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February 28th, 2019

28/2/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Alfred Hitchcock (1938) The Lady Vanishes
  • Alfred Hitchcock (1954) Rear Window 
  • Robert Wise (1959) Odds Against Tomorrow
  • Milcho Manchevski (1994) Before the Rain 
  • Erick Zonca (2018) Black Tide 
  • Robert Rodriguez (2018) Alita Battle Angel
  • The Terror, Season 1 (2018)
  • The Kominsky Method, Season 1 (2018)
  • The Deuce, Season 2 (2018)

Academic essays

Comparative/History of Philosophy/Classics
  • M. de Montaigne (1580) On cannibals
  • Paul Guyer (2003) Kant on the theory and practice of autonomy
  • P. J. Ivanhoe (2012) Happiness in early Chinese thought
  • Pauline Kleingeld (2017) Contradiction and Kant's formula of universal law

Philosophy of mind/Imagination/action
  • Jane Heal (1998) Understanding other minds from the inside
  • Catriona Mackenzie (2008) Imagination, identity, and self-transformation
  • Peter Kung (2010) Imagining as a guide to possibility 

Normative Ethics/Meta-ethics/Action​​
  • Philippa Foot (1967) The problem of abortion and the doctrine of double effect
  • Michael Smith (1991) Realism
  • Onora O'Neill (1993) Kantian approaches to some famine relief
  • Michael Bratman (1996) Identification, decision, and treating as a reson
  • Tamar Schapiro (2009) The nature of inclination
  • Jonathan Adler & Christopher Gowans (2013) Universalizability​

Books:
  • Gregory Currie and Ian Ravenscroft (2002) Recreative Minds
  • William Gibson (2014) The Peripheral
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January 31st, 2019

31/1/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Alfred Hitchcock (1960) Psycho
  • Gregory Hoblit (1996) Primal Fear
  • Alejandro G. Inarritu (2014) Birdman
  • Clint Eastwood (2018) The Mule
  • Hirokazu Koreeda (2018) Shoplifters

Academic essays

Comparative/History of Philosophy
  • Edward Slingerland (2010) Classical Confucianism (I)
  • Terence Irwin (2012) Conceptions of happiness in the Nichomachean Ethics
  • Richard Kraut (2012) Aristotle on becoming good
  • Justin Tiwald (2018) Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism

Normative Ethics
  • Rosalind Hursthouse (1996) Normative virtue ethics

Short essays/stories:
  • Dino Buzzati (1942) L'uccisione del drago
  • Dino Buzzati (1942) Il mantello
  • Dino Buzzati (1942) Una cosa che comincia per elle
  • Dino Buzzati (1942) Vecchio facocero
  • Dino Buzzati (1948) Paura alla scala

Books:
  • Mengzi (300BCE)
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December 31st, 2018

31/12/2018

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Mathieu Kassovitz (2011) Rebellion
  • Mariana Rondon (2013) Bad Hair
  • Denis Villeneuve (2016) Arrival
  • Alfonso Cuaron (2018) Roma

Academic essays

Philosophy of mind, Imagination
  • Nigel JT Thomas (1997) Imagery and the coherence of imagination

Short essays/stories:
  • E.R. Forster (1909) The machine stops
  • Dino Buzzati (1942) I Sette Messaggeri
  • Dino Buzzati (1942) L' Assalto al Grande Convoglio
  • Dino Buzzati (1942) Sette Piani
  • Dino Buzzati, Ombra del sud
  • Dino Buzzati, Eppure battono alla porta
  • Ursula Le Guin (1973) The ones who walk away from Omelas

Books:
  • Yevgeny Zamyatin (1924) We
  • Alan White (1990) The Language of Imagination
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November 30th, 2018

30/11/2018

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Ingmar Bergman (1960) The Virgin Spring
  • Amy Berg (2006) Deliver Us From Evil 
  • The Office, Season 5 (2008–9)
  • The Office, Season 6 (2009–10)
  • Mike Mills (2010) Beginners
  • Tom McCarthy (2015) Spotlight
  • Wes Anderson (2014) The Grand Budapest Hotel

