David Chapman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Tracts of the Sun: An Earth-Orbit of Vajryana Expressions
Ngakpa ChögyamDavid Chapman࿇ Today’s entry from _Tracts of the Sun_, a book of pith instructions on Vajrayana by Ngakpa Chögyam & Khandro Déchen, organized as one page per day. Good to read before your daily sit, perhaps! (“Changchub sem” is the Tibetan term (mis)translated as “compassion.”) https://t.co/uNtpuh7xSx
Paperback, 2022
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Pieces of the Action
Vannevar BushDavid ChapmanVannevar Bush (who reinvented science, and also sorta the internet) in _Pieces of the Action_, new from @stripepress https://t.co/3Ys51eaOxw
Hardcover, 2022
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Travels in the Netherworld: Buddhist Popular Narratives of Death and the Afterlife in Tibet
Bryan J. CuevasDavid Chapman@vinodkhare @_awbery_ Aha! By coincidence, when looking for something else, I figured out what was the book we were trying to find and couldn’t. It is Brian J. Cuevas, Travels in the Netherworld (2008). I have a file of notes I’ll send you
Paperback, 2011
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Dzogchen Samaya
Keith DowmanDavid Chapman࿇ Oh dear. We may be in some trouble regarding point 8 here. [From Keith Dowman’s book on Dzogchen Samaya.] https://t.co/PwvbB1YsrJ
Paperback, 2020
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Science: The Endless Frontier
Vannevar BushDavid ChapmanVannevar Bush (who reinvented science, and also sorta the internet) in _Pieces of the Action_, new from @stripepress https://t.co/3Ys51eaOxw
Paperback, 2008
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The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won't Admit It
Jason WeedenDavid Chapman@RichardHanania @bryan_caplan And his book with Kurzban, “The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won't Admit It.” They’ve got some pretty clever ways of separating covert self-interest from professed motivations.
Paperback, 2016
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Philosophy of Biology
Peter Godfrey-SmithDavid Chapman@krowney @michael_nielsen Peter Godfrey-Smith’s _Philosophy of Biology_ is a good introduction, reasonably recent (it’s a very slow-moving field), so you can follow citations that look interesting there
Paperback, 2016
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Dzogchen: Bardo
Keith DowmanDavid ChapmanDzogchen is the legacy of being human [Keith Dowman] https://t.co/roPpSdUzRO
Paperback, 2020
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The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination
John Livingston LowesDavid ChapmanLike @bbenzon I fell in love with "Kubla Khan" as a teenager, was then massively inspired by John Livingston Lowes' book _The Road To Xanadu_ about how Coleridge wrote it—which seemed to reveal previously unimagined mechanisms of thought—
Hardcover, 2016
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Man's Search for Himself
Rollo MayDavid ChapmanThe explosion of cosmic meaning in 1940, in what seems to be the current sense of “considered important by God”, seems to be due to a book by theologian Edwin Aubrey, “Man’s Search for Himself,” which was NOT the existentialist one by Rollo May, same title, a decade later. https://t.co/GmxfYKQbAm
Paperback, 2009
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