The Myth of Race
This comprehensive book begins with an anecdote from Guy Harrison, who studied anthropology at university in the 1980s and learned for the first time that…… Read More »
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
Does Altruism Exist?
Interestingly, although this book also deals with the evolution of altruism, neither author references the other although both stress the centrality of action. The basic…… Read More »
The Altruistic Brain
The title of this ground-breaking book begs the question that brains, rather than persons, can be altruistic - is this just a category error? What…… Read More »
Alan M. Turing
This is the centenary edition of the life of Alan Turing written by his mother, with a new foreword and a revealing memoir by his…… Read More »
FREE
The subtitle 'why science hasn't disproved free will' encapsulates the argument of this rigorous and interesting book. The question of free will has a long…… Read More »
The Theorem of Love
Authors: Antonella Vannini, Ulisse di Corpo
Reviewer: Gerri McManus
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
Have you read this book? I am really interested to hear what people with much more expertise than me make of it. For me it…… Read More »
Syntropy – The Spirit of Love
Authors: Antonella Vannini, Ulisse di Corpo
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
In 1942, the Italian mathematician Luigi Fantappie coined the term syntropy as a law symmetric with entropy that produces 'a continuous increase in complexity through…… Read More »
HOW THE HIPPIES SAVED PHYSICS
"How the Hippies Saved Physics" took me back to my undergraduate quantum mechanics courses and my frustrations with my teachers. I wanted to understand quantum…… Read More »
THE ART OF SCIENCE
"Tsundoku" is the Japanese word for buying books and never reading them. So why on earth would you want to do that? Well, a cynic…… Read More »
Quantumology
This book, based on 17 years research, helps bring together quantum science and its implications for our lives through an understanding and application of quantum…… Read More »