Short essays/stories:
  • Arthur C. Clarke (1951) The Sentinel
  • Isaac Asimov (1956) The Last Question​ ​
  • William Gibson (1981) Johnny Mnemonic
  • William Gibson (1982) Burning Chrome
  • Ted Chiang (1998) Story of your life

Books:
  • J. W. Campbell (1938) Who Goes There?
  • Ted Chiang (2010) The Lifecycle of Software Objects
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October 31st, 2018

31/10/2018

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Federico Fellini (1952) Lo Sceicco Bianco 
  • Yasujiro Ozu (1959) Floating Weeds
  • Francis Ford Coppola (1979) Apocalypse Now
  • Oliver Stone (1987) Wall Street
  • The Office (US), Season 3 (2006–7)
  • The Office (US), Season 4 (2007–8)
  • Better Call Saul, Season 4 (2018)
  • Bojack Horseman, Season 5 (2018)
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Essays (academic): 

​Philosophy of mind/language/imagination/personal identity
  • John Perry (1977) Frege on demonstratives
  • John Perry (1979) The problem of the essential indexical
  • David Lewis (1979/83) Attitudes de dicto and de se [Interesting BUT seems also very problematic: see Devit, Magidor, Davis, Liao]
  • John Mackie (1980) The transcendental 'I'
  • Thomas Nagel (1983) The objective self [Not sure whether I really 'liked' it, as this essay seems to have been written under the influence of a kind of metaphysical Schwärmerei I strongly disagree with]
  • David Lewis (1983) Individuation by acquaintance and by stipulation
  • Christoper Peacocke (1985) Imagination, experience, and possibility
  • Steven Reynolds (1989) Imagining oneself to be another
  • David Velleman (1996) Self to self
  • M.G.F. Martin (2002) The transparency of experience
  • Leslie Stevenson (2003) Twelve conceptions of imagination
  • Catriona Mackenzie (2008) Imagination, identity, and self-transformation
  • Dilip Ninan (2009) Persistence and the first-person perspective [I disagree with the intuition motivating the whole account]
  • Shen-Yi Liao (2012) What are centered worlds?
  • Michael Devitt (2013) The myth of the problematic de se
  • Richard Holton (2015) Primitive self-ascriptions
  • Ofra Magidor (2015) The myth of the de se
  • Wayne Davis (2017) The property theory and de se attitudes

Short essays/stories:
  • Isaac Asimov (1941) Nightfall
  • Ray Bradbury (1950) There will come soft rains
  • Greg Egan (1990) Learning to be me
  • Greg Egan (1990) The moral virologist
  • Greg Egan (1991) The infinite assassin
  • Greg Egan (1995) Seeing
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Books:
  • P. K. Dick (1965) The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
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September 30th, 2018

30/9/2018

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Kenji Mizoguchi (1953) Ugetsu
  • ​Laurence Olivier (1955) Richard III
  • Orson Welles (1958) Touch of Evil​
  • ​François Truffaut (1959) The 400 Blows
  • ​François Truffaut (1962) Jules et Jim
  • ​Sergio Leone (1964) Per un pugno di dollari (Fistful of Dollars)
  • ​The Office (US version), season 1 (2005)
  • The Office (US version), season 2 (2006)
  • ​Nicolas Winding Refn (2011) Drive
  • Owen Harris (2016) Black Mirror, S3 E4 'San Junipero'
  • ​McMafia, season 1 (2018)
  • Ghoul, season 1 (2018) [Not great, but contains interesting ideas/references]
  • The End of the Fxxxing World, tv series (2018)
  • Maniac, tv series (2018)

Essays (academic): 

History of Philosophy
  • Dorothea Frede (1978) The final proof of the immortality of the soul in Plato's Phaedo 102a–107a
  • David Sedley (2009) Three kinds of Platonic immortality

Philosophy of action/meta-ethics/normative ethics/rationality
  • Peter Railton (1984) Alienation, consequentialism and the demands of morality
  • J. David Velleman (1991) Well-being and time
  • J. David Velleman (1992) What happens when someone acts?
  • Caspar Hare (2013) Time: the emotional asymmetry
  • Tom Dougherty (2015) Future-bias and practical reason

