Science Keeps Us Grounded, Philosophy Keeps Us Human
By Cory Hudnall
Length3h 34m
About this audiobook
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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GenrePhilosophy, Psychology
Length3 hrs 34 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 6, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1ABOUT THIS EDITION
49Other People Inside the Present
2A NOTE ON METHOD AND READER
50Changing a Life
3In a Box
51The Ethics of Arrangement
4Certainty Fails Quietly
52A Life in Layers
5Science, Philosophy, and the Shared Studio
53CHAPTER 8
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6CHAPTER 1
54Concrete Arguments
7The Beast
55Behavior at Scale
8Arriving Late
56Metrics That Build What They Measure
9Learning Is History in the Present
57Options on Paper
10The Fifth Contingency
58Rebuilding
11Facticity and the Crowded Room
59CHAPTER 9
12CHAPTER 2
60The Hand That Helps
13Free to Determine
61Consent, Assent, and Refusal
14Causes Are Not Chains by Definition
62Expertise on Probation
15Desire Is Not a King
63Effectiveness Is Power
16The River and the Lever
64Returning Power
17Capability, Not Decorative Choice
65Help That Can Be Answered
18What This Is Not
66CHAPTER 10
19Acceptance Is Active
67A World Without Address
20CHAPTER 3
68The Naturalistic Humiliation
21The World Does Not Speak
69Nature Is Not a Therapist
22Meaning Lives in Use, but Use Has Power
70Death and Finitude
23Freedom. Love. Disorder. Human.
71Belonging to Nature
24Tools That Do Not Mirror
72CHAPTER 11
25So do we.
73What a Thing Is
26CHAPTER 4
74The Human Category
27The Expression of “I”
75Identity Without Imprisonment
28A Pattern That Answers to a Name
76Essence as Ethical Limit
29The Look Returned From Outside
77The Danger of a Final Vocabulary
30A Machine Answers Back
78CHAPTER 12
31Expression Is Action
79The Framework in Full
32Self Love Without Permission to Harm
80Five Commitments
33CHAPTER 5
81Friction, Not a Grand Merger
34Then something breaks.
82The criticism matters.
35Affordances and Usable Freedom
83Grounded Humanism and ACT
36The Phone on the Table
84Objections
37Forms, Records, and Prepared Persons
85Revise.
38The box returns.
86CHAPTER 13
39The Remainder
87What Happens Next
40AUTHOR DEVELOPMENT
88A Practice of Leverage
41CHAPTER 6
89Hope Without Magic
42The Machines We Meet
90What We Owe One Another
43Authorship After the Machine
91What Happens Next
44The Uncanny Other
92Notes for Part I | Foundations
45A Participation Test for Machines
93Notes for Part II | Language, Identity, and Machines
46Useful As If
94Notes for Part III | Environments, Systems, and Care
47CHAPTER 7
95Notes for Part IV | Nature, Essence, and the Human
48The Self Has an Address
96SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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