Taste Matters

November 30th, 2022

30/11/2022

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

Academic papers

A. Baier 1981 The rights of past and future generations
S. Gardiner 2006 A perfect moral storm
S. Caney 2006 Cosmopolitan justice, responsibility and global climate change
S. O. Hansson 2010 Risk: objective or subjective, fact or value
L. Wenar 2011 Poverty is no pond
S. Caney 2018 Justice and future generations

Book reviews & other articles

G. Kennan 1947 The sources of Soviet conduct
F. Fukuyama 1989 The end of history?
C. Krauthammer 1990 The unipolar moment
B. Simms 2013 Castlereagh's catechism
T. Laqueur 2013 Some damn foolish thing
J. Gewirtz 2018 Imperial twilight

Podcasts

In our time, The Thirty Years War (BBC podcast)
In our time, The Opium War (BBC podcast)
New books in Military History, interview with Stephen R. Platt, Imperial Twilight: The opium war and the end of China’s last golden age.
New books in Military History, Jonathan Brunstedt, The Soviet Myth of World War II (2022)
New books in History, The Future of Vladimir Putin, a discussion with Philip Short (2022).
New books in Philosophy, interview with Brian Epstein, The Ant Trap (2016)
New books in Philosophy, Saba Bazargan-Forward, Authority, cooperation and accountability
New books in Science, Technology and Society, Paul Morland, Tomorrow’s people: the future of humanity in ten numbers (2022)
HistoryExtra, ‘Appeasement and the road to World War Two’.
HistoryExtra podcast, The Crimean War: everything you wanted to know.
Modern War Institute, Far-right extremism and the war in Ukraine since 2014 (interview with Kacper Rekawek).
Military History, The Future of Cold War, a discussion with Sergey Radchenk (2022).
LSE Events: NATO’s strategic concept (2022)
Brain in a vat, Theron Pummer, Effective altruism
Aristotelian Society, Samuel Scheffler on Partiality, Deference and Engagement (2022)
Conversations with Tyler, Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and foraging as a fox
Conversations with Tyler, Walter Russell Mead on the past and future of American foreign policy
Conversations with Tyler, Leopoldo López on activism under autocratic regimes
Social Sciences Bites, Bobby Duffy on Generation myths (2022)

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October 31st, 2022

31/10/2022

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

Academic paper:

J. Feinberg 1980 The rights of animals and unborn generations

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September 30th, 2022

30/9/2022

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

Movies, documentaries, TV series:

Zulu (1964) Cy Endfield
The Day of the Jackal (1973) Fred Zimmermann
Roadhouse (1989) Rowdy Herrington
Stargate (1994) Roland Emmerich
Broken Flowers (2005) Jim Jarmush
Emma (2020) Autumn de Wilde
Cyberpunk, Edgerunners (2022)
The Northman (2022) Robert Eggers

Books

Andrey Kurkov (2018) Grey Bees
Will MacAskill (2022) What We Owe The Future

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August 31st, 2022

31/8/2022

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

Movies, documentaries, TV series:

Black Hawk Down (2001) Ridley Scott
Ex Machina (2014) Alex Garland
Bosch, Season 3 (2017)
Bosch, Season 4 (2018)
Raised by Wolves, Season 1 (2020)
Better Call Saul, Season 6 (2022)

Academic papers and book chapters

T. Regan (1986) The Case for Animal Rights
G. Greaves, W. MacAskill, E Thornley (2020) The Moral Case for Longtermism
D. Thorstad (2021) The Scope of Longtermism
C. Tarsney & T. Thomas (20220 Non-additive Axiologies in Large Worlds

Books

Plato, Symposium.
N. Stephenson (1995) The Diamond Age

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July 31st, 2022

31/7/2022

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

Movies, documentaries, TV series:

Love, Death & Robots, Season 3 2022

Academic papers and book chapters

J Broome 1999 Normative requirements
T Scanlon 2007 Structural irrationality
S Russell 2016 Rationality and Intelligence
E Olson 2017 The central dogma of transhumanism
N Kolodny & A Brunero 2018 Instrumental rationality
E Olson 2020 The metaphysics of transhumanism
R Chang 2020 What is it to be a rational agent?
J Broome 2020 Practical reason
V Muller 2020 Ethics of AI and robotics

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June 30th, 2022

30/6/2022

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

Movies, documentaries, TV series:

Severance, Season 1 2022
Pachinko, Season 1 2022

Academic papers and book chapters

S Dick 2003 Cultural evolution, the postbiological universe and SETI
N Bostrom 2003 Astronomical waste
N Bostrom 2009 The future of humanity
N Bostrom 2013 Existential risk prevention as global priority
N Beckstead 2013 On the overwhelming importance of shaping the future: ch. 1 and 3.
M Zimmerman 2015 Value and normativity
S Schneider 2017 Superintelligence and the postbiological cosmos approach
J Shepherd & N Levy 2020 Consciousness and morality
W MacAskill & H Greaves 2021 The case for strong longtermism

Short stories

C Mieville 2011 Covehite
S Strantzas 2011 Strong as a rock
C Mieville 2014 Rules

Book

J Carr 2018 The Terminal List
N Bostrom 2014 Superintelligence

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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