Date: | Title | Author |
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June 26, 1987 | The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins |
July 24, 1987 | A Conflict of Visions | Thomas Sowell |
August 28, 1987 and September 25, 1987 | Engines of Creation | K. Eric Drexler |
October 23, 1987 | The Evolution of Cooperation | Robert Axelrod |
December 4, 1987 | Ecodynamics | Kenneth E. Boulding |
January 22, 1988 | Anarchy, State, and Utopia | Robert Nozick |
February 26, 1988 | The Self-Organizing Universe | Erich Jantsch |
March 25, 1988 | Popper Selections | (Karl Popper) David Miller, Editor |
April 22, 1988 | Chaos: Making a New Science | James Gleick |
May 27, 1988 | The Media Lab | Stewart Brand |
June 24, 1988 | The Society of Mind | Marvin Minsky |
July 22, 1988 | Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment | Richard Nisbett and Lee Ross |
August 26, 1988 | The Organization of Inquiry | Gordon Tullock |
September 23, 1988 | Ecology of Computation | Miller, Drexler, et al; B. Huberman (ed.) |
October 28, 1988 | The Mind's I | Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett; (eds.) |
December 9, 1988 | Infinite in All Directions | Freeman Dyson |
January 27, 1989 | Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge | Radnitzky and Bartley ; (eds.) |
February 24, 1989 (Three Works of Fiction) | The Shockwave Rider | John Brunner |
Neuromancer | William Gibson | True Names | Vernor Vinge |
March 24, 1989 | Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh | The Mathematical Experience |
April 28, 1989 | Knowledge and Decisions | Thomas Sowell |
May 26, 1989 | Quantum Reality | Nick Herbert |
June 23, 1989 | Interstellar Migration and the Human Experience | Ben R. Finney and Eric M. Jones; (eds.) |
August 25, 1989 | The Art of War | Sun Tzu |
A Book of Five Rings | Miyamoto Musashi | |
September 22, 1989 | The Discovery Of Freedom | Rose Wilder Lane |
October 27, 1989 | The Capitalist Revolution | Peter L. Berger |
December 1, 1989 | QED The Strange Theory of Light and Matter | Richard P. Feynman |
January 26, 1990 | The Structures of Everyday Life | Fernand Braudel |
February 23, 1990 | Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence | Hans Moravec |
March 23, 1990 | Resentment Against Achievement: Understanding the Assault Upon Ability | Robert Sheaffer |
May 18, 1990 | The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World | Hernando de Soto |
June 22, 1990 | Technologies of Freedom | Ithiel de Sola Pool |
July 27, 1990 | Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems: Representation and Inference in the Cyc Project | Douglas B. Lenat and R. V. Guha |
August 24, 1990 | The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law | Robert H. Bork |
September 28, 1990 | No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior | Joshua Meyrowitz |
December 7, 1990 | The Emperor's New Mind | Roger Penrose |
January 25, 1991 | Big Science, Little Science, and Beyond | Derek J. De Solla Price |
Intellectual Compromise | Michael Ghiselin | |
"Proposal for a Report on the Prospects for Abstract Intellectual Property Rights" | Kirsten W. Carlson | |
"Could Gambling Save Science?" | Robin Hanson | |
February 22, 1991 | The Fatal Conceit | F. A. Hayek |
March 22, 1991 | The Content of Our Character | Shelby Steele |
April 26, 1991 | Filters Against Folly | Garrett Hardin |
May 24, 1991 | Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning and Discovery | Holland, Holyoak, Nisbett and Paul R. Thagard |
June 28, 1991 | Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War | Eliot A. Cohen, John Gooch |
July 26, 1991 | Public Choice II | Dennis C. Mueller |
Sep 27 1991 | The Grand Failure | Brzeznski, Zbigniew |
Oct 25 1991 | Unbounding the Future | Eric Drexler, Chris Peterson, Gayle Pergamit |
Dec 6 1991 | On Deconstruction | Jonathon Culler |
Jan 24 1992 | The Retreat to Commitment | W.W. Bartley |
Feb 28 1992 | Parliament of Whores | P. J. O'Rourke |
It All Started With Marx | Armour, Richard | |
Mar 27 1992 | The Ascent of Mind | William H. Calvin |
Apr 24 1992 | Choice and Consequence | Thomas C. Schelling |
Jun 12 1992 | The Psychology of Everyday Things (Hardcover) The Design of Everyday Things (Softcover) | Donald A. Norman |
Jul 10 1992 | You Just Don't Understand | Deborah Tannen |
Aug 14 1992 | The Extended Phenotype | Richard Dawkins |
Sep 11 1992 | The Enterprise of Law | Bruce Benson |
Oct 9 1992 | Designing Defense | Earl Ravenal |
Nov 13 1992 | From Being to Becoming | Ilya Prigogine |
Dec 11 1992 | Leadership | Leonard Sayles |
Jan 8 1993 | The Maze of Ingenuity | Arnold Pacey |
Feb 12 1993 | Adventures of a Bystander | Peter Drucker |
Apr 9 1993 | Seeing Voices | Oliver Sacks |
May 14 1993 | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Thomas S. Kuhn |
Jun 11 1993 | The Aquatic Ape | Elaine Morgan |
Mystery Dance | Lynn Margulis & Dorion Sagan | |
Jul 9 1993 | Sexual Personae | Camille Paglia |
Aug 13 1993 | Bionomics | Michael Rothschild |
Sep 10 1993 | Mind Storms | Seymour Papert |
Oct 9 1993 | Thinking Strategically | Avinash K. Dixit & Barry J. Nalebuff |
Nov 12 1993 | Complexity | Roger Lewin |
