A green check mark (√ ) indicates material I am currently reading, and a red one (√ ) indicates books I have already read, or at least finished with for now. Anything unchecked is still sadly relegated to anti-library status, for the moment.
As is somewhat indicated by the placement and color of the checkmarks, I started my reading with basic groundwork in emotion theory and neuroscience; now that I have some sense of the landmarks in that particular territory, my current efforts are toward finding my bearings in philosophy and cognition and toward strategically lining up material for a big push of quantitative catchup over the summer.
COGNITION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: (Exploring various computational approaches to cognitive architecture for their logical compatibility with the thesis)
Grim, Patrick, Gary Mar, and Paul St. Denis, "The Philosophical Computer: Exploratory Essays in Philosophical Computer Modeling," 1998
√ Hall, J. Storrs, “Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine,” 2007
√ Hawkins, Jeff, "On Intelligence," 2004
√ Hofstadter, Douglas, “Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought,” 1995
√ Hofstadter, Douglas, “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid,” 1979
√ Holland, Holyoke, Nisbett, and Thagard, “Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery,” 1986
√ Kurzweil, Ray, "The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology," 2005
Levitin, Daniel, ed. "Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Core Readings," 2002
√ Minsky, Marvin, "The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind," 2006
Penrose, Roger, "The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics," 1989
√ Pinker, Steven, "How the Mind Works," 1997
√ Thagard, Paul R., “Coherence in Thought and Action,” 2000
√ Thagard, Paul R., “Hot Thought: Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition,” 2006
MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS, AND PROGRAMMING: (Ongoing refurbishment and expansion of the quantitative toolbox)
Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest, “Introduction to Algorithms, first edition,” 1990
Feynman, Leighton, and Sands, "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (three volumes)," 1965
√ Hacking, Ian, "An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic", 2001
Holland, John H., “Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity,” 1995
Mandelbrot, Benoit B., "The Fractal Geometry of Nature," 1977
Mitchell, Melanie, “An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms,” 1996
Penrose, Roger, "The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe," 2004
√ Pierce, John R., “An Introduction to Information Theory” (2nd edition), 1980
Swokowski, Earl W., “Calculus with Analytic Geometry” (2nd edition), 1979
Wiitala, Stephen A., “Discrete Mathematics: A Unified Approach,” 1987
Williams, Garnett P., "Chaos Theory Tamed," 1997
QUALITATIVE NONLINEARITY: (Mostly non-quantitative works about chaos and complexity)
√ Gleick, James, “Chaos: Making a New Science,” 1987
√ Kelly, Kevin, “Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World,” 1994
Mandelbrot, Benoit B., "The Fractal Geometry of Nature," 1977
Mitchell, Melanie, "Complexity: A Guided Tour," 2009
Mullin, Tom (ed), “The Nature of Chaos,” 1993
√ Waldrop, M. Mitchell, “Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos,” 1992
MUSIC: (Original direction of personal research--resolving tensions in cello technique habits by tracing them to mapping errors in mental representations involving bodily movement--which ultimately led to the more general thesis)
√ Alexander, R. McNeill, "Human Bones: A Scientific and Pictorial Investigation," 2005
√ Conable, Barbara, “How to Learn the Alexander Technique: A Manual for Students” (3rd edition), 1995
√ Gray, Henry, “Gray’s Anatomy” (15th edition), 1995
√ Greene, Don, “Audition Success: An Olympic Sports Psychologist Teaches Performing Artists How to Win,” 2001
√ Levitin, Daniel J., "This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession," 2006
√ Levitin, Daniel J., "The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature," 2008
√ Mantel, Gerhard, “Cello Technique: Principles and Forms of Movement,” 1995
BIOLOGY/NEUROBIOLOGY: (Brain structure, neuroplasticity, and the biology of instincts)
√ Churchland, Patricia Smith, "Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy," 2002
√ Damasio, Antonio, “Descartes’ Error: Reason, Emotion, and the Human Brain,” 1995
Damasio, Antonio, "The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness," 1999
√ Doidge, Norman, “The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science,” 2007
Geary, David C., "The Origin of Mind: Evolution of Brain, Cognition, and General Intelligence," 2005
√ Hawkins, Jeff, "On Intelligence," 2004
√ Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, “Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species,” 1999
√ Kandel, Eric R., "In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind," 2006
√ Koch, Christof, "The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach," 2004
√ LeDoux, Joseph, "The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life," 1996
√ Panksepp, Jaak, "Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions," 1998
PHILOSOPHY OF EMOTION: (Current theoretical approaches to emotion from a variety of angles)
√ Damasio, Antonio, “Descartes’ Error: Reason, Emotion, and the Human Brain,” 1995
Damasio, Antonio, "The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness," 1999
√ LeDoux, Joseph, "The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life," 1996
√ Minsky, Marvin, "The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind," 2006
√ Panksepp, Jaak, "Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions," 1998
√ Prinz, Jesse J., "Gut Reactions: A Perceptual Theory of Emotion," 2004
√ Robinson, Jenefer, "Deeper than Reason: Emotion and its role in Literature, Music, and Art," 2005
√ Solomon, Robert C. (ed), “Thinking about Feeling: Contemporary Philosophy on Emotions,” 2004
