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.
Audiobook details
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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