2009 Books Read
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*The Revolt of the Masses Ortega y Gasset | *The Revolt of the Masses Ortega y Gasset | ||
*Civilization and its Discontents by Freud | *Civilization and its Discontents by Freud | ||
| + | *Tristes Tropiques, Levi-Strauss | ||
| + | *The Savage Mind, Levi-Strauss | ||
*Barthes's Mythologies | *Barthes's Mythologies | ||
*Barthes's Sade, Loyola, Fourier | *Barthes's Sade, Loyola, Fourier | ||
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*The Selfish Gene (Dawkins) | *The Selfish Gene (Dawkins) | ||
*The Origin of Species (Darwin) | *The Origin of Species (Darwin) | ||
| + | *On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson | ||
| + | *Holland's Hidden Order | ||
*Unbearable Lightness | *Unbearable Lightness | ||
Revision as of 06:22, 12 February 2009
Contents |
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
- Tristes Tropiques, Levi-Strauss
- The Savage Mind, Levi-Strauss
- 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)
- On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson
- Holland's Hidden Order
- Unbearable Lightness