Book Recommendations
October 25, 2008 – 13:14 by Mikko HämäläinenI’m currently going through a massive pile of books since I’ve had not that much free time at hand. However, I thought I could share a few of the books I’m reading that I find most interesting at the moment, so here we go.
Michael Lockwood: The Labyrinth of Time. This book deals with the different explanations of time itself. For anyone who has gone deeper in the theoretical physics, time (or arrow of time) is one of the unsolved mysteries and it also has deep relation to my favorite subjects, namely entropy and causality.
Derek Parfit: Reasons and Persons. Parfit has good arguments against our traditional view on ourselves and our view on rationality and morality. I’m interested in human decision making process in general, so this makes a good read.
Kevin D. Hoover: Causality in Macroeconomics. This relates to my last post about causal business decision making. I need to understand the subject better.
C.G. Jung: Synchronicity. The other side of the causal coin. Jung’s argument for acausal connections of events.
J.G. Ballard: Kingdom Come. Fiction about the ultimate manifestation of consumerism. Or is it actually fiction anymore?
For Finns, I could also recommend Pekka Teerikorpi’s “Miljoonan vuoden yksinäisyys“, as it really is a good one about history of science. Not a traditional history book, but loaded with a scent of melancholy and exceptional way to connect events via cultural history.
More recommendations coming when I manage to get into some of my unread books, the pile is now about 150 centimeters high, and this is not a joke :-)