Richard Prum - The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - And Us
Jakob von Uexküll - A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: With A Theory of Meaning
Miguel Sicart - Play Matters

Byung-Chul Han - The Agony of Eros
Byung-Chul Han - Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese

A low period at work, so I'm tearing though some shorter works.

A Short History of Atheism by Gavin Hyman. Fascinating read.

I've been reading Cioran's oeuvre in chronologically published order. Finished Tears and Saints a week ago and I'm nearly done with A Short History of Decay, which I've long considered his best and most well-written work.

Also rereading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Haven't read it since 2011

Utopia for Realists: The Case for a Universal Basic Income, Open Borders, and a 15-hour Workweek by Rutger Bregman

Just finished it actually.

Whaddya think? Sway you on UBI any?

Whaddya think? Sway you on UBI any? — StreetlightX

Very persuasive, eloquent, and factual. Couldn't ask for a better book on UBI.

Andreas Wagner - Arrival of the Fittest: How Nature Innovates
Ernest Cline - Ready Player One (first fiction book in... months)

Memoirs Found In A Bathtub - Stanislaw Lem

This is some almost-black-comedy/surrealist/horror 1984 shit. Really different; barely even sci-fi.

A few interesting things that I am reading or have read this year. Sorry for the bad formatting of references; this is copied from a wikidPad page ('personal wiki'):

2018 February

Walsh Denis M Mechanism, Emergence, and Miscibility: The Autonomy of Evo-Devo
(in Functions: selection and mechanisms, Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science vol. 363)
2018-02-03 (currently reading)

Moreno Alvaro (with Xabier Barandiaran) Adaptivity: From Metabolism to Behavior (2008)
2018-02-03 (currently reading)


2018 January

Bechtel William (with Adele Abrahamsen) Mental Mechanisms, Autonomous Systems, and Moral Agency
2018-01-29

Lennox James G Darwin was a Teleologist (1993)
2018-01-28

A theory of biological relativity: no privileged level of causation
2018-01-27

Collins Arthur W The Nature of Mental Things (1986)
2018-01-26 (Second reading of chapter 6: Action and Teleology)

Noble Denis Evolution beyond neo-Darwinism: a new conceptual framework
2018-01-24

Bechtel William Explicating Top-Down Causation Using Networks and Dynamics (2016)
2018-01-24

Bateson Patrick The Nest’s Tale: A reply to Richard Dawkins
2018-01-23

Glenberg Arthur M (with Justin Hayes) Contribution of Embodiment to Solving the Riddle of Infantile Amnesia (2016)
2018-01-22

Sterelny Kim The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique (2012)
2018-01-20 (first two chapters)

Hacker PMS Shame, Embarrassment, and Guilt
Chapter 6 in The Passions: A Study of Human Nature Wiley-Blackwell (2017)
2018-01-19 (unfinished reading)

Sterelny Kim Dawkins Vs. Gould: Survival of the Fittest (2001)
2018-01-16

David Cole's review of The Evolved Apprentice
2018-01-16

Costall Alan From Direct Perception to the Primacy of Action: A Closer Look at James Gibson’s Ecological Approach to Psychology
(Chapter 3 in Theories of Infant Development, Gavin Bremner & Alan Slater eds, 2004)
2018-01-12

A Piecewise Aggregation of (Some) Philosophers' and Biologists' Perspectives (review of Re-engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings by Isabella Sarto-Jackson1, Miles MacLeod, Stephan Handschuh, Christoph Frischer, Julia Lang, Martin Schlumpp and Werner Callebaut)
2018-01-11

Wimsatt William C Re-engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings (2007)
2018-01-10 (first 14 pages only)

Estany Anna (with Sergio Martínez) “Scaffolding” and “affordance” as integrative concepts in the cognitive sciences (2013)
2018-01-09

Wiegman Isaac Angry Rats and Scaredy Cats Lessons from Competing Cognitive Homologies (2016)
2018-01-08

Here are also most of my readings from last year, since February 2017 when I began reading and annotating pdf files mostly on my smartphone :

2017 December

SterelnyK Artifacts, Symbols, Thoughts
2017-12-31

CostallA The 'Meme' Meme Revisited
(Chapter 4 in Epistemological Dimensions of Evolutionary Psychology, Thiemo Breyer, Ed. 2015)
2017-12-11

MenaryR Cognitive integration, enculturated cognition and the socially extended mind (2013)
2017-12-31

