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October 31st, 2018

31/10/2018

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Federico Fellini (1952) Lo Sceicco Bianco 
  • Yasujiro Ozu (1959) Floating Weeds
  • Francis Ford Coppola (1979) Apocalypse Now
  • Oliver Stone (1987) Wall Street
  • The Office (US), Season 3 (2006–7)
  • The Office (US), Season 4 (2007–8)
  • Better Call Saul, Season 4 (2018)
  • Bojack Horseman, Season 5 (2018)
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Essays (academic): 

​Philosophy of mind/language/imagination/personal identity
  • John Perry (1977) Frege on demonstratives
  • John Perry (1979) The problem of the essential indexical
  • David Lewis (1979/83) Attitudes de dicto and de se [Interesting BUT seems also very problematic: see Devit, Magidor, Davis, Liao]
  • John Mackie (1980) The transcendental 'I'
  • Thomas Nagel (1983) The objective self [Not sure whether I really 'liked' it, as this essay seems to have been written under the influence of a kind of metaphysical Schwärmerei I strongly disagree with]
  • David Lewis (1983) Individuation by acquaintance and by stipulation
  • Christoper Peacocke (1985) Imagination, experience, and possibility
  • Steven Reynolds (1989) Imagining oneself to be another
  • David Velleman (1996) Self to self
  • M.G.F. Martin (2002) The transparency of experience
  • Leslie Stevenson (2003) Twelve conceptions of imagination
  • Catriona Mackenzie (2008) Imagination, identity, and self-transformation
  • Dilip Ninan (2009) Persistence and the first-person perspective [I disagree with the intuition motivating the whole account]
  • Shen-Yi Liao (2012) What are centered worlds?
  • Michael Devitt (2013) The myth of the problematic de se
  • Richard Holton (2015) Primitive self-ascriptions
  • Ofra Magidor (2015) The myth of the de se
  • Wayne Davis (2017) The property theory and de se attitudes

Short essays/stories:
  • Isaac Asimov (1941) Nightfall
  • Ray Bradbury (1950) There will come soft rains
  • Greg Egan (1990) Learning to be me
  • Greg Egan (1990) The moral virologist
  • Greg Egan (1991) The infinite assassin
  • Greg Egan (1995) Seeing
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Books:
  • P. K. Dick (1965) The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

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