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Ruling passions

Simon Blackburn

Raison Pratique Philosophy Evolutionary Ethics

Written in a trenchant style, Ruling Passions propounds an original philosophy of human motivation and morality. It uses game theory and cognitive science to illuminate ethics and exposes the pretensions of rival theories.

The Moral Landscape
3.5 15 votes
The Shallows
3.3 15 votes
The most dangerous game
3.8 18 votes
Meditations
4.0 107 votes
Next
3.3 21 votes
The Games People Play
4.0 39 votes
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
4.0 143 votes
God Emperor of Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 4)
3.9 61 votes
I, Robot
4.2 153 votes
Utopia
3.2 18 votes
Protector
4.1 15 votes
The Andromeda Strain
3.7 56 votes
The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
4.6 18 votes
The State of the Art
3.4 26 votes
The Grand Design
3.7 21 votes
The Brothers Karamazov
4.3 47 votes
Bonjour tristesse
3.9 15 votes
The player of games
4.2 73 votes
The art of thinking clearly
4.2 16 votes
Permanent Record
4.5 49 votes
Outwitting the devil
4.6 16 votes
The Prince
3.8 81 votes
Gödel, Escher, Bach
4.2 59 votes
Brave New World
3.9 386 votes
The Kama Sutra
3.7 26 votes
Surface Detail
4.1 30 votes
The Greatest Show on Earth
4.5 15 votes
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
4.3 21 votes
The Confusion. Volume II of the Baroque Cycle
4.1 20 votes
Bad Science
4.2 20 votes
The Black Swan
3.9 27 votes
King Solomon's Mines
4.1 19 votes
Algorithms to Live By
4.0 37 votes
The moon is a harsh mistress
4.0 71 votes
Bullshit Jobs
4.3 28 votes
Jenseits von Gut und Böse
4.3 16 votes
English Grammar in Use
4.1 17 votes
Sapiens
4.2 133 votes
12 Rules for Life
3.9 97 votes
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
3.7 23 votes
Rendezvous with Rama
4.2 89 votes
The Firm
3.7 28 votes
A short history of nearly everything
4.1 87 votes
Leviathan Falls
4.4 17 votes
Dealing with Dragons
3.9 18 votes
The Screwtape Letters
4.1 27 votes
A Canticle for Leibowitz
3.8 67 votes
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
4.2 26 votes