Home Page of Dennis J. Darland's Studies in 2011 djd Email: Mail To: pal at dennisdarland dot com
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  1. MY LIBRARY

    I have cataloged my books (updated 12/29/2010).
    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,
    My Reading in 2009
    and My Reading in 2010

  2. BOOKS I COMPLETED READING RECENTLY

    1. Alter, Jonathan - The Promise: President Obama, Year One (Completed 4/29/2011 [nook])
    2. American Diabetes Association - Complete Guide to Diabetes, Third Edition (Completed 4/15/2011)
    3. Austin, J. L. - Sense and Sensibilia (Completed 3/25/2011)
    4. Chomsky, Noam - Language and Responsibility (in On Language) (pp. 3-194 Completed 6/4/2011)
    5. Copi, Irving M. - The Theory of Logical Types (Completed 2/19/2011)
    6. Freeman, Charles - The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason (Completed 8/1/2011 [nook])
    7. Gellner, Ernest - Words and Things (Completed 9/27/2011)
    8. Hare, R. M. - Freedom and Reason (Completed 8/29/2011 [nook])
    9. Hare, R. M. - The Language of Morals (Completed 4/4/2011)
    10. Hedges, Chris - Empire of Illusion (Completed 6/17/2011 [nook])
    11. Hellemann, John and Halpein, Mark - Game Change (Completed 7/11/2011 [audio book from library])
    12. Kirkpatrick, David - The Facebook Effect (Completed 10/8/2011 [nook])
    13. Lakoff, George and Nunez, Rafael E. - Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being (Completed 4/23/2011)
    14. Landini, Gregory - Russell (Completed 12/21/2011 [Kindle])
    15. Lessig, Lawrence - Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It (Completed 12/20/2011 [Kindle])
    16. Lewis, Michael - Boomerang (Completed 10/23/2011 [nook])
    17. Manny, Reverend - Hustlers and the IDIOT SWARM (Completed 7/14/2011)
    18. Morris, Kenneth M. and Siegel, Alan M. - The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Personal Finance (Completed 1/22/2011)
    19. Peck, Don - Pinched: How the GREAT RECESSION has narrowed our futures and what we can do about it (Completed 10/14/2011 [nook])
    20. Penrose, Roger - The Emperor's New Mind (Completed 3/18/2011)
    21. Popper, Karl R. - The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Completed 3/21/2011 (skipping pages 159-250 and appendices))
    22. Ryle, Gilbert - The Concept of Mind (Completed 8/27/2011)
    23. Schopenhauer, Arthur - The World as Will and Representation, Volume I (Completed 1/28/2011)
    24. Stewart, Matthew - The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World (Completed 1/17/2011)
    25. Thomas, Dave - Programming Ruby(2/9/2011 Got through main material - have read what I need for now)
    26. Whitehead, Alfred North - The Concept of Nature (Completed 12/6/2011 [Kindle])
    27. Wilber, Ken - the integral vision (Completed 10/6/2011)

