September 30th, 2018

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

• Kenji Mizoguchi (1953) Ugetsu
• ​Laurence Olivier (1955) Richard III
• Orson Welles (1958) Touch of Evil​
• ​François Truffaut (1959) The 400 Blows
• ​François Truffaut (1962) Jules et Jim
• ​Sergio Leone (1964) Per un pugno di dollari (Fistful of Dollars)
• ​The Office (US version), season 1 (2005)
• The Office (US version), season 2 (2006)
• ​Nicolas Winding Refn (2011) Drive
• Owen Harris (2016) Black Mirror, S3 E4 'San Junipero'
• ​McMafia, season 1 (2018)
• Ghoul, season 1 (2018) [Not great, but contains interesting ideas/references]
• The End of the Fxxxing World, tv series (2018)
• Maniac, tv series (2018)

Essays (academic): 

History of Philosophy

• Dorothea Frede (1978) The final proof of the immortality of the soul in Plato's Phaedo 102a–107a
• David Sedley (2009) Three kinds of Platonic immortality

Philosophy of action/meta-ethics/normative ethics/rationality

• Peter Railton (1984) Alienation, consequentialism and the demands of morality
• J. David Velleman (1991) Well-being and time
• J. David Velleman (1992) What happens when someone acts?
• Caspar Hare (2013) Time: the emotional asymmetry
• Tom Dougherty (2015) Future-bias and practical reason

Philosophy of mind/personal identity/imagination

• Bernard Williams (1966/73) Imagination and the self
• Richard Wollheim (1974) Imagination and identification

Short essays/stories:

• Thomas Mann (1921) The Blood of the Walsungs

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Books:

• Plato (4th century BCE) Phaedo
• Guy de Maupassant (1885) Bel-Ami
• Kees Van Deemter (2009) Not Exactly