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Books, articles, and essays for further reading
- The evolution of cooperation. — Axelrod, R.
- A cognitive theory of consciousness. — Baars, B. J.
- The shape of thought: How mental adaptations evolve. — Barrett, H. C.
- The grammar of society: The nature and dynamics of social norms. — Bicchieri, C.
- Arguing and thinking: A rhetorical approach to social psychology. — Billig, M.
- Religion explained: The evolutionary origins of religious thought. — Boyer, P.
- This explains everything: Deep, beautiful, and elegant theories of how the world works. — Brockman, J.,
- Origins of objectivity. — Burge, T
- The architecture of the mind: Massive modularity and the flexibility of thought. — Carruthers, P.
- Harvard and the Unabomber: The education of an American terrorist — Chase, A.
- The number sense: How the mind creates mathematics. — Dehaene, S.
- Content and consciousness. — Dennett, D. C.
- Why we talk: The evolutionary origins of language. — Dessalles, J.-L.
- Knowledge and the flow of information. — Dretske, F.
- Relationship thinking: Agency, enchrony, and human sociality. — Enfield, N. J.
- Rationality and reasoning. — Evans, J. St. B. T., and D. E. Over.
- Newton: The making of genius. — Fara, P.
- The philosophy of information. — Floridi, L.
- Perfect rigor: A genius and the mathematical breakthrough of the century. — Gessen, M.
- Moore’s paradox: New essays on belief, rationality, and the first person. — Green, M. S., and J. N. Williams.
- Trusting what you’re told: How children learn from others — Harris, P. L.
- Mapping the mind: Domain specificity in cognition and culture. — Hirschfeld, L. A.
- Bury the chains: Prophets and rebels in the fight to free an empire’s slaves. — Hochschild, A.
- Groupthink, — Janis, I. L.
- How we reason. — Johnson-Laird
- Among the Truthers: A journey through America’s growing conspiracist underground. — Kay, J.
- The structure of scientific revolutions — Kuhn, T.
- The Delphi method: Techniques and applications. — Linstone, H. A., and M. Turof
- Thinking and reasoning: An introduction to the psychology of reason, judgment and decision making — Manktelow, K.
- The epigenesis of mind: Essays on biology and cognition. — S. Carey and R. Gelman
- Helmholtz: From enlightenment to neuroscience. — Meulders, M.
- White Queen psychology and other essays for Alice. — Millikan, R. G.
- Language, thought, and other biological categories: New foundations for realism. — Millikan, R. G.
- Ways of thinking of Eastern peoples: India, China, Tibet, Japan. — Nakamura, H.
- Circumference: Eratosthenes and the ancient quest to measure the globe. — Nicastro, N.
- Governing the commons: The evolution of institutions for collective action — Ostrom, E.
- Inevitable illusions: How mistakes of reason rule our minds — Piattelli-Palmarini, M.
- The language instinct. — Pinker, S.
- Conjectures and refutations. — Popper, K. R.
- Epistemic luck. — Pritchard, D.
- An inquiry into the human mind on the principles of common sense. — Reid, T.
- The psychology of proof: Deductive reasoning in human thinking. — Rips, L. J.
- Objectivity, relativism, and truth: Philosophical papers. — Rorty, R.
- Speaking our minds: Why human communication is dif ferent, and how language evolved to make it special. — Scott-Phillips, T. C.
- The signal and the noise: Why so many predictions fail—but some don’t — Silver, N.
- Evolution of the social contract. — Skyrms, B.
- Signals: Evolution, learning, and information. — Skyrms, B.
- Philosophy of biology. — Sober, E.
- Metarepresentations: A multidisciplinary perspective. — Sperber, D.
- The robot’s rebellion: Finding meaning in the age of Darwin. — Stanovich, K. E.
- Thought in a hostile world: The evolution of human cognition. — Sterelny, K.
- Religion and the decline of magic. — Thomas, K.
- The double helix. — Watson, J. D.
- The origin and evolution of intelligence. — Scheibel and J. W. Schopf
- Bad medicine: Doctors doing harm since Hippocrates. — Wootton, D.
- The invention of science: A new history of the scientific revolution. — Wootton, D.
- The philosophers’ quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the limits of human understanding. — Zaretsky, R., and J. T. Scott.
- Biology of turtles: From structures to strategies of life. — Wyneken, J., M. H. Godfrey, and V. Bels,