SmitH Darwin’s Rehabilitation of Teleology Versus Williams’ Replacement of Teleology by Natural Selection (2011)
2017-12-01 (approximative date)


2017 November

KirchhoffMD Extended Cognition & the Causal-Constitutive Fallacy: In Search for a Diachronic and Dynamical Conception of Constitution (2015)
2017-11-23

PankseppJ (with Biven) The Archaeology of Mind
2017-11-28 (unfinished reading)

DennettD A Difference That Makes a Difference _Edge.org_
2017-11-17 (A conversation with Daniel Dennett)

GiuntiM (Simone Pinna) Toward a dynamical theory of human computation
2017-11-17 (unfinished reading)

PankseppJ (with peer commentaries in B&BS) Toward a general psychobiological theory of emotions
2017-11-13 (unfinished reading)

StoffregenTA Affordances Are Enough: Reply to Chemero et al.
2017-11-09 (First section only)

HackerPMS The Conceptual Framework for the Investigation of Emotions
(in Emotions and Understanding Wittgensteinian Perspectives, Ylva Gustafsson, Camilla Kronqvist and Michael McEachrane eds (2009)
2017-11-07

HackerPMS (with BennettM) Criminal Law as It Pertains to Patients Suffering from Psychiatric Diseases 2011
2017-11-09

HardcastleVG (with C. Matthew Stewart) What Do Brain Data Really Show? (2002)
2017-11-21

CostallA Socializing Affordances (1995)
2017-11-13

WellsAJ Cognitive Science and the Turing Machine: an Ecological Perspective
in Alan Turing_ Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker-Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg (2004)
2017-11-20

WellsAJ Gibson’s Affordances and Turing’s Theory of Computation
2017-11-19 (partially read)

WilsonRA Boundaries of the Mind: The Individual in the Fragile Sciences (2004)
2017-11-20 (Second reasing of some sections)

BarrettL Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds (2011)
2017-11-25

BechtelW Explanation: Mechanism, Modularity, and Situated Cognition
2017-11-22

RollsET (with peer commentaries in B&BS) Précis of The brain and emotion
2017-11-13 (unfinished reading)

SmitH Inclusive Fitness Theory and the Evolution of Mind
and Language (2016)
2017-11-22

SandelMJ Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do (2010)
2017-11-07 (chapter 9)


2017 October

CostallA From Darwin to Watson (and Cognitivism) and Back Again: The Principle of Animal-Environment Mutuality (2004)
2017-10-12

BarrettLF The Future of Psychology: Connecting Mind to Brain (2010)
2017-10-03

SmitH Popper and Wittgenstein on the Metaphysics
of Experience (2015)
2017-10-15

RollsET Emotion and decision making explained (2013)
2017-10-19 (read some sections only)

SmitH The Social Evolution of Human Nature: From Biology to Language (2014)
2017-10-26

ScrutonR My Brain and I (2014)
2017-10-14

PankseppJ How to Undress the Affective Mind An Interview with Jaak Panksepp
2017-10-19

LoveAC Hierarchy, causation and explanation: ubiquity, locality and pluralism
2017-10-05 (must reread)

LanceM (with WhiteWH) Stereoscopic Vision Persons, Freedom, and Two Spaces of Material Inference
2017-10-12

HackerPMS (with BennettM) Chapter 7 on emotions, in Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience
2017-09-28 (second reading)

BoullierDG Le danger du "débat" lancé par Bronner et Gehin sur les sociologies (2017)
2017-10-11


2017 September

PankseppJ Exchange with BarrettLF and IzardCE:

1- BarrettLF Are Emotions Natural Kinds (2006)
2017-09-25

2a- PankseppJ Neurologizing the Psychology of Affecs (2007)
2017-09-29

2b- IzardCE Basic Emotions, Natural Kinds, Emotion Schemas, and a New Paradigm (2007)
2017-09-26 (unfinished reading)

3- BarrettLF et al. Of Mice and Men: A Response to Panksepp and Izard (2007)
2017-09-28

4- PankseppJ Cognitive Conceptualism - Where Have All the Affects Gone (2008)
2017-09-29

5- BarrettLF & LindquistKA Corrections to Panksepp (2008)
2017-09-29

IsmaelJ Interview by Andres Lomena Cantos about How Physics Makes Us Free
2017-09-10

IsmaelJ Freedom and Determinism, chapter 5 in How Physics Makes Us Free
2017-09-10

IsmaelJ From Physical Time to Human Time, chapter 6 in How Physics Makes Us Free
2017-09-12

