August 31st, 2019

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