2009 Books Read

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*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)
 
*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
 
*Rosch and Varela's Embodied Mind
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*Thoreau, Selections from Walden
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*Holland's Hidden Order
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*Parts of Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery
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*Some of Popper's Conjectures and Refutations
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*The Selfish Gene (Dawkins)
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*Lin Ostrom's Understanding Institutional Diversity
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*[[Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life Bowles Gintis 2005]] (MIT Press, 2005)
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*[[The Origins of Order by Stuart Kauffman 1993|Stuart Kauffman's RBN book]]
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*Illiad
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*D S Wilson's Unto Others [[Unto Others, Sober and Wilson 1998]]
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*[[Managing the Commons Baden and Noonan 1998]]
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*Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore  Calvino, Italo. (but in English)
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*Odyssey
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*Herb Simon's Sciences of the Artificial
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*The Politics of American Economic Policy, a reader
 +
**Friedman or another Chicago economists
 +
*Hotstadter's I am a strange loop
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*The Bloomington School: Challenging Institutional Something
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*1979 Microeconomics Textbook by Kaish
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*Beowulf
  
 
===Reading:===
 
===Reading:===
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*Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore  Calvino, Italo. (but in English)
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*Unbearable Lightness
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*Holland's Hidden Order
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*Classics in Organization Theory
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*Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life (MIT Press, 2005)
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*Cover's Info Theory book
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*Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery
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*Daft's Org Theory book
  
 
===Constantly Reading:===
 
===Constantly Reading:===
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===To Read Sooner:===
 
===To Read Sooner:===
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*What computers still can't do. H. Dreyfus
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*Something of Gould's, maybe on the primacy of genetic drift.
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*Dreyfus, Hubert L. & Rabinow, Paul. (1982). Michel Foucault: beyond Structualism and Hermeneutics
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*Adaptive individuals in evolving populations : models and algorithms  Belew, Richard K. and Mitchell
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*An introduction to genetic algorithms  Mitchell, Melanie. (merely skim?)
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*Barthes's Sade, Loyola, Fourier
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===To Read: (perhaps this summer)===
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===To Read:===
 
====def. this summer====
 
====def. this summer====
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*Odyssey
 
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*Illiad
 
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*Stuart Kauffman's RBN book
 
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*Loren Eiseley, perhaps his Immense Journey.
 
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*The affluent society and maybe more Galbraith
 
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*[[Hayek]]
 
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*The philosophy of science edited by Richard Boyd. 
 
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**Classic essays in Phil of Science, including Popper, Quine, Kuhn, Fine, van fraasen, Fox Keller, Putnam, Carnap, Hempel, Fodor and Churchland and Dennett.
 
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*Some of Popper's Conjectures and Refutations
 
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*The Selfish Gene (Dawkins)
 
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*Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins)
 
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*Friedman or another Chicago economists
 
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*Herb Simon's Soc. of Mind, or something else
 
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*D S Wilson on multilevel selection
 
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*Something of Gould's, maybe on the primacy of genetic drift.
 
 
*get ahead on readings for Lin Ostrom's Course  
 
*get ahead on readings for Lin Ostrom's Course  
 
**[http://www.indiana.edu/~workshop/courses/Y673/y673_fall_2007_syllabus.pdf]
 
**[http://www.indiana.edu/~workshop/courses/Y673/y673_fall_2007_syllabus.pdf]
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====hopefully this summer====
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====hopefully====
 
*Some more B. Russell.  V. exciting
 
*Some more B. Russell.  V. exciting
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*Thoreau, Selections from Walden
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*Rasmussen's Game Theory
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*Schumacher's small is beautiful
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*Nowak's Evolutionary Game Theory book
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*[[Hayek]]
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===To Read "Later":===
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http://thegreatbookslist.com/
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*Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins)
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*Minsky's Soc. of Mind,  
 
*The Origin of Species (Darwin)
 
*The Origin of Species (Darwin)
 
*On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson
 
*On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson
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*Schumacher's small is beautiful
+
*Loren Eiseley, perhaps his Immense Journey.
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*Unbearable Lightness
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*Secrets of the Temple by William Greider (recommended book about the Fed)
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*Dennett and Hotstadter's Mind's Eye
 
*Dennett and Hotstadter's Mind's Eye
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*The affluent society and maybe more Galbraith
  
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===To Read Later:===
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===Prob won't read===
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http://thegreatbookslist.com/
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*Barthes's Sade, Loyola, Fourier
 +
*Secrets of the Temple by William Greider (recommended book about the Fed)
 +
*Having lost focus ont he philosophy of science to focus on evolution:
 +
**What computers still can't do. H. Dreyfus
 +
**Dreyfus, Hubert L. & Rabinow, Paul. (1982). Michel Foucault: beyond Structualism and Hermeneutics
 +
**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.
 +
*Adaptive individuals in evolving populations : models and algorithms  Belew, Richard K. and Mitchell
 +
*An introduction to genetic algorithms  Mitchell, Melanie. (merely skim?)

Latest revision as of 20:20, 26 September 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
  • Thoreau, Selections from Walden
  • Holland's Hidden Order
  • Parts of Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery
  • Some of Popper's Conjectures and Refutations
  • The Selfish Gene (Dawkins)
  • Lin Ostrom's Understanding Institutional Diversity
  • Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life Bowles Gintis 2005 (MIT Press, 2005)
  • Stuart Kauffman's RBN book
  • Illiad
  • D S Wilson's Unto Others Unto Others, Sober and Wilson 1998
  • Managing the Commons Baden and Noonan 1998
  • Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore Calvino, Italo. (but in English)
  • Odyssey
  • Herb Simon's Sciences of the Artificial
  • The Politics of American Economic Policy, a reader
    • Friedman or another Chicago economists
  • Hotstadter's I am a strange loop
  • The Bloomington School: Challenging Institutional Something
  • 1979 Microeconomics Textbook by Kaish
  • Beowulf

Reading:

  • Unbearable Lightness
  • Classics in Organization Theory
  • Cover's Info Theory book
  • Daft's Org Theory book

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:

  • Something of Gould's, maybe on the primacy of genetic drift.

To Read:

def. this summer

  • get ahead on readings for Lin Ostrom's Course

hopefully

  • Some more B. Russell. V. exciting
  • Rasmussen's Game Theory
  • Schumacher's small is beautiful
  • Nowak's Evolutionary Game Theory book
  • Hayek


To Read "Later":

http://thegreatbookslist.com/

  • Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins)
  • Minsky's Soc. of Mind,
  • The Origin of Species (Darwin)
  • On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson
  • Loren Eiseley, perhaps his Immense Journey.
  • Dennett and Hotstadter's Mind's Eye
  • The affluent society and maybe more Galbraith

Prob won't read

  • Barthes's Sade, Loyola, Fourier
  • Secrets of the Temple by William Greider (recommended book about the Fed)
  • Having lost focus ont he philosophy of science to focus on evolution:
    • What computers still can't do. H. Dreyfus
    • Dreyfus, Hubert L. & Rabinow, Paul. (1982). Michel Foucault: beyond Structualism and Hermeneutics
    • 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.
  • Adaptive individuals in evolving populations : models and algorithms Belew, Richard K. and Mitchell
  • An introduction to genetic algorithms Mitchell, Melanie. (merely skim?)
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