Jan 21 1994 | The Trial of Socrates | I. F. Stone |
Feb 18 1994 | The Myth of Mental Illness | Thomas Szasz |
Mar 18 1994 | Interpretation and Overinterpretation | Umberto Eco |
Apr 15 1994 | Culture Wars | J. D. Hunter |
May 20 1994 | Memory's Voice | Daniel Alkon |
Jun 17 1994 | The Gift | Marcel Mauss |
Jul 15 1994 | Rats, Lice and History | Hans Zinsner |
Sep 16 1994 | The Age of Diminished Expectations | Paul Krugman |
Oct 21 1994 | The Power of Place | Winifred Gallagher |
Nov 18 1994 | Theories of Everything | John D. Barrow |
Dec 16 1994 | Video Night in Kathmandu | Pico Iyer |
Jan 20 1995 | Consciousness Explained | Daniel C. Dennett |
Feb 17 1995 | The Evolution of Progress | C. Owen Paepke |
Mar 17 1995 | Black Holes & Time Warps (especially time travel section) | Kip Thorne |
Apr 21 1995 | Order Without Law | Robert Ellickson |
May 19 1995 | Personal Knowledge | Michael Polanyi |
July 21, 1995 | The Bell Curve | Richard Herrnstein, Charles Murray |
August 18, 1995 | Each participant makes a personal selection of one (or more) of the following books: | |
Laissez-Faire Banking | Kevin Dowd | |
The State and The Monetary System | Kevin Dowd | |
Competition and Currency | Lawrence White | |
September 15, 1995 | The Language Instinct | Steven Pinker |
October 20, 1995 | The Adaptive Mind | Editors: Jerome Barlow, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby |
November 17, 1995 | Each participant makes a personal selection of one (or more) of the following books: | |
The Meaning of Market Process | Israel Kirzner | |
Austrian Economics in America: the migration of a tradition | Karen Iversen Vaughn | |
December 15, 1995 | Simple Rules for a Complex World | Richard Epstein |
January 19, 1996 | How Monkeys See The World | Dorthy Cheney, Robert Seyfarth |
March 15, 1996 | Each participant makes a personal selection of one (or more) book(s) by or about the famous anarchist Emma Goldman. | |
April 19, 1996 | John Gardner | The Art of Fiction |
Greg Egan | Permutation City | |
May 17, 1996 | Stewart Brand | How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built |
June 21, 1996 | Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women | Anne Balsamo |
XXX: A Woman's Right to Pornography | Wendy McElroy | |
July 19, 1996 | John Maynard Smith & Eors Szathmary | The Major Transitions in Evolution |
August 16, 1996 | Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
The Evolving Self: A Psychology For The Third Millennium | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | |
September 20, 1996 | Prospects In Nanotechnology | Markus Krummenacker & James Lewis; Editors |
October 18, 1996 | Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity | Cary Fowler & Pat Mooney |
November 15, 1996 | The Physics of Immortality | Frank J. Tipler |
January 17, 1997 | Trust | Francis Fukuyama |
February 21, 1997 | Celestial Encounters | Florin Diacu & Philip Holmes |
March 21, 1997 | Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers | Robert Sapolsky |
April 18, 1997 | The Theme for the discussion is Anarchy versus Limited Government, read these or other related works. | |
The Probability Broach | L. Neil Smith | |
Pallas | L. Neil Smith | |
What it Means to be a Libertarian | Charles Murray | |
May 16, 1997 | Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point | Huw Price |
June 20, 1997 | Primary Volume: Descartes' Error | Antonio Damasio |
Secondary Volume: The Chemistry of Consciencness | J. Allan Hobson | |
July 18. 1997 | Jeffrey Rogers Hummell | Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men |
August 15, 1997 | The Theme for the Discussion is Facts about the brain, read either or both of the following. | |
Eye, Brain and Vision | David Hubel | |
Drugs and the Brain | Solomon H. Snyder | |
September 19, 1997 | The Theme is about how science operates. | |
Longitude | Dava Sobel | |
Fermat's Last Theorem | Amir D. Aczel | |
John Von Neumann | Norman Macrae | |
October 17, 1997 | The Lucifer Prinicple | Howard Bloom |
December 19, 1997 | (Libertarian Science Fiction look at Space) | |
Free Space | Edited by Brad Linaweaver and Edward E. Kramer | |
Firestar | Michael Flynn | |
Kings of the High Frontier | Victor Koman (Available from http://www.pulpless.com) | |
January 16,1998 | The Hedonistic Imperative | David Pearce (Available at http://www.hedweb.com/hedethic/hedonist.htm) |
Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge | Henry Plotkin | |
February 20, 1998 | The History of Money | Jack Weatherford |
Internet Economics | Edited by Lee W. McKnight and Joseph P. Bailey | |
March 20, 1998 | The Origins of Virtue | Matt Ridley |
April 17, 1998 | How Brains Think | William H. Calvin |
May 15, 1998 | Why We Get Sick | Randolph M. Nesse, M.D. and George C. Williams, Ph.D. |
Climbing Mount Improbable | Richard Dawkins | |
June 19, 1998 | Free Banking In Britain | Lawrence H. White |
July 17, 1998 | Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk | Peter L. Bernstein |
August 21, 1998 | The Enigma of Japanese Power | Karel van Wolferen |
Japan China | Nikos Kazantzakis | |
September 18, 1998 | The Third Culture | John Brockman |