[mrmyers]

Modeling the world generally (as in, why mathematics works and can apply to the real world):

  =Bertrand Russell=
  * An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth
  * A Theory of Knowledge
  * Logic and Knowledge
  =W.V. Quine=
  * Word and Object
  * Mathematical Logic
  =Norbert Weiner=
  * Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
  =Smullyan=
  * Diagonalization and Self Reference

Squishy Human Things:

  Thomas Kuhn      - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  Norbert Weiner   - The Human Use of Human-Beings
  Bertrand Russell - A History of Western Philosophy
  Karl Popper      - The Open Society and Its Enemies
  Daniel Dennet    - Consciousness Explained
  E. Abbot Abbot   - Flatland