IsmaelJ Decision and the Open Future, chapter 8 in Adrian Bardon (ed.) The Future of the Philosophy of Time - Routledge (2011)
2017-09-14

BarrettLF (With Kristen A Lindquist) A functional architecture of the human brain: emerging insights from the science of emotion (2012)
2017-09-30

BlackmanR Why Compatibilists Need Alternative Possibilities (2015)
2017-09-04

AlbertDZ Time and Chance (2008)
Chapter 6: The Asymmetries of Knowledge and Intervention
2017-09-17

KhooJ Backtracking counterfactuals, revisited
2017-09-19

MenziesP The Consequence Argument Disarmed: An Interventionist Perspective
in Beebee, Hitchcock, Price (eds) Making a difference: Essays on the philosophy of causation - OUP (2017)
2017-09-10

PankseppJ (workshop with Stephen Asma, Glennon Curran, Rami Gabriel & Thomas Greif) The Philosophical Implications of Affective Neuroscience (2010)
2017-09-20

RestallG A cut-free sequent system for two-dimensional modal logic, and why it matters (2010)
2017-09-17


2017 August

ShafferJ Causal Contextualism
2017-08-28 Chapter 2 in BlauuwM (ed) Contrastivism in Philosophy

SinnottArmstrongW Free Contrastivism
Chapter 7 in BlauuwM (ed) Contrastivism in Philosophy
2017-08-31

SmallW Practical Knowledge and the Structure of Action
Chapter in Abel & Conant eds. Rethinking Epistemology Volume 2 (2012)
2017-08-14

HitchcockC Contrastive Explanation
2017-08-25 Chapter 1 in BlauuwM (ed) Contrastivism in Philosophy

HornsbyJ A Disjunctive Conception of Acting for Reasons
Chapter 10 in Macpherson and Haddock ed. Disjunctivism: Action, Perception, Knowledge
2017-08-04 (second reading)

HornsbyJ Knowledge How in Philosophy of Action (2017)
2017-08-03

BlauuwM (ed) Contrastivism in Philosophy - Routledge (2013)
2017-08-31 Introduction

FrostK Action as the exercise of a two-way power
2017-08-18 Second reading


2017 July

ClarkeR Dispositions, Abilities to Act, and Free Will: The New Dispositionalism - clarke2009
2017-07-14

SmallW Agency and Practical Abilities
2017-07-27

SøvikAO (partial reading) Free Will, Causality and the Self
2017-07-22

SmithM Rational Capacities, or: How to Distinguish Recklessness, Weakness, and Compulsion
Chapter 1 in Stroud & Tappolet eds. Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality OUP (2003)
2017-07-06

TuckerC Agent Causation and the Alleged Impossibility of Rational Free Action
2017-07-20

VihvelinK Free Will Demystified: A Dispositional Account
2017-07-11

WallerBN A Metacompatibilist Account of Free Will, Making Compatibilists and Incompatibilists More Compatible
2017-07-20

StewardH Action as Downward Causation
2017-07-21

KannistoT Freedom as a Kind of Causality
2017-07-18

MarcusE (second reading) Events and States
Chapter 5 in Rational Causation HUP (2012)
2017-07-12

LeviDonS The Trouble with Harry
2017-07-08


2017 June

RankinWK Ifs as Labels on Cans
2017-06-13

Carl Ginet's review of Rankin's Choice and Chance
2017-06-12

SchmidtJH Newcomb's Paradox Realized with Backward Causation
2017-06-10

SpohnW Reversing 30 years of discussion: why causal decision theorists should one-box
2017-06-06

RottschaeferWA The Biology and Psychology of Moral Agency
Chapter 7: The neurophysiological bases of moral capacities: Does neurophysiology have room for moral agents?
2017-06-01

SainsburyRM Paradoxes CUP (Section on Newcomb's Probelm)
2017-06-08

AyersMR Reviews of The Refutation of Determinism by

Elizabeth Telfer (review of TROD)
2017-06-12

John W Yolton (review of TROD)
2017-06-12

K W Rankin (review of TROD)
2017-06-12

BerowskyB
Curd's review of Freedom From Necessity: The Metaphysical Basis of Responsibility
2017-06-17

John Martin Fischer's of Freedom From Necessity
2017-06-17

Widerker and Katzoff's review of Freedom From Necessity
2017-06-18

Mark Ravizza's review of Freedom From Necessity
2017-06-19

MayrE (Erasmus) Understanding Human Agency OUP (2011)
2017-06-22 to 2017-07-18

Stewart Goetz's review of Understanding Human Agency
2017-05-23

CraigWL Divine Foreknowledge and Newcomb's Paradox
(Only re-read the beginning on 2017-06-08 but found references therein to interesting one-boxing papers by GrandyRE and GalloisA)
2017-06-08

