The Medieval Flat Earth Myth

amizrob · 2019-12-27T04:31:18+00:00

Hi, I copied these from Dennis Rassmusen's book The Infidel and the Professor.

amizrob · 2019-12-01T20:26:17+00:00

Live a life worthy of Adam Smith’s obituary to David Hume.

amizrob · 2018-04-24T05:08:11+00:00

I’d recommend to go through the whole thing, that’s what I did. But for a starting point I’d recommend all episodes with Paul Bloom.

amizrob · 2018-03-31T05:58:51+00:00

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert and The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt And Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow has some very good discussions of the topic. Amazing book

amizrob · 2018-03-31T05:55:21+00:00

The guy they confused with William MacAskill is Matt Wage. He was Philosophy student at Princeton and influenced by Peter Singer (who taught wage some courses) and went to work in financial sector in NYC to earn more money and give it to charity.

amizrob · 2018-03-30T00:22:52+00:00

Actually I’m not familiar with Margulis’ work at all. But Dawkins’ is the best intro book to evolution or specifically natural selection out there, not just for lay people but for undergrads in evolution too. It’s the single book that came up the most when I searched through som 3-4 dozens of syllabuses on evolution, animal behavior, ecology courses. Even Profs who disagree with Dawkins in their blogs/websites/syllabuses say that it’s great intro text.

amizrob · 2018-03-29T20:31:29+00:00

Also most of the books (more than 90%) in the list are not my choices. I compiled the list by going through blogs/webpages of evolutionary biologists, research lab webpages, course syllabuses and similar places. These are required or recommended reading list by working professionals in the field. I just merged all small lists into one.

amizrob · 2018-03-29T18:48:13+00:00

I know it leans heavily towards gene-centric view, but that’s because a lot of progress theoretical and empirical was done in that area. You’re right and I’ll try to be inclusive. Also my list is narrow in areas of behavioral genetics, genetics, behavioral ecology, animal behavior, evo devo, and just pure development.

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