I have this weird affliction of rather starting a new book than finishing the ones I am already reading, so this is just a small snippet of my rather large (too large, it's a rather unweildy and confusing reading-habit I wouldn't recommend in too large doses) currently-reading list (which features remarkably few bad ones and many AWESOME ones):
An introduction to Philosophical Analysis by John Hospers - freaking WONDERFUL. One of the clearest basic-level books I have read on the subject. Recommended for everyone.
Explaining the Universe. The New Age of Physics by John M. Charap. Nothing new which isn't explained more beautifully and more in-depth by others (Simon Singhs Big Bang and Bill Brysons wonderful and wider-reaching A Short History of Nearly Everything), but maybe a good introductory book to modern physics for us laymen and a good memory jog.
Siddharta by Herman Hesse. It will make you love life.
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville. As of yet one of the very best fantasy novels I've read. Well-written, colourful, and steampunk. With communistic birds.
Philosophy of Mind by Ian Ravenscroft. I was bound to be biased positively against this one - cognitive sciences are one of my major penchants - but yeah, informative.
Argumentationsteori, språk och vetenskapsfilosofi (Theory of Argumentation, Languages and Philosophy of Science by Dagfinn Föllesdal, Lars Wallöe, Jon Elster (damn my keyboard for not having a Norwegian/Danish ö). I like its excursions into totally different fields of research and thought to prove its point and the necessity of a basic knowledge of, well, the topic they so clearly put in the title.
I swear, analystical philsosophy need to learn using more cool titles, like its continental twin.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Not as unsettling and postmodern I thought it'd be, but wow. It's awesome nonetheless.
And then I am reading from a collection of original texts by various thinkers of the 17th-18th centuries - Blaise Pascal's far more agreeable than his Wager led me to think, for one.
In short - my university has good taste in course literature. |