Taste Matters

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)

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

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

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

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

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)

Books (academic):

Marina Warner (2001) Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds (not the most philosophically sophisticated discussion of change and identity, but full of interesting exaples)

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

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

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):

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)

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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June 30th, 2017

30/6/2017

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

Films (fiction), documentaries, TV series:

The Wire, Season 1 (2002).
The Wire, Season 2 (2003).
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010). W. Herzog & D. Vasyukov.
Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee (2016). Nanette Burstein.
Gold (2016). Stephen Gaghan.
Better Call Saul, Season 3 (2017).

Essays (academic):

Personal Identity

B. Williams (1956/7). Personal identity and identification. In his Problems of the self.
D. Parfit (1993). The indeterminacy of identity. Philosophical Studies.

History of Philosophy

Dan Kaufman. (2008). The resurrection of the same body and the ontological status of organisms. In Contemporary Perspectives in Early Modern Philosophy.

Philosophy of Biology

Thomas Pradeau (2010). What is an organism?

Book (academic):

Antonia Lolordo (2012). Locke's Moral Man.

Books (fiction):

D. H. Lawrence (1928). Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Jim Thompson (1964). Pop. 1280.

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May 31st, 2017

31/5/2017

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

Films (fiction), documentaries, TV series:

On the Waterfront (1954). Elia Kazan.
The King of Comedy (1982). Martin Scorsese.
The Intouchables (2011). Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano.
Chasing Ice (2012). Jeff Orlowski.

Essays (academic):

Metaphysics

Donald Baxter (1988). Identity in the loose and popular sense. Mind.
Josh Parsons (2015). A phenomenological argument for stage theory. Analysis.

Philosophy of Mind/Imagination

Elisabeth Camp (2009). Two varieties of literary imagination. Midwest Studies in Philosophy.
Janet Levine (2011). Imaginability, possibility, and the puzzle of imaginative resistance. Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

History of Philosophy/Comparative

Jonathan Barnes (2006). Belief is up to us. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.
Lisa Raphals (2009). Thirteen ways of looking at the self in early China. History of Philosophy Quarterly.
Jessica Gordon-Roth (2015). Locke's place-time-kind principle. Philosophy Compass.

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April 30th, 2017

30/4/2017

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

Films (fiction), documentaries, TV series:

Jaws (1975). Steven Spielberg.
7 Years in Tibet (1997). Jean-Jacques Annaud.
Blood Diamonds (2006). Edward Zwick.
Fargo, Season 1 (2014).
Last Days in Vietnam (2014). Rory Kennedy.
The Hateful Eight (2015). Quentin Tarantino. ("When 'The Hangman' catches you... you hang!")
City 40 (2016). Samira Goetschel.
The Nice Guys (2016). Shane Black.
Better Call Saul, Season 2 (2016).
Beasts of No Nation (2016). Lary Joji Fukunaga.

Essays (academic):

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

Jerrold Levinson (1980). What a musical work is. Journal of Philosophy.
Richard Wollheim (1980) Seeing-as, seeing-in, and pictorial representation.
Allen Carlson (1994). Existence, location, and function.

Epistemology

Matthias Steup (2000). Doxastic voluntarism and epistemic deontology. Acta Analytica.
Matthias Steup (2011). Empiricism, metaphysics, and voluntarism. Synthese.

Metaphysics

Chris Daly (2008) Fictionalism and the attitudes. Philosophical Studies.

Book (non-fiction):

Margaret MacMillan (2007). Nixon and Mao.

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March 31st, 2017

31/3/2017

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

Films (fiction), documentaries, TV series:

Pygmalion (1938). Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard.
The Rules of the Game (1939). Jean Renoir.
Ghost in the Shell (1995). Mamoru Oshii.
Mad Men, Season 6 (2013).

Essays (academic):

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

Paisley Livingston (2015). Authorial intention and the varieties of intentionalism. In Garry L. Hagberg and Walter Jost (eds.) A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature (Wiley-Blackwell).
Berys Gaut (1998). The ethical criticism of art. In Jerrold Levinson (ed.) Aesthetics and Ethics (Cambridge University Press).
R. A. Sharpe (2000). The empiricist theory of artistic value. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
Matthew Kieran (2003). Forbidden Knowledge. In S. Gardner and J. Bermudez (eds.). Art and Morality (London: Routledge)

History of Philosophy

Anthony Long (1991). Representation and the self in Stoicism. In S. Everson (ed.). Companions to Ancient Thought (Cambridge University Press).
Tad Brennan (2003). Stoic moral psychology. In B. Inwood (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics (Cambridge University Press).

Book (fiction):

Han Kang (2007). The Vegetarian.

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