I suppose it is hard to have a broader interest than "cosmology." For some reason, I have always believed it to be a virtue to resist limiting my curiosity to things I might actually be able to understand. In any event, here are some pieces I have done about really, really big questions.
| The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox (Stephen Jay Gould last book on natural history, in which he mends the gap between science and the humanities.) | Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking (Malcolm Gladwell wrote this book. We are not amused.) | Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of John Whiteside Parsons (George Pendle's sober biography of an inebriated life.) |
Life's Solution (Simon Conway Morris uses convergence to make evolutionary teleology respectable again.)
Critique of Pure Reason (Immanuel Kant explains everything, at length.)
Gödel: A Life of Logic (John L. Casti and Werner DePauli's brief biography of the creator of the famous Incompleteness Theorem.]
Is Mathematics Constitutional? (This is a ringng defense of mathematical Platonism against the pretensions of cognitive neuroscience. Remember, if everything you know is a product of brain structure, then neuroscience is just in your head, too)
| The Lucifer Principle (Darwinism and the evolution of civilizations.) |
Higher Superstition (You are not going to find a better critique of academic postmodernism than this book, at least as postmodernism relates to science. Nevertheless, I argue that science has created its enemies itself.)
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Our Stolen Future(This book argues that the human race is gradually being sterilized by subtle chemical pollutants. I would not bet on it.)
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The Stopping Problem(This is a short story illustrating Roger Penrose's critique of algorithmic artificial intelligence. I suspect it is one of the few such stories.)
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After Darwin(This essay explains how complexity theory may do in Darwinian evolutionary theory.)
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The Physics of Immortality(This is a book review of Frank Tipler's quantum mechanical proof of the existence of God.)
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