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  • The Book of Memory

    How We Become Who We Are

    by Mark Rowlands ...
    A brilliant journey through the nature of memory, helping us understand how what is lost—and what is remembered—shapes who we are.In this revelatory and intimate exploration of the way memory works, Mark Rowalds, author of The Philosopher and the Wolf, reveals how memories aren’t fixed. They soften and consolidate—and are distorted—each time we revisit them, even those memories most deeply ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Word of Dog

    What Our Canine Companions Can Teach Us About Living a Good Life

    by Mark Rowlands ...
    **“[A]n entertaining and affectionate exploration of dogs and their distinctive mode of being." —Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post“This is a book everyone interested in animals and philosophy must read." —John Gray, author of The New Leviathans and Feline Philosophy“Rowlands has written a profound and funny examination of what it means to be fulfilled.” —Tim Dowling, Guardian“Wise, profound, often ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Good Life

    Philosophy from Cradle to Grave

    by Mark Rowlands ...
    Myshkin was born on a certain day and died on a certain day - and some things happened to him in between. These things presented him with ethical questions and this book is a record of his attempt to answer those questions. Discovered by his son after Myshkin's death, A Good Life is one man's reckoning with the life he has led and the choices he made. It is at once a philosophical handbook for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Playing Possum

    How Animals Understand Death

    by Susana Monsó ...
    Narrated by Lisa S. Ware ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 8 min

    When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the smell of a putrefying corpse. Playing Possum explores what the opossum and other creatures can teach us about how we and other species understand mortality, and demonstrates that the concept of death, far from being a uniquely human ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • A Good Life

    Philosophy from Cradle to Grave

    by Mark Rowlands ...
    Framed by the story of a son finding his late father's journal, a meditation on love, meaning, and morality by the author of The Philosopher and the Wolf.Myshkin was born on a certain day and died on a certain day—and some things happened to him in between. These things presented him with ethical questions, and this book is a record of his attempt to answer those questions.Discovered in 2054 by ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Science of the Mind

    From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology

    by Mark Rowlands ...
    An investigation into the conceptual foundations of a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate all cognition "in the head."There is a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate mental processes exclusively "in the head." Some think that this expanded conception of the mind will be the basis of a new science of the mind. In this book, leading philosopher Mark Rowlands ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Memory and the Self

    Phenomenology, Science and Autobiography

    by Mark Rowlands ...
    The idea that our memories, in some sense, make us who we are, is a common one-and not at all implausible. After all, what could make us who we are if not the things we have experienced, thought, felt and desired on these idiosyncratic pathways through space and time that we call lives? And how can we retain these experiences, thoughts, feelings and desires if not through memory? On the other hand ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Animal Rights

    by Mark Rowlands ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    A fresh view of animals and what we owe them.Do animals have moral standing? Do they count, morally speaking? In Animal Rights, Mark Rowlands argues that they do and explores the implications of this idea. He identifies three different waves in animal rights writing. The first wave was defined by a traditional dispute between utilitarianism (represented by Peter Singer) and rights-based approaches ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Philosopher At The End Of The Universe

    Philosophy Explained Through Science Fiction Films

    by Mark Rowlands ...
    'It's Schopenhauer and the will. It's Plato, it's Hume, Baudrillard and the concept of the Nietzschean superman!' Keanu Reeves on The MatrixThe Philosopher at the End of the Universe allows anyone to understand basic philosophical concepts from the comfort of their armchair, through the plots and characters of spectacular blockbusting science-fiction movies. Learn about: The Nature of Reality from ... Read more

    $17.69 USD

  • The Philosopher and the Wolf

    by Mark Rowlands ...
    The charming and poignant story of the relationship between a philosophy professor and his pet wolf.Mark Rowlands was a young philosophy professor, rootless and searching for life’s greater meaning. Shortly after arriving at the University of Alabama, he noticed a classified ad in the local paper advertising wolf cubs for sale and decided he had to investigate, if only out of curiosity. It was ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Externalism

    by Mark Rowlands ...
    It is commonly held that our thoughts, beliefs, desires and feelings - the mental phenomena that we instantiate - are constituted by states and processes that occur inside our head. The view known as externalism, however, denies that mental phenomena are internal in this sense. The mind is not purely in the head. Mental phenomena are hybrid entities that straddle both internal state and processes ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Fame

    by Mark Rowlands ...
    Series series The Art of Living
    One of the most distinctive cultural phenomena of recent years has been the rise and rise of fame. In this book, Mark Rowlands argues that our obsession with fame has transformed it. Fame was once associated with excellence or achievement in some or other field of endeavour. But today we are obsessed with something that is, in effect, quite different: fame unconnected with any discernible ... Read more

    $58.99 USD