Books

* = added this round
bold = especially excited

• Harari, Homo Deus (Feb 2017)
• Cowen, The Complacent Class (Feb 2017)
• Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back (Feb 2017)
• Revonsuo, Foundations of Consciousness (Feb 2017)
• *O’Connel, To Be a Machine (Feb 2017)
• *Rochman, The Gene Machine (Feb 2017)
• *Kirk, Robots, Zombies, and Us (Feb 2017)
• Butz & Kutter, How the Mind Comes into Being (Feb 2017)
• Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity: Managing the Journey (2017)
• Singer, Does Anything Really Matter? (2017)
• Arndt & Tarp, Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries (Feb 2017)
• Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (Feb 2017)
• Hughes & LeGrandeur, Surviving the Machine Age (Feb 2017)

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Books

• Goodale & Milner, Sight Unseen, 2e. Pretty thrilling if you’re unfamiliar with the subject matter (as I was). Unfortunately, its presentation of the evidence is very one-sided.
• Bloom, Against Empathy. Probably one of the best not-explicitly-EA books to give someone if you want to nudge them toward EA.

Music

Spotify playlist for all of 2016 here.

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

• Virgil Donati, In This Life (2013)
• James Farm, James Farm (2011)
• Jonathan Finlayson, Moving Still (2016)
• serpentwithfeet, blisters (2016)
• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, EARS (2016)
• Arca, Entrañas (2016)
• deadmau5, “Whelk Then” (2016)
• Angles 9, Injuries (2014)
• Ital Tek, Hollowed (2016)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

• Mackenzie, Hell or High Water (2016)
• Stanton & MacLane, Finding Dory (2016)
• Yates, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
• Chazelle, La La Land (2016)

Books

* = added this round
bold = especially excited

• Ogden, Experimental Conversations (Jan 2017)
• Conley & Fletcher, The Genome Factor (Jan 2017)
• Sobel, From Valuing to Value (Jan 2017)
• *Shepherd, The Wiley Handbook of Evolutionary Neuroscience (Jan 2017)
• *Scheidel, The Great Leveler (Jan 2017)
• *Murray et al., The Evolution of Memory Systems (Jan 2017)
• *Bonnefon & Tremoliere, Moral Inferences (Jan 2017)
• *Khanna, Technocracy in America (Jan 2017)
• Hernandez-Orallo, The Measure of All Minds (Jan 2017)

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(Unordered.)

* = added after original publication of this list

Top favorites

• Vox’s The Weeds (policy analysis)
• Crimetown (true crime)
• Planet Money (economics)
• Homecoming (drama)
• StartUp Podcast (stories about startups)
• In the Dark (true crime)
• More Perfect (stories about the Supreme Court)
• Radiolab (stories about science-ish stuff)
• Casefile (true crime)
• Reply All (stories about the internet)
• Serial, Season 2 (story of Bowe Bergdahl)
• This American Life (stories about all kinds of stuff)

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Books

• Tye, Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs: Pretty good. I probably disagree with it in >100 places, but that’s to be expected for any book-length treatment on something as difficult to study as consciousness.
• Haffner, Defying Hitler: Good. I wish it had been continued past 1933.
• Pistorius, Ghost Boy: Scary but inspiring.

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

• Nico Muhly, A Good Understanding (2010)
• Simeon ten Holt, Canto Ostinato Revisited (2015 recording)
• Dafnis Prieto, Taking the Soul for a Walk (2008), Absolute Quintet (2006)
• The Dear Hunter, Act V: Hymns with the Devil in the Confessional (2016)
• Hannah Epperson, Upsweep (2016)
• Young Magic, Still Life (2016)
• Tonbruket, “First Flight of a Newbird” (2016)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

• Tiernan & Vernon, Sausage Party (2016)
• Various, Adventure Time, Season 7 (2015-2016)
• Allen, Café Society (2016)
• Various, Atlanta: Season 1 (2016)
• Villeneuve, Arrival (2016)
• Gray, Straight Outta Compton (2015)
• Various, You’re the Worst, Season 3 (2016)
• Katis, Kilo Two Bravo (2014)
• Coimbra, A Wolf at the Door (2013)

