Date Last Updated: Tuesday April 1, 2008

Reading Seminar in Social Aspects of Information Systems
 

Syllabus

Book List


 
Books Read: (go to Proposed Books)
 

 

Spring 2008

Ethnographic Sorcery
West, Harry G.
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89398-3

You owe yourself a drunk: An ethnography of urban nomads
Spradley, James P.
ISBN-13: 978-1-577-66085-9

Friction: An ethnography of global connection
Tsing, Anna L.
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12065-2

Winter 2008

Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation For Design
Terry Winograd, Fernando Flores
ISBN-13: 978-0201112979

Autumn 2007

Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Norbert Wiener
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-73009-9

The Human Use of Human Beings
Norbert Wiener
ISBN: 0-306-80320-8

Spring 2006

Tools for Conviviality
Ivan Illich
ISBN: 0-06-012138-6

Winter 2006

The City in History
Lewis Mumford
ISBN: 0-15-618035-9

Fall 2005

Man Adapting
René Dubos
ISBN: 0-300-02581-5

Spring 2005

Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, With a Revised English Translation
Ludwig Wittgenstein
ISBN: 0-631-23127-7

Winter 2005

Movie Seminar
Films:
Metropolis. 2001. Brazil. The Gods Must be Crazy. Bladerunner. The Matrix. A.I.. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Fall 2004

I and Thou
Martin Buber
ISBN: 0-684-71725-5

Spring 2004

The Sciences of the Artificial
Herbert A. Simon
ISBN: 0262691914

Winter 2004

The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt
ISBN: 0226025985

Fall 2003

The Culture of Morality: Social Development, Context, and Conflict
Elliot Turiel
ISBN: 0521808332

Spring 2003

The Rediscovery of the Mind
John R. Searle
ISBN: 026269154X

Winter 2003

Consilience
Edward O. Wilson
ISBN: 067976867X

Fall 2002

Communication and the Evolution of Society
Jurgen Habermas
ISBN: 080701513X

Winter/Spring 2002

The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher Alexander
ISBN: 0195024028

Fall 2001

The Rise of the Network Society
Manual Castells
ISBN: 0631221409

 
Proposed Books: (return to top of page)
 

 

The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
ISBN: 0156701537

Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness
James H. Austin
ISBN: 0262511096

The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
M. M. Bakhtin, Michael Holquist, Caryl Emerson, Vadim Liapunov
ISBN: 029271534X

Acts of Meaning
Jerome Bruner
ISBN: 0674003616

The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Philosophy of Mind Series)
David J. Chalmers
ISBN: 0195117891

River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Science Masters Series)
Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward
ISBN: 0465069908

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
ISBN: 0393317552

The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 1 : Reason and the Rationalization of Society
Jurgen Habermas
ISBN: 0807015075

Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium: FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™: Feminism & Technoscience
Donna J. Haraway
ISBN: 0415912458

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
ISBN: 0465026567

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
ISBN: 0226458083

Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind
George Lakoff
ISBN: 0226468046

Social Systems (Writing Science)
Niklas Luhmann, John Bednarz, Dirk Baecker, Eva M. Knodt
ISBN: 0804726256

Popper Selections
David Miller (Editor), Karl Raimund, Sir Popper
ISBN: 0691020310

Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
Roger Penrose
ISBN: 0195106466

Design Paradigms : Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering
Henry Petroski
ISBN: 0521466490

The Evolution of Useful Things :How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are.
Henry Petroski
ISBN: 0679740392

The Moral Judgment of the Child
Jean Piaget
ISBN: 0684833301

Origins of Intelligence in Children
Jean Piaget
ISBN: 0823682072

The Construction of Social Reality
John R. Searle
ISBN: 0684831791

Intentionality : An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind
John R. Searle
ISBN: 0521273021

Minds, Brains and Science
John R. Searle
ISBN: 0674576330

The Mystery of Consciousness
John R. Searle
ISBN: 0940322064

The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action
Donald A. Schon
ISBN: 0465068782

Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes
L. S. Vygotsky, S. Vygotsky, Vera John-Steiner (Editor)
ISBN: 0674576292

Cybernetics, Second Edition: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Norbert Wiener
ISBN: 026273009X

Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein
ISBN: 0415254086

A New Kind of Science
Stephen Wolfram
ISBN: 1579550088

In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power
Shoshana Zuboff
ISBN: 0465032117

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