Illusionism as a theory of consciousness edited by Keith Frankish 2017
Illusionism still wins by a short head. Acres of print is given over to increasingly elaborate...
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Category: PHILOSOPHY BOOKS
The singularity, edited by Uziel Awret, 2016
Climate change worries crowd out the potentially much greater impact of the singularity. The...
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The alignment problem by Brian Christian 2021
How do we ensure that AI will have the same values as humans? Brian Christian’s book asks...
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Towards a code of ethics for artificial intelligence by Paula Boddington 2017
AI ethics remains a big unsolved problem. The more that one thinks about AI ethics, the more one...
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The sociological imagination by C Wright Mills 1959
The worries of a sociologist 60 years ago are pertinent today. Back in 1959, C. Wright Mills...
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The new long life by Andrew Scott and Lynda Gratton 2020
Multistage lives will make you think harder about you lead yours. We are all living longer and...
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Responsible artificial intelligence by Virginia Dignum 2019
A worthy introduction to the vexed question of AI ethics. Dignum’s book lists the areas we need to...
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Future politics by Jamie Susskind 2018
Begins to explore the future of society in a pan-tech world. We are only just beginning to think...
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The self delusion by Tom Oliver 2020
An impassioned appeal for a more connected world. Oliver thinks we are way out of kilter because...
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Galileo’s error by Philip Goff 2019
An elegant articulation of the panpsychist position. In ancient Greek mythology, Scylla and...
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The feeling of life itself by Christof Koch 2019
Integrated information theory of consciousness becomes panpsychism. Koch elegantly explains the...
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Free will by Sam Harris 2012
A crystal clear exposition of why free will is an illusion. This is a great book. It is short and...
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The righteous mind by Jonathan Haidt 2012
Morally, we’re largely intuitive, with limited reasoning powers. The righteous mind is a difficult...
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Identity by Francis Fukuyama 2018
A different perspective on ‘self’. Fukuyama’s book is actually about the modern phenomenon of...
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The mind doesn’t work that way by Jerry Fodor 2000
A cautionary note on the validity of computational theory of mind. His book is 18 years old now...
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Consciousness: confessions of a romantic reductionist by Christof Koch 2012
Another subscriber to integrated information theory. After years spent trying to hunt down the...
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Consciousness A Very Short Introduction by Susan Blackmore 2017
Consciousness is a delusion. The attraction of this book is that it is concise, while covering a...
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Neuroscience & Philosophy, curated by Daniel Robinson 2007
Neuroscience & Philosophy is an attractive and digestible book linking up consciousness as a...
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The ego trick by Julian Baggini 2011
The ego trick is a very satisfying book, as far as it goes: it covers a considerable amount of...
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Freedom & Neurobiology by John Searle 2004
This is a handy little book that sets out, predominantly, some reflections by Searle on the nature...
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