What We Are Reading Today: ‘On Myself, and Other, Less Important Subjects’

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Updated 03 March 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘On Myself, and Other, Less Important Subjects’

Author: CASPAR HARE

Caspar Hare makes an original and compelling case for “egocentric presentism,” a view about the nature of first-person experience, about what happens when we see things from our own particular point of view.

A natural thought about our first-person experience is that “all and only the things of which I am aware are present to me.” Hare, however, goes one step further and claims, counterintuitively, that the thought should instead be that “all and only the things of which I am aware are present.”

 


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Climate Dynamics’

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Updated 21 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Climate Dynamics’

  • This second edition includes updated and expanded information on hydrology, the cryosphere, observed contemporary climate change, and climate prediction

Author: KERRY H. COOK 

“Climate Dynamics” provides an essential foundation in the physical understanding of Earth’s climate system. Assuming no previous introduction to the climate system, the book is designed for all science, math, and engineering students at the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate levels. 
This second edition includes updated and expanded information on hydrology, the cryosphere, observed contemporary climate change, and climate prediction. In addition, the illustrations are expanded and now in full color.