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1. David Hume - An Enquiry Regarding Human Understanding. Although I’ve been listening to Prof. Peter Millican’s online lectures “General Philosophy for some time and also met him in Oxford, somehow I’ve avoided reading Hume. He is a Hume “evangelist”, the latest edition of “An Enquiry” was published by Oxford Uni Press with his introduction, which is itself an eloquent narrative of science, religion, and philosophy. Nonetheless the book is quite small and somehow might make animpression of insignificant, 2 hour read, it indeed isn’t. Sometimes I read 2-3 pages and then think for 15-20 minutes. It turns my unserstanding of self upside down or perhaps “downside up”. Totally recommended.

2. Psychology by Dimitri Uznadze (Georgian scholar), which is a major work in psychology written originally in Georgian. He lived and worked in really dark times: WW I, annexation of the country by the Red Communist Army,(Bolsheviks), The Great Terror(30s) when hundreds of thousands were executed or were exiled to Siberia my grand-grandpa among others, WW II. He went through all these major gifts of the first half of 20th century Georgia. And I did really wonder how he managed to pull this off and lived life of a revolutionary scientist in those times. Well, the book is a bit overwhelmed with quotations by Marx and Engels but perhaps that was the way togo through censorship and even save your own career and life. It’s a 700 page definitive guide to Psychology, which goes against Freud, Jung, Lacan and it’s speculative contemporaries.

3. The Book of Why - Judea Pearl. The colleague mentioned the book upon working on a new recommender system at job, then I ordered 2 copies for both of us. Haven’t dived deep yet, but Judea Pearl is one of the fathers of modern AI, he asks tough questions and tryies to guide the revolution to the next level, where AI system will be able to reason about the result and answer to the question - why. “The Correlation is not Causation”.

Well, these are the major ones that stood up this year. Also In terms of fiction 2018 was quite classy: The Iliad by Homer, Faust by Goethe, The Sleepwalkers - Herman Broch, re-reading The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil (one of my favourite work of literature of all time).

I’ve found out after creating soc. media accounts last year,(After being off for 3 years) my reading habits have degenerated and yesterday I got rid of them again, feels like I’ve pulled out a huge empty inflated balloon off of my brain.

Happy Holidays!

P.S. Apologies for awkward English, haven’t had much practice of writing/speaking English this year.




Your English is perfectly fine. Thanks for the quick overview on the books. I haven't heard of any of them before. They sure sounds interesting and worth checking out! Happy Holidays!




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