The Bookshelf
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Jose Saramago, Small Memories (2009)
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Memory is fragile. (See September 20, 2011 post ). Jose Saramago's honest account of his memories of some events in his life when he ...
Sunday, February 24, 2013
John Searle, Making The Social World (2010)
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The substance of John Searle's most recent book, Making the Social World , is largely covered by the last chapter of his 2008 selection...
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design (2010)
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Imagine that approximately 160,000 - 200,000 years ago, a huge asteroid miles across is hurtling toward the earth as the earth's gravit...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent (1875)
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The subjects of personal identity and group identity have surfaced in a couple of previous posts in this blog, (see April 1, 2012 , Decem...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Jose Saramago, Baltasar and Blimunda (1982)
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While I was reading Jose Saramago 's Baltasar and Blimunda , Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' commentary published in The New York Times tit...
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Steven Nadler, A Book Forged in Hell (2011)
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In 1632, Galileo Galilei published a book entitled Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems . The book compared the Copernican Syst...
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