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=== 2025 (week 17) === | === 2025 (week 17) === | ||
* [[The Experience Machine]] - Andy Clark | * 16. [[The Experience Machine]] - Andy Clark | ||
* [[Why We Remember: Revealing the Hidden Power of Memory]] - Dr Charan Ranganath | * 15. [[Why We Remember: Revealing the Hidden Power of Memory]] - Dr Charan Ranganath | ||
* [[From Bacteria to Bach and Back]] - Daniel Dennett (re-read) | * 14. [[From Bacteria to Bach and Back]] - Daniel Dennett (re-read) | ||
* [[The Village of Eight Graves]] - Seishi Yokomizo | * 13. [[The Village of Eight Graves]] - Seishi Yokomizo | ||
* [[Science: A History]] - Richard Crockett | * 12. [[Science: A History]] - Richard Crockett | ||
* [[Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World]] - John Gribbin | * 11. [[Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World]] - John Gribbin | ||
* [[The Inugami Curse]] - Seishi Yokomizo | * 10.[[The Inugami Curse]] - Seishi Yokomizo | ||
* [[The Rise and Reign of the Mammals]] | * 9. [[The Rise and Reign of the Mammals]] | ||
* [[Four Ways of Thinking]] - David Sumpter | * 8. [[Four Ways of Thinking]] - David Sumpter | ||
* [[I've Been Thinking]] - Daniel Dennett | * 7. [[I've Been Thinking]] - Daniel Dennett | ||
* [[Serendipities: Language and Lunacy]] - Umberto Eco | * 6. [[Serendipities: Language and Lunacy]] - Umberto Eco | ||
* [[I Am Dynamite: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche]] - Sue Prideaux | * 5. [[I Am Dynamite: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche]] - Sue Prideaux | ||
* [[A Brief History of Intelligence]] - Max S. Bennett | * 4. [[A Brief History of Intelligence]] - Max S. Bennett | ||
* [[Foucault’s Pendulum]] - Umberto Eco (re-read) | * 3. [[Foucault’s Pendulum]] - Umberto Eco (re-read) | ||
* [[Kant and the Platypus]] - Umberto Eco | * 2. [[Kant and the Platypus]] - Umberto Eco | ||
* [[Le cerveau m’a beaucoup déçu. L’esprit, non]] - Antoine Sénanque | * 1. [[Le cerveau m’a beaucoup déçu. L’esprit, non]] - Antoine Sénanque | ||
=== 2024 === | === 2024 === | ||
Revision as of 17:16, 27 April 2025
Books to Buy
- Language, Thought, and other Biological Categories
- The Flat Mind
- On the Calculation of Volume - Solvej Balle
- Open Socrates - Agnes Callard
- Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI (out in paperback Jan 30 2025)
- A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity (awaiting paperback)
- How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
- Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
- Grey Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery - not yet in paperback
- The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium
- Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization
- Consolations - David Whyte
Books to Read
- Reading to Learn - William Zinger
- Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
- A Little History of Philosophy - Nigel Warburton
Currently Reading
- Atomic Habits - James Clear
- Das Ludwig Thoma Komplott- Sabine Vöhringer
Books Read
2025 (week 17)
- 16. The Experience Machine - Andy Clark
- 15. Why We Remember: Revealing the Hidden Power of Memory - Dr Charan Ranganath
- 14. From Bacteria to Bach and Back - Daniel Dennett (re-read)
- 13. The Village of Eight Graves - Seishi Yokomizo
- 12. Science: A History - Richard Crockett
- 11. Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World - John Gribbin
- 10.The Inugami Curse - Seishi Yokomizo
- 9. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- 8. Four Ways of Thinking - David Sumpter
- 7. I've Been Thinking - Daniel Dennett
- 6. Serendipities: Language and Lunacy - Umberto Eco
- 5. I Am Dynamite: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche - Sue Prideaux
- 4. A Brief History of Intelligence - Max S. Bennett
- 3. Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco (re-read)
- 2. Kant and the Platypus - Umberto Eco
- 1. Le cerveau m’a beaucoup déçu. L’esprit, non - Antoine Sénanque
2024
- The Plot - Will Eisner
- The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco
- The Nonjin Murders - Seishi Yokomizo
- When We Cease to Understand the World - Labatut
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig (reread)
- The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities - Fauconnier and Turner
- The Singularity is Nearer - Ray Kurzweil
- Physics and Philosophy - Werner Heisenberg
- Le Ton Beau de…
- The Origins of Creativity - Edward O Wilson
- Psychonauts -
- The MANIAC - Benjamin Labatut
- In Search of Memory - Eric R. Kandel
- Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction - Hobson
- Les Effinger - Gabriele Target
- Triad - Tom Keve
- Nietzsche - Stefan Zweig
- The Weirdest People in the World - Joseph Henrich
- How Language Works - David Crystal
- The Invention of Nature - Andrea Wolf
- The Song of the Cell - Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
- From Bacteria to Bach and Back - Daniel Dennett