FaraM Masked Abilities and Compatibilism (2008)
2017-06-21

SpohnW Reversing 30 years of discussion: why causal decision theorists should one-box
2017-06-06

SobelJH Critical Notice John Martin Fischer, The Metaphysics of Free Will
2017-06-03

SobelJH Puzzles for the Will, chaper 2 -- Predicted Choices
2017-06-04 (About Newcomb's problem)

MenziesP (with Huw Price) Causation as a Secondary Quality (1993)
2017-06-02 (unfinished reading)

NoonanHW Two-Boxing is Irrational
2017-06-05

RobertsonLH The infected self: Revisiting the metaphor of the mind virus (2017)
2017-06-16

GrandyRE What the Well-Wisher didn't Know
2017-06-10

GalloisA How Not to Make a Newcomb Choice
2017-06-09

BurgessS The Newcomb Problem: an Unqualified Rresolution (2004)
2017-06-05

AltshulerR Character, Will, and Agency
2017-06-02

BishopJ Is Agent-Causation a Conceptual Primitive
2017-06-18


2017 May

VargasM Precis of Building Better Beings
2017-05-16

Tamler Sommers' review of Building Better Beings
2017-05-16 (To be revised; the NDR of his book BBB seems to be missing the first part)

Desert, responsibility, and justification: a reply to Doris, McGeer, and Robinson
2017-05-17 (Incomplete reading)

MumfordS (with AnjumRL) Freedom and Control: On the Modality of Free Will
2017-05-04

(with AnjumRL) Getting Causes from Powers (2011)
2017-05-15 (second reading, first chapter)

Powers, Non-Consent and Freedom
2017-05-07

ThalosM The gulf between practical and theoretical reason
2017-05-25 (Incomplete reading)

(Also read two reviews of her book: Without Hierarchy, 2017-05-24)

ListC Non-Reductive Physicalism and the Limits of the Exclusion Principle
2017-05-28

Free Will, Determinism, and the Possibility of Doing Otherwise
2017-05-30

What's wrong with the consequence argument
2017-05-31

DorisJM Doing without (arguing about) desert
2017-05-16 (Comment about Vargas' Building Better Beings)

McGeerV Building a better theory of responsibility
(Comment on Vargas' Building Better Beings)
2017-05-16

MerricksT Against the Doctrine of Microphysical Supervenience
2017-05-15

MooreD Supervenient Emergentism and Mereological Emergentism
2017-05-13

MeleAR Weakness of Will
in 'Donald Davidson', Kirk Ludwig ed. (2003)
2017-05-24

BishopRC The Hidden Premise in the Causal Argument for Physicalism
2017-05-10

BalaguerM A Coherent, Naturalistic, and Plausible Formulation of Libertarian Free Will
2017-05-18

LavinD Action as a form of temporal unity: on Anscombe’s Intention
2017-05-21

RigatoMJ Reductionism, Agency and Free Will
2017-05-08

RigatoMJ The Agent as Her Self
2017-05-09

RobinsonM Revisionism, libertarianism, and naturalistic plausibility
2017-05-16 (Comment on Vargas' Building Better Beings)

SpeakD Review of Four Wiews on Free-Will in NDPR
2017-05-18


2017 April

DeWallF Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
with Robert Wright, Christine M. Korsgaard, Philip Kitcher and Peter Singer, EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY Stephen Macedo and Josiah Ober (2006)
2017-04-07

Andrew McAninch's review of Primates and Philosophers
2017-04-06

Zed Adams' review of Primates and Philosophers
2017-04-06

Wade L. Robison's review of Primates and Philosophers
2017-04-06

AllaisL Manifest Reality: Kant’s Idealism and his Realism
Chapter 3: Things in Themselves Without Noumena
2017-04-22

BainJ Emergence in Effective Field Theories
2017-04-08

CrowtherK Decoupling emergence and reduction in physics (2013)
2017-04-10

GlymourC Android Epistemology for Babies: Reflection on Words, Thoughts and Theories (2000)
2017-04-27

KlaymanJ (with Young-Won Ha) Confirmation, Disconfirmation, and Information in Hypothesis Testing (1987)
2017-04-29

