Things I've read

Books

Stories of Your Life and Others

by Ted Chiang

reading
July 6th 2025 →

Reality+

by David Chalmers

completed
May 7th 2025 → July 4th 2025

I've Been Thinking

by Daniel C. Dennett

completed
April 25th 2025 → May 23rd 2025

Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson

completed
April 4th 2025 → April 24th 2025

The Meaning of "Meaning"

by Hilary Putnam

rereading
March 8th 2025 →

Psychologism and Behaviorism

by Ned Block

completed
February 25th 2025 → February 27th 2025

Monism: The Priority of the Whole

by Jonathan Schaffer

completed
September 22nd 2023 →

Experimental philosophy and philosophical intuition

by Ernest Sosa

completed
September 12th 2023 →

Things That Bother Me

by Galen Strawson

completed
August 8th 2023 →

Representation in Cognitive Sciences

by Nicholas Shea

paused
March 6th 2023 →

"Actions

by Reasons

paper
philosophy → completed

Events

by David Lewis

completed
→ November 17th 2019

Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow

by David Lewis

completed
→ November 13th 2019

The Idea of Equality

by Bernard Williams

completed
→ October 27th 2019

The Price of Information

by Gary Gates

completed
→ October 23rd 2019

A Classification off Illocutionary Acts

by John R. Searle

completed
→ October 20th 2019

Consciousness and Reference

by John Campbell

completed
→ October 13th 2019

The Causal Theory of Perception

by H.P. Grice

completed
→ October 6th 2019

Intention and Uncertainty

by H.P. Grice

completed
→ September 29th 2019

Causation

by David Lewis

completed
→ September 19th 2019

"Reasoning

by Meaning and Mind"

philosophy
completed →

Holes

by "David Lewis

philosophy
completed →

"Sense

by reference and selective attention"

paper
philosophy → completed

Moral Luck

by Thomas Nagel

completed
→ July 14th 2019

Psychosemantics Epilogue: Creation Myth

by Jerry Fodor

completed
→ July 10th 2019

Mental Events

by Donald Davidson

completed
→ July 7th 2019

Three Grades of Modal Involvement

by W.V. Quine

completed
→ July 4th 2019

Psychosemantics

by Jerry Fodor

completed
→ June 25th 2019

Toward a Cognitive Theory of Consciousness

by Daniel Dennett

completed
→ June 23rd 2019

Psychosemantics 4: Meaning and the World Order

by Jerry Fodor

completed
→ June 19th 2019

Mental Paint

by Ned Block

completed
→ June 16th 2019

Reference and Modality

by W.V. Quine

completed
→ June 12th 2019

The Myth of the Subjective

by Donald Davidson

completed
→ June 9th 2019

Knowing How

by "Jason Stanley

philosophy
completed →

Metaphysics after Carnap: The Ghost Who Walks?

by Huw Price

completed
→ May 29th 2019

Skepticism about Enlightenment

by Hillary Putnam

completed
→ May 26th 2019

On What There Is

by W.V. Quine

completed
→ May 19th 2019

Ontology and Alternative Languages

by Eli Hirsch

completed
→ May 15th 2019

Two Dogmas of Empiricism

by W.V. Quine

completed
→ May 12th 2019

In Defense of a Dogma

by "Paul Grice

philosophy
completed →

Psychosemantics 2: Individualism and Supervenience

by Jerry Fodor

completed
→ May 8th 2019

Putnam and the Relativist Menace

by Richard Rorty

completed
→ May 5th 2019

Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline

by Bernard Williams

completed
→ April 28th 2019

Plato's Pharmacy and Derrida's Drugstore

by Chris Mortensen

completed
→ April 21st 2019

Plato's Pharmacy

by Jacques Derrida

completed
→ April 14th 2019

Phaedrus

by Plato

completed
→ April 7th 2019

The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts

by Iris Murdoch

completed
→ March 31st 2019

Sexual Perversion

by Thomas Nagel

completed
→ March 24th 2019

Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology

by William Alston

completed
→ March 17th 2019

Death is a Punch in the Jaw

by Felicia Ackerman

completed
→ March 10th 2019

An Argument for Skepticism

by Peter Unger

completed
→ March 3rd 2019

Deciding to Believe

by Carl Ginet

completed
→ February 24th 2019

Biology and Ethics

by Philip Kitcher

completed
→ February 17th 2019

Varieties of Naturalism

by Owen Flanagan

completed
→ February 3rd 2019

Human Nature

by David Hull

completed
→ January 27th 2019

Essentialism in Biology

by John Wilkins

completed
→ January 20th 2019

The Moral Landscape

by Sam Harris

completed
→ March 4th 2018

Mastering Logical Fallacies

by Michael Withey

completed
→ February 20th 2018

Waking Up

by Sam Harris

completed
→ February 18th 2018

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

completed
→ February 8th 2018

Lincoln in the Bardo

by George Saunders

completed
→ January 26th 2018

Are Numbers Real?

