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February 28th, 2023

28/2/2023

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Academic papers
  • N. Kolodny 2003 Love as valuing a relationship
  • O. Horta 2010 Debunking the idyllic view of natural processes
  • A. Jaworska & M Wonderly 2017 Love and caring
  • C. Benn & S. Lazar 2020 What's wrong with automated influence
  • T. Christiano 2022 Algorithms, manipulation and democracy

Book 
  • S. Scheffler 2018 Why worry about future generations?

Podcasts
  • Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society: Samuel Scheffler on Partiality, Deference, and Engagement (2022)
  • New Books in Philosophy: Sanford Goldberg ‘Relying on Others’ (2011)
  • New Books in Philosophy: Simon Keller ‘Partiality’ (2013)
  • EA Radio: Giving what we can (Theron Pummer) (2016)
  • Rationality Speaking: Death of Despair/Effective Altruism (Angus Deaton) (2020)
  • War in Ukraine: Lucan Way on Revolution and Dictatorship (2023)
  • War in Ukraine: Keir Giles on Russia’s war on everybody and the war in Ukraine (2023)
  • Warfare: Mussolini’s Rise and Fall (John Gooch) (2022)
  • Warfare: Tactical Nuclear Weapons (Jean-Francois Belanger) (2023)
  • Warfare: Irish Revolution (Fearghal McGarry) (2022)
  • Warfare: J. Edgar Hoover & the FBI (Beverly Gage) (2023)
  • Warfare: Oil & War (Emma Ashford) (2022)
  • Warfare: Mikhail Gorbachev & the Fall of the Soviet Union (Susan Colbourn) (2022)
  • Warfare: Killer Robots: AI at War (Emilia Javorsky) (2022)
  • Warfare: The CIA: Secret Drone Wars (Chris Fuller) (2022)
  • Warfare: Lenin’s Rise and Fall (Victor Sebestyen) (2023)
  • Warfare: Stalin’s Secret Operation: The Katyn Massacre (2022)
  • Warfare: Origins of Modern Iran (Ali Ansari) (2022)
  • Warfare: War Crimes (Oona Hathaway) (2022)
  • Warfare: Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine: 1 Year on (Michael Clarke) (2023)

January 31st, 2023

31/1/2023

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Movies, TV Shows, etc
  • P. Brickman 1983 Risky Business
  • J. Hughes 1986 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • J. Hughes 1987 Planes, Trains and Automobiles
  • J. Hughes 1989 Uncle Buck
  • D. Webb Peoples 1989 The Blood of Heroes

Academic papers
  • E. Harman 2011 The Moral Significance of Animal Pain and Animal Death

Book 
  • S. Scheffler 2013 Death and the Afterlife

Podcasts
  • New Books in Philosophy: David Estlund ‘Utotophobia’ (2020)
  • In Moscow’s Shadows 87: War, Politics and Putin’s New Year’s Address (2023)
  • HistoryExtra Podcast: Sabotage, Cyberwar and Assassination (interview with Rory Cormac) (2023)
  • New Books in Philosophy: Cecile Fabre’s Spying Through a Glass Darkly (2022)
  • Warfare: Escape from Colditz with Ben Macintyre (2022)
  • Hear this Idea: Dan Williams on Political misinformation, self-delusion and signalling (2020)
  • LSE Events: The Origins of Mass Killing: the bloodlands hypothesis (Prof. Timothy Snyder) (2014)

December 31st, 2022

31/12/2022

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Movies, TV Shows, etc
  • O. Preminger 1944 Laura
  • E. Ulmer 1945 Detour
  • T. Garnett 1946 The postman always rings twice
  • O. Welles 1947 The lady from Shanghai
  • D. Daves 1947 Dark passage
  • R. Wise 1949 The set-up
  • B. Wilder 1950 Sunset Boulevard
  • J. H. Lewis 1950 Gun crazy
  • S. Imamura 1961 Pigs and battleships
  • L. de Clermont-Tonnere 2022 Lady Chatterley's lover