Books

* = added this round
bold = especially excited

• Smith, How Biology Shapes Philosophy (Dec 2016)
• Dhami, The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis (Dec 2016)
• Hernández-Orallo, The Measure of All Minds (Dec 2016)
• Kiverstein, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the Social Mind (Dec 2016)
• Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds (Dec 2016)
• Bloom, Against Empathy (Dec 2016)
• Shapiro & Todorovic, The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions (Dec 2016)
• Goodfellow et al., Deep Learning (Dec 2016)
• Chipman, Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Science (Dec 2016)
• Lewis, The Undoing Project (Dec 2016)
• Clarke et al., The Ethics of Human Enhancement (Dec 2016)
• Kaas, Evolution of Nervous Systems, 2e (Dec 2016)
• Biccheri, Norms in the Wild (Dec 2016)

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Books

• Dennett, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking [good]
• Lieberman, Social [a mixed bag; insufficiently skeptical]

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

• Ólafur Arnalds & Alice Sara Ott, The Chopin Project (2015)
• Adam Rudolph, Moving Pictures (1992)
• Christian Scott, Anthem (2007)
• Max Richter, Nosedive (2016)
• Donny McCaslin, Casting for Gravity (2012), Beyond Now (2016)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

• Hood, Eye in the Sky (2015)
• Poekel, Christmas Again (2014)
• Corbett, The Childhood of a Leader (2015)
• Black, The Nice Guys (2016)
• Various, Black Mirror: Season 3 (2016)

Books

* = added this round
bold = especially excited

• Armstrong & Botzler, The Animal Ethics Reader, 3e (Nov 2016)
• Haier, The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Nov 2016)
• Velmans, Towards a Deeper Understanding of Consciousness (Nov 2016)
• Mokyr, A Culture of Growth (Nov 2016)
• Singer, Does Anything Really Matter? (Nov 2016)
• Fischer, College Ethics (Nov 2016)
• Cohen et al., Nudging Health (Nov 2016)
• Arbib & Bonaiuto, From Neuron to Cognition via Computational Neuroscience (Nov 2016)
• *Lagercrantz, Infant Brain Development (Nov 2016)
• Smith, How Biology Shapes Philosophy (Dec 2016)
• Dhami, The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis (Dec 2016)
• Hernández-Orallo, The Measure of All Minds (Dec 2016)
• *Kiverstein, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the Social Mind (Dec 2016)
• Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds (Dec 2016)
• Bloom, Against Empathy (Dec 2016)
• Tye, Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs (Dec 2016)
• Shapiro & Todorovic, The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions (Dec 2016)
• Goodfellow et al., Deep Learning (Dec 2016)
• Chipman, Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Science (Dec 2016)
• Lewis, The Undoing Project (Dec 2016)
• Clarke et al., The Ethics of Human Enhancement (Dec 2016)
• *Kaas, Evolution of Nervous Systems, 2e (Dec 2016)
• Biccheri, Norms in the Wild (Dec 2016)
• Ogden, Experimental Conversations (Jan 2017)
• Conley & Fletcher, The Genome Factor (Jan 2017)
• Sobel, From Valuing to Value (Jan 2017)
• Harari, Homo Deus (Feb 2017)
• Cowen, The Complacent Class (Feb 2017)
• Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back (Feb 2017)
• Jøsang, Subjective Logic (Feb 2017)
• Brown, Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments (Feb 2017)
• Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Feb 2017)
• Corns, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain (Feb 2017)
• Butz & Kutter, How the Mind Comes into Being (Feb 2017)
• Arndt & Tarp, Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries (Feb 2017)
• Quirk, Seasteading (Mar 2017)
• Seager, The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism (Mar 2017)
• *Sinnott-Armstrong & Miller, Moral Psychology: Virtue and Character (Mar 2017)
• Sahakian & Gottwald, Sex, Lies and fMRI (Apr 2017)
• Walsh, Thinking Machines (Apr 2017)
• *Jacquette, The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness (Apr 2017)
• Andrews & Beck, Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Animal Minds (Apr 2017)
• Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (Apr 2017)
• Trask, Grokking Deep Learning (spring 2017)
• National Academies, consensus study on human gene editing (early 2017)
• Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
• Phillips, Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience (Jun 2017)
• Caplan, The Case Against Education (2017)
• Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (2017)
• Schneier, Click Here to Kill Everybody (2017)
• Haidt, Three Stories about Capitalism (2017)
• Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived (US release TBD)
• Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
• Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
• Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (TBD)
• Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
• Bain et al., The Nature of Pain (TBD)
• Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
• Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
• Shepherd, Consciousness, Value, and Moral Status (TBD)
• Buchanan & Powell, The Evolution of Moral Progress (TBD)
• Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
• Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
• Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
• Stoljar, Philosophical Progress (TBD)
• Blackford & Broderick, Philosophy’s Future (TBD)
• Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
• Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
• Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)
• Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
• Gray & Graham, The Atlas of Moral Psychology (TBD)
• Banerjee & Duflo, Handbook of Field Experiments (TBD)
• Wiener, Policy Shock (TBD)
• Kriegel, Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness (TBD)
• Almqvist & Haag, The Return of Consciousness (TBD)
• *Plomin, DNA Matters (TBD)
• *Graziano, The First Smile (TBD)
• *Prinz, The Moral Self (TBD)

