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 | ||
| + | *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 | ||
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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) | ||
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*Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life (MIT Press, 2005) | *Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life (MIT Press, 2005) | ||
| − | * | + | *Unbearable Lightness |
| + | *Stuart Kauffman's RBN book | ||
| + | *Illiad | ||
| + | *D S Wilson's Unto Others | ||
| + | *The Politics of American Economic Policy, a reader | ||
| + | **Friedman or another Chicago economists | ||
| + | **The affluent society and maybe more Galbraith | ||
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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 | ||
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| − | * | + | *Herb Simon's Sciences of the Artificial |
| + | *Something of Gould's, maybe on the primacy of genetic drift. | ||
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*Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins) | *Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins) | ||
| − | + | *Herb Simon's Soc. of Mind, | |
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*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] | ||
| + | **Rasmussen's Game Theory | ||
| + | **Managing the Commons | ||
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====hopefully this summer==== | ====hopefully this summer==== | ||
*Some more B. Russell. V. exciting | *Some more B. Russell. V. exciting | ||
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*The Origin of Species (Darwin) | *The Origin of Species (Darwin) | ||
*On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson | *On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson | ||
*Schumacher's small is beautiful | *Schumacher's small is beautiful | ||
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*Dennett and Hotstadter's Mind's Eye | *Dennett and Hotstadter's Mind's Eye | ||
| + | *Nowak's Evolutionary Game Theory book | ||
| + | *Loren Eiseley, perhaps his Immense Journey. | ||
| + | *[[Hayek]] | ||
| + | *An introduction to genetic algorithms Mitchell, Melanie. (merely skim?) | ||
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http://thegreatbookslist.com/ | 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. | ||
Revision as of 03:52, 27 May 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
Reading:
- Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore Calvino, Italo. (but in English)
- Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life (MIT Press, 2005)
- Unbearable Lightness
- Stuart Kauffman's RBN book
- Illiad
- D S Wilson's Unto Others
- The Politics of American Economic Policy, a reader
- Friedman or another Chicago economists
- The affluent society and maybe more Galbraith
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:
- Adaptive individuals in evolving populations : models and algorithms Belew, Richard K. and Mitchell
- Odyssey
- Herb Simon's Sciences of the Artificial
- Something of Gould's, maybe on the primacy of genetic drift.
To Read:
def. this summer
- Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins)
- Herb Simon's Soc. of Mind,
- get ahead on readings for Lin Ostrom's Course
- [1]
- Rasmussen's Game Theory
- Managing the Commons
hopefully this summer
- Some more B. Russell. V. exciting
- The Origin of Species (Darwin)
- On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson
- Schumacher's small is beautiful
- Dennett and Hotstadter's Mind's Eye
- Nowak's Evolutionary Game Theory book
- Loren Eiseley, perhaps his Immense Journey.
- Hayek
- An introduction to genetic algorithms Mitchell, Melanie. (merely skim?)
To Read "Later":
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.