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February 28th, 2021

28/2/2021

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​
  • After Hours (1985) M Scorsese
  • The Office, S1-6
  • The Dig (2021) S Stone

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind
  • B Loar (1997) Phenomenal states
  • A Byrne (2001) Intentionalism defended

Aesthetics
  • F Sibley (1974) Particularity, art and evaluation
  • M Budd (1999) Aesthetic judgments, aesthetic principles and aesthetic properties
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January 31st, 2021

31/1/2021

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​
  • Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Wells
  • The Office, S1-2

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics
  • D Weiskopf (2009) Atomism, pluralism and conceptual content
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December 31st, 2020

31/12/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​
  • Tokyo Sonata (2008) Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  • Extraction (2020) Sam Hargrave
  • The Queen's Gambit, S1 (2020)
  • My Octopus Teacher (2020) P Ehrlich & J Reed

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics
  • D Ryder (2009) Problems of representation I
  • E Camp (2007) Thinking with maps
  • T Burge (2018) Iconic representation

Book (Academic)
  • J Fodor (1998) Concepts
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November 30th, 2020

30/11/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​
  • The Americans, S1–6 (2013–8)
  • Midsommar (2019) A Aster

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics
  • D Stampe (1977) Towards a causal theory of linguistic representation
  • B Loar (1988) Social content and psychological content
  • R Millikan (1989) Biosemantics
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October 31st, 2020

31/10/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​
  • Predator (1987) J McTiernan
  • The Witch (2015) R Eggers
  • The Lighthouse (2019) R Eggers

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics
  • P Vallentyne 1996 Response-dependence, rigidification and objectivity

Aesthetics
  • D Stokes 2018 Rich perceptual content and aesthetic properties
  • H Logue 2018 Can we experience aesthetic properties?
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September 30th, 2020

30/9/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​
  • La Dolce Vita 1960 F Fellini
  • Escape From Alcatraz 1979 D Siegel
  • Dark City 1998 A Proyas
  • Public Enemies 2009 M Mann
  • Coming Home 2014 Z Yimou

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics/Perception
  • J Kim 2005 Supervenience, emergence, realisation, reduction
  • M Kalderon 2007 Color pluralism
  • U Kriegel 2017 Brentano's concept of mind
  • G Rosen 2017 Metaphysical relations in metaethics

Aesthetics
  • N Zangwill 2003 Aesthetic realism 1

History of Philosophy
  • D Yandell 1997 What Descartes really told Elisabeth
  • A Schechtman 2016 Substance and independence in Descartes
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August 31st, 2020

31/8/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​
  • Knife in the water (1962) R Polanski
  • The gambler (1974) K Reisz
  • Starred up (2013) D McKenzie
  • Sweet bean (2015) N Kawase
  • Paterson (2016) J Jarmush
  • The Neon Demon (2016) NWF
  • Manchester by the sea (2016) K Lonergan

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics
  • J Fodor (1980) The mind-body problem
  • J Kim (1990) Supervenience as a philosophical concept
  • B McLaughlin (1997) Supervenience, vagueness, and determination
  • M Johnston (1998) Are manifest qualities response-dependent?
  • P Pettit (2003) Looks as powers

History of Philosophy
  • D Garber (1983) Understanding interaction

Aesthetics
  • J Levinson (1983) Aesthetic supervenience
  • G Currie (1990) Supervenience, essentialism, and aesthetic properties
  • J Bender (1996) Realism, supervenience and irresolvable aesthetic disputes
  • J Bender (2003) Aesthetic realism 2
  • J Levinson (2005) What are aesthetic properties?
  • D Hudson Hick (2012) Aesthetic supervenience revisited

Books
  • H Crews (1976) A feast of snakes
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June 30th, 2020

