The following is a list of select works, organized by category, that have conditioned my (mis)understanding.
[Know of a book I should read? E-mail me!]
Influential reading
The following is a list of select works, organized by category, that have conditioned my (mis)understanding.
[Know of a book I should read? E-mail me!]
Paulo FreireI read this in translation. To this day I am uncertain what I got out of it. What I have understood of ‘Critical pedagogy’ does not strike me as profound.
The ultimate book on colour!
Ludwig Wittgenstein“Why, would it be unthinkable that I should stay in the saddle however much the facts bucked?” Brother L.W. speaks my language.
Hilary PutnamConstrained conceptual relativism. I like it.
Konrad Lorenz (1966)
Searching for the roots of human aggression in other animals.
“What experience and history teach us is this – that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.” – Georg Wilhelm Hegel
Sigmund Schlomo FreudAn amusing psychoanalytical approach to civiliization.
Robert ArdreyA classic, original and fairly radical thesis on the important link forged between individuals and the territory they inhabit.

Aldo Leopold
The finest naturalist writing I have ever encountered in the English language. Although descriptive rather than formally philosophical, the Almanac represents the first Western call for the incorporation of our non-human environment into an overarching ethical framework that I know of.