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Reviews & Summaries
This page is updated randomly, whenever I get around actually writing summaries of what I've read - something that I do far too rarely.
Book summaries
| The Nurture Assumption | Psychology: 'The Nurture Assumption' by Judith Rich Harris. How much does our peer group really affect our personality? |
| Reasons & Persons (parts 1-11) | Ethics: 'Reasons & Persons' by Derek Parfit. A general examination of theories of morality and rationality. |
Summaries of journal articles
| The coevolution of choosiness and cooperation | Evolution: A simple model demonstrating how co-operation and choosiness might evolve in the wild. Published in Nature 451, 189-192. |
Movie reviews
| Beowulf (2007 movie) | Beowulf, the epic about bathing in testosterone. 3½/5 stars, or maybe 4/5. |