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№40
Title: The Age of Spiritual Machines [$]
Author: Ray Kurzweil
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2000
Pages: 400
Part of the problem with books making predictions about the future is they only have two markets: (1), people who want to read predictions about the future, and (2) [...]
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№38
Title: God’s Problem [$]
Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher: HarperOne
Year: 2008
Pages: 304
Bart D. Ehrman is a compelling scholar, or so I’m told. I was entirely underwhelmed by his previous work, The Lost Gospel of Judas, which was largely a historical curiosity with [...]
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№25
Title: God Is Not Great [$]
Author: Christopher Hitchens
Publisher: Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group
Year: 2007
Pages: 307
Continuing a long and somewhat tawdry literary affair with the much-loved and oft-maligned Christopher Hitchens, I am reading his latest, God Is Not Great. This is [...]
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№19
Title: Altered Carbon [$]
Author: Richard K. Morgan
Publisher: Del Ray
Year: 2006
Pages: 544
I don’t remember where I saw Altered Carbon, or what inspired me to read it. Generally, I don’t like noir; neither do I care for cyberpunk. I think William [...]
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№12
Title: Condensed Knowledge [$]
Author: ed. Will Pearson & al.
Publisher: Collins
Year: 2004
Pages: 345
My brother’s been reading mental_floss and its associated books for several years. Condensed Knowledge is, to the extent of my knowledge, the first of their [adjective] Knowledge compendia, essentially [...]
a priori
adj. known ahead of time
adj. based on hypothesis rather than experiment
a posteriori
adj. involving deduction of theories from facts.
Appropriated directly from Latin in the early 18th century, these epistemological phrases have become favorites of mine, to the point that my neologistic streak kicks in and I start using them as nouns because they flow so [...]
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№4
Title: The Daily Show and Philosophy [$]
Author: ed. Jason Holt
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2007
Pages: 280
I think it’s fair to say that The Daily Show has fairly well entered the cultural zeitgeist. For some reason, ever since John Stewart took over the reigns [...]
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