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September 30th, 2020

30/9/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​
  • La Dolce Vita 1960 F Fellini
  • Escape From Alcatraz 1979 D Siegel
  • Dark City 1998 A Proyas
  • Public Enemies 2009 M Mann
  • Coming Home 2014 Z Yimou

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics/Perception
  • J Kim 2005 Supervenience, emergence, realisation, reduction
  • M Kalderon 2007 Color pluralism
  • U Kriegel 2017 Brentano's concept of mind
  • G Rosen 2017 Metaphysical relations in metaethics

Aesthetics
  • N Zangwill 2003 Aesthetic realism 1

History of Philosophy
  • D Yandell 1997 What Descartes really told Elisabeth
  • A Schechtman 2016 Substance and independence in Descartes
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August 31st, 2020

31/8/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:​
  • Knife in the water (1962) R Polanski
  • The gambler (1974) K Reisz
  • Starred up (2013) D McKenzie
  • Sweet bean (2015) N Kawase
  • Paterson (2016) J Jarmush
  • The Neon Demon (2016) NWF
  • Manchester by the sea (2016) K Lonergan

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics
  • J Fodor (1980) The mind-body problem
  • J Kim (1990) Supervenience as a philosophical concept
  • B McLaughlin (1997) Supervenience, vagueness, and determination
  • M Johnston (1998) Are manifest qualities response-dependent?
  • P Pettit (2003) Looks as powers

History of Philosophy
  • D Garber (1983) Understanding interaction

Aesthetics
  • J Levinson (1983) Aesthetic supervenience
  • G Currie (1990) Supervenience, essentialism, and aesthetic properties
  • J Bender (1996) Realism, supervenience and irresolvable aesthetic disputes
  • J Bender (2003) Aesthetic realism 2
  • J Levinson (2005) What are aesthetic properties?
  • D Hudson Hick (2012) Aesthetic supervenience revisited

Books
  • H Crews (1976) A feast of snakes
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June 30th, 2020

30/6/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • The Cloud Capped Star (1960) R Ghatak
  • The Great Escape (1963) J Sturges
  • Why Does Herr R Run Amok? (1970) RW Fassbendir
  • Vanishing Point (1971) R Sarafin
  • The Taking of Phelam 1, 2, 3 (1974) J Sargent
  • 35 Shots of Rum (2008) C Denis
  • Poetry (2010) CD Lee
  • Beautiful Boy (2018) F van Groeningen
  • Burning (2018) CD Lee

Academic Essays

Aesthetics/Phil of Art
  • C Brooks (1947) The heresy of paraphrase
  • G Currie (1991) Work and text
  • D Bordwell (1996) Convention, construction and cinematic vision
  • P Livingston (2005) literary aesthetics and the aims of criticism
  • S Feagin (2015) Reading plays as literature

Philosophy of Mind/Perception/Concepts (Phil/Cog Science)
  • E Smith & D Osheron (1984) Conceptual combination with prototype concepts
  • J Fodor (1985) Fodor's guide to mental representation
  • T Burge (1986) Intellectual norms and foundations of mind
  • T Burge (1993) Concepts, definition and meaning
  • J Fodor (1995) Concepts: a potboiler
  • D Medin et alia (2000) Are there kinds of concepts?
  • K Johnson (2004) On the systematicity of language and thought
  • E Margolis & S Laurence (2007) The ontology of concepts
  • V Giardino & M Greenberg (2012) Varieties of iconicity
  • D Weiskopf (2014) The architecture of higher thought
  • E Camp (2015) Logical concepts and associative characteristics
  • Å Wikforss (2018) Incomplete understanding of concepts

Epistemology
  • J Lackey (2011) Testimony

Fiction (short stories/plays)
  • Euripides (405BCE) The Bacchae
  • W Faulkner (1930) A rose for Emily
  • JP Sartre (1946) The Respectable Prostitute
  • A Adamov (1953) Professor Taranne
  • R Carver (1983) Cathedral

Fiction (books)
  • J Conrad (1904) Nostromo
  • J Thompson (1958) The Getaway
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May 31st, 2020