Movies & TV

(only including movies and TV series or miniseries which AFAIK have at least started principal photography)

• Villeneuve, Arrival (Nov 2016)
• BBC Natural History Unit, Planet Earth II (Nov 2016)
• Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea (Nov 2016)
• Daldry & Caron, The Crown, S1 (Nov 2016)
• Nichols, Loving (Nov 2016)
• Scorcese, Silence (Nov 2016)
• Edwards, Rogue One (Dec 2016)
• Swanberg, Win It All (TBD 2016)
• Farhadi, The Salesman (TBD 2016)
• Reeves, War for the Planet of the Apes (Jul 2017)
• Nolan, Dunkirk (Jul 2017)
• Villeneuve, Blade Runner sequel (Oct 2017)
• Unkrich, Coco (Nov 2017)
• Johnson, Star Wars: Episode VIII (Dec 2017)
• Payne, Downsizing (Dec 2017)
• Aronofsky, [Untitled] (Dec 2017)
• Simon & Pelecanos, The Deuce (TBD)

Books

• Hanson, The Age of Em [dense; interesting; a worthy project even if very speculative]
• Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided [fun]

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

• Carla Bley, Fictitious Sports (1981) [totally forgot about, then re-discovered]
• Chapelier Fou, Kalia (2016)
• Arve Henriksen, “Glacier Descent” (2007)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

• Akhavan, Appropriate Behavior (2014)
• Potrykus, Buzzard (2014)
• Benson & Moorhead, Spring (2014)
• Waititi, Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
• Koreeda, Like Father, Like Son (2013)

Books

* = added this round
bold = especially excited

• Soltes, Why They Do It (Oct 2016)
• *Flanagan, The Geography of Morals (Oct 2016)
• *Dreher & Tremblay, Decision Neuroscience (Oct 2016)
• *Norberg, Progress (Oct 2016)
• Armstrong & Botzler, The Animal Ethics Reader, 3e (Nov 2016)
• *Haier, The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Nov 2016)
• Velmans, Towards a Deeper Understanding of Consciousness (Nov 2016)
• Mokyr, A Culture of Growth (Nov 2016)
• Singer, Does Anything Really Matter? (Nov 2016)
• Fischer, College Ethics (Nov 2016)
• Cohen et al., Nudging Health (Nov 2016)
• Hernández-Orallo, The Measure of All Minds (Nov 2016)
• *Arbib & Bonaiuto, From Neuron to Cognition via Computational Neuroscience (Nov 2016)
• *Tani, Exploring Robotic Minds (Nov 2016)
• Dhami, The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis (Dec 2016)
• *Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds (Dec 2016)
• Bloom, Against Empathy (Dec 2016)
• Tye, Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs (Dec 2016)
• Shapiro & Todorovic, The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions (Dec 2016)
• Goodfellow et al., Deep Learning (Dec 2016)
• *Chimpan, Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Science (Dec 2016)
• Lewis, The Undoing Project (Dec 2016)
• Clarke et al., The Ethics of Human Enhancement (Dec 2016)
• *Biccheri, Norms in the Wild (Dec 2016)
• Ogden, Experimental Conversations (Jan 2017)
• Conley & Fletcher, The Genome Factor (Jan 2017)
• Sobel, From Valuing to Value (Jan 2017)
• Harari, Homo Deus (Feb 2017)
• Cowen, The Complacent Class (Feb 2017)
• Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back (Feb 2017)
• Jøsang, Subjective Logic (Feb 2017)
• Brown, Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments (Feb 2017)
• Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Feb 2017)
• Corns, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain (Feb 2017)
• *Butz & Kutter, How the Mind Comes into Being (Feb 2017)
• *Arndt & Tarp, Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries (Feb 2017)
• Quirk, Seasteading (Mar 2017)
• *Seager, The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism (Mar 2017)
• *Sahakian & Gottwald, Sex, Lies and fMRI (Apr 2017)
• Walsh, Thinking Machines (Apr 2017)
• Andrews & Beck, Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Animal Minds (Apr 2017)
• Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (Apr 2017)
• Trask, Grokking Deep Learning (spring 2017)
• National Academies, consensus study on human gene editing (early 2017)
• Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
• Phillips, Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience (Jun 2017)
• Caplan, The Case Against Education (2017)
• Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (2017)
• Schneier, Click Here to Kill Everybody (2017)
• Haidt, Three Stories about Capitalism (2017)
• Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived (US release TBD)
• Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
• Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
• Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (TBD)
• Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
• Bain et al., The Nature of Pain (TBD)
• Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
• Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
• *Shepherd, Consciousness, Value, and Moral Status (TBD)
• *Buchanan & Powell, The Evolution of Moral Progress (TBD)
• Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
• Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
• Smith, How Biology Shapes Philosophy (TBD)
• Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
• Stoljar, Philosophical Progress (TBD)
• Blackford & Broderick, Philosophy’s Future (TBD)
• Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
• Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
• Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)
• Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
• Gray & Graham, The Atlas of Moral Psychology (TBD)
• Banerjee & Duflo, Handbook of Field Experiments (TBD)
• Wiener, Policy Shock (TBD)
• Kriegel, Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness (TBD)
• Almqvist & Haag, The Return of Consciousness (TBD)

