Home Page of Dennis J. Darland's Studies in 2010 djd

Email: dennis.darland@yahoo.com
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For other things I'm doing see my home page.

  1. My Library

    I have cataloged my books (updated 6/26/2009).
    I have an index of almost ALL of my books entered!
    (the main exception being some software documentation(mostly obsolete, yet retained)).
    It indicates the books that I have read. (to the best of my memory). I have not included as read reference books, or books I have read only part of, although I did include those used as texts in courses, although we may not have covered the entire text.
    (Also, I have read many books I don't own, but I do, now, mostly buy them, because I read so slowly,
    and also I like to be able to look thing up again, that I have read in the past.
    For my prior reading see My Reading in October 2007 through December 2008 and My Reading in 2009


  2. BOOKS I COMPLETED READING RECENTLY


    1. Beatles, The - The Beatles Anthology (Completed 7/25/2010)
    2. Clarke, Richard and Knake, Robert - Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About it (Completed 7/16/2010 [nook])
    3. Cohen, Stephen P. - Beyond America's Grasp: A Century of Failed Diplomacy in the Middle East (Completed 7/20/2010)
    4. Gellman, Barton - Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency (Completed 7/30/2010)
    5. Lewis, C. I. - An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation (Completed 8/13/2010)
    6. Red Hat, Inc. - Cygwin User's Guide (Completed 2/1/2010 [in nook pdf][scanned for what I needed to know])
    7. Russell, Bertrand - An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth(Completed 6/16/2010)
    8. Russell, Bertrand - An Outline of Philosophy (Completed 4/18/2010)
    9. Russell, Bertrand - My Philosophical Development (Completed 7/6/2010)
    10. Russell, Bertrand - Our Knowledge of the External World (Completed 2/12/2010)
    11. Russell, Bertrand - The Analysis of Matter (Completed 5/18/2010 on BR's birthday)
    12. Russell, Bertrand - The Analysis of Mind(Completed 3/15/2010)
    13. Russell, Bertrand - Theory of Knowledge: The 1913 Manuscript, CPBR Volume 7, (Completed 1/3/2010)
    14. Sawyer, Robert J. - Flash Forward (Completed 7/10/2010 [nook])
    15. Susskind, Leonard - The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design (Completed 3/29/2010)
    16. Telles, Matt and Hsieh, Yuan - The Science of DEBUGGING (Completed 8/14/2010)
    17. Tolkein, J. R. R. - The Silmarillion (Completed 1/28/2010)
    18. Whitehead, Alfred North and Russell, Bertrand - Principia Mathematica to *56 (Completed 3/4/2010)
    19. Whitehead, Alfred North and Russell, Bertrand - Principia Mathematica Volume One (1st Edition(paperback reprint)) (Stopped 4/24/2010 at page 505 of 666 pages (starting at page 404 where PM to *56 stopped))(It was starting to get too hard - I need an index of definitions!)
    20. Wittgenstein, Ludwig - Notebooks 1914-1916 2nd Edition (Completed 4/29/2010)


