Luke Muehlhauser

Media I’m looking forward to, February 2017 edition

February 1, 2017 by Luke

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, music, etc. from December 2016

January 1, 2017 by Luke

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)

Filed Under: Lists

Media I’m looking forward to, January 2017 edition

January 1, 2017 by Luke

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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Favorite podcasts of 2016

December 27, 2016 by Luke

(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, music, etc. from November 2016

December 1, 2016 by Luke

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)

Filed Under: Lists

Media I’m looking forward to, December 2016 edition

December 1, 2016 by Luke

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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15 classical music traditions, compared

November 15, 2016 by Luke

Other Classical Musics argues that there are at least 15 musical traditions around the world worthy of the title “classical music”:

According to our rule-of-thumb, a classical music will have evolved… where a wealthy class of connoisseurs has stimulated its creation by a quasi-priesthood of professionals; it will have enjoyed high social esteem. It will also have had the time and space to develop rules of composition and performance, and to allow the evolution of a canon of works, or forms… our definition does imply acceptance of a ‘classical/ folk-popular’ divide. That distinction is made on the assumption that these categories simply occupy opposite ends of a spectrum, because almost all classical music has vernacular roots, and periodically renews itself from them…

In one of the earliest known [Western] definitions, classique is translated as ‘classical, formall, orderlie, in due or fit ranke; also, approved, authenticall, chiefe, principall’. The implication there was: authority, formal discipline, models of excellence. A century later ‘classical’ came to stand also for a canon of works in performance. Yet almost every non-Western culture has its own concept of ‘classical’ and many employ criteria similar to the European ones, though usually with the additional function of symbolizing national culture…

By definition, the conditions required for the evolution of a classical music don’t exist in newly-formed societies: hence the absence of a representative tradition from South America.

I don’t understand the book’s criteria. E.g. jazz is included despite not having been created by “a quasi-priesthood of professionals” funded by “a wealthy class of connoisseurs,” and despite having been invented relatively recently, in the early 20th century.

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Books, music, etc. from October 2016

November 1, 2016 by Luke

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)

Filed Under: Lists

Media I’m looking forward to, November 2016 edition

November 1, 2016 by Luke

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)

Filed Under: Lists

Books, music, etc. from September 2016

October 1, 2016 by Luke

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)

Filed Under: Lists

Media I’m looking forward to, October 2016 edition

October 1, 2016 by Luke

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)

Filed Under: Lists

Books, music, etc. from August 2016

September 1, 2016 by Luke

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)

Filed Under: Lists

Media I’m looking forward to, September 2016 edition

September 1, 2016 by Luke

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)

Filed Under: Lists

Books, music, etc. from July 2016

August 1, 2016 by Luke

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]

Filed Under: Lists

Media I’m looking forward to, August 2016 edition

August 1, 2016 by Luke

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)

Filed Under: Lists

Books, music, etc. from June 2016

July 1, 2016 by Luke

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)

Filed Under: Lists

Media I’m looking forward to, July 2016 edition

July 1, 2016 by Luke

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)

Filed Under: Lists

Books, music, etc. from May 2016

June 1, 2016 by Luke

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)

Filed Under: Lists

Media I’m looking forward to, June 2016 edition

June 1, 2016 by Luke

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)

Filed Under: Lists

Books, music, etc. from April 2016

May 1, 2016 by Luke

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)

Filed Under: Lists

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