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)
Johan Norberg has been a disaster for Swedish immigration policy debate.
He is advocating free immigration and justifies this standpoint with examples from earlier Swedish history of immigration. In doing so, he neglects mentioning that the current immigration from third world countries can in no way be compared with the historical experiences for immigration to Sweden. The earlier immigration in the 1500-hundreds, and the 1950-60 were a lot less lower per capita numbers. The people of historic immigration to Sweden were of western descent with western culture that could more easily be incorporated/make to work in the Swedish culture. Last, but not least, the people who constituted the historic migration to Sweden were highly skilled that could contribute to the Swedish society. By contrast, the people who are coming now are low skilled and at a least an order of magnitude higher propensity to violence.
Johan Norberg is hiding all these facts when arguing his position. This makes him an ideologically motivated Liar.
Thanks to people like Johan Norberg, deceiving the public, a very unhealthy tide of people has been let into Sweden the last twenty years with an acceleration the last ten years. Authorities has lost control and there are areas in Sweden that now has been accepted to have lower protection from society: there are car fires every day, women are terrorised if they do not were “moderate” clothing, murder rates are as high as in the worst countries on earth, rape rates are as high as the worst countries on earth.
We who grew up here in this beautiful, peaceful country are very, very sad now thanks to people like Johan Norberg. He should be ashamed of himself.