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

Films (fiction), documentaries, TV series:​ 

• On the Waterfront (1954). Elia Kazan.
• The King of Comedy (1982). Martin Scorsese.
• The Intouchables (2011). Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano.
• Chasing Ice (2012). Jeff Orlowski.

Essays (academic): 

Metaphysics

• Donald Baxter (1988). Identity in the loose and popular sense. Mind.
• Josh Parsons (2015). A phenomenological argument for stage theory. Analysis.

Philosophy of Mind/Imagination

• Elisabeth Camp (2009). Two varieties of literary imagination. Midwest Studies in Philosophy.
• Janet Levine (2011). Imaginability, possibility, and the puzzle of imaginative resistance. Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 

History of Philosophy/Comparative

• Jonathan Barnes (2006). Belief is up to us. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.
• Lisa Raphals (2009). Thirteen ways of looking at the self in early China. History of Philosophy Quarterly.
• Jessica Gordon-Roth (2015). Locke's place-time-kind principle. Philosophy Compass. 

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

Films (fiction), documentaries, TV series:​

• Jaws (1975). Steven Spielberg. 
• 7 Years in Tibet (1997). Jean-Jacques Annaud.
• Blood Diamonds (2006). Edward Zwick.
• Fargo, Season 1 (2014).
• Last Days in Vietnam (2014). Rory Kennedy.
• The Hateful Eight (2015). Quentin Tarantino. ("When 'The Hangman' catches you... you hang!")
• City 40 (2016). Samira Goetschel. 
• The Nice Guys (2016). Shane Black.
• Better Call Saul, Season 2 (2016).
• Beasts of No Nation (2016). Lary Joji Fukunaga.

Essays (academic): 

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

• Jerrold Levinson (1980). What a musical work is. Journal of Philosophy.
• Richard Wollheim (1980) Seeing-as, seeing-in, and pictorial representation.
• Allen Carlson (1994). Existence, location, and function.

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​Epistemology

• Matthias Steup (2000). Doxastic voluntarism and epistemic deontology. Acta Analytica.
• Matthias Steup (2011). Empiricism, metaphysics, and voluntarism. Synthese.

Metaphysics

• Chris Daly (2008) Fictionalism and the attitudes. Philosophical Studies.

Book (non-fiction):

•  Margaret MacMillan (2007). Nixon and Mao.

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

Films (fiction), documentaries, TV series:

• Pygmalion (1938). Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard.
• The Rules of the Game (1939). Jean Renoir.
• Ghost in the Shell (1995). Mamoru Oshii.
• Mad Men, Season 6 (2013).

Essays (academic): 

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

• Paisley Livingston (2015). Authorial intention and the varieties of intentionalism. In Garry L. Hagberg and Walter Jost (eds.) A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature (Wiley-Blackwell).
• Berys Gaut (1998). The ethical criticism of art. In Jerrold Levinson (ed.) Aesthetics and Ethics (Cambridge University Press).
• R. A. Sharpe (2000). The empiricist theory of artistic value. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
• Matthew Kieran (2003). Forbidden Knowledge. In S. Gardner and J. Bermudez (eds.). Art and Morality (London: Routledge)

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​History of Philosophy

• Anthony Long (1991). Representation and the self in Stoicism. In S. Everson (ed.). Companions to Ancient Thought (Cambridge University Press).
• Tad Brennan (2003). Stoic moral psychology. In B. Inwood (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics (Cambridge University Press).

Book (fiction):

• Han Kang (2007). The Vegetarian. 

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

Films (fiction), documentaries, TV series:

• The Fallen Idol (1948). Carol Reed
• The Wages of Fear (1953). Herni-Georges Clauzot. (Watch it till the end!)
• Gangster Paradise: Jerusalema (2008). Ralph Ziman.
• Mad Men, Season 4 (2010).
• Black Mirror, Season 2 Episode 4 (2011).​

Essays (academic): 

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

• Kendall Walton (1970). Categories of art. In his Marvelous Images.
• Monroe Beardsley (1970/1982). The aesthetic point of view. In his The Aesthetic Point of View: Collected Essays.
• Frank Sibley (1974). Particularity, art, and evaluation. In his Approach to Aesthetics.
• Richard Wollheim (1980). Criticism as retrieval. In his Art and its Object.
• Monroe Beardsley (1982). Aesthetic experience. In his The Aesthetic Point of View: Collected Essays.
• Jerrold Levinson (1989) Refining art historically. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
• Noel Carroll (1997). The ontology of mass art. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
• ​Stephen Davies (2015) Defining art and artworlds. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.​

Ethics, meta-ethics, and applied ethics

• Amartya Sen (1979). Utilitarianism and welfarism. The Journal of Philosophy.

