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Brain Group Reading List

January 2, 2016 by Firefly

List of books the adult group has read:
Ramachandran’s Phantoms in the Brain
Taylor’s My Stroke of Insight
Doidge’s The Brain that Changes Itself
Damasio’s Descartes’ Error
Alper’s The ‘God’ Part of the Brain
Churchland’s Braintrust
Tomasello’s Why We Cooperate
Lakoff’s The Political Mind
Farah’s Neuroethics
Sykes’ Adam’s Curse
Marion’s Genetic Rounds
Kean’s The Violinist’s Thumb
Linden’s The Compass of Pleasure
De Waal’s Good Natured
Wilson’s Evolution for Everyone
Linden’s The Accidental Mind
Eagleman’s Incognito
Dehaene’s Consciousness and the Brain
Cartwright’s The Twenty-four Hour Mind: Role of Sleep & Dreaming
Lieberman’s Shrink: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
Solms’ The Brain and The Inner World
2016: First topic was “the future” with readings on AI, Brain-Machine Interfaces, and other developing technologies influenced by neuroscience research.
Lieberman’s Social: Why Our Brains are Wired to Connect
Haidt’s The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
E.O.Wilson’s The Social Conquest of Earth
Richerson & Boyd Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
Robert Sapolsky’s Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Amazing book – a whole year’s course.

Filed Under: Brain Group Tagged With: books, ethics, evolution, psychology, science

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