October 31st, 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