Books tagged 'philosophy'

Finished

• Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (180)
• Paul Bloom, The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning (2021)
• Luke Burgis, Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life (2021)
• Tyler Cowen, Stubborn Attachments (2018)
• Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft (2009)
• Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (2006)
• Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow (1998)
• Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset (2021)
• Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus (2017)
• Sam Harris, Free Will (2012)
• Sam Harris, Waking Up (2014)
• Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979)
• Jim Holt, Why Does the World Exist? (2011)
• Alan Jacobs, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (2011)
• John Stuart Mill, The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill (1872)
• C. Thi Nguyen, Games: Agency as Art (2020)
• Michael Nielsen, Reinventing Discovery (2011)
• Bruce Schneier, Data and Goliath (2015)
• Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise (2012)
• Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Everybody Lies (2017)
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan (2007)
• Peter Thiel, Zero to One (2014)
• Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
• Voltaire, Candide (1759)
• Susan R. Wolf, Meaning in Life and Why it Matters (2010)
• Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress (2004)
• Eliezer Yudkowsky, Inadequate Equilibria (2017)

Skimmed, sampled from, or abandoned

• Paul Bloom, How Pleasure Works (2010)
• Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence (2014)
• Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion (1991)
• James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games (1986)
• Confucius, The Analects (429 BC)
• Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong (2014)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays (1844)
• Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens (2011)
• Keith Johnstone, Impro (1979)
• Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living (1990)
• Shelly Kagan, Death (2012)
• Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (~600 BC)
• Sun Tzu, The Art of War (~500 BC)