Erik Hoel 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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Scientist and author. Better on substack than twitter: https://t.co/CKyLzw5bHK
Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars
Avi LoebErik Hoel4. Speaking of aliens, Avi Loeb wants to fund an expedition to dig up an interstellar (from outside our solar system) object that crashed into the ocean eight years ago. https://t.co/W2QKH3byki
Hardcover, 2023
$28.99Member price:$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Common Reader
Virginia WoolfErik HoelPost by @HenryEOliver at The Common Reader discussing Annie Ernaux, auto-fiction, the OBH theory of fiction and how the supersensorium feeds our dream drive empty calories, and the 100th anniversary of Eliot's The Waste Land https://t.co/igtqbE81E7
Paperback, 2002
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Proust Was a Neuroscientist
Jonah LehrerErik HoelLike Proust was a Neuroscientist was actually a great book by Jonah Lehrer. I'm not sure I understand the pathology of making up quotes, but I can kind of understand how an intense pride could lead to that, a pride developed after a few major successes
Paperback, 2023
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
David J. ChalmersErik Hoel5. Is life in a virtual world meaningful though? David Chalmers has an interesting book on this called Reality+ https://t.co/pAQ9PEOPIE. In it, he defends the idea that virtual realities are the same as real realities, because you can do things like refer to digital objects, etc https://t.co/raD28CTcgV
Paperback, 2023
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Waste Land: A Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound
T. S. EliotErik HoelPost by @HenryEOliver at The Common Reader discussing Annie Ernaux, auto-fiction, the OBH theory of fiction and how the supersensorium feeds our dream drive empty calories, and the 100th anniversary of Eliot's The Waste Land https://t.co/igtqbE81E7
Hardcover, 2022
$40.00Member price:$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
What We Owe the Future
William MacaskillErik Hoel2. Which was followed up by a review of William MacAskill's recent book What We Owe the Future, pointing out specific repugnancies that he seemed to flirt with https://t.co/4pEImxvHZt
Hardcover, 2022
$32.00Member price:$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Consolation of Philosophy
Ancius BoethiusErik HoelBoethius took the best Substack name of all time 1,500 years ago: The Consolation of Philosophy
Paperback, 2000
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian JaynesErik Hoel@sofia_lusiani Oh really? That's weird. The title is "Retrospective: Julian Jaynes and The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" and it's from 2012. If you do a search on sci-hub you should find it.
Paperback, 2000
$25.99Member price:$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Autobiography
Bertrand RussellErik HoelBertrand Russell's grandmother, in my read, gets a bad rap in his autobiography. But she actually gives him a great education - training him to be prime minister. I find Russell's adult hatred for her, and inability to forgive her, immature. https://t.co/c7nas7jOV7
Paperback, 2009
$38.99Member price:$37.04 + Free shipping5% off