Reading Log

A running log of recent books that have shaped my research interests and agenda. I hope to go back and add notes about various works that have been particularly influential.

  1. The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us

    Benjamin Recht (2026)

    Computer Science
  2. What’s the Use of Philosophy?

    Philip Kitcher (2023)

    Philosophy
  3. Why We Cooperate

    Michael Tomasello (2009)

    Philosophy of Science
  4. Measurement: A Very Short Introduction

    David J. Hand (2016)

    Measurement Science
  5. A Brief History of Intelligence

    Max Bennett (2023)

    Philosophy of Mind
  6. The Social Construction of What?

    Ian Hacking (1999)

    Philosophy of Social Science
  7. A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness

    Michael Pollan (2026)

    Philosophy of Mind
  8. The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences

    Brian Epstein (2015)

    Philosophy of Social Science
  9. Social Ontology

    Brian Epstein (2025)

    Social Ontology
  10. Causation: A User’s Guide

    L. A. Paul and Ned Hall (2013)

    Metaphysics
  11. Truth and Method

    Hans-Georg Gadamer (1960)

    Hermeneutics
  12. The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking

    Shannon Vallor (2024)

    Ethics
  13. Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation

    Jonathan Lear (2006)

    Ethics
  14. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century

    Harry Braverman (1974)

    Political Economy
  15. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

    Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)

    Philosophy of Science
  16. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

    Peter Godfrey-Smith (2003)

    Philosophy of Science