Philosophy of mind/personal identity/imagination
  • Bernard Williams (1966/73) Imagination and the self
  • Richard Wollheim (1974) Imagination and identification

Short essays/stories:
  • Thomas Mann (1921) The Blood of the Walsungs
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Books:
  • Plato (4th century BCE) Phaedo
  • Guy de Maupassant (1885) Bel-Ami
  • Kees Van Deemter (2009) Not Exactly
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August 31st, 2018

31/8/2018

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Robert Hamer (1949) Kind Hearts and Coronets
  • Andrzej Wajda (1958) Ashes and Diamonds
  • Milos Forman (1965) Loves of a Blonde
  • Marco Bellocchio (1965) Fists in the Pocket
  • Jeff Nichols (2011) Take Shelther
  • ​Westworld, Season 1 (2016)
  • Brian Knappenberger (2017) Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press​​
  • Jason Reitman (2018) Tully









​Essays (academic): 

Population ethics/applied ethics/normative ethics
  • Alastair Norcross (1998) Great harms from small benefits grow: how death can be outweighed by headaches
  • Clark Wolf (2001) Population
  • Caspar Hare (2007) Voices from another world
  • Jeffrey Reimar (2007) Being fair to future people
  • Rivka Weinberg (2008) Identifying and dissolving the nonidentity problem
  • Alastair Norcross (2009) Two dogmas of deontology
  • Clark Wolf (2009) Do future persons presently have alternate possible identities?
  • Melinda Roberts (2015) The non-identity problem

Personal identity/memory
  • Endel Tulvig (2007) Coding and representation
  • Kourken Michaelian (2011) Generative memory

Short essays:
  • Gerald Lang (2002/12) Moral relativism and cultural chauvinism 
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Books:
  • Plato (4th century BCE) Euthyphro 
  • Plato (4th century BCE) Defence of Socrates
  • Plato (4th century BCE) Crito
  • Plato (4th century BCE) Meno
  • Jim Thompson (1958) The Getaway
  • Thomas Nagel (1970) The Possibility of Altruism
  • Sven Bernecker (2010) Memory. A Philosophical Study.
  • Tim Bayne (2013) Thought
  • Peter Singer (2016) One World Now​
  • China Mieville (2016) This Census-Taker
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July 31st, 2018

31/7/2018

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Ingmar Bergman (1966) Persona
  • Sergio Leone (1966) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  • James Cameron (1984) The Terminator
  • Ching Siu-Tung (1987) A Chinese Ghost Story [倩女幽魂]
  • Line of duty, Season 4 (2017)​

Essays (academic): 

Population ethics/applied ethics/political philosophy
  • Josh Parsons (2002) Axiological actualism
  • Nils Holtug (2016) A fair distribution of refugees in the European Union

Personal identity/what matters
  • Bernard Williams (1970) The self and the future
  • Sydney Shoemaker (1970) Persons and their pasts
  • Susan Wolf (1986) Self-interest and interest in selves
  • Bart Schultz (1986) Persons, selves, and utilitarianism
  • Douglas Ehring (1987) Survival and trivial facts
  • Derek Parfit (1993) The indeterminacy of identity
  • Derek Parfit (1995) The unimportance of identity
  • David O. Brink (1997) Rational egoism and the separateness of persons
  • Mark Johnston (1997) Human concerns without superlative selves
  • Jennifer Whiting (1999) Back to 'self and the future'
  • Sydney Shoemaker (2004) Brown-Brownson revisited
  • Derek Parfit (2007) Is personal identity what matters?
  • Derek Parfit (2012) We are not human beings
  • Kieran Setiya (2015) Selfish reasons
  • Johan Gustafsson (2018) The unimportance of being any future person

