February 28th, 2018

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.)