John Walker, founder of AutoCAD and programming demi-god, has a reading list that will blow your mind: http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog

I've been tipped off to several good books here.

Not to mention this...

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/

Wow. Just reading the summaries makes my head spin (in a nice way).

No Aristotle in the philosophy section?

Wow, I can't believe this is here! I was just thinking that and then I thought "No one is going to care" and there you were, caring. Thank you!

As a programmer I especially care as the epistemology in Aristotle's Organon lies at the core of how our startup models concepts and logical relations between them. Fred Sommer's work on extending that is also extremely helpful, not to mention H. W. B. Joseph's incredible book on logic, the best I've ever read (and I read many) _An Introduction to Logic_.

"Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.

Hobbes was fond of his dram,

And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart.

'I drink, therefore I am.'"

He's read his share of books...

of highly theoretical books..

about a wide variety of topics...