StanovichKE (with Richard F. West and Maggie E. Toplak) Intelligence and Rationality (Chapter 39 in the Cambridge Hanbook of Intelligence) (2011)
2017-04-28

HaackS Just Say "No" to Logical Negativism
chapter 12 in Putting Philosophy to Work: Inquiry and its Place in Culture
2017-04-26


2017 March

WeinbergS Reductionism Redux
Chapter 10 in Facing Up: Science and its Cultural Adversaries
2017-03-24

GroffRP Agents, Powers and Events: Humeanism and the Free Will Debate
Chapter 6 in Ontology Revisited Metaphysics in Social and Political Philosophy (2012)
2017-03-15

GroffRP Sublating the free will problematic: powers, agency and causal determination (2016)
2017-03-16

GroffRP Causal Mechanisms and the Philosophy of Causation (2016)
2017-03-19

BauerN A Peculiar Intuition: Kant's Conceptualist Account of Perception (2012)
2017-03-09

BauerN Kant's Subjective Deduction
2017-03-10

BitbolM (with Pierre Kerszberg and Jean Petitot eds) Constituting Objectivity: Transcendental Perspectives on Modern Physics (2009)
Introduction
2017-03-26 (or earlier)

BitbolM Decoherence and the Constitution of Objectivity
in Constituting Objectivity: Transcendental Perspectives on Modern Physics (2009)
2017-03-26 (or earlier)

DeutshD Constructor theory (2013)
2017-03-16 (incomplete reading)

MayrErnst Analysis or Reductionism
Chapter 10 in What Makes Biology Unique? Considerations on the autonomy of a scientific discipline (2004)
2017-03-24

MacbethD Responses to Brassier Redding and Wolfsdorf (2017)
(response to comments on her book Realizing Reason)
2017-03-01

RödlS Roedl Law as the Reality of the Free Will
2017-03-09

BonioloG Chapter 9 - Laws of Nature: The Kantian Approach (2009)
in Constituting Objectivity: Transcendental Perspectives on Modern Physics
2017-03-26 (or earlier)

HarréR Chapter 6: The Transcendental Domain of Physics (2009)
in Constituting Objectivity Transcendental Perspectives on Modern Physics
2017-03-26 (or earlier)

KauarkLeiteP Chapter 10: The Transcendental Role of the Principle of Anticipations of Perception in Quantum Mechanics (2009)
in Constituting Objectivity Transcendental Perspectives on Modern Physics
2017-03-26 (or earlier)


2017 February

BitbolM Quantum Mechanics as Generalised Theory of Probabilities (2014)
2017-02-22

EarleyJE Three Concepts of Chemical Closure and their Epistemological Significance (2010)
2017-02-23

EllisG How Can Physics Underlie the Mind: Top-Down Causation in the Human
Context (2014)
2017-02-11 (First chapter: Complexity and Emergence)

FeserE From Aristotle to John Searle and Back Again: Formal Causes, Teleology, and Computation in Nature (2016)
2017-02-21

HarréR (with Steen Brock) Nature’s affordances and formation length:
The ontology of quantum physical experiments (2016)
2017-02-21

PihlströmS Kant and Pragmatism
2017-02-24 (skipped third section)

Aaah so much interesting looking stuff here! Got a top 3?

Current:

Elizabeth Grosz - Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power (rereading)
Elizabeth Grosz - Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics, and Art

Aaah so much interesting looking stuff here! Got a top 3? — StreetlightX

Selecting only three would be tough but I'll limit myself to the five items that I judged to be outstanding. As you may guess, I've been quite impressed with Alan Costall who I only discovered recently thanks to Louise Barrett having referenced him in her book Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds.

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Bitbol Michel, Decoherence and the Constitution of Objectivity
in Constituting Objectivity: Transcendental Perspectives on Modern Physics (2009)

Bauer Nathan, A Peculiar Intuition: Kant's Conceptualist Account of Perception (2012)

Costall Alan, From Darwin to Watson (and Cognitivism) and Back Again: The Principle of Animal-Environment Mutuality (2004)

Costall Alan, The 'Meme' Meme Revisited
(Chapter 4 in Epistemological Dimensions of Evolutionary Psychology, Thiemo Breyer, Ed. 2015)

Costall Alan, From Direct Perception to the Primacy of Action: A Closer Look at James Gibson’s Ecological Approach to Psychology
(Chapter 3 in Theories of Infant Development, Gavin Bremner & Alan Slater eds, 2004)

Has there been any interesting trends/developments in philosophy within the last few years? Speculative realism (while not a movement per say), produced some interesting philosophers, but nothing interesting has come out of it in several years, least not on my radar. Looking to start something fresh and novel.