  3. ARTICLES I COMPLETED RECENTLY


    1. Carlson, Carey R. - "Eliminative Panpsychism"[pdf from author](Completed 2/26/2010)
    2. Carlson, Carey R. - "The Structure of Quarks"[pdf from author](Completed 3/17/2010)
    3. Chomsky, Noam - "'The evil scourge of terrorism': reality, construction, remedy. Erich Fromm Lecture 2010" in Fromm Forum 14/2010(Completed 5/2/2010)
    4. Fortnow, Lance - "The Status of the P versus NP Problem" in Communications of the ACM 09/2009 Vol 52 No 09, pp. 78-86 (Completed 5/19/2010)
    5. Galaugher, Jolen and Kortelainen, Ilmar - "Nicholas Griffin Speaks His Mind: An Interview" in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly
      No 142-144, Fall 2009      (Completed 3/30/2010)
    6. Russell, Bertrand (1914) - "Mysticism and Logic", CPBR Volume 8, pp. 27-49 (Completed 1/6/2010)
    7. Russell, Bertrand (1914) - "On Scientific Method in Philosophy", CPBR Volume 8, pp. 55-73 (completed 1/9/2010)
    8. Russell, Bertrand (1914) - "The Relation of Sense-data to Physics", CPBR Volume 8, pp. 3-26 (Completed 2/16/2010)
    9. Russell, Bertrand (1915) - Letter on Sense Data, CPBR Volume 8, pp. 87-88 (Completed 2/17/2010)
    10. Russell, Bertrand (1915) - "The Ultimate Constituents of Matter", CPBR Volume 8, pp. 74-86 (Completed 2/18/2010)
    11. Russell, Bertrand (1918) - "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism", CPBR Volume 8, pp. 157-244 (Completed 2/25/2010)
    12. Russell, Bertrand (1919) - Note on C.D. Broad's Article in July Mind, CPBR Volume 8, pp 89-90 (Completed 2/17/2010)
    13. Russell, Bertrand (1919) - "On Propositions: What They Are and How They Mean", CPBR Volume 8, pp. 276-306 (Completed 3/1/2010)
    14. Russell, Bertrand (1923) - "Truth-Functions and Meaning-Functions", CPBR Volume 9, pp. 156-158 (Completed 3/17/2010)
    15. Russell, Bertrand (1923) - "What is Meant by 'A believes p'?", CPBR Volume 9, p. 159 (Completed 3/17/2010)
    16. Russell, Bertrand (1924) - "Logical Atomism", CPBR Volume 9, pp. 160-179 (Completed 3/22/2010)
    17. Russell, Bertrand (1936) - "Determinism and Physics", CPBR Volume 10, pp. 67-80 (Completed 5/19/2010)
    18. Russell, Bertrand (1938) - "On the Importance of Logical Form", CPBR Volume 10, pp. 138-140 (Completed 5/20/2010)
    19. Russell, Bertrand (1944) - "My Mental Development", CPBR Volune 11, pp. 5-18 (Completed 6/17/2010)

  4. COURSES I COMPLETED RECENTLY


    1. Susskind, Leonard - Stanford Physics Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics, Spring 2009 (Completed 1/4/2010)
    2. Susskind, Leonard - Stanford Physics Modern Physics: New Revolution in Particle Physics: Basic Concepts, Fall 2009 (Completed 4/13/2010)
    3. Susskind, Leonard - Stanford Physics Modern Physics: The Standard Model, Spring 2010 (Completed 7/9/2010)

  5. DOCUMENTARIES I HAVE WATCHED



    1. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (Completed 1/9/2010)
    2. Readings from Voices of A Peoples History of the United States [by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove] (Completed 1/16/2010)
    3. Religulous [Bill Maher] (Completed 2/2/2010)
    4. The Corporation (Completed 3/30/2010)
    5. Sacco and Vanzetti (Completed 4/9/2010)
    6. Capitalism: A Love Story [Michael Moore] (Completed 5/25/2010)
    7. LBJ: American Experience (Completed 7/9/2010)
    8. Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (Completed 7/29/2010)

  6. Fact Based Movies I have Watched


    1. The Aviator [About Howard Hughes] (Completed 1/6/2010)
    2. JFK [Oliver Stone] (Completed 1/20/2010)
    3. Nixon {Oliver Stone] (Completed 2/5/2010)
    4. W. [About George W. Bush] [Oliver Stone] (Completed 2/22/2010
    5. Salvador [Oliver Stone] (Completed 4/15/2010)


  7. BOOKS I AM CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF READING


    I don't seem able to read in one book very long at a time. So I jump between several books and gradually make progress.
    Updating this web page enforces my daily reading.
    When I get near the end of a book I sometimes am able to spurt to the finish!
    I am just reading the summaries of each number in Principia Mathematica.
    I am working some of the problems in Gross' book.

