​The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life by Paul Seabright

​Word and Object (Studies in Communication) by Willard Van Orman Quine

​The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley

​The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins

​The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World by Owen Flanagan

Leaps of Faith : Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation

​Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris

​The Pattern On The Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work by Danny Hillis

​Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness by Dan Lloyd

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Daniel Clement Dennett III is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.