My bookshelf at home is mostly the following:

• Fiction: Gothic, hard scifi, speculative/slipstream/weird, and short stories.

  • Literature I wish I had more of: poetry.

• Nonfiction: philosophy (majored in this at uni, see below), amateur astronomy, mathematics (did this as a minor), spycatching/counterintelligence.

  • Nonfiction I wish I had more of: art history.

Philosophy interests with read/to-read lists:

• Philosophical Aestheticism and Aesthetic Cognitivism:

  • using art and affect as a means to understand philosophical issues that other forms of inquiry might struggle with.

    • Affective thinking

    • Visual thinking

  • Various "cognitive passions," e.g. wonder, curiosity, ekstasis, enchantment, the numinous.

    • Corresponding wonderous objects/spectacles.

      • The Cosmos

        • Fine-Tuning, Anthropic Reasoning, and Life in the Universe

        • Cosmology

        • Amateur Astronomy

      • Gardens

      • Maps

      • Automatons, robots, and the philosophy of mechanism.

  • The idea of a "transcendental fantastic," a sort of imaginary museum of images, dreams, and falsehoods that resonate across humanity (Philosophers: Gilbert Durand, Aby Warburg, Jung, various German romantics, etc.).

    • Iconography

    • Dreams and dream interpretation

• Philosophical anthropology:

  • The human condition and human nature

  • The human sciences

  • Finitude and the limits of humans

  • The meaning of life.

  • Animal cognition and comparative cognition.

  • Various criticisms and rivals: essentialism, anthropocentrism, reductionism (to scientific explanations), anti-humanism, ethnocentrism, etc.

• Hermeneutics and Phenomenology

  • Dialectic as dialogue and a spiral of questioning-answering

  • Rhetoric as the converse of hermeneutics