Metaphysics
  • Yuri Balashov (2011) Persistence
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Short stories and poems:
  • Thomas Mann (1903) Tonio Kröger
  • Thomas Mann (1912) Death in Venice
  • Vladimir Nabokov (1925) Christmas
  • Neil R. Jones (1931) The Jameson Satellite (not exactly 'high art', but interesting)
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Books (academic):
  • Marina Warner (2001) Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds (not the most philosophically sophisticated discussion of change and identity, but full of interesting exaples)
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Books (non-academic):
  • Ian McEwan (2005) Saturday
  • China Mieville (2009) The City & The City
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June 30th, 2018

30/6/2018

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Teruo Ishii (1965) Abashiri Prison [網走番外地]
  • Walter Hill (1979) The Warriors
  • House of Cards, UK TV Series, Season 1 (1990)
  • The Deuce, Season 1 (2017)
  • Saul Dibb (2017) Journey's End 
  • Scott Cooper (2017) Hostiles
  • Ruben Ostlund (2017) The Square [I am still thinking whether I liked it or not...]
  • Matthew Cooke (2018) Survivors Guide to Prison

Essays (academic): 

Population ethics/ethics
  • Jan Narveson (1967) Utilitarianism and new generations
  • Jan Narveson (1973) Moral problems of population
  • Robert M. Adams (1979) Existence, self-interest, and the problem of evil
  • David Brink (1997) Rational egoism and the separateness of persons
  • M. A. Roberts (2015) Population axiology

Philosophy of mind/personal identity
  • Thomas Nagel (1971) Brain bisection and the unity of consciousness
  • John Perry (1972) Can the self divide? 
  • Bernard Williams (1976/81) Persons, character and morality
  • Carol Rovane (1990) Branching self-consciousness
  • Quassim Cassam (1993) Parfit on persons
  • Sydney Shoemaker (1997) Parfit on identity
  • John McDowell (1997) Reductionism and the first person
  • Ned Block (2002) Concepts of consciousness
  • John Perry (2007) "Borges and I" and I

Essays (non-academic):
  • Sheri Berman (2017) Populism is a problem. Elitist technocrats aren't the solution, Foreign Policy

Short stories and poems:
  • Herman Melville (1853) Bartleby, the Scrivener
  • Giosuè Carducci (1887) La leggenda di Re Teodorico
  • Franz Kafka (1913) The Judgment
  • W. B. Yeats (1923) Leda and the swan
  • Jorge Luis Borges (1946) On Exactitude in Science
  • Jorge Luis Borges (1960) Borges and I

Books (academic):
  • Derek Parfit (1987) Reasons and Persons
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Books (non-academic):
  • William Shakespeare (1611) The Tempest
  • Franz Kafka (1915) The Metamorphosis
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May 31st, 2018

31/5/2018

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Robert Rossen (1961) The Hustler
  • Stuart Rosenberg (1967) Cool Hand Luke
  • George Roy Hill (1973) The Sting
  • Law & Order: UK, TV series, Season 1 (2009) 

Essays (academic): 

Ethics/Meta-ethics/Moral psychology/Applied Ethics/History of Ethics
  • Thomas Nagel (1972) War and massacre
  • John Harsanyi (1977) Morality and the theory of rational behaviour
  • Jonathan Dancy (1997) Parfit on indirectly self-defeating theories
  • David Gauthier (1997) Rationality and the rational aim
  • Anthony Skelton (2010) Henry Sidgwick's moral epistemology
  • Anthony Skelton (2011) Utilitarian practical ethics
  • Roger Crisp (2011) Sidgwick's hedonism
  • Roger Crisp (2014) Sidgwick and utilitarianism in the late nineteenth century
  • Ben Eggleston (2017) Decision theory

Philosophy of Art
  • Peter Lamarque (2002) Work and object
  • Lee Walters (2013) Repeatable artworks as created types

Metaphysics/Personal Identity
  • William Carter (1989) How to change your mind

Books (academic):
  • Henry Sidgwick (1874/1907) The Methods of Ethics
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Books (non-academic):
  • Apuleius (160s) Metamorphoses (or The Golden Ass)
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April 30th, 2018

