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Media I’m looking forward to, August 2017 edition

August 1, 2017 by Luke Leave a Comment

Books

* = added this round
bold = especially excited

Added this month:

  • Woodruff, Philanthropy and Philosophy (TBD)
  • Pummer & Greaves, Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues (TBD)

Full list:

  • Walsh, It’s Alive! (Aug 2017)
  • Scott, Against the Grain (Aug 2017)
  • Cate & Healy, Avian Cognition (Aug 2017)
  • Mcpherson & Plunkett, The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics (Aug 2017)
  • Ruse & Richards, The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics (Aug 2017)
  • Morus, The Oxford Illustrated History of Science (Aug 2017)
  • Trask, Grokking Deep Learning (Aug 2017)
  • Tegmark, Life 3.0 (Aug 2017)
  • de Lazari-Radek & Singer, Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction (Sep 2017)
  • Sharot, The Influential Mind (Sep 2017)
  • Weinersmith & Weinersmith, Soonish (Oct 2017)
  • Freedman, The Future of War (Oct 2017)
  • Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived (Oct 2017 in USA)
  • Jahren & Folger, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017 (Oct 2017)
  • Lin et al., Robot Ethics 2.0 (Oct 2017)
  • Kumar, Ethics and Future Generations (Oct 2017)
  • Overgaard & Morgensen, Beyond Neural Correlates of Consciousness (Nov 2017)
  • Golob & Timmermann, The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy (Nov 2017)
  • Rodrik, Straight Talk on Trade (Nov 2017)
  • Jacquette, The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness (Dec 2017)
  • Caplan, The Case Against Education (Jan 2018)
  • Hanson & Simler, The Elephant in the Brain (Jan 2018)
  • Graziano, The Spaces Between Us (Jan 2018)
  • Bliss, Social by Nature (Jan 2018)
  • Seager, The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism (Jan 2018)
  • Sunstein, Can it Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America (Mar 2018)
  • Schlosser, The Great Imprisonment (TBD 2018)
  • Pinker, Enlightenment Now (TBD 2018)
  • Clemens, The Walls of Nations (TBD 2018)
  • Norris & Inglehart, Cultural Backlash (TBD 2018)
  • Unknown editors, The Cambridge World History of Slavery, Volume 2 (TBD 2019)
  • Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (TBD)
  • Schneier, Click Here to Kill Everybody (TBD)
  • Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (TBD)
  • Morris, In the Beginning (TBD)
  • Bain et al., The Nature of Pain (TBD)
  • Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
  • Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (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)
  • Haidt, Three Stories about Capitalism (TBD)
  • Stoljar, Philosophical Progress (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)
  • Wiener, Policy Shock (TBD)
  • Kriegel, Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness (TBD)
  • Caruso & Flanagan, Neuroexistentialism (TBD)
  • Scheidel, The Demography of the Greco-Roman World (TBD)
  • Almqvist & Haag, The Return of Consciousness (TBD)
  • Plomin, DNA Matters (TBD)
  • Prinz, The Moral Self (TBD)
  • Powell, Contingency and Convergence in the History of Life (TBD)
  • Ryder, Models in the Brain (TBD)
  • Spevak, Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind (TBD)
  • Huebner, The Philosophy of Daniel Dennett (TBD)
  • Langland-Hassan & Vicente, Inner Speech (TBD)
  • Prinz, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Psychology (TBD)
  • Henrich, book on WEIRD societies (TBD)
  • Rosling, Factfulness (TBD)
  • Watanabe et al., Evolution of Brain, Cognition, and Emotion in Vertebrates (TBD)
  • Merker, untitled book about consciousness (TBD)
  • Guillot & Garcia-Carpintero, The Sense of Mineness (TBD)
  • Schechter, The Other Side: Self-Consciousness and Split Brains (TBD)
  • Plucker & Make, Doing Good Social Science (TBD)
  • Lowrey, Give People Money (TBD)
  • Galef, book on rationality and unconscious motivations (TBD)
  • Torres, Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing (TBD)
  • Bier, Risk in Extreme Environments (TBD)
  • Bowles et al., Coordination, Conflict and Competition (TBD)
  • White, a history of democracy (TBD)
  • Taleb, Skin in the Game (TBD)
  • Singal, book about social psychology, social justice, and the replication crisis (TBD)
  • Ahmed, Newcomb’s Problem (TBD)
  • Ahmed, The Value of the Future (TBD)
  • Gennaro, Routledge Handbook of Consciousness (TBD)
  • Woodruff, Philanthropy and Philosophy (TBD)
  • Pummer & Greaves, Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues (TBD)

Movies & TV

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

  • Various, Broad City, Season 4 (Aug 2017)
  • Soderbergh, Logan Lucky (Aug 2017)
  • Simon & Pelecanos, The Deuce (Sep 2017)
  • Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049 (Oct 2017)
  • Aronofsky, mother! (Oct 2017)
  • McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Oct 2017)
  • Unkrich, Coco (Nov 2017)
  • Johnson, Star Wars: Episode VIII (Dec 2017)
  • Payne, Downsizing (Dec 2017)
  • Anderson, Phantom Thread (Dec 2017)
  • Haynes, Wonderstruck (TBD 2017)
  • Various, Black Mirror, Season 4 (TBD 2017)
  • Various, BoJack Horseman, Season 4 (TBD 2017)
  • Coen brothers, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (TBD)
  • Various, Atlanta, Season 2 (TBD)
  • Various, Westworld, Season 2 (TBD)

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