Movies & TV

(only including movies and TV series or miniseries which AFAIK have at least started principal photography)

• Malick, Voyage of Time (Oct 2016)
• Villeneuve, Arrival (Nov 2016)
• Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea (Nov 2016)
• Daldry & Caron, The Crown (Nov 2016)
• Nichols, Loving (Nov 2016)
• Scorcese, Silence (Nov 2016)
• Edwards, Rogue One (Dec 2016)
• BBC Natural History Unit, Planet Earth II (TBD 2016)
• Swanberg, Win It All (TBD 2016)
• Farhadi, The Salesman (TBD 2016)
• Reeves, War for the Planet of the Apes (Jul 2017)
• Nolan, Dunkirk (Jul 2017)
• Villeneuve, Blade Runner sequel (Oct 2017)
• Unkrich, Coco (Nov 2017)
• Johnson, Star Wars: Episode VIII (Dec 2017)
• Payne, Downsizing (Dec 2017)
• *Aronofsky, [Untitled] (Dec 2017)
• Simon & Pelecanos, The Deuce (TBD)

Books

• Dennett, Consciousness Explained [re-read]

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

• Dave Douglas, “Loom Large“
• Kneebody, Kneebody (2005), Low Electrical Worker (2008)
• Acoustic Ladyland, Last Chance Disco (2005)
• Arve Henriksen, The Nature of Connections (2014)
• Partikel, String Theory (2015)
• Troyka, Ornithophobia (2015)
• The Comet is Coming, Channel the Spirits (2016)
• Robert Glasper, “Everything In Its Right Place / Maiden Voyage“
• Vijay Iyer, Tirtha (2011)
• Mica Levi, “Love” (2013) [totally forgot about, then re-discovered]

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

• Various, BoJack Horseman, Season 3 (2016)
• Trey Parker, South Park, Season 19 (2015)
• Steven Zaillian, The Night Of (2016)

