books i read in 2019

(* means i particularly liked the book)



  1. Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit (* for the parts on personal identity)

  1. Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse*

  2. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

  3. Technology and the Virtues: A Guide to a Future Worth Wanting by Shannon Vallor*

  4. The Infovore by Tyler Cowen

  5. Invisible Cities by Calvino

  6. Axiomatic by Greg Egan*

  7. Exhalation by Ted Chiang*

  8. The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Wang

  9. The Philosophy of Information by Floridi

  10. Information: a very short introduction

  11. The Scholarly Question for Utopia

  12. The Information - A History, a Theory, a Flood

  13. Siddhartha by Hesse*

  14. The Three Body Problem: the whole series*

  15. Stubborn Attachments by Tyler Cowen*

  16. Practical Ethics: Peter Singer

  17. Introduction to Decision Theory by Peterson

  18. Theory and Practice in Policy Analysis

  19. Machine Learning: Principles and Techniques by Richard Forsyth

  20. Logic Magazine (China issue)

  21. Invisible Planets by Ken Liu

  22. Broken Stars by Ken Liu*

  23. Third Culture (compilation by john brockman)*

  24. all about love by bell hooks

  25. Judgement under uncertainty: heuristics and biases

  26. On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis*

  27. The China Questions: Critical Insights into a Rising Power by Jennifer Rudolph

  28. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

  29. The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future

  30. A History of Transhumanist Thought (Nick Bostrom)

  31. Life On Mars by Tracy Smith

  32. The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics by Yuk Hui

  33. Hyperobjects by Timothy Morton

  34. Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas

  35. A Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander (partial)

  36. Focusing by Gendlin

  37. Society and Technological Change by Rudi Volti

  38. Images: The Piano Music of Claude Debussy by Paul Roberts

  39. Human Compatible by Stuart Russell

  40. Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker*

  41. The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories









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