December 31st, 2017

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​ 

• The Criminal (1960) Joseph Losey.
• The Pickpocket (1997) Jia Zhangke.
• Mother (2009) Bong Joon-Ho.
• Lo and Behold (2016) Werner Herzog.​
• Game of thrones, Season 7 (2016)

Essays (academic): 

Philosophy of mind/Cognitive science/Perception

• Alan Leslie (1987) Pretense and representation.
• Alan Leslie (1994) Pretending and believing.
• Alan Leslie (2002) Pretense and representation revisited. 
• Paul Noordhof (2002) Imagining objects and imagining experiences.
• Ori Friedman and Alan Leslie (2007) The conceptual underpinnings of pretense.
• Neil Van Leeuwen (2011) Imagination is where the action is.
• Pascal Engel (2013) Norms of belief. 
• Susanna Schellenberg (2013) Belief and desire in imagination and immersion.
• Peter Langland-Hassan (2014) What it is to pretend.
• E. Picciuto and P. Carruthers (2016) Imagination and pretense.
• Neil Van Leeuwen (2016) Imagination and action.

Metaphysics/Personal identity

• Dilip Ninan (2009) Persistence and the first-person perspective.
• Sam Cowling (2016) Conceivability arguments for haecceitism.

Books (non-academic):

• W. Somerset Maugham (1919) The moon and sixpence.
• Yiyun Li (2006) A thousand years of good prayers.