31/5/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Wild Strawberries (1957) I Bergman
  • Vertigo (1958) A Hitchcock
  • Ballad of a Soldier (1959) G Chukhray
  • The Damned (1969) L Visconti
  • Sbatti il Mostro in Prima Pagina (1972) M Bellocchio
  • Chinatown (1974) R Polanski
  • Série Noire (1979) A Corneau
  • Big Trouble in Little China (1986) J Carpenter
  • Raise the Red Lantern (1991) Zhang Yimou
  • Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) G Miller

Academic Essays

Aesthetics
  • J Levinson (1992) Pleasure and the value of art
  • D Matravers (1999) Aesthetic concepts and aesthetic experience
  • J Levinson (2001) Aesthetic properties, evaluative force, and sensibility
  • N Zangwill (2001) The beautiful, the dainty, and the dumpy
  • R De Clercq (2008) The structure of aesthetic properties
  • J Levinson (2009) Aesthetic pleasure

Philosophy of Mind/Perception/Concepts (Phil/Cog Science)
  • E Rosch (1978) Principles of categorization
  • G Murphy & D Medin (1982) The role of theories in conceptual coherence
  • G Rey (1983) Concepts and stereotypes
  • G Harman (1987) (Nonsolipsistic) Conceptual role semantics
  • G Harman (1990) The intrinsic character of experience
  • S Stich (1994) What is a theory of mental representation?
  • R Cummin (1996) Systematicity
  • N Block (2002) Concepts of consciousness
  • N Block (2003) Consciousness
  • N Block (2003) Mental paint
  • M Montague (2017) Cognitive phenomenology
  • M Montague (2017) Perception and cognitive phenomenology
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April 30th, 2020

30/4/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • The French Connection (1971) W Friedkin
  • The Getaway (1972) S Peckinpah
  • Roma a mano armata (1976) U Lenzi
  • The Driver (1978) W Hill
  • Babel (2006) A Inarritu
  • Boyhood (2014) R Linklater
  • 1917 (2019) S Mendes
  • Ozark, Season 3 (2020)
  • Better Call Saul, Season 5 (2020)

Academic Essays

Epistemology/Philosophy of Mind/Aesthetics
  • N Carroll (1998) Art, narrative and moral understanding
  • J Fodor (2007) The revenge of the given (I dislike the style, though)
  • E Camp (2009) Putting thoughts to work
  • R Bonzon (2009) Think aesthetic concepts
  • D Pritchard (2010) The nature and value of knowledge: chapter 4
  • S Laurence & E Margolis (2012) The scope of the conceptual
  • N Zangwill (2014) Music, metaphor, and aesthetic concepts
  • A Hill (2016) Understanding why
  • J Bengson (2018) The unity of understanding

Short Stories
  • R Bradbury (1952) A Sound of Thunder

Book
  • Caesar (58–49) The Gallic War
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March 31st, 2020

31/3/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Pandora's Box (1929) G Pabst
  • M (1931) Fritz Lang
  • The Thomas Crown Affairs (1968) N Jewison
  • Bullitt (1968) P Yates
  • Get Carter (1971) M Hodges
  • Alien (1979) R Scott
  • Aliens (1986) J Cameron
  • The Thirteenth Floor (1999) J Rusnak
  • Mystic River (2003) C Eastwood
  • Deadwood, Season 1 (2004)
  • Arrested Development, S2 (2004-5)
  • Arrested Development, S3 (2005-6)
  • Zodiac (2007) D Fincher
  • District 9 (2009) N Blonkamp
  • Argo (2012) Ben Affleck
  • Tiger King (2020)

Academic Essays

Philosophy of Mind
  • J Fodor (2004) Having concepts

Applied ethics
  • J Danahar et alia (2017) Should we campaign against sex robots?

