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Books like On Purpose

Readers who finished On Purpose by Michael Ruse and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Process, Free Will & Determinism, Humanism, and Ecology.

Process Free Will & Determinism Humanism Ecology History & Surveys Movements Cultural & Social Anthropology Modern Christian Theology Nature Philosophy Science Social Science Religion History

Top related books to On Purpose

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of On Purpose.

On the Human Condition

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Themes: Humanism • History & Surveys • Movements

Humankind A Hopeful History

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Themes: Humanism • History & Surveys • Movements

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Themes: Humanism • History & Surveys • Movements

Robert Boyle and the Limits of Reason

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Themes: History & Surveys • Movements • Anthropology

Becoming Human

Jean Vanier

Themes: Humanism • Movements • Cultural & Social

Beyond the Doctrine of Man Decolonial Visions of the Human

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Themes: Humanism • Movements • Cultural & Social

Sand Talk How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

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Themes: History & Surveys • Cultural & Social • Anthropology

Lectures on Anthropology

Immanuel Kant

Themes: Humanism • History & Surveys • Movements

Postmodernism, Literature and the Future of Theology

D. Jasper

Themes: History & Surveys • Movements • Cultural & Social

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Heidegger, Authenticity, and the Self Themes from Division Two of Being and Time

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Themes: History & Surveys • Movements • Cultural & Social

#11

Science and the Creative Spirit Essays on Humanistic Aspects of Science

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Themes: Humanism • Movements • Cultural & Social

#12

Countdown to Coherence A Spiritual Journey Toward a Scientific Theory of Everything

Hazel Courteney

Themes: Humanism • Movements • Cultural & Social

#13

Reading Augustine in the Reformation The Flexibility of Intellectual Authority in Europe, 1500-1620

Arnoud S. Q. Visser

Themes: Humanism • History & Surveys • Movements

#14

Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race

S. Kim

Themes: History & Surveys • Movements • Cultural & Social

#15

Enlightenment Now The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Steven Pinker

Themes: Humanism • History & Surveys • Movements

#16

Prometheanism Technology, Digital Culture and Human Obsolescence

Christopher John Müller

Themes: History & Surveys • Movements • Cultural & Social

#17

Courting the Wild Twin

Martin Shaw

Themes: Ecology • Movements • Cultural & Social

#18

Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives Theory, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism

A. Ng

Themes: History & Surveys • Movements • Cultural & Social

#19

Understanding Foucault

Geoff Danaher

Themes: History & Surveys • Movements • Cultural & Social

#20

The Posthuman Pandemic

Saul Newman

Themes: Humanism • Movements • Cultural & Social

#21

Sickness Unto Death A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification & Awakening by Anti-Cli — Soren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard

Themes: History & Surveys • Movements • Anthropology

#22

Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identity

Tema Milstein

Themes: Ecology • Movements • Cultural & Social

#23

Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom First-nation Know-how for Global Flourishing

Darcia Narvaez

Themes: Ecology • Cultural & Social • Anthropology

#24

The Sickness Unto Death

Søren Kierkegaard

Themes: History & Surveys • Movements • Anthropology

Fans of On Purpose by Michael Ruse will find 24 titles here, all united by Process, Free Will & Determinism, Humanism. Authors represented include Dominique Janicaud, Rutger Bregman, Huaping Lu-Adler, Jan W. Wojcik, and others.