Redefining Reality - The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science

———. The Descent of Man: and Selection in Relation to Sex. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1981. Darwin’s most controversial book, in
which he contends that what he argued about the development of species
earlier also applies to the human race: that we were not created as is but
developed out of nonhuman ancestors as a result of evolutionary pressures.
Davies, Paul. The New Physics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1989. A collection of articles by prominent contemporary physicists,
Descartes, René. . New York: Oxford University
absolutely undeniable foundation for all human knowledge, starting with “I
think, therefore I am,” leading to the existence of God and then onto the rest
of our beliefs.
Durkheim, Émile. . New York: Free Press,
1951. An examination of the increased rate of suicide across Europe in an
———. . New York: Free Press, 1966.
The account of one of the founding fathers of sociology concerning how
practitioners are to proceed. The job of the sociologist, Durkheim claims, is to
Eagle, Nathan, and Kate Greene. Reality Mining: Using Big Data to
Engineer a Better World. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. A sunny picture
are certainly cases in which data about us are used for less than honorable
reasons, there are also major problems faced by society that can be more
effectively dealt with using data analytics.
Eagleton, Terry. Why Marx Was Right. New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 2011. Although the Cold War and the excesses of the Soviet Union
gave a bad reputation to Marxism in general, this is a provocative discussion
about the social, economic, and philosophical doctrines of Karl Marx
designed to highlight those aspects that have been seen to be on target.
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