Books

* = added this round

• *Liao, Moral Brains (Sep 2016)
• *Levitin, A Field Guide to Lies (Sep 2016)
• *Sumner, Global Poverty (Sep 2016)
• Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived (Sep 2016)
• Harari, Homo Deus (Sep 2016)
• Stanovich et al., The Rationality Quotient (Sep 2016)
• Gleick, Time Travel (Sep 2016)
• Soltes, Why They Do It (Oct 2016)
• Edmunds, Philosophers Take on the World (Nov 2016)
• Armstrong & Botzler, The Animal Ethics Reader, 3e (Nov 2016)
• Velmans, Towards a Deeper Understanding of Consciousness (Nov 2016)
• Mokyr, A Culture of Growth (Nov 2016)
• Singer, Does Anything Really Matter? (Nov 2016)
• Fischer, College Ethics (Nov 2016)
• Cohen et al., Nudging Health (Nov 2016)
• Hernández-Orallo, The Measure of All Minds (Nov 2016)
• Dhami, The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis (Dec 2016)
• Bloom, Against Empathy (Dec 2016)
• Tye, Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs (Dec 2016)
• Shapiro & Todorovic, The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions (Dec 2016)
• Lewis, The Undoing Project (Dec 2016)
• *Clarke et al., The Ethics of Human Enhancement (Dec 2016)
• Ogden, Experimental Conversations (Jan 2017)
• *Conley & Fletcher, The Genome Factor (Jan 2017)
• *Sobel, From Valuing to Value (Jan 2017)
• Cowen, The Complacent Class (Feb 2017)
• *Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back (Feb 2017)
• Jøsang, Subjective Logic (Feb 2017)
• Brown, Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments (Feb 2017)
• Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Feb 2017)
• Corns, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain (Feb 2017)
• Quirk, Seasteading (Mar 2017)
• Walsh, Thinking Machines (Apr 2017)
• Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (Apr 2017)
• *Trask, Grokking Deep Learning (spring 2017)
• *National Academies, consensus study on human gene editing (early 2017)
• Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
• *Phillips, Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Temporal Experience (Jun 2017)
• Caplan, The Case Against Education (2017)
• Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (2017)
• Schneier, Click Here to Kill Everybody (2017)
• Haidt, Three Stories about Capitalism (2017)
• Goodfellow et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
• Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
• Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
• Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (TBD)
• Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
• Bain et al., The Nature of Pain (TBD)
• Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
• Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
• Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
• Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
• Smith, How Biology Shapes Philosophy (TBD)
• Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
• Sternberg et al., Scientists Making a Difference (TBD)
• Stoljar, Philosophical Progress (TBD)
• Blackford & Broderick, Philosophy’s Future (TBD)
• Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
• Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
• Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)
• Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
• Gray & Graham, The Atlas of Moral Psychology (TBD)
• Banerjee & Duflo, Handbook of Field Experiments (TBD)
• Andrews & Beck, Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Animal Minds (TBD)
• Wiener, Policy Shock (TBD)
• Kriegel, Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness (TBD)
• Almqvist & Haag, The Return of Consciousness (TBD)

Movies & Miniseries

(only including movies and miniseries which AFAIK have at least started principal photography)

• C.K. & Adlon, Better Things (Sep 2016)
• Villeneuve, Arrival (Sep 2016)
• Dardenne brothers, The Unknown Girl (Oct 2016)
• Malick, Voyage of Time (Oct 2016)
• Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea (Nov 2016)
• Nichols, Loving (Nov 2016)
• Scorcese, Silence (Nov 2016)
• Edwards, Rogue One (Dec 2016)
• BBC Natural History Unit, Planet Earth II (TBD 2016)
• Swanberg, Win It All (TBD 2016)
• Farhadi, The Salesman (TBD 2016)
• Reeves, War for the Planet of the Apes (Jul 2017)
• Nolan, Dunkirk (Jul 2017)
• Unkrich, Coco (Nov 2017)
• Johnson, Star Wars: Episode VIII (Dec 2017)
• Payne, Downsizing (Dec 2017)
• Simon & Pelecanos, The Deuce (TBD)

Books

• Vance, Hillbilly Elegy [enjoyed]
• Metzinger, The Ego Tunnel [re-read]

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

• Dave Douglas, Freak In (2003), Keystone (2006), Expand (2010)
• David Ware, “Glorified Calypso” (2000)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

• Edelman, O.J.: Made in America (2016) [funny clip]
• Coen brothers, Hail Caesar! (2016)
• No-commentary play-through of Playdead’s Inside (2016) [if you don’t mind spoilers, you could watch just the spectacular ending]