by Brian Clegg

completed
→ January 14th 2018

Artemis

by Andy Weir

completed
→ January 11th 2018

Free Will

by Sam Harris

completed
→ January 4th 2018

CivilWarland In Bad Decline

by George Saunders

completed
→ December 28th 2017

Turtles all the Way Down

by John Green

completed
→ November 29th 2017

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

completed
→ October 5th 2017

Pastoralia

by George Saunders

completed
→ September 8th 2017

Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

completed
→ August 24th 2017

Antifragile

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

completed
→ August 21st 2017

A Man for All Markets

by Edward O. Thorp

completed
→ August 18th 2017

How Emotions Are Made

by Lisa Feldman Barrett

completed
→ July 20th 2017

The Bed of Procrustes

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

completed
→ July 10th 2017

"Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller

by Sr."

biography
completed →

Ego is the Enemy

by Ryan Holiday

completed
→ June 27th 2017

Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction

by Ian Deary

completed
→ June 27th 2017

The Genius of Birds

by Jennifer Ackerman

completed
→ June 22nd 2017

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce

completed
→ June 18th 2017

Other Minds

by Peter Godfrey-Smith

completed
→ June 4th 2017

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

by Frans de Waal

completed
→ May 25th 2017

Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

completed
→ May 17th 2017

Tenth of December

by George Saunders

completed
→ May 11th 2017

The Black Swan

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

completed
→ May 10th 2017

Gratitude

by Oliver Sacks

completed
→ April 22nd 2017

Armada

by Ernest Cline

completed
→ April 21st 2017

Player Piano

by Kurt Vonnegut

completed
→ April 11th 2017

Fooled by Randomness

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

completed
→ February 18th 2017

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

by Alice Schroeder

completed
→ February 9th 2017

Flash Boys

by Michael Lewis

completed
→ February 5th 2017

Stock Market Investing For Beginners

by Tycho Press

completed
→ January 31st 2017

Stock Market 101

by Michele Cagan

completed
→ January 28th 2017

Darkness at Noon

by Arthur Koestler

completed
→ January 21st 2017

"Emergence: The connected lives of ants

by brains

Steven Johnson
book → science

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

by Cory Doctorow

completed
→ January 15th 2017

Seven Brief Lessons On Physics

by Carlo Rovelli

completed
→ January 13th 2017

Superforecasting

by Philip E. Tetlock

completed
→ December 30th 2016

Simply Complexity

by Neil F. Johnson

completed
→ December 26th 2016

What is Life?

by Erwin Schrödinger

completed
→ November 30th 2016

Chaos

by James Gleick

completed
→ November 29th 2016

The Information

by James Gleick

completed
→ November 10th 2016

Neuroplasticity

by Moheb Costandi

completed
→ October 27th 2016

The Astonishing Hypothesis

by Francis Crick

completed
→ October 19th 2016

Understanding Beliefs

by Nils J. Nilsson

completed
→ October 10th 2016

Sync

by Steven Strogatz

completed
→ October 6th 2016

Complexity: A Guided Tour

by Melanie Mitchell

completed
→ September 30th 2016

A Moveable Feast

by Ernest Hemingway

completed
→ September 9th 2016

The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking

by Edward Burger and Michael Starbird

completed
→ September 7th 2016

Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut

completed
→ September 3rd 2016

Problem Solving 101

by Ken Watanabe

completed
→ August 31st 2016

The Time Machine

by H.G. Wells

completed
→ August 31st 2016

Watchmen

by Alan Moore

completed
→ August 30th 2016

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

by Richard Feynman

completed
→ August 23rd 2016

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

completed
→ August 20th 2016

Hemingway On Writing

by Ernest Hemingway

completed
→ August 15th 2016

The Fault In Our Stars

by John Green

completed
→ August 15th 2016

The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

completed
→ August 11th 2016

Bird by Bird

by Anne Lamott

completed
→ August 8th 2016

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

completed
→ August 6th 2016

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

by Richard Dawkins

completed
→ August 16th 2015

"Superintelligence: Paths

by Dangers

book
science → completed

"Elon Musk: Tesla

by SpaceX

book
biography → completed

Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

by "Brent Schlender

biography
completed →

On Intelligence

by Jeff Hawkins

completed
→ March 31st 2015

"The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love

by Character

book
psychology → completed

What Is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology

by Addy Pross

completed
→ March 2nd 2015

The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition

by Gregory Hickok

completed
→ February 2nd 2015

Consciousness and the Social Brain

by Michael S. A. Graziano

completed
→ January 22nd 2015

The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

by Richard Feynman

completed
→ January 6th 2015

Consciousness Explained

by Daniel C. Dennett

completed
→ December 19th 2014

Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts

by Stanislas Dehaene

completed
→ October 12th 2014

"Zero to One: Notes on Startups

by or How to Build the Future"

