Virion Reading List

Table of Contents

• David's Top 10
• Philosophy
• Evolution
• Cognitive Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Life
• Complexity
• Technology
• Space
• Magazines & Journals
• Fiction

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Introductory

• Smullyan, Raymond, 5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1983.
• Osborne, Richard, Philosophy for Beginners. Writers and Readers, Inc., 1992.
• Martin, Robert M., There Are Two Errors.... Broadview Press, 1992.

General

• Russel, Bertrand, Sceptical Essays. Routledge, 1993.
• Lacey, A. R., A Dictionary of Philosophy. Routledge, 1976.

Epistemology

• Bartley, W. W., The Retreat to Commitment. Open Court, London, 1984.
• Munz, Peter, Philosophical Darwinism. Routledge, London and New York, 1993.

Philosophy of Mind

• Bechtel, W., Philosophy of Mind: An Overview of Cognitive Science. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988.
• Churchland, P. M., A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science. MIT Press, 1989.
• Churchland, P. M., Matter and Consciousness. MIT Press, 1984.
• Dennett, D. C., Consciousness Explained. Little, Brown and Co., 1991.
• Dennett, D. C., Elbow Room . MIT Press, 1984.
• Dennett, D. C., The Intentional Stance. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1987.

Philosophy of Biology

• Dennett, D. C., Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Simon and Schuster, 1995.
• Sober, E., Philosophy of Biology. Westview Press, 1993.
• Schrödinger, E., What Is Life? Cambridge University Press, 1967.

Philosophy of Religion

• Leedom, Tim C., The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read. publisher?
• Martin, M., Atheism: a philosophical justification. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1990.

Game Theory

• Poundstone, W., The Prisoners Dilemma. Doubleday, 1992.

Philosophy thinly disguised as fiction

• Pirsig, Robert. Lila.,
• Pirsig, Robert. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.,
• Rand, A. Atlas Shrugged.,

• Axelrod, R., The evolution of strategies in the interated prisoner's dilemma. In L. Davis, editor, Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing, chapter 3, pages 32-41. Morgan Kaufman, 1987.
• Casti, J., and Karlquist, A., ed. Cooperation and Conflict in General Evolutionary Processes. John Wiley and Sons, 1995.
• Cziko, Gary, Without Miracles. Bradford/MIT Press, 1995. (ISBN 0-262-3232-5)
• Dawkins, R., River Out of Eden. BasicBooks, 1995.
• Dawkins, R., The Blind Watchmaker. Penguin, 1988.
• Dawkins, R., The Extended Phenotype. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983.
• Dawkins, R., The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1976.
• Darwin, C. The Origin of Species. Penguin Books, 1968.
• Farmer, D., et al, ed. Evolution, Games and Learning: Models for Adaptation in Machines and Nature. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1986.
• Holland, J. H., Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1975.
• Kauffman, S. A., The Origins of Order: Self-organization and Selection in Evolution. Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Sagan, Carl and Ann Druyan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors : A Search for Who We Are. Random House, 1992.

  The world's most celebrated team of science writers explores the origins of human life on Earth--a wonderfully entertaining and awe-inspiring excursion through more than a billion years of evolution. Beginning with a vivid account of Darwin and his theory of evolution, the authors set out to reconstruct the forgotten links in our chain of being, thus illuminating our ability to understand and change ourselves.
  

• Bloom, Howard, The Lucifer Principle. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1995. review
• Livingston, John H., Rogue Primate. Key Porter Books Ltd., 1994. review
• Wright, Robert, The Moral Animal. Random House, 1994.

• Calvin, William H., The Cerebral Symphony. Bantam Books, 1989.
• Hofstadter, Douglas R., Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Basic Books, 1979.
• McCrone, J., The Myth of Irrationality. MacMillan, London, 1993.
• Minsky, M., Society of Mind. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1986.
• Piattelli-Palmarini, M., Inevitable Illusions: how mistakes of reason rule our minds. John Wiley & Sons, 1994.

Memetics

• Boyd, R and Richarson, P. J. Culture and the Evolutionary Process. publisher?, 1995.
• Brodie, Richard., Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme . Integral Press, 1996.
• Dawkins, R., The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as a Unit of Selection. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983.
• Dawkins, R., The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1976.

• Beer, R. D., Intelligence as Adaptive Behavior, volume 6 of Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence. Academic Press, 1990.
• Graubard, Stephen R., ed. The Artificial Intelligence Debate. MIT Press, 1988.
• Moravec, H., Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1988.

• Langton, Christopher G., ed., Artificial Life, The Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. Addison Wesley, 1989.
• Levy, Steven, Artificial Life. Pantheon Books, New York, 1992.
• Sigmund, K., Games of Life. Oxford University Press. New York, 1993.

• Gleick, James, Chaos: Making a New Science. Penguin, 1987.
• Kauffman, Stuart. Origins of Order. Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Kauffman, Stuart. At Home in the Universe. Oxford University Press, 1995.
• Kelly, Kevin. Out of Control. Addison-Wesley, 1994.
• Lewin, Roger., Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos. MacMillan, 1992.
• Pagels, Heinz. R., The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1988.

• Burke, James, Connections., Little, Brown & Company, 1978. review
• Burke, James, The Day the Universe Changed., Little, Brown & Company, 1985 review
• Delanda, Manuel, War In The Age of Intelligent Machines., Zone Books, 1991.
• Engines of Creation., Anchor Books.
• Eisenstein, Elizabeth, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change., publisher? review
• Petroski, Henry, To Engineer is Human., publisher? review
• Rhodes, Richard, The Making of the Atomic Bomb., publisher? review
• Rushkoff, Douglas, Media Virus!., publisher?
• Yergin, Daniel, The Prize., publisher? review

• Savage, Marshall T., The Millennial Project., Little, Brown & Co., 1994.
• Lerner, Eric J., The Big Bang Never Happened., publisher?, 1994.

• Adaptive Behavior
• Artificial Life
• Evolutionary Computation
• Extropy
• Skeptic review
• Wired

• Nagata, Linda. Tech Heaven.,
• Sagan, Carl. Contact.,
• Stephenson, Neal. Snow Crash.,
• Stiegler, Mark. David's Sling.,
• Zindell, David. The Broken God.,

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