Paradigm wrote:I've been re-reading Matter and Memory by Henri Bergson and Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead. Also continuing to read Upheavals of Thought by Martha Nussbaum and Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett.
Philosophy of Mind is one of my areas of study, good stuff. Though Dennett is an idiot on
Qualia in my opinion.
Potemkin wrote:Good man! I've always had a soft spot for the quality popular fiction of the late Victorian and Edwardian era. Even writers as revered as RL Stevenson and Joseph Conrad thought of themselves as popular novelists and published their work in widely-read magazines such as Strand, which mainly published adventure novels and the like. If you like Conan Doyle, then I can recommend the ghost stories of MR James or the novels of GK Chesterton. MR James, in particular, was the greatest writer of ghost stories who has ever lived. Oh, and the humorous stories of Saki are great fun too.
Thanks!
Though I have a long list already, Its going to take like 70 hours to get through Holmes on audible....after that we are reading
Beau Geste and then going to hit up Bram Stoker's
Dracula (featuring Tim Curry), and after that will be spending the better part of next year going through the works of
Alexandre Dumas.I cancelled my subscription to Audible because I was so backlogged with books, partly because I always got books with the free monthly credit system that would've been the most expensive (and hence incredibly long). I also have Gibbon's entire history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire on audible and will likely listen to it during my summer project of building a garage. (I listened to Sears'
History of the British Empire while building my deck last year, and
1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed when I painted the exterior of the house (both last summer). It really does make construction projects richer. In fact, I can look at any part of my deck and remember where in the history of the British Empire I was when I was working on that particular part....its makes everything more memorable and enjoyable. I highly recommend people do it that way if they are handy and have big projects.....beats the hell out of just listening to rock music (as I would normally have done during work projects). In fact, I discovered this method because when I was seminary I worked in project management and remodeling and since my professors recorded their lectures, if I had to miss a lecture or take a class distance, I could listen to it by playing it through the Mp3 connection of my work radio and could then get school done while also working.