Short Stories
  • A Kazantsev (1947) Explosion
  • T Sturgeon (1947) Thunder and roses
  • A&B Stugatsky (1958) The spontaneous reflex
  • R Silverberg (1968) Passengers
  • B Sterling (1989) We see things differently
  • S Lukyanenko (1992) My dad's an antibiotics
  • Chen Qiufan (2012) The Fish of Lijiang
  • Chen Qiufan (2019) Affective Fallacy
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February 29th, 2020

29/2/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Shanghai Express (1932) Josef von Sternberg
  • Viridiana (1961) L Bunuel
  • Confidentially Yours (1983) F Truffault
  • Porco Rosso (1992) H Miyazaki
  • The Matrix (1999) The Wachowski
  • Arrested Development, Season 1 (2003)
  • Uncut Gems (2019) J&B Saldie
  • Once Upon a Time in Holliwood (2019) Q Tarantino

Academic essays

​Philosophy of Art/Aesthetics
  • F Sibley (1974) Particularity, art and evaluation
  • M Budd (2003) The acquaintance principle
  • P Livingston (2003) On an apparent truism in aesthetics
  • P Livingston (2006) Skepticism, realism, fallibilism in Lem
  • R Hopkins (2011) How to be a pessimist about aesthetic testimony
  • D Whiting (2016) The glass is half empty
  • C Thi Nguyen (2017) The uses of aesthetic testimony

Philosophy of Mind/Metaphysics
  • D Dennett (1978) Where am I?
  • J Searle (1980) Minds, brains and programs
  • B Loar (2003) Qualia, properties, modality
  • D Chalmers (2005) The Matrix as metaphysics
  • D Chalmers (2009) The singularity

Epistemology
  • D Pritchard (2016) Seeing it for yourself

Short stories
  • R Heinlein (1947) They
  • H Ellison (1965) Repent Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman
  • H Ellison (1967) I have no mouth and I must scream
  • S Lem (1971) Further reminiscences of Ijon Tichy – I
  • W Gibson (1982) Burning Chrome
  • G Egan (1990) Learning to be me
  • G Egan (1992) Closer
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January 2020

31/1/2020

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Star Trek, The Original Series Season 1, Episode 28 (1967) 
  • Love on the Run (1979) F Truffault 
  • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) H Miyazaki
  • The Shield, Season 5 (2006)
  • The Shield, Season 6 (2007)
  • The Shield, Season 7 (2008)
  • In Bloom (2013) N Ekvtimishvili & S Groß
  • Black Mirror, White Christmas (2014)

Academic essays

Comparative Philosophy/History of Philosophy/Ethics
  • E Slingerland (2008) Classical Confucianism (I)

​Philosophy of Art/Aesthetics
  • S Evnine (2015) But is it science fiction?

Philosophy of Mind
  • B Loar (1997) Phenomenal states
  • E Diaz-Leon  (2016) Phenomenal concepts: neither circular nor opaque

Short stories
  • HG Wells (1897) The Star
  • F Scott Fitzgerald (1923) Hot & cold blood
  • I Asimov (1941) Reason
  • PK Dick (1966) We can remember it for you wholesale
  • H Ellison (1967) I have no mouth, and I must scream
  • P Cadigan (1986) Pretty Boy Crossover
  • C Mieville (2015) Syllabus
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December 2019

31/12/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Easy Rider (1969) Dennis Hopper
  • American History X (1998) Tony Kaye
  • The Shield, Season 1 (2002)
  • The Shield, Season 2 (2003)
  • The Shield, Season 3 (2004)
  • The Irishman (2019) Martin Scorsese
  • Marriage Story (2019) N Baumbach

Academic essays

​Philosophy of Mind/Philosophy of Language
  • B Loar (2003) Qualia, properties, modality
  • P Carruthers (2004) Phenomenal concepts and higher order experiences
  • J Levin (2007) What is a phenomenal concept?
  • A Grzankowsky & M Tye (forthcoming) What acquaintance teaches

Short stories
  • HP Lovecraft (1931) At the Mountains of Madness
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November 30th, 2019

30/11/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Miss Julie (1951) Alf Sjoberg
  • The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) Anthony Asquith
  • Night of the Living Dead (1968) George A. Romero 
  • State of Siege (1972) Costa-Gavras
  • Groundhog Day (1993) Harold Ramis
  • Speed (1994) Jan de Bont
  • Home (2008) Ursula Meier
  • Mindhunter, Season 1 (2017)
  • Mindhunter, Season 2 (2019)
  • Bojack Horseman, Season 6, Part I (2019)

Academic essays

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
  • F Sibley (1959) Aesthetic concepts
  • F SIbley (1965) Aesthetic and non-aesthetic
  • R Hopkins (2000) Beauty and testimony

