What Is It Like to Be a Bat? by Thomas Nagel

A Defence of Detective Stories by G. K. Chesterton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/822649 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/822649] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Defence of Detective Stories Series: #5 of The Defendant Author: G. K. Chesterton Narrator: Sarah Bacaller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: Lessons in Philosophy Publisher's Summary: While some may argue that the detective story is an example of cheap, dispensable popular fiction, G. K. Chesterton begs to differ. He is, after all, the author of the Father Brown mysteries! Where else but in detective novels do we appreciate the romance of the city? This essay is from a series titled The Defendant, first published as a collection in 1901, after the individual essays were published in The Speaker. Here, a selection of these essays has been reissued by Voices of Today.

A Defence of Nonsense by G. K. Chesterton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/822648 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/822648] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Defence of Nonsense Series: #4 of The Defendant Author: G. K. Chesterton Narrator: Sarah Bacaller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: Lessons in Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Nonsense, argues G. K. Chesterton, deserves more serious attention than we may initially assume. It is in nonsense that we regain a sense of wonder at the world – by appreciating the pure serendipitousness of the beauty that fills our lives. This essay is one in a series titled The Defendant, first published as a collection in 1901, after the individual essays were published in The Speaker. Here, a selection of these essays has been reissued by Voices of Today for a new generation.

A Defence of Humility by G. K. Chesterton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/822647 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/822647] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Defence of Humility Series: #3 of The Defendant Author: G. K. Chesterton Narrator: Sarah Bacaller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: Lessons in Philosophy Publisher's Summary: Humility gets a bad rap these days, especially when contrasted with philosophies of egoism and self-assertion. But can we see the world as it really is without losing ourselves for a moment to take up the perspective of another? Such is the argument of G. K. Chesterton in this delightful essay, “A Defence of Humility.” This essay is one in a series titled The Defendant, first published as a collection in 1901, after the individual essays were published in The Speaker. Here, a selection of these essays has been reissued by Voices of Today for a new generation.

The Joy Document: Creating a Midlife of Surprise and Delight by Jennifer McGaha

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812632 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812632] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Joy Document: Creating a Midlife of Surprise and Delight Author: Jennifer McGaha Narrator: Dina Pearlman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 17 minutes Release date: November 19, 2024 Genres: Lessons in Philosophy Publisher's Summary: When Jennifer McGaha's grandmother was in her late eighties, Jennifer asked her what her favorite age so far had been. 'Fifty-five,' her grandmother answered, as though there were something magical about this stage of life. So, in her own fifty-fifth year, Jennifer began to take note. She jotted down her impressions of simple, everyday things that struck her as beautiful or humorous or intriguing and kept a list of all the accomplishments, large and small, that actually mattered to her. These observations became Jennifer's Joy Document, a radical act of reclaiming joy and an exercise in paying attention. When you are determined to find joy, almost anything can become revelatory—an Earth Day Whole Foods errand, Claire Saffitz's fruitcake recipe, a harrowing ride in Twinkly Taxi, an evening picnic at Dvorák's Symphony No. 8, or cartwheels in the driveway. While many of us at midlife have found all the things we've strived for (the career, the better life, the organization tools), those things only go so far. And the search for something greater, something truer, begins. Life after fifty becomes not the end or even the middle of life, but a new beginning, another grand adventure with endless opportunities to find joy. The Joy Document includes fifty rollicking and often humorous essays exploring the art of joy and inspiring the rest of us to do the same.

What Is It Like to Be a Bat? by Thomas Nagel

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/835427 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/835427] to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Is It Like to Be a Bat? Author: Thomas Nagel Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 5 minutes Release date: November 19, 2024 Genres: Lessons in Philosophy Publisher's Summary: 'Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.' So begins Thomas Nagel's classic 1974 essay 'What is it Like to be a Bat?' Nagel's essay initiated the now widespread attention to consciousness as a central problem for philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience; it also influenced the recognition of the consciousness of nonhuman creatures as an important subject of study. Nagel argued that the essential subjectivity of conscious experience—what it is like for the creature undergoing it—means that reductionist theories of mind, which attempt to analyze it in physical terms, can never succeed. It follows that the physical sciences cannot provide a complete description of reality, and that the physical conception of objective reality must be transcended if science is going to comprehend the mind. This edition reissues this classic and widely influential article on its fiftieth anniversary, along with a new preface discussing the origins and influence of the essay, as well as 'Further Thoughts: The Psychophysical Nexus,' a supplementary essay which describes Nagel's later thoughts about how to respond to the problem posed by 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?'