2009 Books Read

Revision as of 21:55, 16 July 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 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
• Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life Bowles Gintis (MIT Press, 2005)
• Stuart Kauffman's RBN book
• Illiad
• D S Wilson's Unto Others Unto Others, Sober and Wilson 1998
• Managing the Commons Baden and Noonan 1998

Reading:

• Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore Calvino, Italo. (but in English)
• Unbearable Lightness
• The Politics of American Economic Policy, a reader
  • Friedman or another Chicago economists
  • The affluent society and maybe more Galbraith
• Odyssey
• Herb Simon's Sciences of the Artificial

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:

• Something of Gould's, maybe on the primacy of genetic drift.

To Read:

def. this summer

• get ahead on readings for Lin Ostrom's Course
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hopefully

• Some more B. Russell. V. exciting
• Rasmussen's Game Theory
• Schumacher's small is beautiful
• Nowak's Evolutionary Game Theory book
• Hayek

To Read "Later":

http://thegreatbookslist.com/

• Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins)
• Minsky's Soc. of Mind,
• The Origin of Species (Darwin)
• On Growth and Form, D'Arcy Thompson
• Loren Eiseley, perhaps his Immense Journey.
• Dennett and Hotstadter's Mind's Eye

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.
• Adaptive individuals in evolving populations : models and algorithms Belew, Richard K. and Mitchell
• An introduction to genetic algorithms Mitchell, Melanie. (merely skim?)