Redefining Reality - The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science

Kramer, Peter. . New York: Viking, 1993. A defense
of the use of psychoactive medication for purposes that are cosmetic and
not medically necessary. Argues that people ought to have the right to use
such drugs as Prozac to make them the way they want to be, even if what is
keeping them from being that way is not a medical problem.
Kropotkin, Pyotr. . New York: Knopf,
1925. An attempt to re-understand the theory of evolution that stresses the
communal behaviors of animals, as opposed to the standard approach, which
sees the adversarial and self-centered aspects as primary in understanding
the struggle for survival.
Kuhn, Thomas. . Chicago: University
that force people to adopt completely new concepts by which to make sense
of the world.
Lawson, Thomas. . London: Karnac, 2008. A
short, popular biography of Freud’s most famous student.
Lewontin, Richard. “The Apportionment of Human Diversity.”
Biology 6 (1972): 381–398. A seminal paper arguing that there is greater
diversity within racial groups than across them. If we are looking for
characteristics that separate people, race is not the place to look.
Longair, Malcolm. . New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. A look at the way in which
human interactions with the environment affect neurological structure and,
therefore, human behavior.
Lynch, Zack.
World. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2009. A generally accessible discussion
what it is to be human.
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