​Philosophy of Mind/Philosophy of Language
  • F Jackson (1982) Epiphenomenal qualia
  • F Jackson (1986) What Mary didn't know
  • D Dennett (1987) True believers
  • B McLaughlin (1987) What is wrong with correlational psychosemantics
  • B Loar (1988) Social content and psychological content
  • D Lewis (1988) What experience teaches
  • B Loar (1997) Phenomenal states
  • K Farkas (2003) What is externalism?
  • B Loewer (2007) Mental causation or something near enough
  • N Block (2007) Concepts of consciousness
  • K Balog (2012) Acquaintance and the mind-body problem


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October 31st, 2019

31/10/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927) W Ruttman
  • Milano Calibro 9 (1972) F Di Leo
  • City on Fire (1987) Ringo Lam
  • The Seventh Continent (1989) M Haneke
  • Benny's Video (1992) M Haneke
  • Reservoir Dogs (1992) Q Tarantino
  • Das Schloss (1997) M Haneke
  • Winter on Fire (2015) E Afineevsky
  • Arctic (2018) Joe Penna
  • El Camino (2019) V Gilligan
  • The Laundromat (2019) S Soderbergh

Academic essays

​Philosophy of Mind/Philosophy of Language
  • D Davidson (1970) Mental events
  • D Davidson (1973) Radical interpretation
  • D Davidson (1974) Thought and talk
  • J Searle (1980) Minds, brains, and programs
  • D Armstrong (1981) The causal theory of the mind
  • S Shoemaker (1981) Some varieties of functionalism
  • L Antony (1989) Anomalous monism and the problem of explanatory evidence
  • D Davidson (1993) Thinking causes
  • J Yoo (2009) Anomalous monism

Metaphysics
  • John W. Carroll (2009) Anti-reductionism

Books:
  • Xenophon (370 BCE) The Expedition of Cyrus
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September 30th, 2019

30/9/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Z (1969) Costa-Gavras
  • Missing (1982) Costa-Gavras
  • Death of a Salesman (1985) Volker Schlondorff
  • Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) Werner Herzog
  • Captain Phillips (2013) Paul Greengrass
  • The Nice Guys (2016) Shane Black
  • Unbelievable, S1 (2019)

Short stories:
  • A. Camus (1957) The Guest
  • S. Lem (1976) The Mask


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August 31st, 2019

31/8/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • A Farewell to Arms (1932) F Borzage
  • The Black Cat (1934) EG Ulmer
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) S Spielberg
  • The Great Hack (2019) K Amer & J Noujaim

Academic essays

​Philosophy of Mind
  • R Carnap (1932/3) Psychology in physical language
  • C Hempel (1949) The logical analysis of psychology
  • JC Smart (1959) Sensations and brain processes
  • UT Place (1956) Is consciousness a brain process?
  • D Lewis (1966) An argument for the identity theory
  • H Putnam (1967) The nature of mental states
  • J Fodor (1974) Special sciences
  • N Block (1978) Troubles with functionalism
  • D Lewis (1980) Mad pain and Martian pain
  • PM Churchland (1981) Eliminative materialism and the propositional attitudes
  • J Kim (1992) Multiple realisation and the metaphysics of reduction
  • T Crane (2003) Mental substances
  • B Montero & D Papineau (2016) Naturalism and physicalism

Short stories:
  • HG Wells (1905) The Empire of the Ants
  • S Weinbaum (1934) A Martian Odyssey
  • D Buzzati (1942) Il Borghese Stregato
  • D Keyes (1959) Flowers for Algernon
  • PK Dick (1968) The Electric Ant
  • S Lem (1971) Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy-I

Books:
  • HG Wells (1895) The Time Machine
  • M Bulgakov (1925) Heart of a Dog
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July 31st, 2019

31/7/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • The Minister (2011) Pierre Scholler 
  • Suspiria (2018) Luca Guadagnino [I suspect mostly for sentimental reasons...]
  • I Am Mother (2019) Grant Sputore

Academic essays

​Philosophy of Mind
  • Franz Brentano (1874) The distinction between mental and physical phenomena
  • Donald Davidson (1970) Mental events
  • Jaegwon Kim (1984) Concepts of supervenience
  • Fred Dretske (1986) Misrepresentation
  • Jaegwon Kim (1987) 'Strong' and 'global' supervenience
  • Jaegwon Kim (1990) Supervenience as a philosophical concept

