Things I want to read

A (non-exhaustive) collection of books and articles that I would like to read at some point. I update this regularly when I get new recommendations.

Papers

• Real Patterns by Daniel C. Dennett - The paper that introduced the concept of Real Patterns, probably a fundamental idea in epistemology and one of the key subjects to discuss in the context of natural kinds, the problem of universals, etc.
• Why Most Published Research Findings Are False One of the whistleblower papers from before the Replication Crisis era.
• Scientific progress is like doing a puzzle, not building a wall
• Processes and patterns of interaction as units of selection: An introduction to ITSNTS thinking
• Identifying the Best Approximating Model in Bayesian Phylogenetics: Bayes Factors, Cross-Validation or wAIC? By Nicolas Lartillot

Books

• Los enemigos del comercio
• The Bourgeois Era trilogy
• The Oxford History of the French Revolution
• The Enlightened Economy
• The Fiat Standard
• Raised to Obey
• The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World - Recommended by Zuza
• Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years - Recommended by Zuza
• A Culture of Growth
• Trust and distrust in organizations
• The Revolutionary Temper
• The New Roman Empire
• Violence and Social Orders
• The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
• The Problem of Political Authority
• The Invention of Nature - Recommended by Julio, Sam
• China after Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
• A Short History of Chinese Philosophy
• Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750
• Form Follows Finance
• The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
• The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
• The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
• The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
• Money, Bank, Credit and Economic Cycles
• Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market
• Anarchy, State and Utopia
• Rousseau’s Dog: A Tale of Two Philosophers
• A Concise History of Switzerland
• Agents and Goals in Evolution -
• Causality: Philosophical Theory meets Scientific Practice
• The Logic of Science
• Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
• Coercion, Capital and European States
• Por qué se rompió Estados Unidos: Populismo y polarización en la era Trump - Recommended by Isma

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