    1. Bacevich, Andrew - Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (9/2/2010 to page 52 of 224 pages [nook])
    2. Chomsky, Noam - Language and Responsibility [in On Language] (8/20/2010 to page 26 of 194 pages)
    3. Cook, David "Zeb" - Player's Handbook: 2nd Edition - Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (8/2/2010 to page 26 of 236 pages)
    4. Copleston, Frederick, S.J. - A History of Philosophy: Volune I: Greece and Rome (8/20/2010 to page 18 of 506 pages)
    5. Durant, Will and Ariel - The Age of Louis XIV (8/6/2010 to page 286 of 721 pages)
    6. Epstein, Greg M. - good without God (8/30/2010 to page 842 of 1271 pages [nook])
    7. Freeman, Scott - Biological Science (8/24/2010 to page 100 of 1127 pages)
    8. Gamma, Erich; Helm, Richard; Johnson, Ralph; and Vlissides, John - Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
      (8/14/2010 to page 2 of 358 pages)
    9. Gross, Franz - Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Field Theory (8/2/2010 to page 58 of 614 pages)
    10. Kissinger, Henry - Diplomacy (8/6/2010 to page 268 of 835 pages)
    11. Lakoff, George and Nunez, Rafael E. - Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being
      (8/11/2010 to page 210 of 451 pages)
    12. Pauling, Linus - General Chemistry (8/11/2010 to page 612 of 863 pages)
    13. Plato - Collected Dialogues (8/12/2010 Intro to page xxv of xxv pages; Text to page 334 of 1606 pages)
    14. Popper, Karl R. - The Logic of Scientific Discovery (8/29/2010 to page 95 of 460 pages)
    15. Russell, Bertrand - The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell Volume 1: The Private Years (9/1/2010 to page 454 of 532 pages)
    16. Scahill, Jeremy - BLACKWATER: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (9/2/2010 to page 218 of 552 pages [nook])
    17. Schaeffer, Frank - Crazy for God: How I grew up as one of the elect, helped found the religious right, and lived to take all (or almost all) of it back
      (8/29/2010 to page 190 of 408 pages)
    18. Schopenhauer, Arthur - The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
      (8/29/2010 Intro to page xxx of xxx pages; Appendix to page 534 of 534 - 413 pages; and Main Text to page 248 of 412 pages) (this is the order Schopenhauer says to read the book in)
    19. Shorrock, Tim - Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing (8/30/2010 to page 34 of 489 pages [nook])
    20. Stewart, Matthew - The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World (8/22/2010 to page 146 of 312 pages)
    21. Swartz, Robert J., ed,. - Perceiving, Sensing and Knowing (8/12/2010 Intro to page xxii of xxii pages; Text to page 120 of 526 pages)
    22. Thomas, Dave - Programming Ruby(8/2/2010 to page 152 of 785 pages)
    23. Tolkein, J. R. R. - Unfinished Tales (8/16/2010 to page 90 of 415 pages)
    24. Tolle, Eckhart - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (8/30/2010 to page 564 of 1019 pages [nook])
    25. Wessels, Walter J. - Economics (8/16/2010 to page 331 of 588 pages)
    26. Wittgenstein, Ludwig - The Big Typescript: TS 213 German-English Scholar's Edition (8/14/2010 to page 2 of 506 pages)
    27. Wyman, Bill -Rolling with the Stones (8/24/2010 to page 20 of 503 pages)

  8. ARTICLES I AM CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF READING


    1. Goedel, Kurt - "On formally undecidable propositions of Principia Mathematica" in From Frege to Goedel, ed. van Heijenoort, Jean (was studying intently - but slipped away)
    2. Nickerson, Silvia and Griffin, Nickolas - "Russell, Clifford, Whitehead and Differential Geometry" in russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies Vol 28, No 1, Summer 2008

  9. COURSES I AM IN THE PROCESS OF TAKING


    1. ACM (Element K) - Course on PHP 5 (3/7/2010 Completed 91 of 208 Topics)
    2. Drennan, Prof. Catherine and Taylor, Dr. Elizabeth Vogel - 5.111 Principles of Chemical Science, Fall 2008(Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare) (8/20/2010 Completed 8 of 36 Lectures) License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
    3. Lander, Prof. Eric, Weinberg, Prof. Robert, Gardel, Dr. Claudette, and Chess, Prof. Andrew (Guest Lecturer) - 7.012 Introduction to Biology, Fall 2004(Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare) (3/18/2010 Completed 1 of 35 Lectures) License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

  10. BOOKS I PLAN TO READ (OR FINISH READING) SOON (GOALS)


    1. Friedman, Thomas L. - The World is Flat (635 pages)
    2. Kaku, Michio - Quantum Field Theory: A moderm introduction (5/27/2009 to page 24 of 761 pages)
    3. Wang, Hao - Reflections on Kurt Goedel (to page 210 of 319)

  11. WORKS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL THAT I REREAD -- COMPLETED 7/6/2010(GOALS)


    Most of these I read 30-40 years ago. I have matured philosophically a great deal since then, and think I can come to a better understanding of Russell by rereading them.
    There are included a few articles (from CPBR) that I have never read before.

