“Life-changing books” at New Scientist
Written on April 20, 2008
The current issue of New Scientist has a feature on “life-changing books” by 17 prominent scientists, with the magazine writers and editors chiming in through short videos and some readers’ suggestions as well.
Some mind-related picks:
V.S. Ramachandran recommends Art of the Soluble by Peter Medawar, which is a little hard to find but is included in Pluto’s Republic: Incorporating The Art of the Soluble and Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought. (Check your library for either title.)
Oliver Sacks discusses The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory by A.R. Luria.
Frans de Waal nominates Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior by Robert J. Richards.
