
Science Keeps Us Grounded
Taking Nature SeriousBy Cory HudnallLength2h 28m
About this audiobook
Science Keeps Us Grounded...This manuscript explores the intersection of behavioral science, biology, and philosophy. Hudnall uses his personal and professional experience as both a behavior analyst and a mental health patient to critique rigid categorizations, reflect on human nature, and propose a balance between empirical understanding and humanistic reflection.
Audiobook details
GenrePsychology, Philosophy
Length2 hrs 28 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 28, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Science Keeps Us Grounded
31itself.
2In a Box
32final description.
3the practice examines.
33world.
4impossibly small piece of it I, and another piece you.
34Freedom. Love. Disorder. Intelligence. Normal. Trauma. Self. Human.
5another box with better marketing.
35understand less in the name of precision.
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6Through causal history? Through language? Through biology? Through institutions?
36practices, consequences, histories, and power.
7freedom with entitlement.
37history.
8Chapter 1
38next.
9The Beast
39effectively. A weak concept gathers unlike events under one emotionally satisfying name.
10humanity.
40room to room.
11through continuous interaction among genes, bodies, environments, and histories. We
41So do we.
12human adult and quietly treats that appearance as reality itself.
42judge.
13Respondent conditioning. Operant conditioning. Reinforcement. Punishment. Stimulus
43Chapter 4
14in three dimensional space, while information changes at speed.
44The Expression of "I"
15Behaviorism, Buddhism, existentialism, pragmatism, evolutionary theory, and
45Language. Interoception. Habit. Images. Fragments of speech. Bodily regulation. Learned
16something.
46comparisons. An ancient contemplative practice, an eighteenth century philosophical
17structure from biology.
47honest.
18Chapter 2
48understand again.
19causation.
49Chapter 5
20Fine.
50Then something breaks.
21Fails. Learns something from the failure. Tries again.
51source of surprise.
22interested in consequences.
52Thank God.
23reinforces him fastest.
53pressure.
24Biology. Proximity. Reinforcement. Attachment history. Shared language. Timing. Smell.
54adults may never fully access.
25way down.
55authority.
26design around.
56Freedom travels through objects.
27teachers, historical conditions, dead strangers, and sometimes magnificent sources of
57Notes for Parts I and II
28cosmic judge.
58oneself as an object in another person's world.
29PART II
59materially consequential through forms, institutions, and practices.
30Chapter 3
60Chapter 60