  3. ARTICLES I COMPLETED RECENTLY

    1. Blackwell, Kenneth - "The Wit and Humour of Principia Mathematica" in russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies Vol 31, No 1, Summer 2011(Completed 7/14/2011)
    2. Byrne, Peter - "Bad Boy of Physics [Leonard Susskind]" in Scientific American Volume 305 Number 1, July 2011 (Completed 6/25/2011)
    3. Cahill, Larry - "His Brain, Her Brain" in Your Sexual Brain: How It Rules Your Life (Scientific American Mind - a Special Collection)(Completed 5/23/2011)
    4. Fields, R. Douglas - "Sex and the Secret Nerve" in Your Sexual Brain: How It Rules Your Life (Scientific American Mind - a Special Collection)(Completed 5/23/2011)
    5. Fox, Douglas - "The Limits of Intelligence" in Scientific American Volume 305 Number 1, July 2011 (Completed 6/25/2011)
    6. Portner, Martin - "The Orgasmic Mind" in Your Sexual Brain: How It Rules Your Life (Scientific American Mind - a Special Collection)(Completed 5/22/2011)
    7. Russell, Bertrand - "Mr Strawson on Referring" in Essays in Analysis (Completed 10/5/2011)
    8. Russell, Bertrand - "On the Substitutional Theory of Classes and Relations" in Essays in Analysis (Completed 2/24/2011)
    9. Russell, Bertrand - "On 'Insolubilia' and their Solution by Symbolic Logic" in Essays in Analysis (Completed 2/26/2011)
    10. Russell, Bertrand - "What is Mind?" in CPBR 11: Last Philosophical Testament (Completed 8/28/2011)
    11. Shabel, Lisa - "Apriority and Application: Philosophy of Mathematics ion the Modern Period" in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic - ed. Shapiro, Stewart(pp. 28-49 Completed 2/8/2011)
    12. Skorupski, John - "Later Empericism and Logical Positivism" in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic - ed. Shapiro, Stewart(pp. 51-73 Completed 3/1/2011)
    13. Shapiro, Stewart "Philosophy of Mathematics and Its Logic: Introduction" in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic - ed. Shapiro, Stewart(pp. 3-25 Completed 2/8/2011)
    14. Steinhardt, Paul J. - "The Inflation Debate" in Scientific American Volume 304 Number 4, April, 2011 (Completed 5/24/2011)
    15. Strawson, P. F. - "On Referring" in Logico-Linguistic Papers (Completed 10/5/2011)
    16. Vedral, Vlatko - "Living in a Quantum World" in Scientific American Volume 304 Number 6, June 2011 (Completed 5/24/2011)
    17. Walter, Chip - "Affairs of the Lips" in Your Sexual Brain: How It Rules Your Life (Scientific American Mind - a Special Collection)(Completed 5/23/2011)

  4. COURSES I COMPLETED RECENTLY

    1. ACM (Element K) - Course on PHP 5 (Completed 9/29/2011)

  5. DOCUMENTARIES I HAVE WATCHED

    1. The Nature of Existence (Completed 4/11/2011)
    2. Cosmos: Part 1: The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean (Carl Sagan) (Completed 4/24/2011)
    3. The Philosopher Kings (Completed 7/5/2011)
    4. Cosmos: Part 1: The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean (Carl Sagan) (Completed 7/10/2011 (rewatched))
    5. Cosmos: Part 2: One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue (Carl Sagan) (Completed 7/25/2011)
    6. Cosmos: Part 3: Harmony of the Worlds (Carl Sagan) (Completed 7/26/2011)
    7. Cosmos: Part 4: Heaven and Hell (Carl Sagan) (Completed 7/28/2011)
    8. Cosmos: Part 5: Blues for a Red Planet (Carl Sagan) (Completed 7/29/2011)
    9. Cosmos: Part 6: Travelers' Tales (Carl Sagan) (Completed 8/9/2011)
    10. Cosmos: Part 7: The Backbone of Night (Carl Sagan) (Completed 8/9/2011)
    11. Cosmos: Part 8: Journeys in Space and Time (Carl Sagan) (Completed 8/13/2011)
    12. Cosmos: Part 9: The Lives of the Stars (Carl Sagan) (Completed 8/14/2011)
    13. Cosmos: Part 10: The Edge of Forever (Carl Sagan) (Completed 8/18/2011)
    14. Cosmos: Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (Carl Sagan) (Completed 8/18/2011)
    15. Cosmos: Part 12: Encyclopaedia Galactica (Carl Sagan) (Completed 8/22/2011)
    16. Cosmos: Part 13: Who Speaks for Earth? (Carl Sagan) (Completed 8/23/2011) [End of series]
    17. planet earth: part 1: from pole to pole (Completed 9/12/2011)
    18. National Geographic: Incredible Human Machine (Completed 9/12/2011)
    19. planet earth: part 2: mountains (Completed 9/15/2011)
    20. planet earth: part 3: fresh water (Completed 9/16/2011)
    21. planet earth: part 4: caves (Completed 9/16/2011)
    22. planet earth: part 5: deserts (Completed 9/22/2011)
    23. planet earth: part 6: ice worlds (Completed 9/22/2011)
    24. planet earth: part 7: great plains (Completed 9/27/2011)
    25. planet earth: part 8: jungles (Completed 9/28/2011)
    26. planet earth: part 9: shallow seas (Completed 9/29/2011)
    27. planet earth: part 10: seasonal forests (Completed 10/3/2011)
    28. planet earth: part 11: ocean deep (Completed 10/3/2011) [End of series]
    29. How Does the Brain Work? Nova Science NOW(Completed 10/6/2011)
    30. The Price of Pleasure (Completed 10/29/2011)
    31. The Planets: part 1: Different Worlds (Completed 10/29/2011)
    32. The Planets: part 2: Terra Firma (Completed 10/30/2011)
    33. The Planets: part 3: Giants (Completed 11/1/2011)
    34. The Planets: part 4: Moon (Completed 11/3/2011)
    35. The Planets: part 5: Star (Completed 11/7/2011)
    36. The Planets: part 6: Atmosphere (Completed 11/10/2011)
    37. The Planets: part 7: Life (Completed 11/10/2011)
    38. The Planets: part 8: Destiny (Completed 11/10/2011) [End of series]
    39. How the Universe Works: part 1: Big Bang (Completed 11/14/2011)
    40. How the Universe Works: part 2: Black Holes (Completed 11/16/2011)
    41. How the Universe Works: part 3: Alien Galaxies (Completed 11/18/2011)
    42. How the Universe Works: part 4: Extreme Stars (Completed 11/19/2011)
    43. How the Universe Works: part 5: Extreme Planets (Completed 11/21/2011)
    44. How the Universe Works: part 6: Supernovas (Completed 11/21/2011)
    45. How the Universe Works: part 7: Alien Solar Systems (Completed 11/22/2011)
    46. How the Universe Works: part 8: Alien Moons (Completed 11/22/2011) [End of series]
    47. The Cosmos: A Beginner's Guide: part 1: Life in the Cosmos (Completed 11/26/2011)
    48. The Cosmos: A Beginner's Guide: part 2: Building the Universe (Completed 11/27/2011)
    49. The Cosmos: A Beginner's Guide: part 3: Seeing the Universe (Completed 11/29/2011)
    50. The Cosmos: A Beginner's Guide: part 4: Space Exploration (Completed 11/29/2011)
    51. The Cosmos: A Beginner's Guide: part 5: Violent Universe (Completed 11/29/2011)
    52. The Cosmos: A Beginner's Guide: part 6: Other Worlds (Completed 11/29/2011) [End of series]
    53. The Elegant Universe: part 1: Einstein's Dream (Brian Greene) (Completed 12/21/2011)
    54. The Elegant Universe: part 2: Strings the Thing (Brian Greene) (Completed 12/22/2011)
    55. The Elegant Universe: part 3: Welcome to the Eleventh Dimension (Brian Greene) (Completed 12/30/2011)