30/4/2018

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​ 
  • William Dieterle (1950) Dark City
  • T. Gilliam & T. Jones (1975) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • Stanley Kubrick (1987) Full Metal Jacket
  • Alexander Payne (2013) Nebraska 
  • Robert Gordon & Morgan Neville (2015) Best of Enemies
  • Trapped, TV series (2015)
  • Alberto Rodriguez (2016) Smoke & Mirrors
  • Electric Dreams, TV series (2017) 
  • Peter Nicks (2017) The Force
  • Erik Nelson (2017) A Grey State
  • Tiller Russell (2018) Operation Odessa
  • Drug Lords, TV series (2018)

Essays (academic): 

Ethics/Meta-ethics/Moral psychology/Applied Ethics
  • Peter Singer (1972) Famine, affluence, and morality
  • John M. Doris (2009) Skepticism about persons
  • Theron Pummer (2016) Whether and where to give

Metaphysics/Personal Identity/Philosophy of Biology
  • Derek Parfit (1975) Later selves and moral principles
  • Peter Unger (1979) I do not exist
  • David Shoemaker (1999) Selves and moral units
  • Achille Varzi (2005) Change, temporal parts, and the argument from vagueness
  • Eugene Mills (2008) The egg and I
  • Karen Bennett (2009) Composition, colocation, and metaontology
  • Jason Morris (2012) Substance ontology cannot determine the moral status of embryos
  • Judith K. Crane (2012) Biological-mereological coincidence
  • Jonathan Tallant (2014) Against mereological nihilism
  • Daniel Korman (2015) Fundamental quantification and the language of the ontology room
  • Bradley Rettler (2018) Mereological nihilism and puzzles about material constitution

Philosophy of Art/Fiction
  • Gregory Currie (2014) Standing on the last ditch

Essays/articles (non-academic):
  • Martin Wold (2007) The New Capitalism, How Unfettered finance is fast reshaping the global economy
  • Scott F. Gilbert (2016) DNA as our soul: don't believe the advertising

Books (academic):
  • R. M. Hare (1963) Freedom and Reason

Books (non-academic):
  • Ovid (8) Metamorphoses
  • W. Shakespeare (1595/6) A Midsummer Night's Dream
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March 31st, 2018

31/3/2018

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​ 
  • Stanley Kubrick (1968) 2001: A space odyssey
  • ​Jacques Audiard (2012) Rust and bone
  • David Bickerstaff (2016) The curious world of Hieronymus Bosch
  • Martin McDonagh (2017) Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
  • Bryan Fogel (2017) Icarus
  • SJ Clarkson (2018) Collateral, miniseries

Essays (academic): 

Ethics/Meta-ethics/Comparative philosophy
  • David Gauthier (1967) Morality and advantage
  • Bradford Cokelet (2016) Confucianism, Buddhism, and virtue ethics

Metaphysics/Philosophy of Biology/Personal Identity
  • David Wiggins (1987) The person as object of science, as subject of experience, and as locus of value
  • Eric Olson (1998) There is no problem of the self
  • Cian Dorr & Gideon Rosen (2002) Composition as a fiction
  • Barry Smith & Berit Brogaard (2003) Sixteen days
  • Rowland Stout (2003) The life of a process
  • L.A. Paul (2007) Constitutive overdetermination
  • L.A. Paul (2010) The puzzles of material constitution
  • Helen Steward (2013) Processes, continuants, and individuals
  • Kristie Miller (2013) 'Personal identity' minus the person
  • Ted Sider (2013) Against parthood
  • John Dupre (2014) Animalism and the persistence of human organisms
  • Eric Olson (2015) What does it mean to say that we are animals?
  • L.A. Paul (2016) The subjectively enduring self

Short stories (non-academic):
  • Richard Matheson (1950) Born of man and woman
  • Richard Matheson (1950) Third from the sun
  • Thomas Ligotti (1985) The frolic
  • Thomas Ligotti (1985) Les fleurs
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February 28th, 2018

