2009 Books Read

Revision as of 06:20, 12 February 2009

Read:

• BF Skinner's Beyond Freedom and Dignity
• The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald
• The Essential Muir
• The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
• The Worldly Philosophers (a 'great men' history of economics)
• Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche (which I always spell correctly)
• Nize baby Gross, Milt, 1895-1953.
• The man who loved only numbers : the story of Paul Erdos and the search for mathematical truth Hoffman, Paul, 1956-
• Vehicles, experiments in synthetic psychology Braitenberg, Valentino.
• Val Vygotsky's Mind and Society, 1930
• Hierarchy theory; the challenge of complex systems Pattee, H. H.
• The exploit : a theory of networks Galloway, Alexander R., 1974-
  • (it is really bad. Well, unless you are a starry-eyed techophallic undergrad pomo fanboy)
• Maturana and Varela, the Tree of Knowledge
• New cautionary tales Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953.
• Cautionary verses; the collected humorous poems of H. Belloc
• Ladies and gentlemen Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953.
• A moral alphabet Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953.

Reading:

• Andy Clark's Mindware
• The Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche
• Human Reasoning and Cognition (an argument to get reasoning a role in cognitive science again, not my bag but I'm open to having my mind changed)
• Bertrand Russell's On Science and Religion
• Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore Calvino, Italo. (but in English)
• What computers still can't do. H. Dreyfus

Constantly Reading:

• Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

To Read:

• The Revolt of the Masses Ortega y Gasset
• Civilization and its Discontents by Freud
• Barthes's Mythologies
• Barthes's Sade, Loyola, Fourier
• The affluent society Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.
• Adaptive individuals in evolving populations : models and algorithms Belew, Richard K. and Mitchell
• An introduction to genetic algorithms Mitchell, Melanie.
• Thoreau, Selections from Walden
• The Selfish Gene (Dawkins)
• The Origin of Species (Darwin)
• Unbearable Lightness