August 31st, 2018

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

• Robert Hamer (1949) Kind Hearts and Coronets
• Andrzej Wajda (1958) Ashes and Diamonds
• Milos Forman (1965) Loves of a Blonde
• Marco Bellocchio (1965) Fists in the Pocket
• Jeff Nichols (2011) Take Shelther
• ​Westworld, Season 1 (2016)
• Brian Knappenberger (2017) Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press​​
• Jason Reitman (2018) Tully

​Essays (academic): 

Population ethics/applied ethics/normative ethics

• Alastair Norcross (1998) Great harms from small benefits grow: how death can be outweighed by headaches
• Clark Wolf (2001) Population
• Caspar Hare (2007) Voices from another world
• Jeffrey Reimar (2007) Being fair to future people
• Rivka Weinberg (2008) Identifying and dissolving the nonidentity problem
• Alastair Norcross (2009) Two dogmas of deontology
• Clark Wolf (2009) Do future persons presently have alternate possible identities?
• Melinda Roberts (2015) The non-identity problem

Personal identity/memory

• Endel Tulvig (2007) Coding and representation
• Kourken Michaelian (2011) Generative memory

Short essays:

• Gerald Lang (2002/12) Moral relativism and cultural chauvinism 

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Books:

• Plato (4th century BCE) Euthyphro 
• Plato (4th century BCE) Defence of Socrates
• Plato (4th century BCE) Crito
• Plato (4th century BCE) Meno
• Jim Thompson (1958) The Getaway
• Thomas Nagel (1970) The Possibility of Altruism
• Sven Bernecker (2010) Memory. A Philosophical Study.
• Tim Bayne (2013) Thought
• Peter Singer (2016) One World Now​
• China Mieville (2016) This Census-Taker

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