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Free Download Christopher Peacocke, "Truly Understood"
English | 2008 | pages: 356 | ISBN: 0199239444, 0199581975 | PDF | 1,1 mb
In Truly Understood, Christopher Peacocke argues that truth and reference have a much deeper role in the explanation of meaning and understanding than has hitherto been appreciated. Examination of specific concepts shows that a grasp of these concepts has to be characterized in terms of reference, identity, and relations to the world.

Free Download Steve Stewart-Williams, "The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve"
English | ISBN: 1108425046 | 2018 | 378 pages | EPUB | 1302 KB
The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our child-rearing patterns, our moral codes, our religions, our languages, and science? The book tackles these issues by drawing on ideas from two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory. The guiding assumption is that humans are animals, and that like all animals, we evolved to pass on our genes. At some point, however, we also evolved the capacity for culture – and from that moment, culture began evolving in its own right. This transformed us from a mere ape into an ape capable of reshaping the planet, travelling to other worlds, and understanding the vast universe of which we’re but a tiny, fleeting fragment.

Free Download Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain by Jim Reid, William Reid
English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 0306835517 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 28.97 MB
William and Jim Reid, brothers and founding members of The Jesus and Mary Chain-a band that bridged the gap between the punk explosion and the emergence of grunge and Britpop-chronicle the chaos, confusion, and stories behind their music.

Free Download The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve By Steve Stewart-Williams
2019 | 386 Pages | ISBN: 1108732755 | PDF | 4 MB
The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our altruistic tendencies, and our culture? The book tackles these issues by drawing on two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory. The guiding assumption is that humans are animals, and that like all animals, we evolved to pass on our genes. At some point, however, we also evolved the capacity for culture – and from that moment, culture began evolving in its own right. This transformed us from a mere ape into an ape capable of reshaping the planet, travelling to other worlds, and understanding the vast universe of which we’re but a tiny, fleeting fragment. Featuring a new foreword by Michael Shermer.