Taste Matters

April 30th, 2021

30/4/2021

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

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

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind

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

Fiction (books)

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

Fiction (short stories)

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

Poems (almost all re-read)

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

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March 31st, 2021

31/3/2021

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

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

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind

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

Short Stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920) The ice palace

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February 28th, 2021

28/2/2021

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

After Hours (1985) M Scorsese
The Office, S1-6
The Dig (2021) S Stone

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind

B Loar (1997) Phenomenal states
A Byrne (2001) Intentionalism defended

Aesthetics

F Sibley (1974) Particularity, art and evaluation
M Budd (1999) Aesthetic judgments, aesthetic principles and aesthetic properties

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January 31st, 2021

31/1/2021

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Wells
The Office, S1-2

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics

D Weiskopf (2009) Atomism, pluralism and conceptual content

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December 31st, 2020

31/12/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

Tokyo Sonata (2008) Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Extraction (2020) Sam Hargrave
The Queen's Gambit, S1 (2020)
My Octopus Teacher (2020) P Ehrlich & J Reed

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics

D Ryder (2009) Problems of representation I
E Camp (2007) Thinking with maps
T Burge (2018) Iconic representation

Book (Academic)

J Fodor (1998) Concepts

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November 30th, 2020

30/11/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

The Americans, S1–6 (2013–8)
Midsommar (2019) A Aster

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics

D Stampe (1977) Towards a causal theory of linguistic representation
B Loar (1988) Social content and psychological content
R Millikan (1989) Biosemantics

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October 31st, 2020

31/10/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

Predator (1987) J McTiernan
The Witch (2015) R Eggers
The Lighthouse (2019) R Eggers

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics

P Vallentyne 1996 Response-dependence, rigidification and objectivity

Aesthetics

D Stokes 2018 Rich perceptual content and aesthetic properties
H Logue 2018 Can we experience aesthetic properties?

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September 30th, 2020

30/9/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

La Dolce Vita 1960 F Fellini
Escape From Alcatraz 1979 D Siegel
Dark City 1998 A Proyas
Public Enemies 2009 M Mann
Coming Home 2014 Z Yimou

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics/Perception

J Kim 2005 Supervenience, emergence, realisation, reduction
M Kalderon 2007 Color pluralism
U Kriegel 2017 Brentano's concept of mind
G Rosen 2017 Metaphysical relations in metaethics

Aesthetics

N Zangwill 2003 Aesthetic realism 1

History of Philosophy

D Yandell 1997 What Descartes really told Elisabeth
A Schechtman 2016 Substance and independence in Descartes

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August 31st, 2020

31/8/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

Knife in the water (1962) R Polanski
The gambler (1974) K Reisz
Starred up (2013) D McKenzie
Sweet bean (2015) N Kawase
Paterson (2016) J Jarmush
The Neon Demon (2016) NWF
Manchester by the sea (2016) K Lonergan

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics

J Fodor (1980) The mind-body problem
J Kim (1990) Supervenience as a philosophical concept
B McLaughlin (1997) Supervenience, vagueness, and determination
M Johnston (1998) Are manifest qualities response-dependent?
P Pettit (2003) Looks as powers

History of Philosophy

D Garber (1983) Understanding interaction

Aesthetics

J Levinson (1983) Aesthetic supervenience
G Currie (1990) Supervenience, essentialism, and aesthetic properties
J Bender (1996) Realism, supervenience and irresolvable aesthetic disputes
J Bender (2003) Aesthetic realism 2
J Levinson (2005) What are aesthetic properties?
D Hudson Hick (2012) Aesthetic supervenience revisited

Books

H Crews (1976) A feast of snakes

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June 30th, 2020

30/6/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

The Cloud Capped Star (1960) R Ghatak
The Great Escape (1963) J Sturges
Why Does Herr R Run Amok? (1970) RW Fassbendir
Vanishing Point (1971) R Sarafin
The Taking of Phelam 1, 2, 3 (1974) J Sargent
35 Shots of Rum (2008) C Denis
Poetry (2010) CD Lee
Beautiful Boy (2018) F van Groeningen
Burning (2018) CD Lee