30/6/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • The Cloud Capped Star (1960) R Ghatak
  • The Great Escape (1963) J Sturges
  • Why Does Herr R Run Amok? (1970) RW Fassbendir
  • Vanishing Point (1971) R Sarafin
  • The Taking of Phelam 1, 2, 3 (1974) J Sargent
  • 35 Shots of Rum (2008) C Denis
  • Poetry (2010) CD Lee
  • Beautiful Boy (2018) F van Groeningen
  • Burning (2018) CD Lee

Academic Essays

Aesthetics/Phil of Art
  • C Brooks (1947) The heresy of paraphrase
  • G Currie (1991) Work and text
  • D Bordwell (1996) Convention, construction and cinematic vision
  • P Livingston (2005) literary aesthetics and the aims of criticism
  • S Feagin (2015) Reading plays as literature

Philosophy of Mind/Perception/Concepts (Phil/Cog Science)
  • E Smith & D Osheron (1984) Conceptual combination with prototype concepts
  • J Fodor (1985) Fodor's guide to mental representation
  • T Burge (1986) Intellectual norms and foundations of mind
  • T Burge (1993) Concepts, definition and meaning
  • J Fodor (1995) Concepts: a potboiler
  • D Medin et alia (2000) Are there kinds of concepts?
  • K Johnson (2004) On the systematicity of language and thought
  • E Margolis & S Laurence (2007) The ontology of concepts
  • V Giardino & M Greenberg (2012) Varieties of iconicity
  • D Weiskopf (2014) The architecture of higher thought
  • E Camp (2015) Logical concepts and associative characteristics
  • Å Wikforss (2018) Incomplete understanding of concepts

Epistemology
  • J Lackey (2011) Testimony

Fiction (short stories/plays)
  • Euripides (405BCE) The Bacchae
  • W Faulkner (1930) A rose for Emily
  • JP Sartre (1946) The Respectable Prostitute
  • A Adamov (1953) Professor Taranne
  • R Carver (1983) Cathedral

Fiction (books)
  • J Conrad (1904) Nostromo
  • J Thompson (1958) The Getaway
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May 31st, 2020

31/5/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Wild Strawberries (1957) I Bergman
  • Vertigo (1958) A Hitchcock
  • Ballad of a Soldier (1959) G Chukhray
  • The Damned (1969) L Visconti
  • Sbatti il Mostro in Prima Pagina (1972) M Bellocchio
  • Chinatown (1974) R Polanski
  • Série Noire (1979) A Corneau
  • Big Trouble in Little China (1986) J Carpenter
  • Raise the Red Lantern (1991) Zhang Yimou
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) G Miller

Academic Essays

Aesthetics
  • J Levinson (1992) Pleasure and the value of art
  • D Matravers (1999) Aesthetic concepts and aesthetic experience
  • J Levinson (2001) Aesthetic properties, evaluative force, and sensibility
  • N Zangwill (2001) The beautiful, the dainty, and the dumpy
  • R De Clercq (2008) The structure of aesthetic properties
  • J Levinson (2009) Aesthetic pleasure

Philosophy of Mind/Perception/Concepts (Phil/Cog Science)
  • E Rosch (1978) Principles of categorization
  • G Murphy & D Medin (1982) The role of theories in conceptual coherence
  • G Rey (1983) Concepts and stereotypes
  • G Harman (1987) (Nonsolipsistic) Conceptual role semantics
  • G Harman (1990) The intrinsic character of experience
  • S Stich (1994) What is a theory of mental representation?
  • R Cummin (1996) Systematicity
  • N Block (2002) Concepts of consciousness
  • N Block (2003) Consciousness
  • N Block (2003) Mental paint
  • M Montague (2017) Cognitive phenomenology
  • M Montague (2017) Perception and cognitive phenomenology
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April 30th, 2020

30/4/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • The French Connection (1971) W Friedkin
  • The Getaway (1972) S Peckinpah
  • Roma a mano armata (1976) U Lenzi
  • The Driver (1978) W Hill
  • Babel (2006) A Inarritu
  • Boyhood (2014) R Linklater
  • 1917 (2019) S Mendes
  • Ozark, Season 3 (2020)
  • Better Call Saul, Season 5 (2020)

