Non-fiction
Consciousness Explained
Dennett dismantles the Cartesian theatre — the idea that consciousness is a unified experience happening somewhere in the brain. Multiple drafts of perception compete; there is no single observer.
The Evolution of Technology
Technology evolves not through individual genius but through cultural selection and recombination of existing forms. Basalla traces this process across civilizations, arguing invention is incremental, not revolutionary.
Rethinking Consciousness
Graziano proposes the attention schema theory: the brain models its own attention processes, and that model is what we call consciousness. A mechanistic account that sidesteps mysterianism entirely.
Against Intellectual Property
A libertarian legal argument against intellectual property. Patents and copyrights are state-granted monopolies with no basis in natural property rights, and should be abolished.
Legal Foundations of a Free Society
A comprehensive legal philosophy grounding property rights, contracts, and punishment in libertarian first principles. Synthesizes decades of work on the foundations of a stateless legal order.