Academic Essays

Aesthetics/Phil of Art

C Brooks (1947) The heresy of paraphrase
G Currie (1991) Work and text
D Bordwell (1996) Convention, construction and cinematic vision
P Livingston (2005) literary aesthetics and the aims of criticism
S Feagin (2015) Reading plays as literature

Philosophy of Mind/Perception/Concepts (Phil/Cog Science)

E Smith & D Osheron (1984) Conceptual combination with prototype concepts
J Fodor (1985) Fodor's guide to mental representation
T Burge (1986) Intellectual norms and foundations of mind
T Burge (1993) Concepts, definition and meaning
J Fodor (1995) Concepts: a potboiler
D Medin et alia (2000) Are there kinds of concepts?
K Johnson (2004) On the systematicity of language and thought
E Margolis & S Laurence (2007) The ontology of concepts
V Giardino & M Greenberg (2012) Varieties of iconicity
D Weiskopf (2014) The architecture of higher thought
E Camp (2015) Logical concepts and associative characteristics
Å Wikforss (2018) Incomplete understanding of concepts

Epistemology

J Lackey (2011) Testimony

Fiction (short stories/plays)

Euripides (405BCE) The Bacchae
W Faulkner (1930) A rose for Emily
JP Sartre (1946) The Respectable Prostitute
A Adamov (1953) Professor Taranne
R Carver (1983) Cathedral

Fiction (books)

J Conrad (1904) Nostromo
J Thompson (1958) The Getaway

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May 31st, 2020

31/5/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

Wild Strawberries (1957) I Bergman
Vertigo (1958) A Hitchcock
Ballad of a Soldier (1959) G Chukhray
The Damned (1969) L Visconti
Sbatti il Mostro in Prima Pagina (1972) M Bellocchio
Chinatown (1974) R Polanski
Série Noire (1979) A Corneau
Big Trouble in Little China (1986) J Carpenter
Raise the Red Lantern (1991) Zhang Yimou
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) G Miller

Academic Essays

Aesthetics

J Levinson (1992) Pleasure and the value of art
D Matravers (1999) Aesthetic concepts and aesthetic experience
J Levinson (2001) Aesthetic properties, evaluative force, and sensibility
N Zangwill (2001) The beautiful, the dainty, and the dumpy
R De Clercq (2008) The structure of aesthetic properties
J Levinson (2009) Aesthetic pleasure

Philosophy of Mind/Perception/Concepts (Phil/Cog Science)

E Rosch (1978) Principles of categorization
G Murphy & D Medin (1982) The role of theories in conceptual coherence
G Rey (1983) Concepts and stereotypes
G Harman (1987) (Nonsolipsistic) Conceptual role semantics
G Harman (1990) The intrinsic character of experience
S Stich (1994) What is a theory of mental representation?
R Cummin (1996) Systematicity
N Block (2002) Concepts of consciousness
N Block (2003) Consciousness
N Block (2003) Mental paint
M Montague (2017) Cognitive phenomenology
M Montague (2017) Perception and cognitive phenomenology

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April 30th, 2020

30/4/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

The French Connection (1971) W Friedkin
The Getaway (1972) S Peckinpah
Roma a mano armata (1976) U Lenzi
The Driver (1978) W Hill
Babel (2006) A Inarritu
Boyhood (2014) R Linklater
1917 (2019) S Mendes
Ozark, Season 3 (2020)
Better Call Saul, Season 5 (2020)

Academic Essays

Epistemology/Philosophy of Mind/Aesthetics

N Carroll (1998) Art, narrative and moral understanding
J Fodor (2007) The revenge of the given (I dislike the style, though)
E Camp (2009) Putting thoughts to work
R Bonzon (2009) Think aesthetic concepts
D Pritchard (2010) The nature and value of knowledge: chapter 4
S Laurence & E Margolis (2012) The scope of the conceptual
N Zangwill (2014) Music, metaphor, and aesthetic concepts
A Hill (2016) Understanding why
J Bengson (2018) The unity of understanding

