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– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

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Cognitive Science, Math, Non-Fiction, Philosophy  0 Comments

September 23, 2022October 15, 2021

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.

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Current Events, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Politics  0 Comments

January 21, 2022June 18, 2021

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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Future, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Science, Sociology  4 Comments

April 16, 2021April 17, 2021

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.

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Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Self-Help  1 Comment

May 29, 2020May 27, 2020

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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Classics, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Self-Help  2 Comments

September 20, 2019September 20, 2019

Walden – Henry David Thoreau

Some ‘classics’ just aren’t worth anyone’s time.

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Non-Fiction, Philosophy  0 Comments

July 12, 2019January 22, 2019

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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Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Textbooks  0 Comments

May 31, 2019December 30, 2018

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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Conservative, Culture, Non-Fiction, Philosophy  0 Comments

March 22, 2019March 17, 2019

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…

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