2009 Books Read

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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 2005 (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
  • Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore Calvino, Italo. (but in English)
  • Odyssey
  • Herb Simon's Sciences of the Artificial
  • The Politics of American Economic Policy, a reader
    • Friedman or another Chicago economists
  • Hotstadter's I am a strange loop
  • The Bloomington School: Challenging Institutional Something
  • 1979 Microeconomics Textbook by Kaish
  • Beowulf

Reading:

  • Unbearable Lightness
  • Classics in Organization Theory
  • Cover's Info Theory book
  • Daft's Org Theory book

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

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
  • The affluent society and maybe more Galbraith

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?)