Dr. Michael J. Laszlo

Some Favorite Non-CS Books


Non-fiction

The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins

Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett

An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of Mind by Ian Glynn

Philosophy of Mind by Jaegwon Kim

The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach by Christof Koch

The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics by Edna Kramer

Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction by William Lycan

Physics for Poets by Robert March

The Origins of Life: From the birth of life to the origins of language by John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker

Gravity from the Ground Up by Bernard Schutz

The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas

The Illusion of Conscious Will by Daniel Wegner
 

Fiction

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Magus by John Fowles

Mickelsson's Ghosts by John Gardner

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

The Ciderhouse Rules by John Irving

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Life of Pi by Yan Martel

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Saturday by Ian McEwan

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

All the Names by Jose Saramago

Sophie's Choice by William Styron

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein


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