Academic papers
  • T. Cowen & D. Parfit 1992 Against the social discount rate
  • J. Broome 1994 Discounting the future
  • E. Harman 2004 Can we harm and benefit in creating?
  • S. Scheffler 2010 Valuing
  • J. Broome 2016 The well-being of future generations
  • H. Greaves 2017 Discounting for public policy
  • K. Mintz-Woo 2021 A philosopher's guide to discounting 
  • S. O. Hansson 2010 Risk: objective or subjective, fact or value
  • L. Wenar 2011 Poverty is no pond
  • S. Caney 2018 Justice and future generations

Book reviews & other articles
  • A. Lake 1993 From containment to enlargement 
  • S. Glosser 2019 Putin the great
  • A. Applebaum 2019 The false romance of Russia
  • M. Matthijs 2020 The right way to fix the EU
  • L. Freedman 2020 Britain adrift
  • N. Bugayova 2022 Target Russia's capabilities

Podcasts
  • BBC, Putin, ep. 11. To the brink
  • Conversations with Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer on his career in writing and ideas
  • 80,000 Hours Podcast, 86 – Hilary Greaves on Pascal’s mugging, strong longtermism and whether existing can be good for us.
  • HistoryExtra Podcast, The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (Oct 2022)
  • Brain in a vat, Interview with Andrew Sepielli (We should be more pragmatic about ethics).
  • New Books in Philosophy, Igor Douven, The Art of Abduction 2022
  • Gone Medieval, interview with Peter Heather: The rise of Christianity (Nov 2022)
  • History Extra Podcast, The Cuban Missile Crisis: Tension mount (1 Dec 2022)
  • The Ancients, Virgil (interview with Anne Rogerson)(20 Oct)
  • The Korea Now Podcast, Blaine Harden – Spies, pilots, and Gulags (14 Mar 2018)
  • BBC 4 Analysis, Samuel Scheffler on the afterlife (30 Jun 2015)
  • In conversation: An OUP podcast, Ofer Fridman ‘Russian ‘Hybrid Warfare’’ Resurgence and politicization (6 Oct 2022)
  • New Books in Russian and Eurasia studies, Andrew Monaghan ‘Russian Grand Strategy in the Era of Global Power Competition’. (20 June 2022)
  • Warfare, Authoritarianism, interview with Timothy Snyder (18 Dec 2020)
  • History Extra Podcast: New views on the Holocaust and 1980s Britain.
  • Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep.1 Russia defeats America
  • Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 3 What is oligarchy? 
  • Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 4 Sadopopulism
  • Timothy Snyder Speaks, ep. 8 Cybercolony USA

November 30th, 2022

30/11/2022

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Academic papers
  • A. Baier 1981 The rights of past and future generations
  • S. Gardiner 2006 A perfect moral storm
  • S. Caney 2006 Cosmopolitan justice, responsibility and global climate change
  • S. O. Hansson 2010 Risk: objective or subjective, fact or value
  • L. Wenar 2011 Poverty is no pond
  • S. Caney 2018 Justice and future generations

Book reviews & other articles
  • G. Kennan 1947 The sources of Soviet conduct
  • F. Fukuyama 1989 The end of history?
  • C. Krauthammer 1990 The unipolar moment
  • B. Simms 2013 Castlereagh's catechism
  • T. Laqueur 2013 Some damn foolish thing
  • J. Gewirtz 2018 Imperial twilight

Podcasts
  • In our time, The Thirty Years War (BBC podcast)
  • In our time, The Opium War (BBC podcast)
  • New books in Military History, interview with Stephen R. Platt, Imperial Twilight: The opium war and the end of China’s last golden age.
  • New books in Military History, Jonathan Brunstedt, The Soviet  Myth of World War II (2022)
  • New books in History, The Future of Vladimir Putin, a discussion with Philip Short (2022).
  • New books in Philosophy, interview with Brian Epstein, The Ant Trap (2016)
  • New books in Philosophy, Saba Bazargan-Forward, Authority, cooperation and accountability
  • New books in Science, Technology and Society, Paul Morland, Tomorrow’s people: the future of humanity in ten numbers (2022)
  • HistoryExtra, ‘Appeasement and the road to World War Two’.
  • HistoryExtra podcast, The Crimean War: everything you wanted to know.
  • Modern War Institute, Far-right extremism and the war in Ukraine since 2014 (interview with Kacper Rekawek).
  • Military History, The Future of Cold War, a discussion with Sergey Radchenk (2022).
  • LSE Events: NATO’s strategic concept (2022)
  • Brain in a vat, Theron Pummer, Effective altruism
  • Aristotelian Society, Samuel Scheffler on Partiality, Deference and Engagement (2022)
  • Conversations with Tyler, Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and foraging as a fox
  • Conversations with Tyler, Walter Russell Mead on the past and future of American foreign policy
  • Conversations with Tyler, Leopoldo López on activism under autocratic regimes
  • Social Sciences Bites, Bobby Duffy on Generation myths (2022)

