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Barry C Smith Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Director of the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London: taste,smell,wine. Political views my own. @barrycsmith@fediscience.org

39 books
Book Cover for: Other Minds, Anita Avramides

Other Minds

Anita AvramidesBarry C SmithBarry C Smith

@smfleming Anita Avramides is always good on this topic. She has a monograph, Other Minds and an edited collection on Knowing Other Minds with Matthew Parrot

Hardcover, 2005

$180.00$155.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Atonement, Ian McEwan

Atonement

Ian McEwanBarry C SmithBarry C Smith

@keithfrankish I know what you mean. They must stay with you. So, I’d suggest: Amongst Women by John McGahern, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, The Holiday by Stevie Smith, A Perfect Spy by John Le Carré, Atonement or Saturday by Ian McEwan, The Waves by Virginia Wolff

Paperback, 2003

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food, Chris Van Tulleken

Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

Chris Van TullekenBarry C SmithBarry C Smith

Great moment with my Dean this evening at a Courtauld reception. She told me she is reading Ultra-Processed People by @DoctorChrisVT and it has had a dramatic effect on her eating habits. Looking forward to her reaching chapter 12 https://t.co/Pz6vDDs6gi

Hardcover, 2023

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work with Other Brains, Uta Frith

Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work with Other Brains

Uta FrithBarry C SmithBarry C Smith

Wonderful evening @Ri_Science where @utafrith and @cdfrith introduce their social neuroscience lectures written and drawn as a comic book by son Alex Frith. The title of this remarkable work is Two Heads: where two neuroscientists explain how our brains work with other brains https://t.co/2C0LjojGRr

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Book Cover for: Metamorphosis, Kafka

Metamorphosis

KafkaBarry C SmithBarry C Smith

@tim_elmo Don’t know but her work on aesthetics may have mentioned him. Her lecture on personal identity was focused on Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Max Frisch’s I’m Not Stiller

Paperback, 2020

$10.97$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Rules: A Short History of What We Live by, Lorraine Daston

Rules: A Short History of What We Live by

Lorraine DastonBarry C SmithBarry C Smith

Lorraine Daston talking about rules as models for judgement @EthicsInAI suggests child and algorithms’ learning to recognize zebras are not only different but the latter are more fragile, less widely applicable and less robust than the former https://t.co/5fneF2CtZL

Paperback, 2023

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations, Herman Cappelen

Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations

Herman CappelenBarry C SmithBarry C Smith

@Helenreflects There’s also Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations by Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever. It’s very readable and focuses on whether we can explain how ML algorithms reach decisions that affect our lives

Hardcover, 2021

$46.99$23.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Harold McGee

On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

Harold McGeeBarry C SmithBarry C Smith

St John is very fine place to share thoughts on food and cooking with the incomparable @Harold_McGee . Huge thanks to Trevor Gulliver for his food and wine choices https://t.co/9cHKkY5u8J

Hardcover, 2004

$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World, Chris Frith

Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World

Chris FrithBarry C SmithBarry C Smith

@memneon @Philip_Goff @cmlittlejohn @_JamieWhyte Yes, here’s a quick sketch. There are plenty of better examples. For a start look at The Phenomenological Mind by Shaun Gallagher and Dan Zahavi and by my neuroscience colleague, Chris Frith, Making Up the Mind https://t.co/GX7cd5f60r

Paperback, 2007

$40.95$20.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The First: How to Think about Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump, Stanley Fish

The First: How to Think about Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump

Stanley FishBarry C SmithBarry C Smith

@simon_frankau @IanDunt A version of freedom of speech opportunism: my views should be heard or else you're limiting my freedom of speech; your views, nit so much. Stanley Fish's The First is very good on this: https://t.co/ch0wpIGFNu

Paperback, 2020

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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