book
business → completed

Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

by "John T. Cacioppo

psychology
completed →

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

by Nir Eyal

completed
→ June 22nd 2014

Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products

by Leander Kahney

completed
→ June 13th 2014

"Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money

by Power

Nick Bilton
book → business

Made to Stick

by "Chip Heath

business
completed →

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

completed
→ July 31st 2013

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

by Walter Isaacson

completed
→ June 22nd 2013

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

by Michael E. Gerber

completed
→ June 10th 2013

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

completed
→ June 5th 2013

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

by Charles Duhigg

completed
→ May 24th 2013

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

by Jonah Berger

completed
→ May 2nd 2013

How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day

by Michael J. Gelb

completed
→ April 16th 2013

"Lean In: Women

by Work

book
business → completed

How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

by Ray Kurzweil

completed
→ March 18th 2013

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

by Carol Dweck

completed
→ February 2nd 2013

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

by David Allen

completed
→ January 21st 2013

Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

by Roy Baumeister

completed
→ January 9th 2013

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

by Neil Strauss

completed
→ December 4th 2012

"Surely You're Joking

by Mr. Feynman!"

autobiography
completed →

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

by Jonathan Haidt

completed
→ August 5th 2012

The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

by Olivia Fox Cabane

completed
→ July 5th 2012

"Thinking

by Fast and Slow"

psychology
completed →

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries

completed
→ February 17th 2012

Ultramarathon Man: Confession of an All-Night Runner

by Dean Karnazes

completed
→ February 12th 2012

"Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe

by Superathletes

book
sports → completed

The Other Kind of Smart: Simple Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence for Greater Personal Effectiveness and Success

by Harvey Deutschendorf

completed
→ January 8th 2012

Spontaneous Happiness

by Andrew Weil

completed
→ December 18th 2011

Autobiography of a Yogi

by Paramahansa Yogananda

completed
→ November 24th 2011

Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

completed
→ October 24th 2011

The Thank You Economy

by Gary Vaynerchuk

completed
→ July 1st 2011

The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

by Brian Greene

completed
→ July 1st 2011

Rework

by Jason Fried

completed
→ April 16th 2011

Foundation

by Isaac Asimov

completed
→ February 21st 2011

Speaker for the Dead

by Orson Scott Card

completed
→ January 25th 2011

Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

completed
→ January 17th 2011

Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand

completed
→ January 17th 2011

Aesop's Fables

by translated by Laura Gibbs

completed
→ October 30th 2010

As I Lay Dying

by William Faulkner

completed
→ October 29th 2010

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

completed
→ October 28th 2010

How to Read and Write a Sentence

by Stanley Fish

completed
→ October 27th 2010

On Writing Well

by William Zinsser

completed
→ October 26th 2010

On Writing

by Stephen King

completed
→ October 25th 2010

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

completed
→ October 24th 2010

Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

completed
→ October 23rd 2010

Mortality

by Christopher Hitchens

completed
→ October 22nd 2010

The Sense of Style

by Steven Pinker

completed
→ October 21st 2010

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

completed
→ October 20th 2010

Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

completed
→ October 19th 2010

This is Water

by David Foster Wallace

completed
→ October 18th 2010

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

completed
→ October 17th 2010

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

completed
→ October 16th 2010

Slaughterhouse Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

completed
→ October 15th 2010

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

completed
→ October 14th 2010

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

completed
→ October 13th 2010

Charlotte's Web

by E.B. White

completed
→ October 12th 2010

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

completed
→ October 11th 2010

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

completed
→ October 10th 2010

"Gödel

by Escher

book
computer science → completed

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson

completed
→ October 10th 2010

Systems Thinking

by Donella Meadows

completed
→ October 10th 2010

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

completed
→ October 10th 2010

The Selfish Gene

by Richard Dawkins

completed
→ October 10th 2010

1984

by George Orwell

completed
→ October 10th 2010

The Consolations of Philosophy

by Alain de Botton

completed
→ October 10th 2010

The God Delusion

by Richard Dawkins

completed
→ October 10th 2010

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

completed
→ October 10th 2010

The 4-Hour Workweek

by Tim Ferriss

completed
→ June 27th 2010

"Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits

by Passion

book
biography → completed

The Windup Girl

by Paolo Bacigalupi

completed
→ May 26th 2010

Freedom (TM)

by Daniel Suarez

completed
→ April 28th 2010

Daemon

by Daniel Suarez

completed
→ April 12th 2010

How to Read a Person Like a Book

by "Gerard I. Nierenberg

psychology
completed →

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

by Malcolm Gladwell

completed
→ January 2nd 2010

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

by Seth Godin

completed
→ October 11th 2009

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook

by Ben Mezrich

completed
→ September 17th 2009

"Trading for a Living: Psychology

by Trading Tactics

book
finance → completed

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

by Stephen R. Covey

completed
→ February 9th 2009

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

by Dan Ariely

completed
→ October 9th 2008
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