Personal identity, personal ontology

• Eric Olson (2001). A compound of two substances. In K. Corcoran (ed.) Soul, Body, and Survival.
• John Lippitt (2007). Getting the story straight. Inquiry.
• Richard Menary (2008). Embodied narratives. Journal of Consciousness Studies.

General metaphysics

• Jonathan Schaffer (2007). From nihilism to monism. Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

Books (fiction):

• Muriel Spark (1962). The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. 

Book (non-fiction): 

• Richard Moran (2015). The Story of my Life. (This is not really a book but a 'longer paper' on the narrative approach to self-knowledge and identity.)

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

Films, documentaries, and TV series:

• The 39 Steps. (1935). Alfred Hitchcock. 
• Out of the Past. (1947). Jacques Tourneur. (A film noir masterpiece.)
• Sunset Boulevard. (1950). Billy Wilder. (Another film noir/mystery/drama masterpiece.)
• Dr. Strangelove. (1964). Stanley Kubrick. (A classic. And always fun to watch!)
• Mad Men, Season 3. (2009).
• Exit Through the Gift Shop. (2010). Banksy. (Interesting documentary on street art focused on the figure of Mr. Brainwash and on the process of 'validation' in the artworld. For those interested in thinking about the nature of art and artistic value, including the monetary value of art.)

Essays (academic):

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

• Morris Weitz (1956). The role of theory in aesthetics. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Reprinted in Peter Lamarque and Stein H. Olsen (eds.). Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. Blackwell Publishing
• Arthur Danto (1964). The artworld. The Journal of Philosophy. Reprinted in Peter Lamarque and Stein H. Olsen (eds.). Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. Blackwell Publishing
• George Dickie (1975). What is anti-art? The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 
• Jerrold Levinson (1979). Defining art historically. British Journal of Aesthetics. Reprinted in Peter Lamarque and Stein H. Olsen (eds.). Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. Blackwell Publishing
• George Dickie (1983). The new institutional theory of art. Proceedings of the 8th Wittgenstein Symposium, 10. Reprinted in Peter Lamarque and Stein H. Olsen (eds.). Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. Blackwell Publishing. 
• Monroe Beardsley (1983). An aesthetic definition of art. Reprinted in Peter Lamarque and Stein H. Olsen (eds.). Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. Blackwell Publishing. 

(All important contemporary papers on the definition of art.)

Ethics, Meta-ethics, Applied ethics

• Kwame Anthony Appiah (1990). Racism. In Hugh LaFollette (Ed.) Ethics in Practice. 2nd Edition. Blackwell Publishing. 
• Loretta Kopelman (1994). Female circumcision/genital mutilation and ethical relativism. Second Opinion.
• Miranda Fricker (2013). Styles of moral relativism. In Roger Crisp, Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics. Oxford University Press. 
• Jonathan Wolff (2002). Economic competition: should we care about the losers? In Hugh LaFollette (ed.). Ethics in Practice. Blackwell Publishing.

Essays (popular/non-academic):

• Pelagia Horgan (2014) Sacred Art. Aeon. (This is a nice short piece that ends with the question(s): can (and how) 'secular people' appreciate sacred art? I discussed these issues in my 'The Will to Make-believe'.)

Books (fiction):

• Angela Carter (1979). The Bloody Chamber (I didn't like all of the stories in this collection—for example, I didn't like 'The Erl-King'. However, 'The Bloody Chamber', 'Puss-in-Boots', 'The Lady of the House of Love', and the last two stories are delightful.)

Books (non-fiction):

• David Papineau (2002). Thinking about Consciousness. Clarendon Press. (I find his discussion of the phenomenal concept strategy quite convincing.)