2009 Books Read

Revision as of 19:28, 28 February 2009

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 a starry-eyed adolescent pomo-techoboner 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.
• Andy Clark's Mindware
• The Revolt of the Masses Ortega y Gasset

Reading:

• 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)
• Barthes's Mythologies

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:

• The Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche
• What computers still can't do. H. Dreyfus
• Holland's Hidden Order
• Adaptive individuals in evolving populations : models and algorithms Belew, Richard K. and Mitchell
• An introduction to genetic algorithms Mitchell, Melanie.
• Civilization and its Discontents by Freud
• Tristes Tropiques, Levi-Strauss
• The Savage Mind, Levi-Strauss
• Barthes's Sade, Loyola, Fourier

To Read:

• Stuart Kauffman's RBN book
• The affluent society Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.
• Thoreau, Selections from Walden
• The Selfish Gene andor Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins)
• The Origin of Species (Darwin)
• On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson
• Unbearable Lightness
• Fleischman's Cultivating Inner Peace (Buddhist angle on many different people. Forrest's dad wrote this)
• Secrets of the Temple by William Greider (recommended book about the Fed)
• Dennett and Hotstadter's Mind's Eye
• Popper's Logic of Scientific Discovery

To Read Later:

http://thegreatbookslist.com/