Reluctantly crouched at the starting line. I'm a driver, I'm a winner. Things are gonna change, I can feel it. He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse. He's going the distance. He's going for speed. He's going the distance. Ahh... / Ah. Words to remember: neoteny. cynosure. immanent. mercantilism. teleology.Read more about me »
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers by Carl L. Becker My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is about Eighteenth century philosophers, with Enlightenment ideals, coming out of the superstitious times where religion ruled, trying, with v…
Arguing A.I.: The Battle for Twenty-first-Century Science by Sam Williams My rating: 4 of 5 stars Good information, short book. Has a beat on some important trends and people in the A.I. debate, and is fairly current, published 2002. Has a lot of web l…
The Immoralist by André Gide My rating: 2 of 5 stars A closet homosexual and pedophile comes up with philosophies to explain his predicament in grandiose terms and it’s supposed to be a great existential revelation. Meanwhile he is killing his d…
Mystery and Its Fictions: From Oedipus to Agatha Christie by David I. Grossvogel My rating: 3 of 5 stars This books has a good premise but didn’t really deliver on it as well as it could have. If it were a little more ambitious, and maybe either …
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