  6. FACT BASED MOVIES I HAVE WATCHED

    1. Music Within (Completed 1/15/2011)
    2. Che (Part 1 Completed 3/1/2011)
    3. Che (Part 2 Completed 3/2/2011)
    4. The Soloist (Completed 3/7/2011)
    5. Temple Grandin (Completed 3/23/2011)
    6. The King's Speech (Completed 12/5/2011)

  7. LOGIC AND LANGUAGE STUDY PLAN (Material to read or re-read) PORTION COMPLETED in 2011

    I am uncertain of my ability to accomplish all this. The only way to know is to try.
    1. Shapiro, Stewart "Philosophy of Mathematics and Its Logic: Introduction" in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic - ed. Shapiro, Stewart(pp. 3-25 Completed 2/8/2011)
    2. Shabel, Lisa - "Apriority and Application: Philosophy of Mathematics ion the Modern Period" in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic - ed. Shapiro, Stewart(pp. 28-49 Completed 2/8/2011)
    3. Copi, Irving M. - The Theory of Logical Types (Completed 2/19/2011)
    4. Russell, Bertrand - "On the Substitutional Theory of Classes and Relations" in Essays in Analysis (Completed 2/24/2011)
    5. Russell, Bertrand - "On 'Insolubilia' and their Solution by Symbolic Logic" in Essays in Analysis (Completed 2/26/2011)
    6. Skorupski, John - "Later Empericism and Logical Positivism" in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic - ed. Shapiro, Stewart(pp. 51-73 Completed 3/1/2011)
    7. Lakoff, George and Nunez, Rafael E. - Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being (pp. 1-451Completed 4/23/2011)
    8. Chomsky, Noam - Language and Responsibility (in On Language) (pp. 3-194 Completed 6/4/2011)