Dr. Michael J. Laszlo

Some Favorite Non-CS Books


Non-fiction

The Essential David Bohm by David Bohm

Cognitive Linguistics by William Croft and D. Alan Cruse

The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins

Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett

The Phenomenological Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science by Shaun Gallagher and Dan Zahavi

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

The Machinery of Life by David Goodsell

Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See by Donald Hoffman

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

Freedom from the Known by Jiddu Krishnamurti and Mary Lutyens (editor)

Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction by William Lycan

Physics for Poets by Robert March

Action in Perception by Alva Noe

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

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas

Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind by Evan Thompson

The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound by Roberto Mangabeira Unger

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
 

Poetry

The Palm at the End of the Mind by Wallace Stevens

The Great Enigma by Tomas Transtromer

Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology by Helen Vendler


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