√ Thagard, Paul R., “Hot Thought: Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition,” 2006
√ Robinson, Jenefer, "Deeper than Reason: Emotion and its role in Literature, Music, and Art," 2005
√ Solomon, Robert C. (ed), “Thinking about Feeling: Contemporary Philosophy on Emotions,” 2004
√ Thagard, Paul R., “Hot Thought: Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition,” 2006
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND: (A growing selection of approaches with a less exclusively computational focus)
Arendt, Hannah, "The Life of the Mind: The Groundbreaking Investigation on How We Think," 1971
√ Churchland, Patricia Smith, "Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy," 2002
Descartes, René, "Philosophical Writings: A Selection Translated and Edited by Elizabeth Anscombe and Peter Thomas Geach," 1971
Geary, David C., "The Origin of Mind: Evolution of Brain, Cognition, and General Intelligence," 2005
Grim, Patrick, Gary Mar, and Paul St. Denis, "The Philosophical Computer: Exploratory Essays in Philosophical Computer Modeling," 1998
√ Hawkins, Jeff, "On Intelligence," 2004
√ Hofstadter, Douglas, “Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought,” 1995
√ Hofstadter, Douglas, “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid,” 1979
Hofstadter, Douglas and Dennett, Daniel C. (ed), “The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul,” 1981
James, William, "Psychology," 1892
James, William, "Pragmatism," 1907
Jaynes, Julian, "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind," 1976
Levitin, Daniel, ed. "Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Core Readings," 2002
√ Churchland, Patricia Smith, "Brain-Wise: Studies in Neurophilosophy," 2002
Descartes, René, "Philosophical Writings: A Selection Translated and Edited by Elizabeth Anscombe and Peter Thomas Geach," 1971
Geary, David C., "The Origin of Mind: Evolution of Brain, Cognition, and General Intelligence," 2005
Grim, Patrick, Gary Mar, and Paul St. Denis, "The Philosophical Computer: Exploratory Essays in Philosophical Computer Modeling," 1998
√ Hawkins, Jeff, "On Intelligence," 2004
√ Hofstadter, Douglas, “Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought,” 1995
√ Hofstadter, Douglas, “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid,” 1979
Hofstadter, Douglas and Dennett, Daniel C. (ed), “The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul,” 1981
James, William, "Psychology," 1892
James, William, "Pragmatism," 1907
Jaynes, Julian, "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind," 1976
Levitin, Daniel, ed. "Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Core Readings," 2002
√ Minsky, Marvin, "The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind," 2006
Penrose, Roger, "The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics," 1989
Penrose, Roger, "The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics," 1989
PHILOSOPHY/HISTORY OF SCIENCE, AND LAYMAN'S BEARINGS: (Self-explanatory!)
√ Aczel, Amir D., "Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem," 1996
Bronowski, J., "Science and Human Values," 1956
Feynman, Leighton, and Sands, "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (three volumes)," 1965
√ Goldstein, Rebecca, “Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel,” 2005
√ Kaku, Michio, "Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension," 1994
√ Kuhn, Thomas S., "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (2nd Edition, Enlarged)," 1970
Mandelbrot, Benoit B., "The Fractal Geometry of Nature," 1977
√ Petroski, Henry, “To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design,” 1992
√ Polya, G., "How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method," 1957
√ Sagan, Carl, “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark,” 1996
√ Stewart, Ian, "Why Beauty is Truth: A History of Symmetry," 2007
√ Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” 2007
√ Thagard, Paul R., “Coherence in Thought and Action,” 2000
GENERAL PHILOSOPHY: (Initial explorations of general philosophical approaches and their resonances with the meta-philosophical position taken by the thesis, or things that fail to fit earlier categories)
Aristotle, “The Nicomachean Ethics” (trans. David Ross)
Burke, Edmond, "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful," ed. James Boulton, 1968
Hazlitt, Henry, "The Foundations of Morality," 1964
Hobbes, Thomas, "Leviathan," ed. C. B. MacPherson, 1968 (1651)
√ Hicks, Stephen R. C., “Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault,” 2004
Plato, "The Republic" (trans. Desmond Lee)
Popper, Karl R., “The Poverty of Historicism,” 1964
√ Sharansky, Natan, “The Case for Democracy,” 2004
Burke, Edmond, "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful," ed. James Boulton, 1968
Hazlitt, Henry, "The Foundations of Morality," 1964
Hobbes, Thomas, "Leviathan," ed. C. B. MacPherson, 1968 (1651)
√ Hicks, Stephen R. C., “Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault,” 2004
Plato, "The Republic" (trans. Desmond Lee)
Popper, Karl R., “The Poverty of Historicism,” 1964
√ Sharansky, Natan, “The Case for Democracy,” 2004
OTHER BOOKS: (Anything else that resonates well enough to stand out, or does well at providing deep systemic background of a useful nature)
√ Ariely, Dan, "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions," 2008
√ Brin, David, “The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?” 1998
√ Coram, Robert, "Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War," 2002
√ Diamond, Jared, “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed,” 2005
√ Gladwell, Malcom, "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference," 2002
√ Gleick, James, "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman," 1992
√ Massie, Robert K., “Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War,” 1991
√ Pelligrino, Charles, "Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections," 2004
√ Surowiecki, James, “The Wisdom of Crowds,” 2004
√ Tuchman, Barbara W., “The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution,” 1988
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