2009 Books Read

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*Hierarchy theory; the challenge of complex systems    Pattee, H. H.  
 
*Hierarchy theory; the challenge of complex systems    Pattee, H. H.  
 
*The exploit : a theory of networks    Galloway, Alexander R., 1974-  
 
*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.)
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**(Don't read it, it is bad, unless you are a starry-eyed adolescent pomo-technoboner fanboy.)
 
*Maturana and Varela, the Tree of Knowledge
 
*Maturana and Varela, the Tree of Knowledge
 
*New cautionary tales    Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953.   
 
*New cautionary tales    Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953.   

Revision as of 20:15, 11 March 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 a starry-eyed adolescent pomo-technoboner 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/