Last week, I read Goethe’s “The Sorrows of Young Werther”. It is fairly short, and I read the entire book on the plane ride from Seattle to visit the Grand Canyon. Though short, the story is a near-perfect allegory and overflowing with insights. As always, I took many notes, which I typically keep to myself. [...]
Tyler Cowan mentioned the book a couple of weeks ago, and intrigued by the title, I purchased a copy of “Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction ”, by William Flesch via Harvard University Press. I’m glad I did. It is one of the best books I’ve read in a long [...]
Vittorio has “tagged” me, which means that I am supposed to share a list of books which have had a great impact on me. By “books”, I take him to mean that form of communication which is reproduced in print and, more importantly, which can be identified simply by Title and Author or ISBN. This [...]
Excellent book. I’m glad I didn’t get turned away by the materialist reductionism at the beginning. Here is a summary:
Materialist Views
Chris Nunn is Associate Editor of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, and researcher and practitioner in the field. He begins his book by giving a survey of what is known about consciousness. He covers biology, [...]
The main impediment to my writing reviews of the growing queue of finished books (more than 40 now), is the existence of new books to read. Today I started reading “De La Mettrie’s Ghost”, by Chris Nunn.
Rather than wait until completing the book to review it, and thus choosing yet another new book over review of the [...]