I listened to a lecture series from http://www.thegreatcourses.com and really got into philosophy of science. It's a crazy rabbit hole but I think it's really important to forge an understanding of.
What have you recently purchased?
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
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by Bribase » Sep 06, 2011 8:29 pm
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I listened to a lecture series from http://www.thegreatcourses.com and really got into philosophy of science. It's a crazy rabbit hole but I think it's really important to forge an understanding of.
I listened to a lecture series from http://www.thegreatcourses.com and really got into philosophy of science. It's a crazy rabbit hole but I think it's really important to forge an understanding of.
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#222 by hackenslash » Sep 06, 2011 9:52 pm
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing - Dawkins
Seeing Further - Edited by Bill Bryson
I am happy to note many books in the posts of others of which I thoroughly approve, most notably The Demon-Haunted World, which everybody should read. Indeed, this book should be included on the syllabus of every education system. My own book, which is still very much in the concept stage, albeit with much of the form nailed down, is intended to be much along these lines. My goal is to produce a manual for critical thought, measured against the multifarious claims erected by the credulous and the supporters of credulity.
Seeing Further - Edited by Bill Bryson
I am happy to note many books in the posts of others of which I thoroughly approve, most notably The Demon-Haunted World, which everybody should read. Indeed, this book should be included on the syllabus of every education system. My own book, which is still very much in the concept stage, albeit with much of the form nailed down, is intended to be much along these lines. My goal is to produce a manual for critical thought, measured against the multifarious claims erected by the credulous and the supporters of credulity.
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#223 by j.mills » Sep 18, 2011 11:54 pm
Can't keep my finger off the one-click these days. 
The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics by James Kakalios
A Kingdom Far and Clear by Mark Helprin, ill. Chris Van Allsburg
The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle (RD's always banging on about it)
The Magic of Reality by RD
Julian by Gore Vidal
Strange Maps by Frank Jacobs
Nothing if not eclectic!
The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics by James Kakalios
A Kingdom Far and Clear by Mark Helprin, ill. Chris Van Allsburg
The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle (RD's always banging on about it)
The Magic of Reality by RD
Julian by Gore Vidal
Strange Maps by Frank Jacobs
Nothing if not eclectic!
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#224 by Fallible » Sep 19, 2011 12:42 pm
One day you'll buy something I've heard of.
Not purchased, but a lovely Greek lady who apparently is dark and a childe sent me the 3rd and 4th volumes of The Wheel of Time, all the way from Greek land. Marvellous!
Not purchased, but a lovely Greek lady who apparently is dark and a childe sent me the 3rd and 4th volumes of The Wheel of Time, all the way from Greek land. Marvellous!
She battled through in every kind of tribulation,
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#225 by KeenIdiot » Sep 19, 2011 1:30 pm
Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology
Really glad you can obtain used copies for cheap.
Really glad you can obtain used copies for cheap.
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#226 by j.mills » Sep 19, 2011 5:41 pm
Fallible wrote:...sent me the 3rd and 4th volumes of The Wheel of Time
I thought the series peaked with the 4th one, though the ending of the 6th was terrific. After that, it plummets like a falcon... (Mind you, I haven't read the latest couple yet.)
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There is grandeur in this view of life
Where one becomes many through struggle and strife,
But the Mother of Mysteries is another man's call:
Why is there something 'stead of nothing at all?
The Darwin Song Project
Where one becomes many through struggle and strife,
But the Mother of Mysteries is another man's call:
Why is there something 'stead of nothing at all?
The Darwin Song Project
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#227 by Fallible » Sep 19, 2011 5:51 pm
I have certainly heard that the 10th volume is unadulterated sewage and that you can skip straight to #11 without really missing anything.
She battled through in every kind of tribulation,
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#228 by j.mills » Sep 19, 2011 8:45 pm
Dammit! Goodreads have introduced an automatic 'recommendations' feature, which just suckered me into buying Bridge Of Birds by Barry Hughart. WhenamIgonnareadthat? I am a fool to myself!! 
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But the Mother of Mysteries is another man's call:
Why is there something 'stead of nothing at all?
The Darwin Song Project
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But the Mother of Mysteries is another man's call:
Why is there something 'stead of nothing at all?
The Darwin Song Project
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#229 by Varangian » Sep 19, 2011 9:10 pm
Nice book for WW2 buffs like me.
"Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings,
and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities." - H.P. Lovecraft
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#230 by mraltair » Sep 25, 2011 6:12 pm
I decided to buy the books I've been meaning to read for ages, plus a couple of others. Most of them I got for free as well.
Animal Farm - Orwell
On the Origin of Species - Darwin
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
Enter the Dragon - Theo Paphitis
Back from the Brink - Alistair Darling
There are still so many more, but I should restrict myself to these for now or I'll never finish any of them.
Animal Farm - Orwell
On the Origin of Species - Darwin
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
Enter the Dragon - Theo Paphitis
Back from the Brink - Alistair Darling
There are still so many more, but I should restrict myself to these for now or I'll never finish any of them.
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#231 by hackenslash » Sep 26, 2011 6:00 am
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science, Michael White and John Gribbin
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#232 by j.mills » Sep 26, 2011 6:12 pm
Got Cages (graphic novel) by Dave McKean (it having been mentioned in the illustrator bio in The Magic Of Reality), and the new Christopher Priest novel, The Islanders (which has a wordle on the back cover).
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There is grandeur in this view of life
Where one becomes many through struggle and strife,
But the Mother of Mysteries is another man's call:
Why is there something 'stead of nothing at all?
The Darwin Song Project
Where one becomes many through struggle and strife,
But the Mother of Mysteries is another man's call:
Why is there something 'stead of nothing at all?
The Darwin Song Project
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#233 by smudge » Sep 26, 2011 6:23 pm
In the last few weeks I've picked up
The Flamingo's Smile and Ever since Darwin by Stephen J Gould
Life Ascending by Nick Lane
Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
From The Gracchi to Nero by H H Scullard
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
and Prince Valiant vol 1 by Hal Foster.
The Flamingo's Smile and Ever since Darwin by Stephen J Gould
Life Ascending by Nick Lane
Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
From The Gracchi to Nero by H H Scullard
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
and Prince Valiant vol 1 by Hal Foster.
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#234 by j.mills » Sep 26, 2011 6:37 pm
I can recommend Life Ascending particularly. Guns, Germs and Steel is great too, but rather dry.
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There is grandeur in this view of life
Where one becomes many through struggle and strife,
But the Mother of Mysteries is another man's call:
Why is there something 'stead of nothing at all?
The Darwin Song Project
Where one becomes many through struggle and strife,
But the Mother of Mysteries is another man's call:
Why is there something 'stead of nothing at all?
The Darwin Song Project
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#235 by Varangian » Sep 26, 2011 8:36 pm
The Elven Blade by Nick Perumov, a sequel of sorts to Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, taking place 300 years after the War of the Ring. It hasn't been translated from Russian to English (yet); I got the Swedish translation.
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and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities." - H.P. Lovecraft
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#236 by j.mills » Sep 26, 2011 10:25 pm
Coo, has the Tolkein estate not jumped all over it? 
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There is grandeur in this view of life
Where one becomes many through struggle and strife,
But the Mother of Mysteries is another man's call:
Why is there something 'stead of nothing at all?
The Darwin Song Project
Where one becomes many through struggle and strife,
But the Mother of Mysteries is another man's call:
Why is there something 'stead of nothing at all?
The Darwin Song Project
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#237 by Varangian » Sep 26, 2011 10:32 pm
Given their attitude (and that of Middle-earth Enterprises, formerly known as Tolkien Enterprises), I'm amazed that he hasn't been thrown to the barrow-wights.
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#238 by Spinozasgalt » Sep 28, 2011 9:16 am
I'm pretty interested to read this. It's supposedly a metaethical account of a neo-Aristotlian virtue ethics that seeks support from evolutionary biology and other areas of science. What's impressive is that it apparently engages with the current literature and genuinely attempts to do what Harris thought he was doing with The Moral Landscape, only this author knows what he's supposed to be doing.
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#239 by THWOTH » Sep 28, 2011 11:13 am
Nice that you managed to slip in a scathing review of Harris there Spinzo. 
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Re: What have you recently purchased?
#240 by Bribase » Sep 28, 2011 11:36 am
j.mills wrote:I can recommend Life Ascending particularly. Guns, Germs and Steel is great too, but rather dry.
+1 for Life Ascending. Despite the slightly silly title I preferred it to TGSOE.
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