28/2/2018

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​ 
  • Abbas Kiarostami (1990) Close-up
  • Penny Marshall (1990) Awakenings
  • Kevin Reynolds (1995) Waterworld [I didn't like many aspects of this movie, but I did like the basic concept/background]
  • Zhang Yimou (1999) Not one less
  • Hong Sang-soo (2002) On the occasion of being remembered of the turning gate
  • Errol Morris (2003) The fog of war
  • Vikings, Season 3 (2015)
  • Adam McKay (2015) The big short
  • Jimmy Chin (2015) Meru
  • Jeremy Rush (2017) Wheelman
  • Jennifer Brea (2018) Unrest
  • Dirty Money (2018) [Netflix tv series]

Essays (academic): 

Philosophy of mind/Cognitive science/Perception​
  • John L. Austin (1958) Pretending
  • Radu Bogdan (2005) Pretending as imaginative rehearsal for cultural conformity
  • Hannes Racoczy (2008) Pretence as individual and collective intentionality
  • Peter Langland-Hassan (2016) On choosing what to believe
  • Magdalena Balcerak Jackson (2016) On the epistemic value of imagining, supposing, and conceiving
  • Neil Van Leeuwen (2016) The imaginative agent

Ethics/meta-ethics/well-being
  • Barbara Herman (1981) On the value of acting from the motive of duty
  • Mark Timmons (1998) Decision procedures, moral criteria, and the problem of relevant descriptions in Kant's ethics
  • J. David Velleman (2006) A brief introduction to Kantian ethics
  • Chris Heathwood (2007) The reduction of sensory pleasure to desire
  • Guy Fletcher (2016) Objective list theories

Philosophy of Language/Metaphysics
  • Stacie Friend (2011) The great beetle debate
  • Fiora Salis (2013) Fictional names and the problem of intersubjective identification

Aesthetics/Philosophy of Art
  • Paisley Livingston (2004) C. I. Lewis and the outlines of aesthetic experience

Essays (non-academic):
  • Philip Kitcher (2018) Dangerous bullshit


Books/stories (non-academic):
  • Eileen Chang (1940s) Aloeswood incense, Jasmine Tea, Love in a fallen city, The golden cangue, Sealed off, Red rose, white rose. (All these short stories and novellas are collected in Love in a fallen city and other stories, translated by Karen Kingsbury and Eileen Chang, which I strongly recommend.)
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January 31st, 2018

31/1/2018

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​ 
  • Julien Duvivier (1937) Pepe le Moko
  • Danny Boyle (1996) Trainspotting
  • Jia Zhangke (2002) Unknown Pleasures
  • Vikings, Season 1 (2013)
  • Vikings, Season 2 (2014)
  • Fargo, Season 3 (2017)
  • Greg Kohs (2017) Alphago
  • Black Mirror, Season 4 (2017)

Essays (academic): 

Philosophy of mind/Cognitive science/Perception​
  • M. G. F. Martin (2002) Out of the past
  • Peter Langland-Hassan (2012) Pretense, imagination, and belief
  • S. Stich & J. Tarzia (2015) The pretense debate
  • Deena Skolnick Weisberg (2015) Pretend play

Ethics/meta-ethics
  • Isaiah Berlin (1959) On the pursuit of the ideal
  • R. M. Hare (1976) Ethical theory and utilitarianism
  • Roger Crisp (2006) Hedonism reconsidered
  • Ben Eggleston (2012) Utilitarianism
  • Miranda Fricker (2013) Styles of moral relativism
  • Ben Eggleston (2017) Mill's moral standard

Books (non-academic):
  • W. Somerset Maugham (1937) Theatre
  • Ken Liu, editor (2016) Invisible planets (only some stories)
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December 31st, 2017

31/12/2017

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​ 
  • The Criminal (1960) Joseph Losey.
  • The Pickpocket (1997) Jia Zhangke.
  • Mother (2009) Bong Joon-Ho.
  • Lo and Behold (2016) Werner Herzog.​
  • Game of thrones, Season 7 (2016)

Essays (academic): 

