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Austin Cognitive Science Book Club
1.
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain
by:
António Damásio
3.97 avg rating — 3,225 ratings
2.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by:
Douglas R. Hofstadter
4.29 avg rating — 51,680 ratings
3.
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
by:
Steven Pinker
4.01 avg rating — 22,310 ratings
4.
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
by:
Steven Pinker
3.91 avg rating — 11,146 ratings
5.
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
by:
Philip G. Zimbardo
3.91 avg rating — 26,131 ratings
5.
The Sociopath Next Door
by:
Martha Stout
3.77 avg rating — 38,194 ratings
7.
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by:
Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating — 129,365 ratings
7.
The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
by:
Terrence W. Deacon
4.20 avg rating — 597 ratings
9.
Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
by:
Michael S. Gazzaniga
4.04 avg rating — 2,620 ratings
10.
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by:
Matthew Walker
4.37 avg rating — 215,783 ratings
10.
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
by:
Daniel J. Levitin
3.65 avg rating — 14,163 ratings
12.
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
by:
Francisco J. Varela
4.14 avg rating — 1,257 ratings
12.
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
by:
António Damásio
3.75 avg rating — 2,379 ratings
14.
Stumbling on Happiness
by:
Daniel Todd Gilbert
3.82 avg rating — 63,112 ratings
15.
I Am a Strange Loop
by:
Douglas R. Hofstadter
3.95 avg rating — 8,438 ratings
15.
Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains
by:
Susan A. Greenfield
3.65 avg rating — 658 ratings
15.
On Intelligence
by:
Jeff Hawkins
4.11 avg rating — 6,920 ratings
18.
Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science
by:
Andy Clark
3.81 avg rating — 348 ratings
19.
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
by:
V.S. Ramachandran
4.27 avg rating — 20,283 ratings
20.
Text Structure: A Window into Discourse, Context and Mind
by:
Nelly Tincheva
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
21.
Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
by:
Marc Hauser
3.74 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
22.
Consciousness Explained
by:
Daniel C. Dennett
3.90 avg rating — 8,569 ratings
23.
Hallucinations
by:
Oliver Sacks
3.93 avg rating — 24,812 ratings
24.
The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good
by:
David J. Linden
3.89 avg rating — 5,737 ratings
25.
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
by:
Nick Bostrom
3.85 avg rating — 20,390 ratings
26.
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
by:
António Damásio
3.96 avg rating — 9,779 ratings
27.
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
by:
Douglas R. Hofstadter
4.15 avg rating — 5,920 ratings