Short Stories

R Bradbury (1952) A Sound of Thunder

Book

Caesar (58–49) The Gallic War

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March 31st, 2020

31/3/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

Pandora's Box (1929) G Pabst
M (1931) Fritz Lang
The Thomas Crown Affairs (1968) N Jewison
Bullitt (1968) P Yates
Get Carter (1971) M Hodges
Alien (1979) R Scott
Aliens (1986) J Cameron
The Thirteenth Floor (1999) J Rusnak
Mystic River (2003) C Eastwood
Deadwood, Season 1 (2004)
Arrested Development, S2 (2004-5)
Arrested Development, S3 (2005-6)
Zodiac (2007) D Fincher
District 9 (2009) N Blonkamp
Argo (2012) Ben Affleck
Tiger King (2020)

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind

J Fodor (2004) Having concepts

Applied ethics

J Danahar et alia (2017) Should we campaign against sex robots?

Short Stories

A Kazantsev (1947) Explosion
T Sturgeon (1947) Thunder and roses
A&B Stugatsky (1958) The spontaneous reflex
R Silverberg (1968) Passengers
B Sterling (1989) We see things differently
S Lukyanenko (1992) My dad's an antibiotics
Chen Qiufan (2012) The Fish of Lijiang
Chen Qiufan (2019) Affective Fallacy

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February 29th, 2020

29/2/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

Shanghai Express (1932) Josef von Sternberg
Viridiana (1961) L Bunuel
Confidentially Yours (1983) F Truffault
Porco Rosso (1992) H Miyazaki
The Matrix (1999) The Wachowski
Arrested Development, Season 1 (2003)
Uncut Gems (2019) J&B Saldie
Once Upon a Time in Holliwood (2019) Q Tarantino

Academic essays

Philosophy of Art/Aesthetics

F Sibley (1974) Particularity, art and evaluation
M Budd (2003) The acquaintance principle
P Livingston (2003) On an apparent truism in aesthetics
P Livingston (2006) Skepticism, realism, fallibilism in Lem
R Hopkins (2011) How to be a pessimist about aesthetic testimony
D Whiting (2016) The glass is half empty
C Thi Nguyen (2017) The uses of aesthetic testimony

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics

D Dennett (1978) Where am I?
J Searle (1980) Minds, brains and programs
B Loar (2003) Qualia, properties, modality
D Chalmers (2005) The Matrix as metaphysics
D Chalmers (2009) The singularity

Epistemology

D Pritchard (2016) Seeing it for yourself

Short stories

R Heinlein (1947) They
H Ellison (1965) Repent Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman
H Ellison (1967) I have no mouth and I must scream
S Lem (1971) Further reminiscences of Ijon Tichy – I
W Gibson (1982) Burning Chrome
G Egan (1990) Learning to be me
G Egan (1992) Closer

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January 2020

31/1/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

Star Trek, The Original Series Season 1, Episode 28 (1967)
Love on the Run (1979) F Truffault
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) H Miyazaki
The Shield, Season 5 (2006)
The Shield, Season 6 (2007)
The Shield, Season 7 (2008)
In Bloom (2013) N Ekvtimishvili & S Groß
Black Mirror, White Christmas (2014)

Academic essays

Comparative Philosophy/History of Philosophy/Ethics

E Slingerland (2008) Classical Confucianism (I)

Philosophy of Art/Aesthetics

S Evnine (2015) But is it science fiction?

Philosophy of Mind

B Loar (1997) Phenomenal states
E Diaz-Leon (2016) Phenomenal concepts: neither circular nor opaque

Short stories

HG Wells (1897) The Star
F Scott Fitzgerald (1923) Hot & cold blood
I Asimov (1941) Reason
PK Dick (1966) We can remember it for you wholesale
H Ellison (1967) I have no mouth, and I must scream
P Cadigan (1986) Pretty Boy Crossover
C Mieville (2015) Syllabus

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December 2019

31/12/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

Easy Rider (1969) Dennis Hopper
American History X (1998) Tony Kaye
The Shield, Season 1 (2002)
The Shield, Season 2 (2003)
The Shield, Season 3 (2004)
The Irishman (2019) Martin Scorsese
Marriage Story (2019) N Baumbach

Academic essays

Philosophy of Mind/Philosophy of Language

B Loar (2003) Qualia, properties, modality
P Carruthers (2004) Phenomenal concepts and higher order experiences
J Levin (2007) What is a phenomenal concept?
A Grzankowsky & M Tye (forthcoming) What acquaintance teaches

