Virion Reading List

Table of Contents

• David's Top 10
• Philosophy
• Evolution
• Cognitive Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Life
• Complexity
• Space
• Fiction

Introductory

• Smullyan, Raymond, 5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1983.
• Osborne, Richard, Philosophy for Beginners. Writers and Readers, Inc., 1992.
• Martin, Robert M., There Are Two Errors.... Broadview Press, 1992.

General

• Lacey, A. R., A Dictionary of Philosophy. Routledge, 1976.

Epistemology

• Bartley, W. W., The Retreat to Commitment. Open Court, London, 1984.

Philosophy of Mind

• Bechtel, W., Philosophy of Mind: An Overview of Cognitive Science. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988.
• Churchland, P. M., A Neurocomputational Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science. MIT Press, 1989.
• Churchland, P. M., Matter and Consciousness. MIT Press, 1984.
• Dennett, D. C., Consciousness Explained. Little, Brown and Co., 1991.
• Dennett, D. C., Elbow Room. MIT Press, 1984.
• Dennett, D. C., The Intentional Stance. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1987.

Philosophy of Biology

• Dennett, D. C., Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Simon and Schuster, 1995.
• Sober, E., Philosophy of Biology. Westview Press, 1993.
• Schr÷dinger, E., What Is Life? Cambridge University Press, 1967.

Philosophy of Religion

• Martin, M., Atheism: a philosophical justification. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1990.

Game Theory

• Poundstone, W., The Prisoners Dilemma. Doubleday, 1992.

• Axelrod, R., The evolution of strategies in the interated prisoner's dilemma. In L. Davis, editor, Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing, chapter 3, pages 32-41. Morgan Kaufman, 1987.
• Casti, J., and Karlquist, A., ed. Cooperation and Conflict in General Evolutionary Processes. John Wiley and Sons, 1995.
• Cziko, Gary, Without Miracles. Bradford/MIT Press, 1995. (ISBN 0-262-3232-5)
• Dawkins, R., River Out of Eden. BasicBooks, 1995.
• Dawkins, R., The Blind Watchmaker. Penguin, 1988.
• Dawkins, R., The Extended Phenotype. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983.
• Dawkins, R., The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1976.
• Darwin, C. The Origin of Species. Penguin Books, 1968.
• Farmer, D., et al, ed. Evolution, Games and Learning: Models for Adaptation in Machines and Nature. North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1986.
• Holland, J. H., Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1975.
• Kauffman, S. A., The Origins of Order: Self-organization and Selection in Evolution. Oxford University Press, 1993.

• Calvin, William H., The Cerebral Symphony. Bantam Books, 1989.
• Hofstadter, Douglas R., Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Basic Books, 1979.
• McCrone, J., The Myth of Irrationality. MacMillan, London, 1993.
• Minsky, M., Society of Mind. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1986.
• Piattelli-Palmarini, M., Inevitable Illusions: how mistakes of reason rule our minds. John Wiley & Sons, 1994.

Memetics

• Boyd, R and Richarson, P. J. Culture and the Evolutionary Process. publisher?, 1995.
• Dawkins, R., The Extended Phenotype: The Gene as a Unit of Selection. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983.
• Dawkins, R., The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1976.

• Beer, R. D., Intelligence as Adaptive Behavior, volume 6 of Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence. Academic Press, 1990.
• Graubard, Stephen R., ed. The Artificial Intelligence Debate. MIT Press, 1988.
• Moravec, H., Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1988.

• Langton, Christopher G., ed., Artificial Life, The Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. Addison Wesley, 1989.
• Levy, Steven, Artificial Life. Pantheon Books, New York, 1992.
• Sigmund, K., Games of Life. Oxford University Press. New York, 1993.

• Gleick, J., Chaos: Making a New Science. Penguin, 1987.
• Kelly, K. Out of Control. Addison-Wesley, 1994.
• Lewin, R., Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos. MacMillan, 1992.
• Pagels, H. R., The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1988.

• Savage, Marshall T., The Millennial Project., Little, Brown & Co., 1994.
• Lerner, Eric J., The Big Bang Never Happened., publisher?, 1994.

• Rand, A. Atlast Shrugged.,
• Stiegler, Mark. David's Sling.,