February 2017

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

Films (fiction), documentaries, TV series:

• The Fallen Idol (1948). Carol Reed
• The Wages of Fear (1953). Herni-Georges Clauzot. (Watch it till the end!)
• Gangster Paradise: Jerusalema (2008). Ralph Ziman.
• Mad Men, Season 4 (2010).
• Black Mirror, Season 2 Episode 4 (2011).​

Essays (academic): 

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

• Kendall Walton (1970). Categories of art. In his Marvelous Images.
• Monroe Beardsley (1970/1982). The aesthetic point of view. In his The Aesthetic Point of View: Collected Essays.
• Frank Sibley (1974). Particularity, art, and evaluation. In his Approach to Aesthetics.
• Richard Wollheim (1980). Criticism as retrieval. In his Art and its Object.
• Monroe Beardsley (1982). Aesthetic experience. In his The Aesthetic Point of View: Collected Essays.
• Jerrold Levinson (1989) Refining art historically. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
• Noel Carroll (1997). The ontology of mass art. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
• ​Stephen Davies (2015) Defining art and artworlds. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.​

Ethics, meta-ethics, and applied ethics

• Amartya Sen (1979). Utilitarianism and welfarism. The Journal of Philosophy.

Personal identity, personal ontology

• Eric Olson (2001). A compound of two substances. In K. Corcoran (ed.) Soul, Body, and Survival.
• John Lippitt (2007). Getting the story straight. Inquiry.
• Richard Menary (2008). Embodied narratives. Journal of Consciousness Studies.

General metaphysics

• Jonathan Schaffer (2007). From nihilism to monism. Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

Books (fiction):

• Muriel Spark (1962). The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. 

Book (non-fiction): 

• Richard Moran (2015). The Story of my Life. (This is not really a book but a 'longer paper' on the narrative approach to self-knowledge and identity.)