Philosophy audiobooks

Critical Thinking Junkie

By: Howie Junkie

Narrated by: How-To Junkie

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Desk of the How-To Junkie for the "Critical Thinking Junkie":

Howdy friend, who wants "to develop critical thinking,"

In the old days where famous Greek philosophers - like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle - would conglomerate in the public square Agora of Athens, people from all over would gather around to listen attentively to... Read more

Think Better Analytically

By: Instafo & Meredith Larissa

Narrated by: Instafo

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

An Analysis of Your Own Thinking
Over the past few years, there have been many different types of thinking that have emerged, promoted as the best one: positive thinking, out-of-the-box thinking, critical thinking, and so on.
How does one obtain these magical thought processes? Really, all these varieties of thinking are related to analytical... Read more

The Myths We Live By

By: Mary Midgley

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful audiobook, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as machines, which originates in the seventeenth century, is a today a potent force. Far... Read more

Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It

By: Daniel Klein

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the New York Times-bestselling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ... Daniel Klein's fans have fallen in love with the warm, humorous, and thoughtful way he shows how philosophy resonates in everyday life. Readers of his popular books Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ... and... Read more

The Sensational Past

By: Carolyn Purnell

Narrated by: Liz Thompson

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch-as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today. Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing "flea"-colored clothes? These actions may seem odd to us, but in the eighteenth century, they made perfect sense. As... Read more

The Monarchy of Fear

By: Martha C. Nussbaum

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the world’s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend our divided country.

For decades Martha C. Nussbaum has been an acclaimed scholar and humanist, earning dozens of honors for her books and essays. In The Monarchy of Fear she turns her... Read more

Determined to Believe?

By: John C. Lennox

Narrated by: Paul Gregory

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A serious biblical and philosophical investigation of theological determinism: the idea that everything that happens has already been decided by God, including who will and won’t be saved.This audiobook is for those who are interested in, or troubled by, questions about God's sovereignty and human freedom and responsibility. Christian apologist... Read more

The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time

By: Will Durant

Narrated by: John Little

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A wise and witty compendium of the greatest thoughts, greatest minds, and greatest books of all time—listed in accessible and succinct form—by one of the world's greatest scholars. From the "Hundred Best Books" to the "Ten Greatest Thinkers" to the "Ten Greatest Poets," here is a concise collection of the world's most significant knowledge. For... Read more

Thoreau & Emerson

By: Henry David Thoreau & Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Russ Barnett

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The timeless wisdom of two of America's most celebrated philosophers is captured in this anthology containing selections from Thoreau's Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience and Emerson's Introduction to Thoreau, Self-Reliance, Nature, The American Scholar, Education, and Politics. The distinguished voice of Russ Barnett brings the great... Read more

What I Believe

By: Bertrand Russell

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Remarkably relevant, beautifully written, and filled with wit and wisdom, these three essays by Bertrand Russell allow the listener to test the concepts of the good life, morality, the existence of God, Christianity, and human nature. “What I Believe” was used prominently in the 1940 New York court proceedings in which Russell was judicially... Read more

Kierkegaard

By: Stephen Backhouse

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

An accessible, expert introduction to one of the greatest minds of nineteenth century. Whether you're completely new to him, or if you're already familiar with his work, Kierkegaard: A Single Life presents a fresh understanding of his life and thought. Kierkegaard was a brilliant and enigmatic loner whose ideas permeated culture, shaped modern... Read more

Talking Across the Divide

By: Justin Lee

Narrated by: Justin Lee

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A guide to learning how to communicate with people who have diametrically opposed opinions from you, how to empathize with them, and how to (possibly) change their minds

America is more polarized than ever. Whether the issue is Donald Trump, healthcare, abortion, gun control, breastfeeding, or even DC vs Marvel, it feels like you can't voice an... Read more

Under the Sign of Saturn

By: Susan Sontag

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Sontag’s most important critical writings from 1972 to 1980 are collected in Under the Sign of Saturn. One of America’s leading essayists, Sontag’s writings are commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti, Walter Benjamin, and others. The collection... Read more

On Color

By: David Scott Kastan

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color’s ubiquity, we don’t know much about it. Authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer a fresh and imaginative exploration of one of the most intriguing and least-understood aspects of everyday... Read more

Styles of Radical Will

By: Susan Sontag

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag’s second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography.In “The Aesthetics of Silence,” Sontag examines how silence mediates the role of art as a form of spirituality in an... Read more

This Is an Uprising

By: Mark Engler & Paul Engler

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Strategic nonviolent action has reasserted itself as a potent force in shaping public debate and forcing political change. Whether it is an explosive surge of protest calling for racial justice in the United States or a demand for democratic reform in Hong Kong or Mexico, when mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media portrays... Read more

The Shipwrecked Mind

By: Mark Lilla

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us.



The reactionary is anything but a conservative. He is as radical and modern a figure as the revolutionary, someone shipwrecked in the rapidly changing present, and... Read more

Ethics in the Real World

By: Peter Singer

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation and Practical Ethics, he helped launch the animal rights and effective altruism movements and contributed to the development of bioethics. Now, in Ethics in the Real World,... Read more

The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1

By: Michel Foucault

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Why has there been such an explosion of discussion about sex in the West since the seventeenth century? Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic, and political forces that have shaped our attitudes toward sex. In a book that is at once controversial and seductive, Michel Foucault describes how we are in... Read more

Because We Say So

By: Noam Chomsky

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Because We Say So presents more than thirty concise, forceful commentaries on U.S. politics and global power. Written between 2011 and 2015, Noam Chomsky's arguments forge a persuasive counter-narrative to official accounts of U.S. politics and policies during global crisis. Find here classic Chomsky on the increasing urgency of climate change,... Read more

Strange Tools

By: Alva Noë

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, and making provocative use of examples from all three of these fields, Noë offers... Read more

Augustine

By: Robin Lane Fox

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 25 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Saint Augustine is one of the most influential figures in all of Christianity, yet his path to sainthood was by no means assured. Born in AD 354 to a pagan father and a Christian mother, Augustine spent the first thirty years of his life struggling to understand the nature of God and his world. He learned about Christianity as a child but was... Read more

The Devil’s Pleasure Palace

By: Michael Walsh

Narrated by: Michael Walsh

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of World War II, America stood alone as the world's premier military power. Yet its martial confidence contrasted vividly with its sense of cultural inferiority. Still looking to a defeated and dispirited Europe for intellectual and artistic guidance, burgeoning trans-national elite in New York and Washington embraced not only... Read more

Selfish, Shallow, and Self-absorbed

By: Meghan Daum

Narrated by: Johnny Heller & Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed "fertility crisis," and whether modern women could figure out a way to have it all—a successful, demanding career and the required 2.3 children—before their biological clock stopped ticking. Now, however, conversation has turned to whether it's necessary to... Read more