Tag: Skeptic

Free Download Jeffrey Tamburro, "Watts In This For Me?: A Skeptic’s Guide To Home Energy Efficiency"
English | ISBN: 1482699664 | 2013 | 102 pages | EPUB | 295 KB
In his new book Watts In This For Me? A Skeptic’s Guide To Home Energy Efficiency, Jeffrey Tamburro addresses the simple premise that energy efficiency is something that will benefit everyone and the information about it can be conveyed without getting into political discussions or being overly technical. If you ever considered making energy efficiency upgrades to your home, but were turned off by a political agenda you didn’t agree with, didn’t want to get scolded about the way you live, couldn’t understand any of the technology, thought it was too expensive or thought it just didn’t work, then this book is for you. Written as if he were sitting down chatting with you, Jeffrey discusses existing technologies and proven techniques that he uses in his own home, recommends to others and really work.

Free Download How to Think about Progress: A Skeptic’s Guide to Technology by Nicholas Agar , Stuart Whatley , Dan Weijers
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 144 Pages | ISBN : 3031689372 | 5.9 MB
How to Think about Progress is an interdisciplinary work exploring whether optimistic claims about technology’s potential stand up to humanity’s most difficult challenges. Will technology solve the problems of climate change, pandemics, cancer, loneliness, unhappiness, and even death? The authors show that techno-hype is all too often accepted because of the horizon bias, i.e. the modern propensity to believe that any problem that can be solved with technology will be solved in the very near future. The authors situate their analysis in a broad context, drawing on history, literature, and popular culture to emphasize their case against techno-hype. They also draw on a wide range of research, including that of biologists, philosophers of science and of language, psychologists, theorists of technological change, specialists on digital technologies, historians of ideas, and economists. As a corrective to much mainstream "futurism," the book offers principles for seeing through much of the techno-hype that circulates online and in best-selling books. The authors share insights (without the jargon) from a variety of academic disciplines, making this book an engaging read for all audiences. Readers will find a balanced framework for thinking and writing about technological progress in the face of truly vexing challenges like cancer, climate change, and colonizing mars.

Free Download John S. Dickerson, "Jesus Skeptic: A Journalist Explores the Credibility and Impact of Christianity"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0801078083 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 25.5 mb
Can we know if Jesus actually lived? Have Jesus’s followers been a force for good or evil in history? A respected journalist set out to find the answers-not from opinion but from artifacts. The evidence led him to an unexpected conclusion: Jesus really existed and launched the greatest movement for social good in human history.

Free Download Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life By Robert C. Solomon
2002 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0195134672 | PDF | 4 MB
Is it possible to be spiritual and yet not believe in the supernatural? Can a person be spiritual without belonging to a religious group or organization? In this book, philosopher Robert Solomon offers challenging answers to these questions as he explodes commonly held myths about what is means to be spiritual in today’s pluralistic world. Based on Solomon’s own struggles to reconcile philosophy with religion, Spirituality for the Skeptic offers a model of a vibrant, fulfilling spirituality that embraces the complexities of human existence and acknowledges the joys and tragedies of life. Solomon has forged an enlightened new path that synthesizes spirituality with emotions, intellect, science, and common sense. His new paradigm, "naturalized" spirituality, establishes as its cornerstone the "thoughtful love of life"–a passionate concern for the here-and-now, and not the by-and-by. Being spiritual doesn’t mean being holed up as a recluse, spending hours in meditation and contemplation, Solomon argues. It demands involvement and emotional engagement with others in the struggle to find meaning in our lives. As such, this modern-day spirituality encompasses a passionate enthusiasm for the world, the transformation of self, cosmic trust and rationality, coming to terms with fate, and viewing life as a gift, all of which are explored in depth throughout this book. Spirituality for the Skeptic answers the need for a non-institutional, non-dogmatic spirituality that leads to personal fulfillment and satisfaction. By examining the ideas of great thinkers from Socrates and Nietzsche to Buddha to Kafka, Solomon arrives at a practical vision of spirituality that should appeal to many seekers looking to make sense of the human condition.

Free Download The Skeptic’s Guide to Investing (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D151GJCC | 2024 | 3 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@192 kbps | 259 MB
Author: Ramon P. DeGennaro, The Great Courses
Narrator: Ramon DeGennaro
Many of us think of the stock market as an arcane system and of investing as a mysterious art form. The truth, however, is that stock and bond markets are a lot like other markets (including your familiar grocery store) and that investing your hard-earned money in them can reap rewards-so long as you know the economic principles behind them. Satisfy the financial skeptic in you with The Skeptic’s Guide to Investing, a six-lecture Audible Original where you’ll learn how financial markets operate so you can become a wiser, savvier, safer investor. Along with a deep look at the inner workings of these powerful markets, Professor Ramon P. DeGennaro offers a wealth of insight into investment strategies, whether you’re already a stockholder or thinking of investing for the first time.

Free Download Benson Mates, "The Skeptic Way: Sextus Empiricus’s Outlines of Pyrrhonism"
English | ISBN: 0195092139 | | 352 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The Outlines of Pyrrhonism by the 2nd century A.D. Greek physician Sextus Empiricus was immensely influential in the history of Western philosophy. The rediscovery and publication of this work in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led directly to the skepticism of Montaigne, Gassendi, Bayle, Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, and others, and eventually to the preoccupation of modern philosophy with attempts to refute or otherwise combat philosophical skepticism. In recent years, however, it has become apparent that Pyrrhonism-the form of skepticism professed by Sextus-is in several important respects quite different from the modern forms of skepticism to which the writings of Sextus have given rise. Some of these differences are of particular philosophic interest because they seem to render the ancient form immune to many of the standard responses to skepticism that are made today.