Reddit mentions of A Brief History of Everything

alfred korzybski, developer of general semantics

gregory bateson..."a British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields."

noam chomsky(his linguistics stuff, not his political stuff - though you might enjoy that too)

benjamin lee whorf, developer of the concept of linguistic relativity

also i would recommend some ken wilber. his philosophy has a spiritual component you may or may not like, but his overall model is quite comprehensive and worthwhile. his broadest, most academic work is 'sex, ecology, and spirituality', but you could get a quick broad exposure of the same material with 'a brief history of everything'