Richard Fisher Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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My copy of @claudiahammond's excellent new book, The Keys To Kindness, echoing our home decor https://t.co/clvMvUFL9c

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@romankrznaric @derekwalker_ Footprints by David Farrier; Deep Time Reckoning by Vincent Ialenti; Timefulness by Marcia Bjornerud; What We Owe the Future by Will MacAskill; The Invention of Tomorrow by Adam Bulley, Thomas Suddendorf and Jonathan Redshaw... and, ahem, The Long View by Richard Fisher!

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The ninth writer to contribute to the Future Library will be Judith Schalansky from Germany, author of “Atlas of Remote Islands”, the novel “The Giraffe’s Neck” and “An Inventory of Losses” https://t.co/5TVRVAwwQb

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Writer @toby_tremlett - who made my book much better working with me as an RA back in 2021 - now writes a substack about ethics & philosophy called Raising Dust. His latest is a thoughtful post about how to act morally in an imperfect world. Recommended: https://t.co/bFoPJWQp0A

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First usage, which I learnt from @David_Farrier's book Footprints, was Thomas Carlyle in 1832 speculating whether the work of English writer Samuel Johnson would last the ages "...who shall compute what effects have been produced, and are still, and into deep Time, producing?"

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Richard's terrific book The Jay, The Beech and the Limpetshell is out the same day as my own, and not least because I feel we Richards should stick together, I would highly recommend it https://t.co/RiL1ZRCD8s

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Today's #longterminology is Longue Durée: An approach to history that encourages looking at the patterns of the past over large timescales rather than zeroing in on specific events. It was most recently elaborated in the book The History Manifesto, by David Armitage and Jo Guldi. https://t.co/nG0pe7ZdIH

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Today's #longterminology is the concept of Marshmallow Brains vs Acorn Brains: The “Marshmallow Brain”, coined by author @romankrznaric in his book The Good Ancestor, it is the attitude of becoming fixated on short-term desires and rewards. https://t.co/Rks0Ux8YbK

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@romankrznaric @derekwalker_ Footprints by David Farrier; Deep Time Reckoning by Vincent Ialenti; Timefulness by Marcia Bjornerud; What We Owe the Future by Will MacAskill; The Invention of Tomorrow by Adam Bulley, Thomas Suddendorf and Jonathan Redshaw... and, ahem, The Long View by Richard Fisher!

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Enjoyed editing this - I had a rough sense of David Chalmers' ideas about consciousness & reality, but Tom deftly brings them together to show how they join up. It's striking how prescient Chalmers has been, from iphones to the matrix and the metaverse https://t.co/xJLN6Ya0Ms