This bibliography was compiled in the process of doing research for my second doctoral application, “Actual Play: Notes for a Ludic Ontology,” an examination of actual play podcast Friends at the Table through the lenses of hermeneutic phenomenology, philosophy of science, and cognitive science. Like my first doctoral application, this one was also unsuccessful. I got more traction with it, even finding myself on a short list of applicants at one university, but it was ultimately too niche to find an advisor willing to take me on. However, as is my wont, I carried on compiling research under five distinct headings, each conveniently prefixed ‘post’: postcognitivism, postessentialism, postphenomenology, postpositivism, and postsemiotics.
Postcognitivism
- David Katz, The World of Touch, 1925
- Alan Turing, “On Computable Numbers,” 1936
- Alan Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” 1950
- Alan Turing, “The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis,” 1952
- James S. Gibson, The Senses Considered as Perceptual Systems, 1966
- John von Neumann, Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata, 1966
- Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind, 1972
- Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature, 1979
- James S. Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, 1979
- George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By, 1980
- Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela, Autopoiesis and Cognition, 1980
- Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela, The Tree of Knowledge, 1984
- Mark Johnson, The Body in the Mind, 1987
- Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch, The Embodied Mind, 1991
- Andy Clark and David Chalmers, The Extended Mind, 1998
- George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Philosophy in the Flesh, 1999
- Francisco J. Varela, et al., Naturalizing Phenomenology, 1999
- Jean-Luc Nancy, Being Singular Plural, 2000
- Annemarie Mol, The Body Multiple, 2003
- Humberto R. Maturana and Bernhard Poerksen, From Being to Doing, 2004
- Alva Noë, Action in Perception, 2004
- Pietro Morasso, “The Crucial Role of Haptic Perception,” 2005
- Natalie Depraz, “Phenomenology and Enaction,” 2007
- Mark Johnson, The Meaning of the Body, 2007
- Matthew Ratcliffe, Feelings of Being, 2008
- Julianna Drucker, Subjective Meteorology, 2010
- Alva Noë, Out of Our Heads, 2010
- John Stewart, Olivier Gapenne, and Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Enaction, 2010
- Evan Thompson, Mind in Life, 2010
- Sydney Brenner, “Life’s Code Script,” 2012
- Alva Noë, Varieties of Presence, 2012
- Martha C. Nussbaum, Creating Capabilities, 2013
- Evan Thompson, Waking, Dreaming, Being, 2014
- Alva Noë, Strange Tools, 2015
- Riccardo Manzotti, Consciousness and Object, 2017
- John M. Carvalho, Thinking With Images, 2018
- Kevin A. Henderson, “Enactive Processes” 2018
- Thomas Fuchs, Ecology of the Brain, 2018
- Riccardo Manzotti, The Spread Mind, 2018
- Shaun Gallagher, Enactivist Interventions, 2019
- Ian James, The Technique of Thought, 2019
- Natasha Lennard, Being Numerous, 2019
- Catherine Malabou, Morphing Intelligence, 2019
- Timothy Morton, Being Ecological, 2019
- Alva Noë, Infinite Baseball, 2019
- Jonardon Ganeri, Attention, Not Self, 2020
- Mirt Komel, The Language of Touch, 2020
- Sean Carroll, “Consciousness and the Laws of Physics,” 2021
- Casey O’Callaghan, A Multisensory Philosophy of Perception, 2021
- Susanna Schellenberg, The Unity of Perception, 2021
- Tyler Burge, Perception: First Form of Mind, 2022
- Shaun Gallagher, Action and Interaction, 2022
Postessentialism
- Nils Aal Barricelli, “Numerical Testing of Evolution Theories I,” 1962
- Nils Aal Barricelli, “Numerical Testing of Evolution Theories II,” 1963
- David L. Hull, “The Effect of Essentialism on Taxonomy I,” 1965
- David L. Hull, “The Effect of Essentialism on Taxonomy II,” 1965
- Lynn Margulis, “On the Origin of Mitosing Cells,” 1966
- David L. Hull, “The Metaphysics of Evolution,” 1967
- David L. Hull, “The Operational Imperative,” 1968
- David L. Hull, “What Philosophy of Biology Is Not,” 1969
- David L. Hull, “Contemporary Systematic Philosophies,” 1970
- David L. Hull, “The Limits of Cladism,” 1979
- David L. Hull, “On Human Nature,” 1986
- Freeman Dyson, Origins of Life, 2004
- Maria Kronfeldner, What’s Left of Human Nature?, 2018
- Francesco Vitale, Biodeconstruction, 2018