October 31st, 2022

31/10/2022

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Academic paper:
  • J. Feinberg 1980 The rights of animals and unborn generations

September 30th, 2022

30/9/2022

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Movies, documentaries, TV series:​
  • Zulu (1964) Cy Endfield
  • The Day of the Jackal (1973) Fred Zimmermann
  • Roadhouse (1989) Rowdy Herrington
  • Stargate (1994) Roland Emmerich
  • Broken Flowers (2005) Jim Jarmush 
  • Emma (2020) Autumn de Wilde
  • Cyberpunk, Edgerunners (2022)
  • The Northman (2022) Robert Eggers

Books
  • Andrey Kurkov (2018) Grey Bees
  • Will MacAskill (2022) What We Owe The Future

August 31st, 2022

31/8/2022

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Movies, documentaries, TV series:​
  • Black Hawk Down (2001) Ridley Scott
  • Ex Machina (2014) Alex Garland 
  • Bosch, Season 3 (2017)
  • Bosch, Season 4 (2018)
  • Raised by Wolves, Season 1 (2020)
  • Better Call Saul, Season 6 (2022)

Academic papers and book chapters
  • T. Regan (1986) The Case for Animal Rights
  • G. Greaves, W. MacAskill, E Thornley (2020) The Moral Case for Longtermism
  • D. Thorstad (2021) The Scope of Longtermism
  • C. Tarsney & T. Thomas (20220 Non-additive Axiologies in Large Worlds

Books
  • Plato, Symposium. 
  • N. Stephenson (1995) The Diamond Age

July 31st, 2022

31/7/2022

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Movies, documentaries, TV series:​
  • Love, Death & Robots, Season 3 2022

Academic papers and book chapters
  • J Broome 1999 Normative requirements
  • T Scanlon 2007 Structural irrationality
  • S Russell 2016 Rationality and Intelligence
  • E Olson 2017 The central dogma of transhumanism
  • N Kolodny & A Brunero 2018 Instrumental rationality
  • E Olson 2020 The metaphysics of transhumanism
  • R Chang 2020 What is it to be a rational agent?
  • J Broome 2020 Practical reason
  • V Muller 2020 Ethics of AI and robotics

June 30th, 2022

30/6/2022

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Movies, documentaries, TV series:​
  • Severance, Season 1 2022
  • Pachinko, Season 1 2022

Academic papers and book chapters
  • S Dick 2003 Cultural evolution, the postbiological universe and SETI
  • N Bostrom 2003 Astronomical waste
  • N Bostrom 2009 The future of humanity
  • N Bostrom 2013 Existential risk prevention as global priority
  • N Beckstead 2013 On the overwhelming importance of shaping the future: ch. 1 and 3.
  • M Zimmerman 2015 Value and normativity
  • S Schneider 2017 Superintelligence and the postbiological cosmos approach
  • J Shepherd & N Levy 2020 Consciousness and morality
  • W MacAskill & H Greaves 2021 The case for strong longtermism

Short stories
  • C Mieville 2011 Covehite
  • S Strantzas 2011 Strong as a rock
  • C Mieville 2014 Rules

Book
  • J Carr 2018 The Terminal List
  • N Bostrom 2014 Superintelligence

May 31st, 2022

31/5/2022

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Movies, documentaries, TV series:​
  • A Konchalovsky 1985 Runaway train
  • N Jordan 1986 Mona Lisa
  • Trailer park boys S1–7 2001-2007
  • S Heder 2021 Coda

