Galactic Acid Test 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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The Revolutionary Kant: A Commentary on the Critique of Pure Reason
Graham BirdGalactic Acid Test@xgabegottliebx @siahpoosh_sina Graham Bird's "The Revolutionary Kant" and Jay Rosenberg's "Accessing Kant" are both at the top of my list.
Paperback, 2006
$79.95Member price:$54.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do
Erik J. LarsonGalactic Acid Test"The Myth of Artificial Intelligence" by Erik Larson, on why the missing ingredient in AGI is that we have no idea how to automate abductive inference. This got me thinking about the connection between embodied cognitive science, abductive inference, and semantic information.
Paperback, 2022
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Children of Memory
Adrian TchaikovskyGalactic Acid Test"Knowledge and understanding is the crown atop the hierarchy of needs, the thing you can't have enough of" (Adrian Tchaikovsky, "Children of Memory").
Paperback, 2023
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Accessing Kant: A Relaxed Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason
Jay F. RosenbergGalactic Acid Test@xgabegottliebx @siahpoosh_sina Graham Bird's "The Revolutionary Kant" and Jay Rosenberg's "Accessing Kant" are both at the top of my list.
Paperback, 2005
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Levels of Organic Life and the Human: An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology
Helmuth PlessnerGalactic Acid Test"Levels of Organic Life and the Human" (Plessner) "Linguistic Bodies" (Di Paolo, Cuffari, and De Jaegher) "Sensorimotor Life" (Di Paolo, Buhrmann, and Barandiaran) "The Mark of the Mental" (Neander) "Neurocognitive Mechanisms" (Piccinini) "The Single-Minded Animal" (Stovall)
Paperback, 2019
$39.00Member price:$39.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
The Philosophy of Affordances
Manuel Heras-EscribanoGalactic Acid TestI've been reading "Philosophy of Affordances" by Heras-Escribano. It's helping me see why ecological psychology can avoid some difficulties with enactivism.
Hardcover, 2019
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The Strategy of Life: Teleology and Mechanics in Nineteenth Century German Biology
T. LenoirGalactic Acid Test@pachabelcanon I finished "The Romantic Conception of Life" by Richards and just started "The Strategy of Life" by Lenoir.
Paperback, 2011
$249.99Member price:$237.49 + Free shipping5% off
Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Andy ClarkGalactic Acid Test@11kilobytes @tim_elmo I would recommend Paul Churchland's short textbook "Matter and Consciousness" to get a sense of philosophy of mind as informed by science. Andy Clark's "Mindware" is a good introduction to cognitive science. So it all of Margaret Boden's work.
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Organisms, Agency, and Evolution
D. M. WalshGalactic Acid Test"Incomplete Nature" (Deacon) "God, Value, and Nature" (Ellis) "Reenchanted Science" (Harrington) "Organisms, Agency, and Evolution" (Walsh) "The Romantic Conception of Life" (Richards) "Gestalt Psychology" (Koehler) "Gestalt Psychology in German Culture" (Ash)
Paperback, 2018
$45.00Member price:$42.75 + Free shipping5% off
Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature
Peter Godfrey-SmithGalactic Acid Test@thehangedman @Dewey_Center I'm reading Peter Godfrey-Smith on Dewey in "Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature," does that count?
Paperback, 1998
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