- Helmuth Plessner, Levels of Organic Life and the Human, 2019
- Jeremy England, Every Life Is On Fire, 2020
- Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, 2020
- Jacques Derrida, Life Death, 2020
Postphenomenology
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, 1945
- Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, 1960
- Don Ihde, Experimental Phenomenology, 1977
- Don Ihde, Postphenomenology, 1993
- Don Ihde, Postphenomenology and Technoscience, 2009
- Don Ihde, Heidegger’s Technologies, 2010
- Robert Rosenberger and Peter-Paul Verbeek, Postphenomenological Investigations, 2015
- Georgia Warnke, Inheriting Gadamer, 2016
- Karen Neander, A Mark of the Mental, 2017
Postpositivism
- Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, 1929
- Karl Popper, The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge, 1930
- Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 1935
- Christopher Caudwell, The Crisis in Physics, 1939
- Wilfrid Sellars, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, 1956
- Alexandre Koyré, Fromd the Closed World to the Infinite Universe, 1957
- Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge, 1958
- Willard van Orman Quine, Word and Object, 1960
- Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962
- Paul Feyerabend, Against Method, 1975
- Dominique Lecourt, Marxism and Epistemology, 1975
- Imre Lakatos, Proofs and Refutations, 1976
- Karl Popper, Unended Quest, 1976
- Larry Laudan, Progress and Its Problems, 1977
- Imre Lakatos, The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes, 1978
- Imre Lakatos, Mathematics, Science and Epistemology, 1978
- Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life, 1979
- Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, 1979
- John Law and Peter Lodge, Science for Social Scientists, 1984
- Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers, Order Out of Chaos, 1984
- Bruno Latour, Science in Action, 1987
- Donna J. Haraway, Primate Visions, 1989
- Lindley Darden, Theory Change in Science, 1991
- Donna J. Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, 1991
- Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, 1993
- Joel Michell, “Bertrand Russell’s 1897 Critique of the Traditional Theory of Measurement,” 1997
- Ilya Prigogine, The End of Certainty, 1997
- Isabelle Stengers, Power and Invention, 1997
- Karl Popper, The World of Parmenides, 1998
- Nancy Cartwright, The Dappled World, 1999
- Paul Feyerabend, Conquest of Abundance, 1999
- Isabelle Stengers, The Invention of Modern Science, 2000
- Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social, 2005
- Mark Wilson, Wandering Significance, 2006
- Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway, 2007
- John Law, “Actor Network Theory and Material Semiotics,” 2007
- William C. Wimsatt, Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings, 2007
- Roy Bhaskar, A Realist Theory of Science, 2008
- Isabelle Stengers, Cosmopolitics I, 2010
- Hubert Dreyfuss and Sean Dorrance Kelly, All Things Shining, 2011
- Isabelle Stengers, Cosmopolitics II, 2011
- Bruno Latour, An Inquiry into Modes of Existence, 2013
- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 2015
- J. Beetz, “Material Semiotics and the Rhizomatic Subject,” 2016
- Mark Wilson, Physics Avoidance, 2017
- Paul Feyerabend, Philosophy of Nature, 2019
- Mark Wilson, Imitation of Rigor, 2021
- James Bridle, Ways of Being, 2022
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, The Disordered Cosmos, 2022
Postsemiotics
- Mikhail Bakhtin, Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, 1978
- John Stewart, Language as Articulate Contact, 1995
- John Stewart, Beyond the Symbol Model, 1996
- Christopher S. Butler, Structure and Function I, 2003
- Christopher S. Butler, Structure and Function II, 2003
- M. A. K. Halliday, Collected Works, 2009
- James Williams, A Process Philosophy of Signs, 2016
- Lawrence J. Hatab, Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language I, 2017
- Lawrence J. Hatab, Proto-Phenomenology, Language Acquisition, Orality and Literacy, 2019
- Lauri Linask, “Vygotsky’s Natural History of Signs,” 2019
- Ruqaiya Hasan, Language, Society and Consciousness, 2005
- Ruqaiya Hasan, Semantic Variation, 2009
- Ruqaiya Hasan, Language and Education, 2011
- Ruqaiya Hasan, Context in the System and Process of Language, 2016
- Ruqaiya Hasan, Describing Language, 2019
- Ruqaiya Hasan, Unity in Discourse, 2024
- Ruqaiya Hasan, Verbal Art, 2025