Taste Matters

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

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May 31st, 2022

31/5/2022

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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

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April 30th, 2022

30/4/2022

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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

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March 31st, 2022

31/3/2022

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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?

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February 28th, 2022

28/2/2022

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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

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January 31st, 2022

31/1/2022

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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

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December 31st, 2021

31/12/2021

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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

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November 30th, 2021

30/11/2021

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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

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October 31st, 2021

31/10/2021

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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

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September 30th, 2021

30/9/2021

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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

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August 31st, 2021

31/8/2021

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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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July 31st, 2021

31/7/2021

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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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June 30th, 2021

30/6/2021

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

E Rohmer 1967 Le collectionneuse
JP Melville 1970 Le cercle rouge
JP Melville 1972 Un flic
E Rohmer 1981 The aviator's wife
M Scorsese 1986 The color of money
D Jones 2009 Moon

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics

S Sturgeon 1994 The epistemic view of subjectivity
K Fine 1995 Ontological dependence
F Correia 2008 Ontological dependence

Aesthetics, Phil of Art, Art History

W Camfield 1987 Marcel Duchamp's Fountain
J Bender 1987 Supervenience and the justification of aesthetic judgment
R Moran 1994 The expression of feeling in imagination
D Jacobson 1997 In praise of immoral art
N Carroll 1998 Art, narrative and moral understanding
R Stecker 2005 The interaction of ethical and aesthetic value
R Stecker 2008 Immoralism and the anti-theoretical view
S Evnine 2013 Ready-mades ontology and aesthetics
M Song 2018 The nature of the interaction between moral and artistic value

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May 31st, 2021

31/5/2021

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

Q Tarantino (2009) Inglorious basterds
Patrick Melrose (series) (2018)

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics

D Rosenthal 1986 Two concepts of consciousness
D Rosenthal 1993 Thinking that one thinks
F Dretske 1993 Conscious experience
S Shoemaker 1994 Phenomenal character
S Kelly 2001 Demonstrative concepts and experience
J Levine 2008 Demonstrative thought
E Schwitzgebel 2016 Phenomenal consciousness, defined and defended as innocently as I can imagine
R Langton 2019 Empathy and first-person imagining
P Godfrey-Smith 2020 Varieties of subjectivity

Ethics/Applied ethics

F Song 2019 Rights against high-level risk impositions

Aesthetics and Phil of Art

J Margolis 1977 The ontological peculiarity of works of art
M Beardsley 1982 What is going on in a dance?
J Levinson 1984 Hybrid art forms
P Lamarque 2007 On perceiving conceptual art
P Lamarque 2009 On bringing a work into existence
W Cray 2014 Conceptual art, ideas and ontology
D Whiting 2015 The glass is half empty

Epistemology

J Lackey 1999 Testimonial knowledge and transmission

Short stories

R Carver 1971 Fat
R Carver 1971 Neighbors
R Carver 1977 So much water so close to home

Book (fiction)

D Ray Pollock 2011 The devil all the time

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April 30th, 2021

30/4/2021

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

Blood Simple 1984 J & E Coen
The Name of the Rose 1986 JJ Annaud
Delicatessen 1991 JP Jeunet & M Caro
Show Me a Hero (tv series) 2015 P Haggins

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind

D Rosenthal 1991 The independence of consciousness and sensory qualities
D Rosenthal 1999 Sensory qualities and the relocation story
P Carruthers 2004 Phenomenal concepts and higher-order experiences
D Rosenthal 2005 Sensory qualities, consciousness, and perception
D Rosenthal 2009 Concepts and definitions of consciousness
D Rosenthal 2010 How to think about mental qualities
N Block 2007 Max Black's objection to mind-body identity
B Veillet 2015 The cognitive significance of phenomenal knowledge

Fiction (books)

Naked Earth 1954/76 E Chang
The Crying of Lot 49 1965 T Pynchon

Fiction (short stories)

The cask of amontillado 1846 EA Poe
A&P 1961 John Updike

Poems (almost all re-read)

Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey 1798 W Wordsworth
Prometheus 1816 G Gordon, Lord Byron
Ode to the West Wind 1819 PB Shelley
Ulysses 1833 A, Lord Tennison
The lake of Innisfree 1888 WB Yeats
We wear the mask 1896 PL Dunbar
In a station of the metro 1913 E Pound
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock 1915 TS Eliot
Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird 1917 W Stevens
The emperor of ice cream 1922 W Stevens
Helen 1928 HD

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March 31st, 2021

31/3/2021

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

Drugstore Cowboys (1989) Gus Van Sant
Rake (Series), Season 1 – 4 (2010–8)
Kingdom (Series), Season 1 – 3 (2014–7) [Created by Byron Balasco. By far, one of the best TV series I have watched]

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind

S Sturgeon (1994) The epistemic view of subjectivity
D Papineau (2007) Phenomenal and perceptual concepts
G Lee (2014) Experiences and their parts
D Stoljar (2018) The semantics of what it is like and the nature of consciousness
A Broi (2020) Revelation and phenomenal relations

Short Stories