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Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will is a 2023 nonfiction book by American neuroendocrinology researcher Robert Sapolsky concerning the neurological evidence for or against free will. Sapolsky generally concludes that our choices are determined by our genetics , experience, and environment, [ 1 ] and that the common use of the term ...
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love is a 2003 book of selected essays and other writings by Richard Dawkins. Published five years after Dawkins's previous book Unweaving the Rainbow , it contains essays covering subjects including pseudoscience , genetic determinism , memetics , terrorism , religion and creationism .
Title page of On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1834). A science book is a work of nonfiction, usually written by a scientist, researcher, or professor like Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time), or sometimes by a non-scientist such as Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything).
Lab Girl is a 2016 memoir by the American geochemist, geobiologist and professor Hope Jahren, published by Alfred A. Knopf.It is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, a New York Times notable book, winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science prize for Excellence in Science Books, a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science ...
Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose. [1] The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism, where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose".
The list is what it considers to be the 100 best non-fiction books published since 1900. The list includes memoirs, textbooks, polemics, and collections of essays. A separate list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century was created the same year. [1] The following table shows the top ten books from the editors' list: [2] #
Folger, Tim & Jahren, Hope (October 3, 2017). The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2017. Boston: Mariner Books. ISBN 978-1328715517; Jahren, Hope (April 5, 2016). Lab Girl. New York Toronto: Knopf Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-101-87493-6. Jahren, Hope (March 3, 2020). The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from ...
Growing materialism has not only deprived man of a meaning in life, but has come into contradiction with the very developments of the most advanced physics. " Mechanism " is now put aside by quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity , in which the role of the observer, and therefore of the human spirit, is decisive in establishing what ...