2009 Books Read
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*Andy Clark's Mindware | *Andy Clark's Mindware | ||
*The Revolt of the Masses Ortega y Gasset | *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 | ||
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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) | ||
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*Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore Calvino, Italo. (but in English) | *Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore Calvino, Italo. (but in English) | ||
*Barthes's Mythologies | *Barthes's Mythologies | ||
| + | *Holland's Hidden Order | ||
| + | *Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life (MIT Press, 2005) | ||
===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 | *What computers still can't do. H. Dreyfus | ||
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*Adaptive individuals in evolving populations : models and algorithms Belew, Richard K. and Mitchell | *Adaptive individuals in evolving populations : models and algorithms Belew, Richard K. and Mitchell | ||
*An introduction to genetic algorithms Mitchell, Melanie. | *An introduction to genetic algorithms Mitchell, Melanie. | ||
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*Tristes Tropiques, Levi-Strauss | *Tristes Tropiques, Levi-Strauss | ||
*The Savage Mind, Levi-Strauss | *The Savage Mind, Levi-Strauss | ||
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*Stuart Kauffman's RBN book | *Stuart Kauffman's RBN book | ||
*The affluent society Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006. | *The affluent society Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006. | ||
| + | *[[Hayek]] | ||
| + | *Friedman or another Chicago economists | ||
*Thoreau, Selections from Walden | *Thoreau, Selections from Walden | ||
| − | *The Selfish Gene | + | *The Selfish Gene (Dawkins) |
| + | *Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins) | ||
| + | *D S Wilson on multilevel selection | ||
*The Origin of Species (Darwin) | *The Origin of Species (Darwin) | ||
| + | *Something of Gould's, maybe on the primacy of genetic drift. | ||
*On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson | *On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson | ||
*Unbearable Lightness | *Unbearable Lightness | ||
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*Secrets of the Temple by William Greider (recommended book about the Fed) | *Secrets of the Temple by William Greider (recommended book about the Fed) | ||
*Dennett and Hotstadter's Mind's Eye | *Dennett and Hotstadter's Mind's Eye | ||
Revision as of 17:15, 27 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 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
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)
- Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore Calvino, Italo. (but in English)
- Barthes's Mythologies
- Holland's Hidden Order
- Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life (MIT Press, 2005)
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
- Adaptive individuals in evolving populations : models and algorithms Belew, Richard K. and Mitchell
- An introduction to genetic algorithms Mitchell, Melanie.
- 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.
- Hayek
- Friedman or another Chicago economists
- Thoreau, Selections from Walden
- The Selfish Gene (Dawkins)
- Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins)
- D S Wilson on multilevel selection
- The Origin of Species (Darwin)
- Something of Gould's, maybe on the primacy of genetic drift.
- On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson
- Unbearable Lightness
- 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