Featuring numerous updates and enhancements, Science Fiction and Philosophy, 2nd Edition,  presents a collection of readings that utilize concepts developed from science fiction to explore a variety of classic and contemporary philosophical issues.

Uses science fiction to address a series of classic and contemporary philosophical issues, including many raised by recent scientific developments.

Explores questions relating to transhumanism, brain enhancement, time travel, the nature of the self, and… read more

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A 3-D globe of the moon.

photo: by BellaLuLu

book title: the Stars
deck: A new way to see them.
author: by Hans Augusto Rey
year: 2016

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book title: Sustainability
deck: A history.
author: by Jeremy Caradonna PhD
published in year: 2016

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The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for “sustainable foods” that were produced from “sustainable agriculture.” Groups ranging from small… read more

book title: Innovating Minds
deck: Re-thinking creativity to inspire change.
author: by Wilma Koutstaal PhD + Jonathan Binks
published in year: 2015

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A ground-breaking, scientific approach to creative thinking.

From entrepreneurs to teachers, engineers to artists,… read more

book title: Autonomy
deck: The quest to build the self-driving car.
deck: And how it will re-shape our world.
author: by Lawrence D. Burns + Christopher Shulgan
published year: 2018

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book title: Driverless
deck: Intelligent Cars: and the road ahead.
label: New York Times best seller
author: by Hod Lipson PhD + Melba Kurman
published year: 2016

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Automation is transforming transportation.

The book Driverless is an… read more

book title: Troublemakers
deck: Silicon Valley’s coming of age.
author: by Leslie Berlin PhD
year: 2018

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The story of 7 high-tech pioneers.

The richly told narrative of the Silicon Valley generation that launched 5… read more

book title: In the Company of Women
deck: Inspiration + Advice: from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs.
label: New York Times best seller.
author: by Grace Bonney
published year: 2016

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Portrait of economist and writer Daniel Kahneman PhD.

book title: Thinking
deck: Fast and Slow
author: by Daniel Kahneman PhD
year: 2011

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Exploring what influences our… read more

author: Michael Martinez
year published: 2013

Ever since Alfred Binet invented the first IQ test more than a century ago, we have thought of intelligence as fixed from birth and unalterable-as genetically programmed and immutable as eye color. If our IQ was 115 at the age of eighteen, it would be 115 at age thirty-two and at age seventy-two.… read more

The problem of how the brain produces consciousness, subjectivity and “something it is like to be” remains one of the greatest challenges to a complete science of the natural world. While various scientists and philosophers approach the problem from their own unique perspectives and in the terms of their own respective fields, Biophysics of Consciousness: A Foundational Approach attempts a consilience across disparate disciplines to explain how it is possible that an… read more

A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right.

In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed systems. We are so eager to do everything digitally―hiring, driving, paying bills, even choosing romantic partners―that we have… read more