Taste Matters

March 31st, 2023

31/3/2023

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

Movies

The Dogs of War (1980) J. Irvin

Academic papers

The Justification of National Partiality (1994) T. Hurka
Conceptions of Cosmopolitanism (1999) S. Scheffler
Is Humanity Getting Better? (2016) L. Wenar
Humanity as an Object of Attachment (2021) R. J. Wallace
On Value Dependence and Meliorative Projects (2021) T. Rulli

Podcasts

In Our Times: Just War (1999)
Carnegie Council – Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics & Political Responsibility, with Stephen Gardiner (2019)
Philosophy Bites: William MacAskill on Longtermism (2023)
Warfare: 1917 Russian Revolution (Antony Beevor) (2023)
Warfare: The US & the Iraq War (2023)
Warfare: The 1954 Guatemalan Coup D’Etat (2023)
Warfare: What Happened at Yalta? (2023)
Future of Life Institute: Connor Leahy on AI Safety and Why the World is Fragile (2023)

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

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