Philosophy of mind/Cognitive science/Perception
  • Alan Leslie (1987) Pretense and representation.
  • Alan Leslie (1994) Pretending and believing.
  • Alan Leslie (2002) Pretense and representation revisited. 
  • Paul Noordhof (2002) Imagining objects and imagining experiences.
  • Ori Friedman and Alan Leslie (2007) The conceptual underpinnings of pretense.
  • Neil Van Leeuwen (2011) Imagination is where the action is.
  • Pascal Engel (2013) Norms of belief. 
  • Susanna Schellenberg (2013) Belief and desire in imagination and immersion.
  • Peter Langland-Hassan (2014) What it is to pretend.
  • E. Picciuto and P. Carruthers (2016) Imagination and pretense.
  • Neil Van Leeuwen (2016) Imagination and action.

Metaphysics/Personal identity
  • Dilip Ninan (2009) Persistence and the first-person perspective.
  • Sam Cowling (2016) Conceivability arguments for haecceitism.

Books (non-academic):
  • W. Somerset Maugham (1919) The moon and sixpence.
  • Yiyun Li (2006) A thousand years of good prayers.
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November 30th, 2017

30/11/2017

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​ 
  • Rashomon (1950) Akira Kurosawa.
  • Mean Streets (1973) Martin Scorsese.
  • The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) Werner Herzog.
  • The Chaser (2008) Na Hong-ji.
  • Among the believers (2015) Hemal Trivedi and Mohammed Naqvi.
  • Game of thrones, season 6 (2016)
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Essays (academic): 

Personal identity/action/mind
  • Terence Penelhum (1967) Personal identity. 
  • Harry Frankfurt (1971) Freedom of the will and the concept of a person.
  • D. Parfit (1971) Personal identity.
  • Harry Frankfurt (1977) Identification and externality.
  • Sydney Shoemaker (1979) Identity, properties, and causality. 
  • Sydney Shoemaker (1981) Some varieties of functionalism. 
  • Sydney Shoemaker (1984) Personal identity: a materialist account.  
  • Harry Frankfurt (1987) Identification and wholeheartedness.
  • Sydney Shoemaker (1994/6) The first-person perspective.
  • Richard Moran (2002) Frankfurt on identification.

Epistemology/mind
  • N. Shah & J. D. Velleman (2005) Doxastic deliberation.
  • Conor McHugh (2011) What do we aim at when we believe?

History of Philosophy/Ethics/Comparative Philosophy
  • Edward Slingerland (2015) The situationist critique and early Confucian virtue ethics.

Book (academic):
  • ​Don Locke (1971) Memory.

Book (non-academic):
  • Antonio Manetti (1400) La novella del grasso legnaiuolo.
  • P. K. Dick (1962) The Man in the High Castle.
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October 31st, 2017

31/10/2017

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​ 
  • Blue velvet (1986) David Lynch.
  • Siao Yu (1995) Sylvia Chang.
  • Game of thrones, season 2 (2012)
  • Game of thrones, season 3 (2013)
  • Game of thrones, season 4 (2014)
  • Game of thrones, season 5 (2015) [Yes, it looks like someone binge-watched Game of thrones this month...]
  • (Dis)Honesty (2015) Yael Melamede. 
  • Fleabag, season 1 (2016)
  • Blade runner 2049 (2017) Denis Villeneuve. [Mixed feelings about this film. It is not that bad per se, although there were various parts that left me very perplexed, but it's bad – in various senses of the word – if taken to be about the same fictional world as the previous Blade runner. We really didn't need to know what happened to Deckard, the 1982-film was perfect as it was.]

Essays (academic): 

Philosophy of Mind/Personal Identity/Epistemology/Memory
  • Norman Malcolm (1954/1963) Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations. In his Knowledge and certainty.
  • Norman Malcolm (1963) Memory and the past. In his Knowledge and certainty.
  • Norman Malcolm (1963) Three forms of memory. In his Knowledge and certainty.
  • Norman Malcolm (1963) A definition of factual memory.  In his Knowledge and certainty.
  • C. B. Martin and Max Deutscher (1966) Remembering. Philosophical Review.
  • R. Chisholm (1969) The loose and popular and strict and philosophical sense of identity. 
  • W. Lycan (1971) Noninductive evidence: recent work on Wittgenstein's criteria. American philosophical quarterly.
  • John Sutton (2006) Memory. In D. Borchet (ed.) Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  • John Sutton and Carl Windhorst (2009) Extended and constructive memory. Crossroads.
  • Peter Langland-Hassan (2015) Imaginative attitudes. Philosophy and phenomenological research.

