February 29th, 2020

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