Bookshelf

Below is a growing collection of books that I have enjoyed and/or have shaped my thinking, spanning philosophy, mathematics, CS, mysticism, and ecology.

🧠 Philosophy of Mind, Language, and Metaphysics

• Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell — Bernardo Kastrup ⭐
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — Ludwig Wittgenstein ⭐
• Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings — David Chalmers (ed.)
• Quintessence — W.V.O. Quine
• Naming and Necessity — Saul Kripke

📐 Mathematics and Theoretical CS

• Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach — Sanjeev Arora & Boaz Barak
• Modern Mathematical Logic — Joseph Mileti
• The Dao of Functional Programming - Bartosz Milewski
• Types and Programming Languages — Benjamin C. Pierce
• Topoi: The Categorial Analysis of Logic — Robert Goldblatt
• Homotopy Type Theory: Univalent Foundations of Mathematics
• Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics — Joel David Hamkins

🪷 Eastern Philosophy and Mysticism

• The Perennial Philosophy — Aldous Huxley ⭐
• The Tao Is Silent — Raymond Smullyan ⭐
• Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu ⭐
• Tantra Illuminated — Christopher Wallis
• Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita — Ram Dass
• The Zen Teachings of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind

🌱 Eco-Consciousness

• Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth — Carol J. Adams & Lori Gruen (eds.)
• Braiding Sweetgrass — Robin Wall Kimmerer

🧩 Pop-Math

• Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth — Apostolos Doxiadis & Christos Papadimitriou
• The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life — Eugenia Cheng