Review Articles
Perhaps the quickest way to understand humanity's current state of knowledge about a certain topic is to find a recent, scholarly review article on the topic. Below is a list of my favorite review articles on a variety of subjects that interest me.
Actuarial judgment ("statistical prediction rules")
- Hastie & Dawes (2009). A General Framework for Judgment. (Chapter in...)
Debiasing
- Larrick (2004). Debiasing.
Existential risk
- Bostrom (2011). Existential risk prevention as the most important task for humanity.
Experimental philosophy
- Knobe et al. (2011). Experimental philosophy.
Intelligence explosion ("technological singularity")
- Chalmers (2010). The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis.
Metaethics
- Miller (2003). Introduction to An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics.
Moral judgment
- Cushman et al. (2010). Multi-system moral psychology.
Pleasure (neuroscience)
- Berridge & Kringelbach (2011). Building a neuroscience of pleasure and well-being.
Prediction markets
- Croxson (2011). Information markets for decision-making: Performance and feasibility. (Chapter in...)
Preferences (neuroscience)
- Symmonds & Dolan (2011). The neurobiology of preferences. (Chapter in...)
Procrastination
- Steel (2007). The Nature of Procrastination.
Rationality (general)
- Stanovich (2012). On the distinction between rationality and intelligence.
Technological forecasting
- Nagy et al. (2010). Testing laws of technological progress.
Technological singularity (all types)
- Sandberg (2010). An overview of models of technological singularity.