Academic Essays

Epistemology/Philosophy of Mind/Aesthetics
  • N Carroll (1998) Art, narrative and moral understanding
  • J Fodor (2007) The revenge of the given (I dislike the style, though)
  • E Camp (2009) Putting thoughts to work
  • R Bonzon (2009) Think aesthetic concepts
  • D Pritchard (2010) The nature and value of knowledge: chapter 4
  • S Laurence & E Margolis (2012) The scope of the conceptual
  • N Zangwill (2014) Music, metaphor, and aesthetic concepts
  • A Hill (2016) Understanding why
  • J Bengson (2018) The unity of understanding

Short Stories
  • R Bradbury (1952) A Sound of Thunder

Book
  • Caesar (58–49) The Gallic War
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March 31st, 2020

31/3/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Pandora's Box (1929) G Pabst
  • M (1931) Fritz Lang
  • The Thomas Crown Affairs (1968) N Jewison
  • Bullitt (1968) P Yates
  • Get Carter (1971) M Hodges
  • Alien (1979) R Scott
  • Aliens (1986) J Cameron
  • The Thirteenth Floor (1999) J Rusnak
  • Mystic River (2003) C Eastwood
  • Deadwood, Season 1 (2004)
  • Arrested Development, S2 (2004-5)
  • Arrested Development, S3 (2005-6)
  • Zodiac (2007) D Fincher
  • District 9 (2009) N Blonkamp
  • Argo (2012) Ben Affleck
  • Tiger King (2020)

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind
  • J Fodor (2004) Having concepts

Applied ethics
  • J Danahar et alia (2017) Should we campaign against sex robots?

Short Stories
  • A Kazantsev (1947) Explosion
  • T Sturgeon (1947) Thunder and roses
  • A&B Stugatsky (1958) The spontaneous reflex
  • R Silverberg (1968) Passengers
  • B Sterling (1989) We see things differently
  • S Lukyanenko (1992) My dad's an antibiotics
  • Chen Qiufan (2012) The Fish of Lijiang
  • Chen Qiufan (2019) Affective Fallacy
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February 29th, 2020

29/2/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Shanghai Express (1932) Josef von Sternberg
  • Viridiana (1961) L Bunuel
  • Confidentially Yours (1983) F Truffault
  • Porco Rosso (1992) H Miyazaki
  • The Matrix (1999) The Wachowski
  • Arrested Development, Season 1 (2003)
  • Uncut Gems (2019) J&B Saldie
  • Once Upon a Time in Holliwood (2019) Q Tarantino

Academic essays

​Philosophy of Art/Aesthetics
  • F Sibley (1974) Particularity, art and evaluation
  • M Budd (2003) The acquaintance principle
  • P Livingston (2003) On an apparent truism in aesthetics
  • P Livingston (2006) Skepticism, realism, fallibilism in Lem
  • R Hopkins (2011) How to be a pessimist about aesthetic testimony
  • D Whiting (2016) The glass is half empty
  • C Thi Nguyen (2017) The uses of aesthetic testimony

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics
  • D Dennett (1978) Where am I?
  • J Searle (1980) Minds, brains and programs
  • B Loar (2003) Qualia, properties, modality
  • D Chalmers (2005) The Matrix as metaphysics
  • D Chalmers (2009) The singularity

Epistemology
  • D Pritchard (2016) Seeing it for yourself

Short stories
  • R Heinlein (1947) They
  • H Ellison (1965) Repent Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman
  • H Ellison (1967) I have no mouth and I must scream
  • S Lem (1971) Further reminiscences of Ijon Tichy – I
  • W Gibson (1982) Burning Chrome
  • G Egan (1990) Learning to be me
  • G Egan (1992) Closer
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January 2020

31/1/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Star Trek, The Original Series Season 1, Episode 28 (1967) 
  • Love on the Run (1979) F Truffault 
  • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) H Miyazaki
  • The Shield, Season 5 (2006)
  • The Shield, Season 6 (2007)
  • The Shield, Season 7 (2008)
  • In Bloom (2013) N Ekvtimishvili & S Groß
  • Black Mirror, White Christmas (2014)

Academic essays

Comparative Philosophy/History of Philosophy/Ethics
  • E Slingerland (2008) Classical Confucianism (I)

​Philosophy of Art/Aesthetics
  • S Evnine (2015) But is it science fiction?