    1. (1905)"On Denoting", CPBR Volume 4, pp. 414-427 (Completed 11/17/2009)
    2. (1910-11)"Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Descripton", CPBR Volume 6, pp. 147-161 (Completed 11/19/2009)
    3. (1910)"On the Natue of Truth and Falsehood", CPBR Volume 6, pp. 115-124 (Completed 11/20/2009)
    4. (1911-12)"On the Relations of Universals and Particulars, CPBR Volume 6, pp. 162-182 (Completed 11/22/2009)
    5. (1911)"The Philosophical Importance of Mathematical Logic, CPBR Volume 6, pp. 32-40 (Completed 11/23/2009)
    6. (1912)The Problems of Philosophy (Completed 12/2/2009)
    7. (1913)"The Nature of Sense-Data: A Reply to Dr. Dawes Hicks", CPBR Volume 6,pp. 183-189 (Completed 12/3/2009)
    8. (1913)"On the Notion of Cause", CPBR Volume 6,, pp. 190-210 (Completed 12/4/2009)
    9. (1913)Theory of Knowledge: The 1913 Manuscript, CPBR Volume 7, (Intro etc. pp. xi-xlv, Text pp. 5-202) (Completed 1/3/2010)
    10. (1914)"Mysticism and Logic", CPBR Volume 8, pp. 27-49 (Completed 1/6/2010)
    11. (1914)"On Scientific Method in Philosophy", CPBR Volume 8, pp. 55-73 (Completed 1/9/2010)
    12. (1914)Our Knowledge of the External World(Completed 2/12/2010)
    13. (1914)"The Relation of Sense-data to Physics", CPBR Volume 8, pp. 3-26 (Completed 2/16/2010)
    14. (1915)Letter on Sense Data, CPBR Volume 8, pp. 87-88 (Completed 2/17/2010)
    15. (1915)"The Ultimate Constituents of Matter", CPBR Volume 8, pp. 74-86 (Completed 2/18/2010)
    16. (1918)"The Philosophy of Logical Atomism", CPBR Volume 8, pp. 157-244 (Completed 2/27/2010)
    17. (1919)Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (Completed 10/19/2009)
    18. (1919)"On Propositions: What They Are and How They Mean", CPBR Volume 8, pp. 276-306(Completed 3/1/2010 to page 281)
    19. (1921)The Analysis of Mind(Completed 3/15/2010)
    20. (1923)"Truth-Functions and Meaning-Functions", CPBR Volume 9, pp. 156-158 (Completed 3/17/2010)
    21. (1923)"What is Meant by 'A believes p'?", CPBR Volume 9, p. 159 (Completed 3/17/2010)
    22. (1924)"Logical Atomism", CPBR Volume 9, pp. 160-179 (Completed 3/22/2010)
    23. (1927)An Outline of Philosophy (Completed 4/18/2010)
    24. (1927)The Analysis of Matter (Completed 5/18/2010 on BR's birthday)
    25. (1936)"Determinism and Physics", CPBR Volume 10, pp. 67-80 (Completed 5/19/2010)
    26. (1938)"On the Importance of Logical Form", CPBR Volume 10, pp. 138-140 (Completed 5/20/2010)
    27. (1940)An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth(Completed 6/16/2010)
    28. (1944)"My Mental Development", CPBR Volune 11, pp. 5-18 (Completed 6/17/2010)
    29. (1948)Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (Completed 3/30/2009)
    30. (1959)My Philosophical Development (Completed 7/6/2010)

  12. COURSES I PLAN TO TAKE SOON(GOALS)


    1. Lorayne, Harry - memory POWER

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