Philosophy Books
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
A field manual to the technologies that are transforming our lives Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our l…
Technics and Human Development
Mumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because …
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
The award-winning author of The Net Delusion shows how the radical transparency we've become accustomed to online may threaten the spirit of real-…
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship o…
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight. In lucid and appeal…
The Computer and the Brain
With a foreword by Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. ChurchlandThis book represents the views of one of the greatest mathematicians of the twenti…
The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing
Computers are everywhere today -- at work, in the bank, in artist's studios, sometimes even in our pockets -- yet they remain to many of us object…
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize and the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize "A beautifully accessible guide.…On…
The Society of Mind
Marvin Minsky -- one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT -- gives a revolutionary an…
Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
Lawrence Lessig, “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era” ( The New Yorker ), masterfully argues that never befor…