July 31st, 2018

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

• Ingmar Bergman (1966) Persona
• Sergio Leone (1966) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• James Cameron (1984) The Terminator
• Ching Siu-Tung (1987) A Chinese Ghost Story [倩女幽魂]
• Line of duty, Season 4 (2017)​

Essays (academic): 

Population ethics/applied ethics/political philosophy

• Josh Parsons (2002) Axiological actualism
• Nils Holtug (2016) A fair distribution of refugees in the European Union

Personal identity/what matters

• Bernard Williams (1970) The self and the future
• Sydney Shoemaker (1970) Persons and their pasts
• Susan Wolf (1986) Self-interest and interest in selves
• Bart Schultz (1986) Persons, selves, and utilitarianism
• Douglas Ehring (1987) Survival and trivial facts
• Derek Parfit (1993) The indeterminacy of identity
• Derek Parfit (1995) The unimportance of identity
• David O. Brink (1997) Rational egoism and the separateness of persons
• Mark Johnston (1997) Human concerns without superlative selves
• Jennifer Whiting (1999) Back to 'self and the future'
• Sydney Shoemaker (2004) Brown-Brownson revisited
• Derek Parfit (2007) Is personal identity what matters?
• Derek Parfit (2012) We are not human beings
• Kieran Setiya (2015) Selfish reasons
• Johan Gustafsson (2018) The unimportance of being any future person

Metaphysics

• Yuri Balashov (2011) Persistence

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Short stories and poems:

• Thomas Mann (1903) Tonio Kröger
• Thomas Mann (1912) Death in Venice
• Vladimir Nabokov (1925) Christmas
• Neil R. Jones (1931) The Jameson Satellite (not exactly 'high art', but interesting)

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Books (academic):

• Marina Warner (2001) Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds (not the most philosophically sophisticated discussion of change and identity, but full of interesting exaples)

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Books (non-academic):

• Ian McEwan (2005) Saturday
• China Mieville (2009) The City & The City