Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being – George Lakoff & Rafael E. Núñez
Some books you just have to return to in order to fully grasp them. This one will need a ”round 3” from me.
Philosophy
Della gentilezza e del coraggio – Gianrico Carofiglio
If you still think that some of the problems of the past 6 years are things that can be worked through with conversation, then this is the book for you.
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Technopoly – Neil Postman
The problem with predicting how society will go wrong based on what is wrong now is that it assumes all the factors will stay the same. Whoops.
How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life – Massimo Pigliucci
A review written so long ago it is currently comically irrelevant.
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Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Some ‘classics’ just aren’t worth anyone’s time.
Did the Greeks believe in their Myths? – Paul Veyne
Paul Veyne’s “Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths” is all the reasons why you don’t send a philosopher to do a historian’s job.
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What is this thing called Knowledge? – Duncan Pritchard
If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that Epistemology is a little pet topic of mine.
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Culture Counts – Roger Scruton
Do you remember the good old days? Roger Scruton does, and his memory of the good old days will save western civilization.
Not really…
Failures in Polymathy 