Book
  • J Conrad 1911 Under Western eyes

April 30th, 2022

30/4/2022

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Movies, documentaries, TV series:​
  • H Ashby 1973 The last detail
  • L Kasdan 1981 Body heat
  • R Underwood 1990 Tremors
  • G Junger 1999 10 things I hate about you
  • PT Anderson 2021 Licorice Pizza

Academic papers and book chapters
  • T Nagel 1979 The fragmentation of value
  • H Shue 1999 Global environment and international inequality
  • P Kitcher 1999 Essence and perfection
  • S Gardiner 2006 The perfect moral storm
  • T Hurka 2007 Value theory
  • D Dorsey 2010 Three arguments for perfectionism
  • P Griffith 2011 Our plastic nature
  • R Samuels 2012 Science and human nature
  • E Machery 2018 Doubling down on the nomological notion of human nature
  • R Wedgwood 2021 Practical and theoretical rationality

Book
  • T Hurka 1990 Perfectionism

March 31st, 2022

31/3/2022

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Films, documentaries, TV series:​
  • GR Hill 1973 The sting
  • J Landis 1979 Animal house
  • R Zemeckis 1980 Used cars
  • I Passer 1981 Cutter's way
  • W Petersen 1993 In the line of fire
  • G Ritchie 2019 The gentlemen

Academic papers and book chapters
  • W Baxter 1974 People of penguins
  • C Sagan 1983 Nuclear war and climatic catastrophe
  • TE Hill 1998 Ideals of human excellence and preserving the natural environment
  • T Ord et alia 2010 Probing the improbable
  • A Robock & B Toon 2012 Self-assured destruction
  • K Vold & D Harris 2021 How does AI pose an existential risk?

February 28th, 2022

28/2/2022

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Academic papers and book chapters
  • M Peterson 2002 What is a de minimis risk?
  • T Mulgan 2017 How should utilitarians think about the future?
  • T Pummer 2016 Whether and where to give
  • J McMahan 2016 Philosophical critiques of effective altruism
  • S Schubert et alia 2019 The psychology of existential risk
  • B Lundgren & HO Stefansson 2020 Against the de minimis principle

January 31st, 2022

31/1/2022

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Films, documentaries, TV series:​
  • A Penn 1975 Night Moves
  • J Carpenter 1981 Escape from New York
  • J & E Coen 2008 No Country for Old Men
  • Ozarks, Season 4 2022

Academic papers and book chapters
  • A Sen 1988 Poverty and hunger
  • L Murphy 1993 The demands of beneficence
  • T Pummer 2013 Intuitions about large number cases
  • O Cotton-Barrett & T Ord 2015 Existential risk and existential hope
  • W MacAskill, A Mogensen & T Ord 2018 Giving isn't demanding
  • A Currie 2019 Existential risk, creativity and well-adapted science
  • W MacAskill 2019 The definition of effective altruism
  • T Moynihan 2020 Existential risk and human extinction

December 31st, 2021

31/12/2021

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Films, documentaries, TV series:​
  • E J-yong 2016 The Bacchus Lady
  • Jeon Go-woon 2017 Microhabitat
  • M Pearce 2021 Encounter
  • R. Scott 2021 The Last Duel
  • J Campion 2021 The Power of the Dog

Academic papers and book chapters
  • W MacAskill 2019 Practical ethics given moral uncertainty
  • P Kosonen 2021 Discounting small probabilities solves the intrapersonal addition paradox

November 30th, 2021

30/11/2021

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Films, documentaries, TV series:​
  • Maid 2021 (tv series)
  • Dune 2021 Denis Villeneuve

Academic papers and book chapters
  • C Finkelstein 2003 Is risk a harm?
  • J Lenman 2008 Contractualism and risk imposition
  • M Hayenhjelm & J Wolff 2011 The moral problem of risk imposition
  • J Oberdiek 2012 The moral significance of risking 
  • J Dodd 2016 The ontology of conceptual art
  • S Irvin & J Dodd 2017 In advance of the broken theory
  • S Lazar 2017 Deontological decision theory and agent-centered options
  • A Kauppinen 2018 Epistemic norms and epistemic accountability
 
Short stories
  • E Hemingway 1927 The killers

October 31st, 2021

31/10/2021

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Films, documentaries, TV series:​
  • Clickbait 2021 (tv series)
  • Squid Game 2021 (tv series)

Academic papers and book chapters
  • F Jackson & M Smith 2006 Absolutist moral theories and uncertainty
  • A Mogensen Forthcoming Moral demands and the far future

Books
  • T Ord 2020 The Precipice

September 30th, 2021

30/9/2021

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Films, documentaries, TV series:​
  • Brooklyn Nine-Nine, S1 2013 
  • T Vinterberg 2020 One more round
(I haven't watched many good movies/tv shows this month...)