Books

* = added this round

• Yong, I Contain Multitudes (Aug 2016)
• *Polger & Shapiro, The Multiple Realization Book (Aug 2016)
• Joyce, Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (Aug 2016)
• Halpern, Actual Causality (Aug 2016)
• Hubbard, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Aug 2016)
• Rawlinson & Ward, The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics (Aug 2016)
• Quirk, Seasteading (Sep 2016)
• Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived (Sep 2016)
• Harari, Homo Deus (Sep 2016)
• Stanovich et al., The Rationality Quotient (Sep 2016)
• Gleick, Time Travel (Sep 2016)
• Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Oct 2016)
• Soltes, Why They Do It (Oct 2016)
• Edmunds, Philosophers Take on the World (Nov 2016)
• *Armstrong & Botzler, The Animal Ethics Reader, 3e (Nov 2016)
• *Velmans, Towards a Deeper Understanding of Consciousness (Nov 2016)
• Dhami, The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis (Nov 2016)
• *Mokyr, A Culture of Growth (Nov 2016)
• Singer, Does Anything Really Matter? (Nov 2016)
• Fischer, College Ethics (Nov 2016)
• Cohen et al., Nudging Health (Nov 2016)
• Tye, Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs (Dec 2016)
• *Shapiro & Todorovic, The Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions (Dec 2016)
• Jøsang, Subjective Logic (Dec 2016)
• Lewis, The Undoing Project (Dec 2016)
• Pigliucci, The Nature of Philosophy (2016)
• Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (2016)
• Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (2016)
• Ogden, Experimental Conversations (2016)
• Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (2016)
• Cowen, The Complacent Class (Feb 2017)
• *Brown, Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments (Feb 2017)
• *Corns, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain (Feb 2017)
• *Walsh, Thinking Machines (Apr 2017)
• Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
• Caplan, The Case Against Education (2017)
• Schneier, Click Here to Kill Everybody (2017)
• Haidt, Three Stories about Capitalism (2017)
• Goodfellow et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
• Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
• Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
• Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
• Bain et al., The Nature of Pain (TBD)
• Bloom, Against Empathy (TBD)
• Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
• Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
• Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
• Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
• Smith, How Biology Shapes Philosophy (TBD)
• Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
• Sternberg et al., Scientists Making a Difference (TBD)
• Stoljar, Philosophical Progress (TBD)
• Blackford & Broderick, Philosophy’s Future (TBD)
• Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
• Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
• Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)
• Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
• Gray & Graham, The Atlas of Moral Psychology (TBD)
• Hernández-Orallo, book on evaluation of natural and artificial intelligence (TBD)
• Banerjee & Duflo, Handbook of Field Experiments (TBD)
• Andrews & Beck, Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Animal Minds (TBD)
• Wiener, Policy Shock (TBD)
• Kriegel, Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness (TBD)
• Almqvist & Haag, The Return of Consciousness (TBD)

Movies & Miniseries

(only including movies and miniseries which AFAIK have at least started principal photography)

• *C.K. & Adlon, Better Things (Sep 2016)
• Cianfrance, The Light Between Oceans (Sep 2016)
• Malick, Voyage of Time (Oct 2016)
• Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea (Nov 2016)
• Nichols, Loving (Nov 2016)
• Scorcese, Silence (Nov 2016)
• Edwards, Rogue One (Dec 2016)
• *BBC Natural History Unit, Planet Earth II (TBD 2016)
• Villeneuve, Story of Your Life (TBD 2016)
• Dardenne brothers, The Unknown Girl (TBD 2016)
• Swanberg, Win It All (TBD 2016)
• Farhadi, The Salesman (TBD 2016)
• Reeves, War for the Planet of the Apes (Jul 2017)
• Nolan, Dunkirk (Jul 2017)
• Unkrich, Coco (Nov 2017)
• Johnson, Star Wars: Episode VIII (Dec 2017)
• Payne, Downsizing (Dec 2017)
• *Simon & Pelecanos, The Deuce (TBD)

Books

• Mukherjee, The Gene [meh]
• Balcombe, What a Fish Knows [meh]

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

• Wayne Horvitz, The President (1987), Bring Yr Camera (1990), The New York Composers Orchestra (1990)
• Robin Holcomb, Robin Holcomb (1990)
• Bobby Previte, Bump the Renaissance (1986), Empty Suits (1990), Weather Clear, Track Fast (1991)
• Marty Ehrlich, The Traveller’s Tale (1990), Malinke’s Dance (2000)
• Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer, Spoors (2004)
• Jonathan Badger, Verse (2014)
• Steve Coleman, Cipher Syntax (1988)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

• Haigh, 45 Years (2015)
• Strong & Lyn, Broadchurch Season 1 (2013)
• Eggers, The Witch (2015)
• Haynes, Carol (2015)
• Nichols, Midnight Special (2016)
• Various, Game of Thrones, Season 6 (2016)
• Nemes, Son of Saul (2015)

