Here there is a list of posts where there are quotes from books or comments and discussion of books.
A Computable Universe: Understanding and Exploring Nature as Computation
Best of the Brain from Scientific American: Mind, Matter, and Tomorrow’s Brain
Justin L. Barrett, Cognitive Science, Religion, and Theology: From Human Minds to Divine Minds
Beyond Mechanism: Putting Life Back Into Biology
- The Uses of a Screwdriver Cannot be Listed Algorithmically
- Muddle Puddle with Entropy in Biology
- Philosophy Based on a Myth
David Bohm, Thought as a System
Nancy Marie Brown, The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
Peter Byrne, The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III: Multiple Universes, Mutual Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family
- Von Neumann as a Hawk
- Ground Observer Corps
- Logic of the Cold War
- Everett and Einstein
- Liz Everett in Many Worlds
- Church against Everett
Thomas Cahill, Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World (Hinges of History)
Karin Knorr Cetina, Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge
- The Making of a World View
- The Black-Boxed Body of the Scientist
- Blind Variation in Molecular Biology
- How to Kill a Laboratory Mouse Humanely
Robin George Collingwood, An Essay on Metaphysics
- Absolute Presupposition
- Collingwood on Monotheism and Science
- Free Will and Mathematics
- Neuroscience as Science of Thought?
- God Exists as Metaphysical Proposition
- Every Event has a Cause as Metaphysics
- On his sole responsibility
- The Game of Life as Metaphysics
Conscious Will and Responsibility: A Tribute to Benjamin Libet (Oxford Series in Neuroscience, Law and Philosophy)
John Deely, Four Ages of Understanding: The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
- Scotus Erigena: Martyr to philosophy
- Heritage of the Byzantium
- Secular Counterpart of Religious Intolerance
- How Descartes died
- Logic and Liberal Arts
David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Edward Dolnick, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
- Newton had Cracked the Code
- Scientists and History
- Mathematics as Escape
- God-the-mathematician and Great Chain of Being
- The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge
Christian de Duve, Vital Dust
- The Universality of Life
- Neurons only die
- conscious experience vs. quarks and electrons
- Christian de Duve about Gaia
Paul Feyerabend, Philosophical Papers, Problems of Empiricism
- Philosophy Changes Practice
- John Stuart Mill on Pluralism
- Geoffrey Gorham: Philosophy of Science
- Empirical Stance vs. Absolute Rationalism
Paul Feyerabend, The Tyranny of Science
- Feyerabend against Science
- Feyerabend on Free Will and Belief
- God as a Cosmic Operator
- Scientific Laws as a Myth
Dario Floreano and Claudio Mattiussi, Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies
Bas C Van Fraassen, The Empirical Stance (The Terry Lectures Series)
Bas C Van Fraassen, Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective
- Representation Of, Representation As
- On Mathematical Modeling
- Self-ascription and “Perfect Model Model”
- Rainbow as Public Hallucinations
- Weyl on mathematics vs. reality
- DNA to represent proteins
Michael S. Gazzaniga, Who’s in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
Robert Geraci, Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality
Jeffrey Gray, Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem
- Evolution vs. God
- Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem
- Monkey have conscious visual perception
- Thermostat Feels Cold
- What is conscious experience?
- A survival value for consciousness
- Biology and Physics
- Computers have emotions
- Late-Error Detection
- Discussion about Jeffrey Gray’s book on consciousness
- You and your Emotion
- Conscious Visual Experience by a Newborn
Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe
Geoffrey Gorham, Philosophy of Science: Bolinda Beginner Guides
Wassim M. Haddad, Vijay Sekhar Chellaboina, & Sergey G. Nersesov, Thermodynamics: A Dynamical Systems Approach
- Thermodynamics: A Dynamical Systems Approach
- Introduction
- Dynamical system theory
- A System Foundation for Thermodynamics
- Temperature Equipartition and the Kinetic Theory of Gases
- Work, Heat, and the Carno Cycle
- Chapter 6 and 7
Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design
- Hawking & Mlodinow: patch-work set of theories of the world
- Science: Free Will is Illusion
- Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead
- Christian Roots of Modern Science
- The Game of Life as Metaphysics
John L. Heilbron, Galileo
- Interesting Facts about Galileo
- Inquisition and Galileo: Venice Episode
- Galileo: Body cannot leave the rotating Earth
- Galileo: Comet is not a Planetary-Like Body
- Galileo, Inchofer, and Popper
Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics
David Kaiser, How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
- You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
- Turing Test and Female Hormones
- Singularity and Rapture
- Gadget: Warum die Zukunft uns noch braucht
Robert B. Laughlin, A Different Universe
- Matter and little ghosts
- Frontier Law
- Living with Uncertainty
- Mount Newton
- The Quantum Computer
- Vin Klitzing
- The Nuclear Family
- Carnival of the Baubles
- The Dark Side of Protection
- Principles of Life
- Star Warriors
- Picnic Table in the Sun
- The Emergent Age
David Lindley, The End Of Physics: The Myth Of A Unified Theory
- Science and Mathematics
- Pythagoras and Einstein
- Numerology and Science
- Darwin and Kelvin
- Anthropic Principle
- Particle Physics and Gothic Cathedrals
- Theory of Everything
Tim Maudlin, The Metaphysics Within Physics
Alva Noë, Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
- Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion?
- Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
Gerard O’Regan, A Brief History of Computing
Nancy Pearcey, Charles Thaxton, The Soul of Science: Christian Faith and Natural Philosophy
- Experimental Method and God’s Voluntarism
- Danger of Relativism for Religion and Science
- Newton’s Principia and Existence of God
Karl H Pribram, The Form Within: My Point of View
- This is no way to do science
- Quantum Leap from Physics to Psychology
- Neuroscience Reverses Copernican Revolution
Lucio Russo, The Forgotten Revolution, How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn
Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life?
Erwin Schrödinger, Mind and Matter
Rebecca Stott, Darwin’s Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution
Galen Strawson, Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics
Raymond Tallis, Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity
Max Velmans, Understanding Consciousness
- Is the brain in the world or the world in the brain?
- Quantum Dualist Interactionism
- Velmans on Popper’s Objective Knowledge
- Max Velmans’ Reflexive Monism
- Mental and Physical
- Is the Visual World a Grand Illusion?
- Once more on the world in the brain
- Sense of Being Stared At
Ken Wilber, The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion
Peter Woit, Not Even Wrong, The failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law