Short stories

HP Lovecraft (1931) At the Mountains of Madness

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November 30th, 2019

30/11/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

Miss Julie (1951) Alf Sjoberg
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) Anthony Asquith
Night of the Living Dead (1968) George A. Romero
State of Siege (1972) Costa-Gavras
Groundhog Day (1993) Harold Ramis
Speed (1994) Jan de Bont
Home (2008) Ursula Meier
Mindhunter, Season 1 (2017)
Mindhunter, Season 2 (2019)
Bojack Horseman, Season 6, Part I (2019)

Academic essays

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

F Sibley (1959) Aesthetic concepts
F SIbley (1965) Aesthetic and non-aesthetic
R Hopkins (2000) Beauty and testimony

Philosophy of Mind/Philosophy of Language

F Jackson (1982) Epiphenomenal qualia
F Jackson (1986) What Mary didn't know
D Dennett (1987) True believers
B McLaughlin (1987) What is wrong with correlational psychosemantics
B Loar (1988) Social content and psychological content
D Lewis (1988) What experience teaches
B Loar (1997) Phenomenal states
K Farkas (2003) What is externalism?
B Loewer (2007) Mental causation or something near enough
N Block (2007) Concepts of consciousness
K Balog (2012) Acquaintance and the mind-body problem

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October 31st, 2019

31/10/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927) W Ruttman
Milano Calibro 9 (1972) F Di Leo
City on Fire (1987) Ringo Lam
The Seventh Continent (1989) M Haneke
Benny's Video (1992) M Haneke
Reservoir Dogs (1992) Q Tarantino
Das Schloss (1997) M Haneke
Winter on Fire (2015) E Afineevsky
Arctic (2018) Joe Penna
El Camino (2019) V Gilligan
The Laundromat (2019) S Soderbergh

Academic essays

Philosophy of Mind/Philosophy of Language

D Davidson (1970) Mental events
D Davidson (1973) Radical interpretation
D Davidson (1974) Thought and talk
J Searle (1980) Minds, brains, and programs
D Armstrong (1981) The causal theory of the mind
S Shoemaker (1981) Some varieties of functionalism
L Antony (1989) Anomalous monism and the problem of explanatory evidence
D Davidson (1993) Thinking causes
J Yoo (2009) Anomalous monism

Metaphysics

John W. Carroll (2009) Anti-reductionism

Books:

Xenophon (370 BCE) The Expedition of Cyrus

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September 30th, 2019

30/9/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

Z (1969) Costa-Gavras
Missing (1982) Costa-Gavras
Death of a Salesman (1985) Volker Schlondorff
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) Werner Herzog
Captain Phillips (2013) Paul Greengrass
The Nice Guys (2016) Shane Black
Unbelievable, S1 (2019)

Short stories:

A. Camus (1957) The Guest
S. Lem (1976) The Mask

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August 31st, 2019

31/8/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

A Farewell to Arms (1932) F Borzage
The Black Cat (1934) EG Ulmer
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) S Spielberg
The Great Hack (2019) K Amer & J Noujaim

Academic essays

Philosophy of Mind

R Carnap (1932/3) Psychology in physical language
C Hempel (1949) The logical analysis of psychology
JC Smart (1959) Sensations and brain processes
UT Place (1956) Is consciousness a brain process?
D Lewis (1966) An argument for the identity theory
H Putnam (1967) The nature of mental states
J Fodor (1974) Special sciences
N Block (1978) Troubles with functionalism
D Lewis (1980) Mad pain and Martian pain
PM Churchland (1981) Eliminative materialism and the propositional attitudes
J Kim (1992) Multiple realisation and the metaphysics of reduction
T Crane (2003) Mental substances
B Montero & D Papineau (2016) Naturalism and physicalism

Short stories:

HG Wells (1905) The Empire of the Ants
S Weinbaum (1934) A Martian Odyssey
D Buzzati (1942) Il Borghese Stregato
D Keyes (1959) Flowers for Algernon
PK Dick (1968) The Electric Ant
S Lem (1971) Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy-I

Books:

HG Wells (1895) The Time Machine
M Bulgakov (1925) Heart of a Dog

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