Short stories:
  • R. Heinlein (1941) They
  • A. C. Clarke (1953) The Nine Billion Names of God
  • K. Vonnegut (1961) Harrison Bergeron
  • K. Vonnegut (1961) Who am I this time?
  • Ted Chiang (2005) What's expected of us
  • Ted Chiang (2008) Exhalation
  • Ted Chiang (2011) Dacey's Patent Automatic Nanny
  • Ted Chiang (2013) The truth of fact, the truth of feeling

Books:
  • China Mieville (2011) Embassytown
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June 30th, 2019

30/6/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Safe (1995) Todd Haynes
  • Buongiorno, Notte (2003) Marco Bellocchio
  • Chernobyl, Season 1 (2019)
  • Parasite (2019) Bong Joon-Ho

Academic essays

Ethics
  • Hilary Greaves (2017) Population axiology
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Philosophy of Mind
  • Hilary Putnam (1967) The nature of mental states
  • Alyssa Ney (2008) Defining physicalism

Books:
  • Carl Schorske (1979) Fin-de-siecle Vienna 
  • Derek Parfit (1984/87) Reasons and Persons
  • Jaegwon Kim (2011) Philosophy of Mind
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May 31st, 2019

31/5/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Vagabond (1985) Agnes Varda
  • Vice (2018) Adam McKay
  • The Favourite (2018) Yorgos Lanthimos
  • True Detective, Season 3 (2019)

Academic essays

Normative Ethics/Meta-ethics/Personal Identity
  • Jonathan Dancy (1997) Parfit and indirect self-defeating theories
  • David Brink (2011) Prospects for temporal neutrality

​Philosophy of Mind
  • Zoe Drayson (2010) Extended cognition and the metaphysics of mind

Books:
  • Peter Vergo (2015) Art in Vienna 1898-1908, 4th Edition
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April 30th, 2019

30/4/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Carol Reed (1949) The Third Man
  • Agnes Varda (1965) Le Bonheur
  • John Frankenheimer (1966) Seconds [Especially recommended if you are interested in personal identity. Also, great cinematography by James Wong Howe]
  • Tate Taylor (2011) The Help
  • K. Mundl & A. Prochaska (2014) Sarajevo
  • True Detective, Season 1 (2014) [This season is truly impressive. Unfortunately, season 2 is very disapponting]
  • David Mrnka (2017) Milada
  • Game of Thrones, Season 7 (2017)
  • Ricky Gervais (2019) After Life, Season 1

Academic essays

Comparative/History of Philosophy/Classics
  • Paul Williams (1999) On altruism and rebirth
  • Mark Siderits (2000) Review of Altruism and Reality
  • Stephen Harris (2011) Does anatman rationally entail altruism?
  • Stephen Harris (2014) Suffering and the shape of well-being in Buddhist ethics

Normative Ethics/Meta-ethics/Personal Identity
  • Bernard Williams (1973) Egoism and altruism
  • Gregory Kavka (1984) The reconciliation project
  • David Brink (1990) Rational egoism, self, and others
  • Jennifer Whiting (1991) Impersonal friends
  • David Brink (1993) The separateness of persons, distributive norms, and moral theory
  • David Brink (1997) Self-love and altruism
  • David Brink (1997) Rational egoism and the separateness of persons [In general, I like Brink's essays even though I disagree with some of what he says and despite the fact that he repeats perhaps a bit too much the content of his previous works]
  • David Brink (2003) Prudence and rationality 
  • Donald LM Baxter (2005) Altruism, grief, and identity
  • Brad Hooker (2013) Egoism, partiality, and impartiality
  • Micheal Ridge (2017) Reasons for action: agent neutral vs. agent relative

Applied Ethics
  • P. Singer (1972) Famine, affluence, and morality

Short stories:
  • Franz Kafka (1912) The Judgment [I have read this story many times and it's probably one of my favourite. Note the confession to Max Brod about what Kafka was thinking about when he wrote the last sentence of this story...]
  • Franz Kafka (1919) In the Penal Colony

