Recommended Reading
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Sam's Recommendations
Mind and Life Sciences
Physics & Mathematics
Philosophy
History, Economics, and Politics
Religion and Religious Criticism
Eastern Philosophy and Meditation
General Nonfiction
Reader Recommendations
Mind and Life Sciences
Physics & Mathematics
Philosophy
History, Economics, and Politics
Religion and Religious Criticism
Eastern Philosophy and Meditation
General Nonfiction
Fiction
Authors by Last Name (p)
Paine, T.
The Age of Reason
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine
Palmer, Martin
Parfit, D.
Reasons and Persons
On What Matters (two volumes)
Patai, Raphael
Paul Henri Thierry, Baron D'Holbach
The Systems of Nature, Vol. 1
The Systems of Nature, Vol. 2
Paulos, J.A.
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up
Innumeracy : Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
Pelikan, J
Penrose, R.
The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind
Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
Pepys, Samuel
Diary of Samuel Pepys - Complete 1666 N.S. [Paperback]
Percy, Walker
Perry, J.
Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness
Peters, E
Phillips, K
Pierce, C.P.
Idiot America - How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
Pinker, S
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Pinker, S.
How the Mind Works
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Pinker, Steven
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Pipes, R.
Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
Pizan, C.
The Book of the City of Ladies
Planck, M
Plath, Sylvia
Polan, Michael
Pollan, M.
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
Pollan, Michael
Pollard, Justin & Reid, Howard
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern World
Ponting, C.
A New Green History of the World
Popper, K
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Popper, K. R., & Eccles, J. C.
The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism
Popper, K.R.
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Poundstone, W
Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge
Prisoner’s Dilemma
Powell, Anthony
Power, Samantha
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Price, R.M.
Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today’s Pop Mysticisms
Pryse-Phillips, W.
Companion to Clinical Neurology
Pullman, P.
Pullman, Philip
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
Putnam, H.
Collapse of the Fact/ Value distinction.