Philosophy of Mind
  • B Loar (1997) Phenomenal states
  • E Diaz-Leon  (2016) Phenomenal concepts: neither circular nor opaque

Short stories
  • HG Wells (1897) The Star
  • F Scott Fitzgerald (1923) Hot & cold blood
  • I Asimov (1941) Reason
  • PK Dick (1966) We can remember it for you wholesale
  • H Ellison (1967) I have no mouth, and I must scream
  • P Cadigan (1986) Pretty Boy Crossover
  • C Mieville (2015) Syllabus
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December 2019

31/12/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Easy Rider (1969) Dennis Hopper
  • American History X (1998) Tony Kaye
  • The Shield, Season 1 (2002)
  • The Shield, Season 2 (2003)
  • The Shield, Season 3 (2004)
  • The Irishman (2019) Martin Scorsese
  • Marriage Story (2019) N Baumbach

Academic essays

​Philosophy of Mind/Philosophy of Language
  • B Loar (2003) Qualia, properties, modality
  • P Carruthers (2004) Phenomenal concepts and higher order experiences
  • J Levin (2007) What is a phenomenal concept?
  • A Grzankowsky & M Tye (forthcoming) What acquaintance teaches

Short stories
  • HP Lovecraft (1931) At the Mountains of Madness
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November 30th, 2019

30/11/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Miss Julie (1951) Alf Sjoberg
  • The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) Anthony Asquith
  • Night of the Living Dead (1968) George A. Romero 
  • State of Siege (1972) Costa-Gavras
  • Groundhog Day (1993) Harold Ramis
  • Speed (1994) Jan de Bont
  • Home (2008) Ursula Meier
  • Mindhunter, Season 1 (2017)
  • Mindhunter, Season 2 (2019)
  • Bojack Horseman, Season 6, Part I (2019)

Academic essays

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
  • F Sibley (1959) Aesthetic concepts
  • F SIbley (1965) Aesthetic and non-aesthetic
  • R Hopkins (2000) Beauty and testimony

​Philosophy of Mind/Philosophy of Language
  • F Jackson (1982) Epiphenomenal qualia
  • F Jackson (1986) What Mary didn't know
  • D Dennett (1987) True believers
  • B McLaughlin (1987) What is wrong with correlational psychosemantics
  • B Loar (1988) Social content and psychological content
  • D Lewis (1988) What experience teaches
  • B Loar (1997) Phenomenal states
  • K Farkas (2003) What is externalism?
  • B Loewer (2007) Mental causation or something near enough
  • N Block (2007) Concepts of consciousness
  • K Balog (2012) Acquaintance and the mind-body problem


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October 31st, 2019

31/10/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927) W Ruttman
  • Milano Calibro 9 (1972) F Di Leo
  • City on Fire (1987) Ringo Lam
  • The Seventh Continent (1989) M Haneke
  • Benny's Video (1992) M Haneke
  • Reservoir Dogs (1992) Q Tarantino
  • Das Schloss (1997) M Haneke
  • Winter on Fire (2015) E Afineevsky
  • Arctic (2018) Joe Penna
  • El Camino (2019) V Gilligan
  • The Laundromat (2019) S Soderbergh

Academic essays

​Philosophy of Mind/Philosophy of Language
  • D Davidson (1970) Mental events
  • D Davidson (1973) Radical interpretation
  • D Davidson (1974) Thought and talk
  • J Searle (1980) Minds, brains, and programs
  • D Armstrong (1981) The causal theory of the mind
  • S Shoemaker (1981) Some varieties of functionalism
  • L Antony (1989) Anomalous monism and the problem of explanatory evidence
  • D Davidson (1993) Thinking causes
  • J Yoo (2009) Anomalous monism

