Science Keeps Us Grounded, Philosophy Keeps Us Human

Science Keeps Us Grounded, Philosophy Keeps Us Human

By Cory Hudnall
Michael Caine
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Length3h 34m

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Science Keeps Us Grounded, Philosophy Keeps Us Human explores how biology, behavior, language, relationships, technology, and institutions shape who we become—without reducing a person to a diagnosis, history, or set of causes. Drawing from behavior analysis, psychology, evolution, existentialism, pragmatism, Buddhist thought, and lived experience, Cory Hudnall introduces Grounded Humanism: a provisional philosophy for facing reality honestly while preserving dignity, responsibility, freedom, and meaning.

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Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenrePhilosophy, Psychology
Length3 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 6, 2026
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1ABOUT THIS EDITION
2A NOTE ON METHOD AND READER
3In a Box
4Certainty Fails Quietly
5Science, Philosophy, and the Shared Studio
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6CHAPTER 1
7The Beast
8Arriving Late
9Learning Is History in the Present
10The Fifth Contingency
11Facticity and the Crowded Room
12CHAPTER 2
13Free to Determine
14Causes Are Not Chains by Definition
15Desire Is Not a King
16The River and the Lever
17Capability, Not Decorative Choice
18What This Is Not
19Acceptance Is Active
20CHAPTER 3
21The World Does Not Speak
22Meaning Lives in Use, but Use Has Power
23Freedom. Love. Disorder. Human.
24Tools That Do Not Mirror
25So do we.
26CHAPTER 4
27The Expression of “I”
28A Pattern That Answers to a Name
29The Look Returned From Outside
30A Machine Answers Back
31Expression Is Action
32Self Love Without Permission to Harm
33CHAPTER 5
34Then something breaks.
35Affordances and Usable Freedom
36The Phone on the Table
37Forms, Records, and Prepared Persons
38The box returns.
39The Remainder
40AUTHOR DEVELOPMENT
41CHAPTER 6
42The Machines We Meet
43Authorship After the Machine
44The Uncanny Other
45A Participation Test for Machines
46Useful As If
47CHAPTER 7
48The Self Has an Address
49Other People Inside the Present
50Changing a Life

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