What a great list! Lots on here I’ve read, but even more that you’ve inspired me to read. Love the organization of fiction, nonfiction, and philosophy. And thank you for including me as a guest poster for this amazing Substack.
Great selection of philosophy books, including some of my favourites and some that are on my to-read list. I'd like to recommend the last book I read,Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman's _Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life_ for some entertaining and enlightening philosophical biography. It tells the entwined stories of Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgely and Philippa Foot as they struggle to find a new basis for ethics in the desert of mid-twemtieth-centurt academic philosophy. I'll be posting a full review on my Substack before long.
A bridge between philosophy and cognitive science that you might enjoy is the book I'm currently reading, John Vervaeke's _Escaping the Meaning Crisis_, which is based on his YouTube lecture series of that name. The first volume covers the history of human cognition and meaning-making from shamanism through the Axial Age to romanticism, totalitarianism and the current crisis of meaning, while the second will look at how cognitive science can give us the tools to dig ourselves out of it.
Thanks you for these recommendations, Robin. I’m aware of Escaping the Meaning Crisis and have heard good things about it. I’ll check Metaphysical Animals out for sure. Sounds intriguing!
What a great list! Lots on here I’ve read, but even more that you’ve inspired me to read. Love the organization of fiction, nonfiction, and philosophy. And thank you for including me as a guest poster for this amazing Substack.
Thank you, Yael!
Fabulous list! I'm making notes of titles to add to my TBR list for 2025 😀 And great to connect and collaborate with you here this year Selda.
Thanks, Vicki! It was lovely to connect with you too.
Great selection of philosophy books, including some of my favourites and some that are on my to-read list. I'd like to recommend the last book I read,Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman's _Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life_ for some entertaining and enlightening philosophical biography. It tells the entwined stories of Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgely and Philippa Foot as they struggle to find a new basis for ethics in the desert of mid-twemtieth-centurt academic philosophy. I'll be posting a full review on my Substack before long.
A bridge between philosophy and cognitive science that you might enjoy is the book I'm currently reading, John Vervaeke's _Escaping the Meaning Crisis_, which is based on his YouTube lecture series of that name. The first volume covers the history of human cognition and meaning-making from shamanism through the Axial Age to romanticism, totalitarianism and the current crisis of meaning, while the second will look at how cognitive science can give us the tools to dig ourselves out of it.
Thanks you for these recommendations, Robin. I’m aware of Escaping the Meaning Crisis and have heard good things about it. I’ll check Metaphysical Animals out for sure. Sounds intriguing!