Books:
  • Thomas Bernhard (1967) Gargoyles
  • Charles Goodman (2009) Consequences of Compassion
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March 31st, 2019

31/3/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Stanley Kubrick (1971) A Clockwork Orange
  • John Carpenter (1982) The Thing
  • Martin Scorsese (1995) Casino
  • Ted Braun (2016) Betting on Zero
  • John Lee Hancock (2019) The Highwaymen

Academic essays

Comparative/History of Philosophy/Classics
  • Charles Goodman (2008) Consequentialism, agent-neutrality, and Mahayana ethics
  • Tom Tillemans (2010) How far can a Madhyamika Buddhist reform truth?
  • Owen Flanagan & Jing Hu (2011) Han Fei Zi's philosophical psychology
  • Charles Goodman (2016) Śāntideva (SEP)
  • Jan Westerhoff (2016) The connection between ontology and ethics in Madhyamaka thought
  • Bronwyn Finnigan (2018) Madhyamaka ethics

Normative Ethics/Meta-ethics/Personal Identity
  • Judith Jarvis Thomson (1971) A defense of abortion
  • S. Darwall, A. Gibbard, P. Railton (1992) Toward fin de siècle ethics
  • David Shoemaker (1999) Utilitarianism and personal identity

Books:
  • Śāntideva (VII Century) Bodhycaryāvatāra
  • Yasutaka Tsutsui (1993) Paprika
  • Bryan Van Norden (2011) Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy
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February 28th, 2019

28/2/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Alfred Hitchcock (1938) The Lady Vanishes
  • Alfred Hitchcock (1954) Rear Window 
  • Robert Wise (1959) Odds Against Tomorrow
  • Milcho Manchevski (1994) Before the Rain 
  • Erick Zonca (2018) Black Tide 
  • Robert Rodriguez (2018) Alita Battle Angel
  • The Terror, Season 1 (2018)
  • The Kominsky Method, Season 1 (2018)
  • The Deuce, Season 2 (2018)

Academic essays

Comparative/History of Philosophy/Classics
  • M. de Montaigne (1580) On cannibals
  • Paul Guyer (2003) Kant on the theory and practice of autonomy
  • P. J. Ivanhoe (2012) Happiness in early Chinese thought
  • Pauline Kleingeld (2017) Contradiction and Kant's formula of universal law

Philosophy of mind/Imagination/action
  • Jane Heal (1998) Understanding other minds from the inside
  • Catriona Mackenzie (2008) Imagination, identity, and self-transformation
  • Peter Kung (2010) Imagining as a guide to possibility 

Normative Ethics/Meta-ethics/Action​​
  • Philippa Foot (1967) The problem of abortion and the doctrine of double effect
  • Michael Smith (1991) Realism
  • Onora O'Neill (1993) Kantian approaches to some famine relief
  • Michael Bratman (1996) Identification, decision, and treating as a reson
  • Tamar Schapiro (2009) The nature of inclination
  • Jonathan Adler & Christopher Gowans (2013) Universalizability​

Books:
  • Gregory Currie and Ian Ravenscroft (2002) Recreative Minds
  • William Gibson (2014) The Peripheral
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January 31st, 2019

31/1/2019

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

Films, documentaries, TV series:
  • Alfred Hitchcock (1960) Psycho
  • Gregory Hoblit (1996) Primal Fear
  • Alejandro G. Inarritu (2014) Birdman
  • Clint Eastwood (2018) The Mule
  • Hirokazu Koreeda (2018) Shoplifters

Academic essays

Comparative/History of Philosophy
  • Edward Slingerland (2010) Classical Confucianism (I)
  • Terence Irwin (2012) Conceptions of happiness in the Nichomachean Ethics
  • Richard Kraut (2012) Aristotle on becoming good
  • Justin Tiwald (2018) Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism

Normative Ethics
  • Rosalind Hursthouse (1996) Normative virtue ethics

Short essays/stories:
  • Dino Buzzati (1942) L'uccisione del drago
  • Dino Buzzati (1942) Il mantello
  • Dino Buzzati (1942) Una cosa che comincia per elle
  • Dino Buzzati (1942) Vecchio facocero
  • Dino Buzzati (1948) Paura alla scala

Books:
  • Mengzi (300BCE)
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