Taste Matters

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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