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Reading

Reading

Here are some books I've read and a pulse on how I think about reasoning, systems, and the bridge between abstract logic and applied ethics.

Reasoning & Systems
Logic, Probability, Epistemology, Formal Structures
Applied Ethics & Tech
AI Ethics, Philosophy of Technology, Justice Frameworks
Idea Pathways

Core Perspectives

The lens through which I read everything else on this page.

Library

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Republic

Plato

Critique of Pure Reason

Immanuel Kant

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Probability Theory: The Logic of Science

E.T. Jaynes

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas Hofstadter

On Formally Undecidable Propositions

Kurt Gödel

Computing Machinery and Intelligence

Alan Turing

A Theory of Justice

John Rawls

Reasons and Persons

Derek Parfit

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Stranger

Albert Camus

Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle

Two Dogmas of Empiricism

Willard Van Orman Quine

Naming and Necessity

Saul Kripke

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Karl Popper

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Knowledge and Its Limits

Timothy Williamson

The Sciences of the Artificial

Herbert Simon

Thinking in Systems

Donella Meadows

Cybernetics

Norbert Wiener

Rationality: AI to Zombies

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The Idea of Justice

Amartya Sen

Human Compatible

Stuart Russell

The Alignment Problem

Brian Christian

Atlas of AI

Kate Crawford

The Open Society and Its Enemies

Karl Popper

The View from Nowhere

Thomas Nagel

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

Word and Object

Willard Van Orman Quine

Foundations of Statistics

Leonard Savage

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Nick Bostrom

The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality

Luciano Floridi

Genesis

Hebrew Bible

Inferno

Dante Alighieri

Paradise Lost

John Milton

Richard II

William Shakespeare

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

The Bhagavad Gita

Vyasa

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

The Gospel of Matthew

Matthew

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano

The Mahabharata

Vyasa

The Oresteia

Aeschylus

The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

The Poetic Edda

Various

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

The Quran

Revealed to Prophet Muhammad

The Root Stanzas of the Middle Way

Nāgārjuna

The Septuagint

Various

The Shahnameh

Ferdowsi

Why Evolution Is True

Jerry Coyne