Home Page of Dennis J. Darland's Studies in 2008 djd
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  1. BOOKS I COMPLETED READING October 2007 through December 2008


    1. Albrecht, Ava T., MD and Herrick, Charles, MD - 100 Questions and Answers about Bipolar (Manic-Depressive) Disorder (Completed 9/1/2008)
    2. Altemeyer, Bob - The Authoritarians(Completed 12/31/2007)
    3. Bergson, Henri - Creative Evolution(Completed 9/2/2008)
    4. Carey, Rosalind - Russell and Wittgenstein on the Nature of Judgement(Completed 11/18/2007)
    5. Church, Forrest - So Help Me GOD, The Founding Fathers and the first great battle over Church and State (Completed 10/4/2008)
    6. Dennett, Daniel C. - Breaking the spell (Religion as a Natural Phenomenon)(Complete 3/8/2008)
    7. Feynman, Richard P. - The Meaning of it All - Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist (Completed 10/16/2008)
    8. Feynman, Leighton, Sands - The Feynman Lectures on PHYSICS, Volume I(Completed 11/12/2008)
    9. Feynman, Leighton, Sands - The Feynman Lectures on PHYSICS, Volume II(Completed 12/19/2008)
    10. Goble, Lou, ed. - The Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic (Completed 4/13/2008)
    11. Gore, Al - The Assault on Reason(Completed 10/13/2007)
    12. James, William - Essays in Radical Empiricism(Completed 4/21/2008)
    13. James, William - Pragmatism(Completed 3/18/2008)
    14. James, William - The Meaning of Truth (Completed 4/10/2008)
    15. Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason(Completed 9/3/2008)
    16. Kant, Immanuel - Logic(Completed 11/22/2008)
    17. Kant, Immanuel - Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics(Completed 6/13/2008)
    18. Landini, Gregory - Russell's Hidden Substitutional Theory(Completed 12/26/2007)
    19. Landini, Gregory - Wittgenstein's Apprenticeship with Russell(Completed 12/16/2007)
    20. Linsky, Bernard - Russell's Metaphysical Logic(Completed 1/11/2008)
    21. MapleSoft - Maple 12 - Getting Started Guide(Completed 6/5/2008)
    22. Mooney, Chris - The REPUBLICAN WAR on Science (Completed 4/21/2008)
    23. Murry, William R. - Reason and Reverence, Religious Humanism for the 21st Century(Completed 3/2/2008)
    24. Obama, Barack - Dreams from My Father (Completed 6/4/2008)
    25. Obama, Barack - The Audacity of Hope(Completed 2/23/2008)
    26. Raymond, Eric S. - The Cathedral & the Bazaar (Musings on Linux and Open Source by an accidental revolutionary)(Completed 1/12/2008)
    27. Strang, Gilbert - CALCULUS(Completed 11/19/2008)
    28. Symon, Keith R. - Mechanics, Third Edition (9/13/2008 to page 469 of 595 pages - became too difficult)
    29. Ullman, Jeffery D. - Elements of ML Programming (Completed 8/17/2008)
    30. Weidlich, Thom - Appointment Denied: The Inquisition of Bertrand Russell (Completed 7/21/2008)