Books

* = added this round

• Field, An Adventure in Statistics (Jul 2016)
• *Wolfram, Idea Makers (Jul 2016)
• Bier, Gower Handbook of Extreme Risk (Jul 2016)
• Arbesman, Overcomplicated (Jul 2016)
• Sunstein & Reisch, The Economics of Nudge (Jul 2016)
• Boden, AI: Its Nature and Future (Jul 2016)
• Yong, I Contain Multitudes (Aug 2016)
• Joyce, Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (Aug 2016)
• Halpern, Actual Causality (Aug 2016)
• Hubbard, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Aug 2016)
• *Rawlinson & Ward, The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics (Aug 2016)
• Quirk, Seasteading (Sep 2016)
• Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived (Sep 2016)
• Harari, Homo Deus (Sep 2016)
• Stanovich et al., The Rationality Quotient (Sep 2016)
• Gleick, Time Travel (Sep 2016)
• Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Oct 2016)
• Soltes, Why They Do It (Oct 2016)
• Edmunds, Philosophers Take on the World (Nov 2016)
• Dhami, The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis (Nov 2016)
• *Singer, Does Anything Really Matter? (Nov 2016)
• *Fischer, College Ethics (Nov 2016)
• Cohen et al., Nudging Health (Nov 2016)
• Tye, Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs (Dec 2016)
• *Jøsang, Subjective Logic (Dec 2016)
• *Lewis, The Undoing Project (Dec 2016)
• Pigliucci, The Nature of Philosophy (2016)
• Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (2016)
• Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (2016)
• Ogden, Experimental Conversations (2016)
• Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (2016)
• Cowen, The Great Social Stagnation (Feb 2017)
• Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
• Caplan, The Case Against Education (2017)
• Schneier, Click Here to Kill Everybody (2017)
• *Haidt, Three Stories about Capitalism (2017)
• Goodfellow et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
• Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
• Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
• Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
• Bain et al., The Nature of Pain (TBD)
• Bloom, Against Empathy (TBD)
• Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
• Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
• Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
• Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
• Smith, How Biology Shapes Philosophy (TBD)
• Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
• Sternberg et al., Scientists Making a Difference (TBD)
• Stoljar, Philosophical Progress (TBD)
• Blackford & Broderick, Philosophy’s Future (TBD)
• Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
• Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
• Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)
• Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
• Gray & Graham, The Atlas of Moral Psychology (TBD)
• *Hernández-Orallo, book on evaluation of natural and artificial intelligence (TBD)
• *Banerjee & Duflo, Handbook of Field Experiments (TBD)
• *Andrews & Beck, Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Animal Minds (TBD)
• *Wiener, Policy Shock (TBD)
• *Kriegel, Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness (TBD)
• *Almqvist & Haag, The Return of Consciousness (TBD)

Movies

(only including movies which AFAIK have at least started principal photography)

• Liu, Batman: The Killing Joke (Jul 2016)
• Cianfrance, The Light Between Oceans (Sep 2016)
• *Malick, Voyage of Time (Oct 2016)
• Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea (Nov 2016)
• Nichols, Loving (Nov 2016)
• Scorcese, Silence (Nov 2016)
• Edwards, Rogue One (Dec 2016)
• Villeneuve, Story of Your Life (TBD 2016)
• Dardenne brothers, The Unknown Girl (TBD 2016)
• Swanberg, Win It All (TBD 2016)
• Farhadi, The Salesman (TBD 2016)
• Reeves, War for the Planet of the Apes (Jul 2017)
• Nolan, Dunkirk (Jul 2017)
• Unkrich, Coco (Nov 2017)
• Johnson, Star Wars: Episode VIII (Dec 2017)
• Payne, Downsizing (Dec 2017)

Books

• Christian & Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By
• Dennett & LaScola, Caught in the Pulpit
• Carroll, The Big Picture [my comments]
• de Waal, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
• Dreger, Galileo’s Middle Finger [a quoted passage]

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

• Gary Thomas, Exile’s Gate (1993)
• Ned Rothenberg, Powerlines (1995)
• John Hollenbeck, The Claudia Quintet (2001)
• Microscopic Septet, Take the Z Train (1983), Off Beat Glory (1986)
• Kip Hanrahan, Coup de Tête (1982)
• Aluk Todolo, Voix (2016)
• Clarence Clarity, No Now (2015)
• Jane Ira Bloom, Early Americans (2016)
• Marty Fogel, Many Bobbing Heads at Last (1989)
• Bill Frisell, Before We Were Born (1989)
• Jonas Hellborg, Octave of the Holy Innocents (1995)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

• Lanthimos, The Lobster (2015)
• Jones, The Homesman (2014)
• Sciamma, Girlhood (2014)
• Dumont, Li’l Quinquin (2014)
• Aubier & Patar, Ernest & Celestine (2012)

