantian Philosophy', a lengthy document; and Supplements to the First Book (The Doctrine of the Idea of Perception) and the Second Book (The Doctrine of Perception or Knowledge of the... Read more

Solitude

By: Michael Harris

Narrated by: Kerry Shale

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"Kerry Shale's reading delivers lots of information clearly as Harris discusses technological developments that threaten our solitude today. While much of Harris's book is critical of those developments, Shale also captures Harris's humor and occasional indignance." — AudioFile Magazine

With a foreword by Nicholas Carr, author of the Pulitzer... Read more

My First Summer in the Sierra

By: John Muir

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1869, Scottish immigrant John Muir worked as a shepherd in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. The diary he kept during this time was later adapted into My First Summer in the Sierra, which was published in 1911. His record describes the majestic vistas, flora and fauna, and other natural wonders of the area. Having inspired... Read more

The Spell of the Sensuous

By: David Abram

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people but with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patterns) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate." How,... Read more

Vögeln - Philosophie und Sex - phil.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Matthias Gronemeyer & Ann-Marlene Henning

Narrated by: Matthias Gronemeyer, Ann-Marlene Henning & Gert...

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Es ist erstaunlich, wie wenig viele Menschen über Sex wissen", erklärt die Psychologin und Sexualtherapeutin Ann-Marlene Henning, deren erfolgreiches Aufklärungsbuch "Make Love" und die TV-Serie gleichen Titels einen Nerv getroffen haben. Dass auch die Philosophie vor der Beschäftigung mit der körperlichen Liebe keinen Halt machen muss, zeigt... Read more

Herrschaft der Computer? - phil.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Markus Gabriel & Yvonne Hofstetter

Narrated by: Markus Gabriel, Yvonne Hofstetter & Barbara Ble...

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Kaum etwas hat das menschliche Leben weltweit derart flächendeckend und umfassend verändert wie die Digitalisierung. Doch neben den für alle spürbaren Veränderungen haben sich gerade in den letzten Monaten Entwicklungen abgezeichnet, von denen selbstfahrende Autos, autonome Roboter wie Atlas und Big- Dog von Boston Dynamics oder das... Read more

Luther und die "German Angst" - phil.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Thea Dorn, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf & Thomas Thieme

Narrated by: Thea Dorn, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Thomas Thiem...

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Was die Welt Martin Luther nicht alles zu verdanken hat: die Bibelübersetzung, das Hochdeutsch, die Entdeckung des Individuums als religiöses Subjekt ... Von den Großtaten des Reformators ist im Jubiläumsjahr des Thesenanschlags von 1517 sehr viel die Rede. Interessiert sich denn - von ein paar schlecht gelaunten katholischen... Read more

Die Grenzen der Gerechtigkeit - phil.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Bernhard Schlink & Stefan Gosepath

Narrated by: Bernhard Schlink, Stefan Gosepath & Svenja Flaß...

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Dass Gerechtigkeit gut und erstrebenswert sei, darüber gibt es kaum Zweifel. Schuld soll gerecht bestraft, Menschen sollen gerecht behandelt werden, die Welt gerecht eingerichtet sein. Doch die Forderung nach Gerechtigkeit lässt die mangelhafte und schreiend ungerechte Wirklichkeit nur umso klarer hervortreten. Wenn es aber stimmt, dass manche... Read more

Ideas Have Consequences, Expanded Edition

By: Richard M. Weaver

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses “words hard as cannonballs” to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read and debated at the time of its first publication, the book is now seen as one of the foundational... Read more

The Art of Living

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Gabra Zackman

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

In troubled times, there is an urgency to understand ourselves and our world. We have so many questions, and they tug at us night and day, consciously and unconsciously. In this important volume Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh—one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today—reveals an art of living in mindfulness that helps us answer... Read more

The Death of Expertise

By: Tom Nichols

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows... Read more

Self-Discovery Through Photography

By: David Ulrich

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Thanks to cell phones, photography is now the great democratic medium, one of the most important means of communication of the 21st century. This is a new order, in which images are made, seen, and shared immediately and globally without curation or censoring by editors or governments. We can participate in shaping the reality of this order. Read more

Rhetoric and Poetics

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Poetics and Rhetoric are the two major works by Aristotle which, after more than 2,000 years, remain key behavioural handbooks for anyone interested in story, performance, presentation and indeed psychology.

The continuing influence of Poetics, for example, is readily discernible even among the scriptwriters of Hollywood! Poetics is the shorter... Read more

The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership

By: James C. Hunter

Narrated by: Tony Pasqualini

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

With a new introduction on using the principles of The Servant in your life and career, this book redefines what it means to be a leader.

In this absorbing tale, you watch the timeless principles of servant leadership unfold through the story of John Daily, a businessman whose outwardly successful life is spiraling out of control. He is... Read more

How to Be a Stoic

By: Massimo Pigliucci

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A philosopher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish today Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal is more elusive. In How to Be a Stoic, philosopher Massimo Pigliucci offers Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that inspired the great emperor Marcus... Read more

The Gift of Anger

By: Arun Gandhi

Narrated by: Arun Gandhi

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover ten vital and extraordinary life lessons from one of the most important and influential philosophers and peace activists of the twentieth century—Mahatma Gandhi—in this poignant and timely exploration of the true path from anger to peace, as recounted by Gandhi’s grandson, Arun Gandhi. In the current troubled climate, in our country and... Read more

The Book of Not Knowing

By: Peter Ralston

Narrated by: Keith O'Brien

Length: 19 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Eckhart Tolle—a guide to mastering self-awareness through direct experience rather than old presumptions or harmful thought patterns

Through decades of martial arts and meditation practice, Peter Ralston discovered a curious and paradoxical fact: that true awareness arises from a state of not-knowing. Even the most sincere... Read more

Guide to Chip Heath's & et al Made to Stick by Instaread

By: Instaread

Narrated by: Sam Scholl

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Chip Heath’s & et al Made to Stick and NOT the original book.
Preview:
In Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (2007), educators and brothers Chip Heath and Dan Heath offer a guide for sharing ideas that stick with listeners. As a framework for their advice, they offer the acronym SUCCES,... Read more

The Genius of Being

By: Peter Ralston

Narrated by: Toby Sheets

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Ralston’s exceptionally lucid trilogy on the nature of human consciousness culminates here. In The Genius of Being Peter Ralston presents an audiobook of deep contemplations on the unseen elements that create our world. The first volume, The Book of Not Knowing, garnered much praise as a comprehensive exploration of the depths of self and... Read more

Brain Training with the Buddha

By: Eric Harrison

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The essential guide to training your brain for mindfulness—modern, science-based, and with no Buddhism required.

Publisher’s note: Brain Training with the Buddha was previously published in hardcover as The Foundations of Mindfulness.

Lifelong meditation teacher Eric Harrison intimately understands the benefits of mindfulness, from improved focus... Read more

Learning to Live with Uncertainty

By: Estelle Frankel

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Frankel recommends that we not make a habit of focusing on the obstacles on our life paths. Rather, we should consider the open spaces before us as our guides. She further suggests that we designate some time each month to take a “wordfast” and points out that “Silence is a precious commodity and if we don’t create space for ourselves we’re... Read more