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Hirsi Ali, A. Infidel. 2007.
Hirsi Ali, A. The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam. 2006.
Hitchens, C. God Is Not Great. 2007.
Hitchens, C. Letters to a Young Contrarian. 2005.
Hoffmann, R.J. Porphyry’s Against the Christians. 1994.
Hofstadter, D.R. and D.C. Dennett. The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections On Self and Soul. 1985.
Honderich, T (Ed). The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. 2005.
Hume, D. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. 1748.
Huntington, S.P. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. 1998.
Iacoboni, M. Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others. 2008.
Jacoby, S. Freethinkers. December 23, 2004.
James, W. The Principles of Psychology. 1890.
James, W. The Will To Believe. 1956.
James, W. Essays In Radical Empiricism. 1912.
Johnson, P. History of Christianity.
Jungk, R. Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists. 1970.
Kagan, R.. The Return of History and the End of Dreams. 2008.
Kaku, M. Hyperspace. 1995.
Kandel, E. The Principles of Neural Science. 2000.
Kaplan, RD. The Ends of the Earth. 1997.
Krakauer, J. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith. 2004.
Kramer, H and J Sprenger. The Malleus Maleficarum. 1489.
Krishnamurti, J. Freedom from the Known. 1975.
Krishnamurti, J. The Awakening of Intelligence. 1987.
Kuhn, TS. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Kurzweil, R. The Age of Spiritual Machines. 2000.
La Rochefoucauld. Maxims.
Langewiesche, W. The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor. 2007.
LeDoux, J. Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are. 2003.
Leslie, J. The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction. 1998.
Levi, P. The Drowned and the Saved. 1989.
Levy, N.. Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st Century. 2007.
Lewis, B. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror. 2004.
Lewis, B. What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East. 2003.
Mackay, C. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. 1841.
Manchester, W. A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance. 1993.
Mates, B. Ed. and Trans. The Skeptic Way: Sextus Empiricus’s Outlines of Pyrrhonism. 1996.
McDermott, T. Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It. 2006.
McGinn, C. The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World. 2000.
McIntyre, L. Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human. September 1, 2006.
McKenna, T. The Archaic Revival. 1992.
McKenna, T. Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge. 1993.
McKenna, T. True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author’s Extraordinary Adventures in Devil’s Paradise. 1993.
Medawar, P. The Threat and the Glory (Reflections on Science and Scientists). 1990.
Mele, A.R. Self-Deception Unmasked. 2001.
Metzinger, T. Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity. 2003.
Metzinger, T (Ed). Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Empirical and Conceptual Questions. 2000.
Miller, W.I. Humiliation: And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence. 1993.
Miller, W.I. The Anatomy of Disgust. 1998.
Miller, W.I. Faking It. 2005.
Monk, R. Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius. 1990.
Monk, R. Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude. 1996.
Montaigne. The Complete Works of Montaigne. 1943.
Murti, TRV. Central Philosophy of Buddhism: A Study of Madhyamika System. 1955.
Nagarjuna. Nagarjuna’s Seventy Stanzas: A Buddhist Psychology of Emptiness. 1999.
Nagel, T. Mortal Questions. 1991.
Nagel, T. The View From Nowhere. 1989.
Nagel, T. Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994. 1995.
Nagel, T. The Last Word. 2001.
Naipaul, VS. Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey. 1982.
Nelson, T (Ed). The Bible. 1999.
Nietzsche, F. The Portable Nietzsche. 1977.
Nisargadatta Maharaj. I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. 1973.
Nozick, R. Philosophical Explanations. 1981.
Nozick, R.. Anarchy, State, And Utopia. 1974.
Nuland, S.B. How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter. 1995.
O'Brien, C.C. On the Eve of Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason. 1995.
Oliver A. M. and Steinberg P. F. The Road To Martyr’s Square: A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber. 2006.
Parfit, D.. Reasons and Persons. 1986.
Paulos, JA. Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don’t Add Up. 2007.
Pelikan, J. Jesus Through the Centuries. 1997.
Penrose, R. The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics. 1989.
Penrose, R. The Large, the Small and the Human Mind. 2000.
Peters, E. Inquisition. 1988.
Phillips, K. American Theocracy. 2006.
Pinker, S. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. 2003.
Planck, M. Where Is Science Going?. 1981.
Popper, K. The Logic of Scientific Discovery.
Poundstone, W. Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge. 1989.
Poundstone, W. Prisoner’s Dilemma. 1993.
Quine, W.V. From A Logical Point of View. 1953.
Ramachandran, V.S. and Blakeslee, S. Phantoms in the Brain. 1998.
Ramana Maharshi. Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi. 1955.
Rees, M. Our Final Hour. 2003.
Reynolds, JM (Ed). Self-Liberation Through Seeing With Naked Awareness. 1988.
Rhodes, R. Deadly Feasts: Tracking The Secrets Of A Terrifying New Plague. 1997.
Ridley, M. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters. 1999.
Ridley, M. Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human. 2003.
Rorty, R. Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers. 1991.
Rorty, R. The Consequences of Pragmatism. 1982.
Rosenberg, L. Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation. 2004.
Rosenthal, D. The Nature of Mind. 1991.
Russell, B. Why I am Not a Christian.. October 30, 1967.
Russell, B. History of Western Philosophy. 1945.
Russell, B. The Problems of Philosophy. 1912.
Russell, B. Religion and Science. 1935.
Ruthven, M. Islam in the World. 2000.
Sacks, O. An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales. 1995.
Sacks, O. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. 1970.
Sagan, C. The Varieties of Scientific Experience. November 2, 2006.
