{"id":12665,"date":"2015-12-16T10:57:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T18:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=12665"},"modified":"2015-12-17T19:36:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T03:36:59","slug":"reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/16\/reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/10\/the-big-picture-table-of-contents\/\">The Big Picture<\/a><\/em> is complete, I have more time for fun things like blogging, but I have a bunch of research to catch up on before I can return as normal. So in the meantime, here&#8217;s another teaser from the book: my list of &#8220;Further Reading&#8221; keyed to the different sections. You should have enough time to read all of these between now and publication day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Big-Picture-Origins-Meaning-Universe\/dp\/0525954821\/smcarroll-20\">May 10<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part One, Cosmos:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adams, F., &amp; Laughlin, G. (1999). <em>The Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the Physics of Eternity.<\/em> Free Press.<\/li>\n<li>Albert, D.Z. (2003). <em>Time and Chance.<\/em> Harvard University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Carroll, S. (2010). <em>From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time.<\/em> Dutton.<\/li>\n<li>Feynman, R.P. (1967).<em> The Character of Physical Law.<\/em> M.I.T. Press.<\/li>\n<li>Greene, B. (2004). <em>The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality.<\/em> A.A. Knopf.<\/li>\n<li>Guth, A. (1997). <em>The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins<\/em>. Addison-Wesley Pub.<\/li>\n<li>Hawking, S.W. and Mlodinow, L. (2010). <em>The Grand Design.<\/em> Bantam.<\/li>\n<li>Pearl, J. (2009). <em>Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference.<\/em> Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Penrose, R. (2005). <em>The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe<\/em>. A.A. Knopf.<\/li>\n<li>Weinberg, S. (2015). <em>To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science.<\/em> HarperCollins.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Part Two, Understanding:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ariely, D. (2008). <em>Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions.<\/em> HarperCollins.<\/li>\n<li>Dennett, D.C. (2014) <em>Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking.<\/em> W.W. Norton.<\/li>\n<li>Gillett, C. and Lower, B., eds. (2001). <em>Physicalism and Its Discontents.<\/em> Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Kaplan, E. (2014). <em>Does Santa Exist? A Philosophical Investigation.<\/em> Dutton.<\/li>\n<li>Rosenberg, A. (2011). <em>The Atheist\u2019s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life Without Illusions.<\/em> W.W. Norton.<\/li>\n<li>Sagan, C. (1995). <em>The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.<\/em> Random House.<\/li>\n<li>Silver, N. (2012). <em>The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail \u2014 But Some Don\u2019t.<\/em> Penguin Press.<\/li>\n<li>Tavris, C. and Aronson, E. (2006). <em>Mistakes Were Made (but not by me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts.<\/em> Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Part Three, Essence:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aaronson, S. (2013). <em>Quantum Computing Since Democritus.<\/em> Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Carroll, S. (2012). <em>The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World.<\/em> Dutton.<\/li>\n<li>Deutsch, D. (1997). <em>The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications.<\/em> Viking Adult.<\/li>\n<li>Gefter, A. (2014). <em>Trespassing on Einstein&#8217;s Lawn: A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of Everything<\/em>. Bantam.<\/li>\n<li>Holt, J. (2012) <em>Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story.<\/em> Liveright Publishing.<\/li>\n<li>Musser, G. (2015). <em>Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time&#8211;and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything.<\/em> Scientific American \/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux.<\/li>\n<li>Randall, L. (2011). <em>Knocking on Heaven\u2019s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World.<\/em> Ecco.<\/li>\n<li>Wallace, D. (2014). <em>The Emergent Multiverse: Quantum Theory According to the Everett Interpretation.<\/em> Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Wilczek, F. (2015). <em>A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature\u2019s Deep Design<\/em>. Penguin Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Part Four, Complexity:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bak, P. (1996). <em>How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality.<\/em> Copernicus.<\/li>\n<li>Cohen, E. (2012). <em>Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change that Shape Life.<\/em> Princeton University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Coyne, J. (2009). <em>Why Evolution is True.<\/em> Viking.<\/li>\n<li>Dawkins, R. (1986). <em>The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design<\/em>. W.W. Norton.<\/li>\n<li>Dennett, D.C. (1995). <em>Darwin\u2019s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life.<\/em> Simon &amp; Schuster.<\/li>\n<li>Hidalgo, C. (2015). <em>Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies.<\/em> Basic Books.<\/li>\n<li>Hoffman, P. (2012). <em>Life\u2019s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos<\/em>. Basic Books.<\/li>\n<li>Krugman, P. (1996). <em>The Self-Organizing Economy.<\/em> Wiley-Blackwell.<\/li>\n<li>Lane, N. (2015). <em>The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life<\/em>. W.W. Norton.<\/li>\n<li>Mitchell, M. (2009). <em>Complexity: A Guided Tour.<\/em> Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Pross, A. (2012). <em>What Is Life? How Chemistry Becomes Biology.<\/em> Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Rutherford, A. (2013). <em>Creation: How Science is Reinventing Life Itself.<\/em> Current.<\/li>\n<li>Shubin, N. (2008). <em>Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body<\/em>. Pantheon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Part Five, Thinking:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alter, T. and Howell, R.J. (2009). <em>A Dialogue on Consciousness.<\/em> Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Chalmers, D.J. (1996). <em>The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory<\/em>. Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Churchland, P.S. (2013). <em>Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain.<\/em> W.W. Norton.<\/li>\n<li>Damasio, A. (2010). <em>Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain<\/em>. Pantheon.<\/li>\n<li>Dennett, D.C. (1991). <em>Consciousness Explained<\/em>. Little Brown &amp; Co.<\/li>\n<li>Eagleman, D. (2011). <em>Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain<\/em>. Pantheon.<\/li>\n<li>Flanagan, O. (2003). <em>The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile Them.<\/em> Basic Books.<\/li>\n<li>Gazzaniga, M.S. (2011). <em>Who\u2019s In Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain.<\/em> Ecco.<\/li>\n<li>Hankins, P. (2015). <em>The Shadow of Consciousness.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Kahneman, D. (2011). <em>Thinking, Fast and Slow<\/em>. Farrah, Straus and Giroux.<\/li>\n<li>Tononi, G. (2012). <em>Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul.<\/em> Pantheon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Part Six, Caring:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>de Waal, F. (2013). <em>The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates<\/em>. W.W. Norton.<\/li>\n<li>Epstein, G.M. (2009). <em>Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe.<\/em> William Morrow.<\/li>\n<li>Flanagan, O. (2007). <em>The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World<\/em>. The MIT Press.<\/li>\n<li>Gottschall, J. (2012).<em> The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human.<\/em> Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.<\/li>\n<li>Greene, J. (2013). <em>Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them<\/em>. Penguin Press.<\/li>\n<li>Johnson, C. (2014). <em>A Better Life: 100 Atheists Speak Out on Joy &amp; Meaning in a World Without God<\/em>. Cosmic Teapot.<\/li>\n<li>Kitcher, P. (2011). <em>The Ethical Project<\/em>. Harvard University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Lehman, J. and Shemmer, Y. (2012). <em>Constructivism in Practical Philosophy<\/em>. Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n<li>May, T. (2015). <em>A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe<\/em>. University of Chicago Press.<\/li>\n<li>Ruti, M. (2014). <em>The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living<\/em>. Columbia University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Wilson, E.O. (2014). <em>The Meaning of Human Existence<\/em>. 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