Thomas S. Kuhn
Scientific knowledge evolves through paradigm shifts, argues Kuhn in this highly influential work.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Category: Erudition
Influential reading
Sein und Zeit
Martin Heidegger
[Being and Time]
On the Genealogy of Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche
Is there anyone else?
The Blue and Brown Books
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Hailed by some as the ultimate introduction to Language and Truth, I personally consider them boring and repetitive.
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Astonishing Hypothesis
Francis Crick
A good argument in favour of the philosophy of Materialism. The content almost makes up for what it lacks in humility.
Against Method
Paul Feyerabend
A hugely entertaining and unique anarchistic philosophy of science. To progress knowledge, “anything goes”: propaganda, subterfuge, …
Adventures of Ideas
Alfred North Whitehead
The Self-organizing Economy
Paul Krugman
A short and simple look at some examples of self-organization in economics.
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and the Production of Entropy: Life, Earth and Beyond
Edited by Alex Kleidon & Ralph Lorenz
The best of very few available works dealing with the upcoming field
of disequilibrium thermodynamics.