  2. ARTICLES I COMPLETED READING October 2007 through December 2008


    1. Ambjorn, Jan; Jurkiewicz, Jerzy; and Loll, Renate - "The Self-organizing Quantum Universe" in Scientific American Volume 299 Number 1, July 2008 (Completed 10/15/2008)
    2. Amesbury, Richard and Wainwright, William - "Is Process Philosophy of Religion Dead?" in process perspectives, Vol 31, No 1, Spring 2008(Completed 7/1/2008)
    3. Beaney, Michael - Analysis, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy(Completed 8/2/2008)
    4. Beaney, Michael - Appeciating the Varieties of Analysis: A Reply to Ongley in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 128-129, November 2005 - February 2006(Completed 8/12/2008)
    5. Beaney, Michael - "Is Analytic Philosophy an Illusion? A Reply to Preston" in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 132-135, November 2006 - August 2007(Completed 8/13/2008)
    6. Bojowald, Martin - "Follow the Bouncing Universe" in Scientific American Volume 299 Number 4, October 2008 (Completed 10/6/2008)
    7. Carr, H. Wildon - "On Mr. Russell's Reasons for Supposing That Bergson's Philosophy Is Not True" in CPBR 6 (Completed 10/1/2008)
    8. Carrol, Sean M. - "The Cosmic Origins of Time's Arrow" in Scientific American Volume 298 Number 6, June 2008 (Completed 10/15/2008)
    9. Ford, Lewis S. - "Whatever Happened to 'Efficient Causation'?" in process studies Vol 34, No 1, Spring-Summer 2005(Completed 7/4/2008)
    10. Ford, Lewis S. - "Whitehead's Creative Transformations: A Summation" in process studies Vol 35, No 1, Spring-Summer 2006(Completed 7/3/2008)
    11. Fromm, Erich - "Psychoanalytic Characterology and its Application to the Understanding of Culture" in Fromm Forum No 12, 2008(Completed 7/11/2008)
    12. Fromm, Erich - "The Automaton Citizen and Human Rights" in Fromm Forum No 12, 2008(Completed 7/9/2008)
    13. Goldman, David - "A Psychiatrist Looks at Russell's Conquest of Happiness" in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 136-139, November 2007 - August 2008(Completed 12/5/2008)
    14. Griffin, Nicholas - "Bertrand Russell and Harold Joachim" in russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies Vol 27, No 1, Winter 2007-08(Completed 7/4/2008)
    15. Hardcastle, Gary - "Preston on Analytic Philosophy" in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 136-139, November 2007 - August 2008(Completed 11/3/2008)
    16. Hunter, Bruce - Clarence Irving Lewis , The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy(Completed 11/9/2008)
    17. Kohl, Marvin - "Bertrand Russell on Fear: a Prolegomena" in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 136-139, November 2007 - August 2008(Completed 12/5/2008)
    18. Ongley, John - Properties of Analysis: Reply to Beaney in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 128-129, November 2005 - February 2006(Completed 8/12/2008)
    19. Ongley, John - What is Analysis? Review of Michael Beaney, 'Analysis', Stanford Encyclopedia pf Philosophy in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 127, August 2005(Completed 8/12/2008)
    20. Pincock. Christopher - "Preston on the Illusory Character of Analytic Philosophy" in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 136-139, November 2007 - August 2008(Completed 11/3/2008)
    21. Preston, Aaron - Implications of Recent Work on Analytic Philosophy in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 127, August 2005(Completed 8/6/2008)
    22. Preston, Aaron - "Reply to Beaney" in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 132-135, November 2006 - August 2007(Completed 8/13/2008)
    23. Preston, Aaaron - "Replies to Hardcastle and Pincock" in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 136-139, November 2007 - August 2008(Completed 11/3/2008)
    24. Russell, Bertrand - "Metaphysics and Intuition" in CPBR 6(Completed 9/9/2008)
    25. Russell, Bertrand - "Mr. Wildon Carr's Defense of Bergson" in CPBR 6(Completed 10/1/2008)
    26. Russell, Bertrand - "The Philosophy of Bergson" in CPBR 6(Completed 10/1/2008)
    27. Russell, Bertrand - "The Professor's Guide to Laughter" in CPBR 6(Completed 9/9/2008)
    28. Stevens, Graham - "Keith Green, _Bertrand Russell, Language and Linguistic Theory_" in russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies Vol 28, No 1, Summer 2008(Completed 12/17/2008)
    29. Stone, Peter - "Chomsky and Russell Revisited. Review of Three Recent Works by Noam Chomsky" in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 132-135, November 2006 - August 2007(Completed 8/2/2008)
    30. Trainer, Chad - "Huw Price and Richard Corry, eds., _Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited_" in russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies Vol 28, No 1, Summer 2008(Completed 12/17/2008)
    31. Young, Brandon - "On the Russell Tribunal: An Interview with Noam Chomsky" in The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly No 132-135, November 2006 - August 2007(Completed 7/8/2008)

  3. COURSES I COMPLETED October 2007 through December 2008


    1. Maple 11: The Maple Tour(Completed 5/2/2008)
    2. Maple 11: Maple 11 Training Videos(Completed 5/2/2008)
    3. Maple 11: Doing Math with Maple Training Videos(Completed 5/2/2008)
    4. Maple 11: Clickable Calculus.(Completed 5/5/2008)
    5. Maple 11: Clickable Calculus II.(Completed 5/12/2008)
    6. Maple 12: Introduction to Maple 12 for Professionals.(had free upgrade to Maple 12 since purchased after 4/1/2008)(Completed 5/17/2008)
    7. The ACM online course on A Manager's Introduction to Business Law(Completed 2/12/2008)
    8. The ACM online course on Advanced HTML Design Elements(Completed 2/5/2008)
    9. The ACM online course on Contracts in Commercial Transactions(Completed 4/21/2008)
    10. The ACM online course on Perl (Completed 2/2/2008)
    11. The ACM online course on Programming XHTML 1.1: Basic Concepts(Completed 1/31/2008)
    12. The ACM online course on Web Development Fundamentals(HTML 4.01)(Completed 2/2/2008)