Books

* = added this round

• Kelly, The Inevitable (Jun 2016)
• *Greene et al., Positive Neuroscience (Jun 2016)
• Roach, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (Jun 2016)
• Field, An Adventure in Statistics (Jul 2016)
• Bier, Gower Handbook of Extreme Risk (Jul 2016)
• Arbesman, Overcomplicated (Jul 2016)
• Sunstein & Reisch, The Economics of Nudge (Jul 2016)
• *Boden, AI: Its Nature and Future (Jul 2016)
• Yong, I Contain Multitudes (Aug 2016)
• Joyce, Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy (Aug 2016)
• *Halpern, Actual Causality (Aug 2016)
• Hubbard, How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (Aug 2016)
• Quirk, Seasteading (Sep 2016)
• Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived (Sep 2016)
• Harari, Homo Deus (Sep 2016)
• Stanovich et al., The Rationality Quotient (Sep 2016)
• Gleick, Time Travel (Sep 2016)
• Mcpherson & Plunkett, Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Oct 2016)
• *Soltes, Why They Do It (Oct 2016)
• Edmunds, Philosophers Take on the World (Nov 2016)
• Dhami, The Foundations of Behavioral Economic Analysis (Nov 2016)
• *Cohen et al., Nudging Health (Nov 2016)
• *Tye, Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs (Dec 2016)
• Pigliucci, The Nature of Philosophy (2016)
• Guyenet, The Hungry Brain (2016)
• Callaghan et al. (eds.), The Technological Singularity (2016)
• Ogden, Experimental Conversations (2016)
• Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (2016)
• Cowen, The Great Social Stagnation (Feb 2017)
• Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (early 2017)
• Caplan, The Case Against Education (2017)
• *Schneier, Click Here to Kill Everybody (2017)
• Goodfellow et al., Deep Learning (TBD)
• Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
• Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
• Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
• *Bain et al., The Nature of Pain (TBD)
• Bloom, Against Empathy (TBD)
• Mody, The Long Arm of Moore’s Law (TBD)
• Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
• Forman, book on mass incarceration (TBD)
• Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
• Smith, How Biology Shapes Philosophy (TBD)
• Pinker, The New Enlightenment (TBD)
• Sternberg et al., Scientists Making a Difference (TBD)
• *Stoljar, Philosophical Progress (TBD)
• *Blackford & Broderick, Philosophy’s Future (TBD)
• Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
• Graham, Happiness for All? (TBD)
• Shalizi, Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View (TBD)
• Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
• Gray & Graham, The Atlas of Moral Psychology (TBD)

Movies

(only including movies which AFAIK have at least started principal photography)

• Stanton, Finding Dory (Jun 2016)
• Liu, Batman: The Killing Joke (Jul 2016)
• Cianfrance, The Light Between Oceans (Sep 2016)
• Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea (Nov 2016)
• Nichols, Loving (Nov 2016)
• Scorcese, Silence (Nov 2016)
• Edwards, Rogue One (Dec 2016)
• Villeneuve, Story of Your Life (TBD 2016)
• Dardenne brothers, The Unknown Girl (TBD 2016)
• Swanberg, Win It All (TBD 2016)
• Farhadi, The Salesman (TBD 2016)
• Reeves, War for the Planet of the Apes (Jul 2017)
• *Nolan, Dunkirk (Jul 2017)
• Unkrich, Coco (Nov 2017)
• Johnson, Star Wars: Episode VIII (Dec 2017)
• Payne, Downsizing (Dec 2017)

Books

• Wegner & Gray, The Mind Club
• Grant, Originals
• Arbesman, The Half-Life of Facts
• Rose, The End of Average
• Herculano-Houzel, The Human Advantage

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this month:

• Mogwai, Atomic (2016)
• Sergey Kuryokhin, The Rich’s Opera (1992)
• David Liebman, Lookout Farm (1973)
• Colin Stetson, Sorrow (2016)
• Steve Coleman, The Sonic Language of Myth (1999), Resistance is Futile (2002)
• Gary Thomas, Code Violations (1989), By Any Means Necessary (1989)
• Glen Velez, Assyrian Rose (1989)
• Trilok Gurtu, Usfret (1988)
• Elephant9, Silver Mountain (2016)
• The Necks, Aquatic (1994), Hanging Gardens (1999)

Movies/TV

Ones I really liked, or loved:

• Franz & Fiala, Goodnight Mommy (2014)
• C.K., Horace and Pete (2016)
• Better Call Saul, Season 2 (2016) [from now on I’ll list seasons I loved or really liked, rather than entire series]
• Boyle, Man from Reno (2014)
• Robertson, The Dark Horse (2014)