What Am I Reading?

Below I highlight a (non-exhaustive) handful of writers and texts which have inspired my thinking throughout the years. I occasionally update these listings to reflect what is currently on my mind.

Current Highlights

- Philosophy as Poetry, 2004 Page-Barbour Lectures (Richard Rorty)

- Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems (Peter Klimek, Rudolf Hanel, & Stefan Thurner)

Archive

• Neural Darwinism: The Theory Of Neuronal Group Selection (Gerald Edelman)

• The Complex World: An Introduction to the Foundations of Complexity Science (David Krakauer)

• The Alignment Problem (Brian Christian)

• Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas R. Hofstadter)

• Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (John H. Miller & Scott E. Page)

• Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity (John H. Holland)

• Evolution’s Eye: A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide (Susan Oyama)

• The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution (Susan Oyama)

• Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Richard Rorty)

• Against Method (Paul Feyerabend)

• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas S. Kuhn)

• The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age (Stanisław Lem)

• His Master’s Voice (Stanisław Lem)

• The Glass Bead Game (Hermann Hesse)