2009 Books Read
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Revision as of 21:09, 12 April 2009
Contents |
Read:
- BF Skinner's Beyond Freedom and Dignity
- Dennett's Consciousness Explained
- 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-
- (Don't read it, it is bad, unless you are an overeager teenaged pomo-technoboner.)
- 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.
- Andy Clark's Mindware
- The Revolt of the Masses Ortega y Gasset
- Civilization and its Discontents by Freud
- Fleischman's Cultivating Inner Peace (Buddhist angle on many different people. Forrest's dad wrote this)
- Bertrand Russell's On Science and Religion
- The Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche
- Barthes's Mythologies
- 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)
- Rosch and Varela's Embodied Mind
Reading:
- Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore Calvino, Italo. (but in English)
- Holland's Hidden Order
- Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life (MIT Press, 2005)
- Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery
Constantly Reading:
- Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
- The same kids books over and over
- divers writing/typography/type/design/print/book books
To Read Sooner:
- What computers still can't do. H. Dreyfus
- Dreyfus, Hubert L. & Rabinow, Paul. (1982). Michel Foucault: beyond Structualism and Hermeneutics
- Adaptive individuals in evolving populations : models and algorithms Belew, Richard K. and Mitchell
- An introduction to genetic algorithms Mitchell, Melanie. (merely skim?)
- Barthes's Sade, Loyola, Fourier
To Read:
def. this summer
- Odyssey
- Illiad
- Stuart Kauffman's RBN book
- Loren Eiseley, perhaps his Immense Journey.
- The affluent society and maybe more Galbraith
- Hayek
- The philosophy of science edited by Richard Boyd.
- Classic essays in Phil of Science, including Popper, Quine, Kuhn, Fine, van fraasen, Fox Keller, Putnam, Carnap, Hempel, Fodor and Churchland and Dennett.
- Some of Popper's Conjectures and Refutations
- The Selfish Gene (Dawkins)
- Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins)
- Friedman or another Chicago economists
- Herb Simon's Soc. of Mind, or something else
- D S Wilson on multilevel selection
- Something of Gould's, maybe on the primacy of genetic drift.
- get ahead on readings for Lin Ostrom's Course
hopefully this summer
- Some more B. Russell. V. exciting
- Thoreau, Selections from Walden
- The Origin of Species (Darwin)
- On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson
- Schumacher's small is beautiful
- Unbearable Lightness
- Secrets of the Temple by William Greider (recommended book about the Fed)
- Dennett and Hotstadter's Mind's Eye