History of Philosophy/Ethics
  • Pauline Kleingeld (2017) Contradiction and Kant’s Formula of Universal Law. Kant-Studien.

Book (fiction):
  • ​László Krasznahorkai (1989) The melancholy of resistance.
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September 30th, 2017

30/9/2017

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​ 
  • The invasion of the body snatchers (1978) Philip Kaufman
  • Raging bull (1980) Martin Scorsese
  • Infernal affairs (2002) Andrew Lau & Alan Mak
  • Persepolis (2007) Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
  • 12 years a slave (2013) Steve McQueen
  • Weiner (2016) Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg
  • Bojack Horseman, Season 4 (2017)
  • Chasing coral (2017) Jeff Orlowski  (Watch this documentary!)

Essays (academic): 

Philosophy of Mind/Personal Identity/Epistemology/Memory
  • Sydney Shoemaker (1959) Personal identity and memory. Journal of philosophy
  • Norman Malcolm (1963) Memory and the past. In his Knowledge and certainty
  • Sydney Shoemaker (1966) On knowing who one is. Common factor
  • James Pryor (1999) Immunity to error through misidentification. Philosophical topics
  • John Perry (2002) Personal identity and the concept of a person. In his Identity, personal identity, and the self

Book (fiction):
  • ​László Krasznahorkai (1985) Satantango (Some information on this author here and here)
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August 31st, 2017

31/8/2017

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​ 
  • Sense and Sensibility (1995). Ang Lee
  • Jackie Brown (1997) Quentin Tarantino
  • Vincere (2009) Marco Bellocchio 
  • The Wire, Season 4 (2006)
  • The Wire, Season 5 (2008)
  • Still Alice (2014) Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland 
  • Saving Banksy (2017) Colin Day

Essays (academic): 

Philosophy of Mind/Personal Identity
  • Paul Grice (1941) Personal Identity. Mind
  • Sydney Shoemaker (1970) Persons and their pasts. American Journal of Philosophy
  • Krista Lawlor (2009) Memory. In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind

Metaphysics
  • D. C. Williams (1953) On the Elements of Being, I. The Review of Metaphysics
  • E. J. Lowe (2000) Locke, Martin, and Metaphysics. Philosophical Quarterly

History of Philosophy
  • Rebecca Copenhaver (2006) Thomas Reid's theory of memory. History of Philosophy Quarterly

Books (non-fiction):
  • Mozi (I read the Penguin edition)
  • Shelly Kagan (1998) Normative Ethics
  • E. J. Lowe (2006) The Four-category Ontology

Book (fiction):
  • Kingsley Amis (1986)The Old Devils
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July 31st, 2017

31/7/2017

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

Films (fiction), documentaries, TV series:​ 
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). Elia Kazan.
  • The Wire, Season 3 (2004).
  • To the Ends of the Earth, TV Series (2005). David Attwood. 
  • And Then There Were None, TV Series (2015). Craig Viveiros.
  • The True Cost (2015). Andrew Morgan.
  • Wolf Hall (2015). Peter Kosminsky.
  • Dunkirk (2017). Christopher Nolan. (In my opinion, this film is great. This interview with Nolan helped me understand how to watch it.)

Essays (academic): 

Metaphysics
  • C. B. Martin (1980). Substance Substantiated. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 

Philosophy of Biology
  • David Hull (1978). A Matter of Individuality.

Epistemology/Philosophy of Mind/Personal Identity
  • Sydney Shoemaker (1968). Self-reference and Self-awareness. Journal of Philosophy. 

Book (academic):
  • Sydney Shoemaker (1963). Self-knowledge and Self-identity.
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