Academic papers and book chapters

Ethics/Risk/Population ethics
  • J McDowell 1979 Virtue and reason
  • M Nussbaum 1988 Non-relative virtues
  • A Norcross 1990 Consequentialism and the unforeseeable future
  • S Moller Okin 1999 Is multiculturalism bad for women?
  • D McCarthy 1997 Rights, explanation and risks
  • J Lenman 2000 Consequentialism and cluelessness
  • S Ove Hansson 2003 Ethical criteria of risk acceptance
  • D Bostrom 2003 Astronomical waste
  • G Lang 2008 Consequentialism, cluelessness and indifference
  • J Oberdiek 2012 The moral significance of risk
  • S Ove Hansson 2012 A panorama of the philosophy of risk
  • C Lee-Stronach 2018 Morał priorities under risk
  • S Lazar 2018 In dubious battle
  • A Mogensen & W MacAskill 2021 The paralysis argument
  • J McMahan 2021 Climate change, war and the non-identity problem

August 31st, 2021

31/8/2021

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Films, documentaries, TV series:​
  • S Frears 1990 The grifters
(I haven't watched many good movies/tv shows this month...)

Academic papers and book chapters

Philosophy of Mind/Perception/Metaphysics
  • B Loar 2003 Qualia, properties and modality
  • K Balog 2012 Acquaintance and the mind-body problem
  • J Levin 2019 Once more unto the breach
  • M Barkasi 2019 The role of experience in demonstrative thought

Ethics/Risk/Population ethics
  • D Gauthier 1967 Morality and advantage
  • J Glover 1977 Causing death and saving lives: Chapter 2.
  • G Kavka 1978 The futurity problem
  • A Baier 1981 The rights of past and future persons
  • F Jackson & R Pargetter 1986 Oughts, options and actualism
  • A Baier 1987 Poisoning the well
  • A Norcross 2004 Puppies, pigs and people
  • J Wolff 2006 Risk, fear, blame, shame and the regulation of public safety
  • P Singer 2009 Speciesism and moral status
  • J McMahan 2013 Moral intuitions
  • D Pritchard 2015 Risk
  • S Caney 2018 Justice and future generations
  • P Ebert, M Smith & I Durbach 2020 Varieties of risk
  • HO Stefansson 2020 Catastrophic risk
  • O Horta & F Albersmeier 2020 Defining speciesism​

Book, novellas, poems & short stories
  • G de Nerval 1853 Sylvie
  • G de Nerval 1854 Christ in the olive grove

July 31st, 2021

31/7/2021

 
This month, I have read, watched, and liked these:

Films, documentaries, TV series:​
  • J Dassin 1948 The naked city
  • D Richards 1975 Farewell, my lovely

(I haven't watched many good movies/tv shows this time...)

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind/Perception/Metaphysics
  • S Yablo 1995 Singling out properties
  • A Byrne & D Hilbert 2003 Color science and color science
  • J Campbell 2005 Transparency and revelation in color perception
  • M Johnston 2007 Objective mind and the objectivity of our minds
  • M Kalderon 2007 Colour pluralism
  • H Logue 2012 Why naive realism? 

Ethics/Risk/Population ethics
  • P Foot 1967 The problem of abortion and the doctrine of double effect
  • J Taurek 1977 Should the numbers count?
  • D Parfit 1978 Innumerate ethics
  • G Kavka 1979 The numbers should count
  • J Broome 1991 Fairness
  • SO Hansson 2007 Risk and ethics
  • T Henning 2015 From choice to chance?
  • J Frick 2015 Contractualism and social risk
  • J Frick 2017 On the survival of humanity
  • H Greaves 2016 Population axiology

Book
  • P Godfrey-Smith 2016 Other minds
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