Metaphysics
  • John W. Carroll (2009) Anti-reductionism

Books:
  • Xenophon (370 BCE) The Expedition of Cyrus
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September 30th, 2019

30/9/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Z (1969) Costa-Gavras
  • Missing (1982) Costa-Gavras
  • Death of a Salesman (1985) Volker Schlondorff
  • Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) Werner Herzog
  • Captain Phillips (2013) Paul Greengrass
  • The Nice Guys (2016) Shane Black
  • Unbelievable, S1 (2019)

Short stories:
  • A. Camus (1957) The Guest
  • S. Lem (1976) The Mask


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August 31st, 2019

31/8/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • A Farewell to Arms (1932) F Borzage
  • The Black Cat (1934) EG Ulmer
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) S Spielberg
  • The Great Hack (2019) K Amer & J Noujaim

Academic essays

​Philosophy of Mind
  • R Carnap (1932/3) Psychology in physical language
  • C Hempel (1949) The logical analysis of psychology
  • JC Smart (1959) Sensations and brain processes
  • UT Place (1956) Is consciousness a brain process?
  • D Lewis (1966) An argument for the identity theory
  • H Putnam (1967) The nature of mental states
  • J Fodor (1974) Special sciences
  • N Block (1978) Troubles with functionalism
  • D Lewis (1980) Mad pain and Martian pain
  • PM Churchland (1981) Eliminative materialism and the propositional attitudes
  • J Kim (1992) Multiple realisation and the metaphysics of reduction
  • T Crane (2003) Mental substances
  • B Montero & D Papineau (2016) Naturalism and physicalism

Short stories:
  • HG Wells (1905) The Empire of the Ants
  • S Weinbaum (1934) A Martian Odyssey
  • D Buzzati (1942) Il Borghese Stregato
  • D Keyes (1959) Flowers for Algernon
  • PK Dick (1968) The Electric Ant
  • S Lem (1971) Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy-I

Books:
  • HG Wells (1895) The Time Machine
  • M Bulgakov (1925) Heart of a Dog
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July 31st, 2019

31/7/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • The Minister (2011) Pierre Scholler 
  • Suspiria (2018) Luca Guadagnino [I suspect mostly for sentimental reasons...]
  • I Am Mother (2019) Grant Sputore

Academic essays

​Philosophy of Mind
  • Franz Brentano (1874) The distinction between mental and physical phenomena
  • Donald Davidson (1970) Mental events
  • Jaegwon Kim (1984) Concepts of supervenience
  • Fred Dretske (1986) Misrepresentation
  • Jaegwon Kim (1987) 'Strong' and 'global' supervenience
  • Jaegwon Kim (1990) Supervenience as a philosophical concept

Short stories:
  • R. Heinlein (1941) They
  • A. C. Clarke (1953) The Nine Billion Names of God
  • K. Vonnegut (1961) Harrison Bergeron
  • K. Vonnegut (1961) Who am I this time?
  • Ted Chiang (2005) What's expected of us
  • Ted Chiang (2008) Exhalation
  • Ted Chiang (2011) Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny
  • Ted Chiang (2013) The truth of fact, the truth of feeling

Books:
  • China Mieville (2011) Embassytown
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June 30th, 2019

30/6/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Safe (1995) Todd Haynes
  • Buongiorno, Notte (2003) Marco Bellocchio
  • Chernobyl, Season 1 (2019)
  • Parasite (2019) Bong Joon-Ho

Academic essays

Ethics
  • Hilary Greaves (2017) Population axiology
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Philosophy of Mind
  • Hilary Putnam (1967) The nature of mental states
  • Alyssa Ney (2008) Defining physicalism

Books:
  • Carl Schorske (1979) Fin-de-siecle Vienna 
  • Derek Parfit (1984/87) Reasons and Persons
  • Jaegwon Kim (2011) Philosophy of Mind
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