June 30th, 2018

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:

• Teruo Ishii (1965) Abashiri Prison [網走番外地]
• Walter Hill (1979) The Warriors
• House of Cards, UK TV Series, Season 1 (1990)
• The Deuce, Season 1 (2017)
• Saul Dibb (2017) Journey's End 
• Scott Cooper (2017) Hostiles
• Ruben Ostlund (2017) The Square [I am still thinking whether I liked it or not...]
  
• Matthew Cooke (2018) Survivors Guide to Prison

Essays (academic): 

Population ethics/ethics

• Jan Narveson (1967) Utilitarianism and new generations
• Jan Narveson (1973) Moral problems of population
• Robert M. Adams (1979) Existence, self-interest, and the problem of evil
• David Brink (1997) Rational egoism and the separateness of persons
• M. A. Roberts (2015) Population axiology

Philosophy of mind/personal identity

• Thomas Nagel (1971) Brain bisection and the unity of consciousness
• John Perry (1972) Can the self divide? 
• Bernard Williams (1976/81) Persons, character and morality
• Carol Rovane (1990) Branching self-consciousness
• Quassim Cassam (1993) Parfit on persons
• Sydney Shoemaker (1997) Parfit on identity
• John McDowell (1997) Reductionism and the first person
• Ned Block (2002) Concepts of consciousness
• John Perry (2007) "Borges and I" and I

Essays (non-academic):

• Sheri Berman (2017) Populism is a problem. Elitist technocrats aren't the solution, Foreign Policy

Short stories and poems:

• Herman Melville (1853) Bartleby, the Scrivener
• Giosuè Carducci (1887) La leggenda di Re Teodorico
• Franz Kafka (1913) The Judgment
• W. B. Yeats (1923) Leda and the swan
• Jorge Luis Borges (1946) On Exactitude in Science
• Jorge Luis Borges (1960) Borges and I

Books (academic):

• Derek Parfit (1987) Reasons and Persons

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Books (non-academic):

• William Shakespeare (1611) The Tempest
• Franz Kafka (1915) The Metamorphosis