These books have contributed to my intellectual life.
Books with an asterisk had a major impact on my thinking...
not that I necessarily subscribe to all/any of their theories,
but that it triggered significant re-thinking
of my own ideas.
David Abram |
The Spell of the Sensuous |
James L. Adams |
Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide To Better Ideas |
Barry Anderson |
The Complete Thinker |
Roberto Assagioli |
Psychosynthesis |
Robert Axelrod |
The Evolution Of Cooperation |
Julian Baggini |
The Ego Trick |
Bandler & Grinder |
The Structure Of Magic, I |
John Barth |
Lost In The Funhouse |
Gregory Bateson |
Steps To An Ecology Of Mind |
Gregory & Mary Bateson |
Angels Fear: Toward an Epistemology of the Sacred |
Beier & Valens |
People Reading |
Morris Berman |
Coming To Our Senses |
Leonard Bloomfield |
Linguistic Aspects Of Science |
David Bohm |
Wholeness And The Implicate Order |
J. S. Bois |
The Art Of Awareness* |
Crane Brinton |
The Shaping Of Modern Thought* |
Bill Bryson |
The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way |
William H. Calvin |
The Cerebral Symphony |
Fritjof Capra |
The Tao Of Physics |
Rudolph Carnap |
Foundations Of Logic And Mathematics |
Stuart Chase |
The Tyranny Of Words |
Eldridge Cleaver |
Soul On Ice |
Stephen R. Covey |
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People |
Ram Dass |
Grist For The Mill |
Edward de Bono |
Po: A Device For Successful Thinking |
Daniel C. Dennett |
Consciousness Explained* |
Ernest Dimnet |
The Art Of Thinking |
Bertrand du Castel and Timothy M. Jurgensen |
Computer Theology - Intelligent Design of the World Wide Web* |
Ebert & Sussex |
Interacting Systems In Development* |
J. C. Eccles |
Facing Reality |
Paul Feyerabend |
Against Method |
Rudolf Flesch |
The Art Of Clear Thinking |
Buckminster Fuller |
Critical Path |
John W. Gardner |
Self-Renewal: The Individual And The Innovative Society |
James Gleick |
Chaos: Making A New Science |
Erving Goffman |
Frame Analysis* |
S. I. Hayakawa |
Language In Thought And Action |
Chip Heath & Dan Heath |
Made To Stick |
Donald Hoffman |
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes |
Douglas Hofstadter |
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Le Ton beau de Marot** |
Ray Jackendoff |
Foundations of Language |
Julian Jaynes |
The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind* |
Kenneth Johnson |
General Semantics: An Outline Survey |
Steven Johnson |
Emergence - The connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software* |
Daniel Kahneman |
Thinking, Fast and Slow |
Bernardo Kastrup |
The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality |
R. W. J. Keeble |
A Life Full Of Meaning |
Christine Kenneally |
The First Word |
Donald Keys |
Earth At Omega |
Ken Keyes Jr. |
How To Develop Your Thinking Ability |
J. Krishnamurti |
You Are The World |
Koberg & Bagnall |
The Universal Traveler |
Arthur Koestler |
The Roots Of Coincidence |
Alfred Korzybski |
Science And Sanity** |
Peter D. Kramer |
Listening To Prozac* |
Thomas Kuhn |
The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions* |
Ray Kurzweil |
The Age of Spiritual Machines* |
Alan Lakein |
How To Get Control Of Your Time And Your Life |
Ellen Langer |
Mindfulness |
Tim Leary |
Changing My Mind, Among Others |
Irving Lee |
Language Habits In Human Affairs |
Stanislaw Lem |
The Cyberiad* |
George Leonard |
The Silent Pulse |
John C. Lilly |
Programming And Metaprogramming In The Human Biocomputer |
Maxwell Maltz |
Psycho-Cybernetics* |
Abraham Maslow |
Religions, Values And Peak-Experiences |
Terence McKenna |
The Archaic Revival |
Henry Miller |
all his work* |
James Grier Miller |
Living Systems |
Marvin Minsky |
The Society Of Mind* |
Charles Morris |
Foundations Of The Theory Of Signs |
A. S. Neil |
Summerhill |
Tor Nørretranders |
The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size |
C. K. Ogden |
Basic English: International Second Language* |
Arika Okrent |
In The Land Of Invented Languages |
Robert W. Olsen |
The Art Of Creative Thinking |
P. D. Ouspensky |
Tertium Organum |
Heinz Pagels |
Dreams of Reason |
Steven Pinker |
The Language Instinct |
Neil Postman |
Teaching As A Subversive Activity |
Everett Reimer |
School Is Dead: Alternatives In Education |
Paul Reps |
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones |
Peter Russell |
The Global Brain |
Oliver Sacks |
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat |
Carl Sagan |
The Dragons Of Eden |
Edward Sapir |
Language |
Science Service |
Science News - a weekly newsmagazine of Science** |
Phillip Slater |
Earthwalk |
Paolo Soleri |
Arcology: The City In The Image Of Man* |
Shunryu Suzuki |
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind |
P. Teilhard de Chardin |
The Phenomenon Of Man |
Lewis Thomas |
The Lives Of A Cell* |
Alvin Toffler |
The Third Wave* |
Chogyam Trungpa |
The Myth Of Freedom |
Chuang Tzu |
Basic Writings |
Lao Tzu |
Tao Teh Ching |
Albert Upton, et. al. |
Creative Analysis |
Ludwig von Bertalanffy |
General System Theory |
Roger von Oech |
A Whack On The Side Of The Head |
Alan Watts |
The Book** |
Paul Watzlawick |
Change* |
Harry L. Weinberg |
Levels Of Knowing And Existence |
Benjamin Whorf |
Language, Thought And Reality |
Robert Anton Wilson |
Right Where You Are Sitting Now* |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
The Blue And Brown Books |
Tom Wujec |
Pumping Ions |
Malcolm X |
The Autobiography Of Malcolm X |
Gary Zukav |
The Dancing Wu Li Masters |
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