Any good book of comparative religion between Christianity and Buddhism? (I am mostly interesting in something that has a philosophical side to it, mostly from the Thomist perspective) Thanks.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception. Also, Stephen King'sFrom a Buick 8 which is about a magical car that poops out cabbage-smelling aliens.

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - Philip K Dick ... :-#
Prologemena To Any Future Metaphysics - Kant
The End Of Our Time - Berdyaev

Prologemena To Any Future Metaphysics - Kant — Noble Dust

Awww, poor you, you just spent some hours reading a text that may not be relevant anymore in light of non-Euclidean geometry ;)

I read in several places that it was a good intro to the Critique of Pure Reason, and since I have a lot of other stuff to read, I figured it would be a good crash course, and then I'll get to the Critique in the future. No?

I read in several places that it was a good intro to the Critique of Pure Reason, and since I have a lot of other stuff to read, I figured it would be a good crash course, and then I'll get to the Critique in the future. No? — Noble Dust

My comment was more tongue-in-cheek with reference to this thread:
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/2871/what-would-kant-have-made-of-non-euclidan-geomety/p1

Having read both, I don't particularly think the Prolegomena is better than the Critique to start with, though many have thought that. I think the Critique is quite thorough if you go slowly - Kant explains how he uses his terms throughout. I personally found the Prolegomena more confusing than not, and personally, I found the Critique harder, not easier to understand afterwards, since I had some judgements based on the Prolegomena that ended up being erroneous in light of the Critique.

Fair enough, noted. The intro to my copy outlines exactly where to go to get the gist of the Critique, so I'll follow that. I just don't have time for the Critique right now, my interests are too broad.

Fair enough, noted. The intro to my copy outlines exactly where to go to get the gist of the Critique, so I'll follow that. I just don't have time for the Critique right now, my interests are too broad. — Noble Dust

Hmm, I see. Then you're more likely going to enjoy literature atm I think, since the Critique (and the Prolegomena pretty much) go step by step, discussing subject after subject in depth.

Prolegomena goes straight to addressing how is mathematics possible, how is science possible and then how is metaphysics possible. That's it's structure, pretty much.

The Critique explains this whole journey in a lot more detail and shows how it actually happens.

I'm interested in all of that, but I don't have time for it right now. I have enough discipline to get through the Prolegomena. But that's about it :P

Been reading through Jared Diamond's anthropological work, following it up with Debt by David Graeber. I think this is completing my late teenage Marxist deprogramming - better follow it up by finishing 'Society of the Spectacle' and making a thread about it.

Evidence and Inquiry by Susan Haack
History and Utopia by Cioran (rereading)

Rereading Nel Nodding's Happiness and Education.

Oh, how I yearn for her philosophy of education to become manifest.

Evidence and Inquiry by Susan Haack
History and Utopia by Cioran (rereading) — Maw

I much enjoyed Haack's paper Just Say 'No' to Logical Negativism. I share her profound dissatisfaction with Popper's falsificationism. She seems to have already expressed some of her critical arguments against falsificationism in Evidence and Inquiry (I merely browsed it). A minor criticism that I may have is that she doesn't have a clear view of the possibility of a disjuctivist epistemology as a fallibilist alternative to falsificationism. She seems not to distinguish fallible epistemic grounds (or defeasible criteria, as they're also called), from fallible epistemic abilities. To be fair, almost everyone working in epistemology makes this unfortunate conflation.

Been reading through Jared Diamond's anthropological work, following it up with Debt by David Graeber. I think this is completing my late teenage Marxist deprogramming - better follow it up by finishing 'Society of the Spectacle' and making a thread about it. — fdrake

Thanks for drawing my attention to Graeber. If you've enjoyed Diamond's anthropological work (I've only read Guns, Germs and Steel, and maybe a couple chapters from The Third Chimpanzee), maybe you'll also find interesting Sterelny's The Evolved Apprentice, which I mentioned above. (I'm currently midway into the third chapter). It reaches deeper into the past than does Diamond's Guns but it articulates a conceptually overlapping framework for understanding the origins of culture.

It sounds good! Bah. I have so much to read.

I hear you. For each item that I read, ten more join my reading list. (I've learned in my probability theory class, though, that there is a way to add 10 new beads in a jar, and only draw one out at random, at each step, and end up with with an empty jar after countably infinitely many steps.)