Added this month:
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Reich, Who We Are and How We Got Here (Mar 2018)
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Kurzban, A Different Kind of Animal (Nov 2018)
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Scharre, Army of None (Apr 2018)
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Damasio, The Strange Order of Things (Feb 2018)
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Levitsky & Ziblatt, How Democracies Die (Jan 2018)
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Burns & Shulgan, Autonomy (Aug 2018)
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Lukianoff & Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind (Jul 2018)
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Payne, Strategy, Evolution, and War (May 2018)
- Duke, Thinking in Bets (Feb 2018)
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Gaddis, On Grand Strategy (Apr 2018)
- Clark et al., The Origins of Happiness (Jan 2018)
- Ord, book about existential risk (TBD)
- MacAskill et al., book on moral uncertainty (TBD)
- Sandberg, Grand Futures (TBD)
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Valeriano et al., Cyber Strategy (TBD)
- several movies & TV seasons
Books
bold = especially excited
- Jacquette, The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness (Jan 2018)
- Gray & Graham, The Atlas of Moral Psychology (Jan 2018)
- Clark et al., The Origins of Happiness (Jan 2018)
- Huebner, The Philosophy of Daniel Dennett (Jan 2018)
- Levitsky & Ziblatt, How Democracies Die (Jan 2018)
- 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)
- Damasio, The Strange Order of Things (Feb 2018)
- Caruso & Flanagan, Neuroexistentialism (Feb 2018)
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Duke, Thinking in Bets (Feb 2018)
- Pinker, Enlightenment Now (Feb 2018)
- Taleb, Skin in the Game (Feb 2018)
- Sunstein, Can it Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America (Mar 2018)
- Reich, Who We Are and How We Got Here (Mar 2018)
- Scharre, Army of None (Apr 2018)
- Gaddis, On Grand Strategy (Apr 2018)
- Rosling, Factfulness (Apr 2018)
- Zimmer, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh (May 2018)
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Payne, Strategy, Evolution, and War (May 2018)
- Lukianoff & Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind (Jul 2018)
- Seager, The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism (Jul 2018)
- Overgaard & Morgensen, Beyond Neural Correlates of Consciousness (Jul 2018)
- Lowrey, Give People Money (Jul 2018)
- Burns & Shulgan, Autonomy (Aug 2018)
- Schneier, Click Here to Kill Everybody (Sep 2018)
- Schlosser, The Great Imprisonment (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)
- 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)
- Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
- Haidt, Three Stories about Capitalism (TBD)
- Friedman, Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (TBD)
- Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
- Kriegel, Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness (TBD)
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Scheidel, The Demography of the Greco-Roman World (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 & Colombo, Routledge Handbook of the Computational Mind (TBD)
- Langland-Hassan & Vicente, Inner Speech (TBD)
- Prinz, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Psychology (TBD)
- Henrich, book on WEIRD societies (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)
- Galef, book on rationality and unconscious motivations (TBD)
- Bowles et al., Coordination, Conflict and Competition (TBD)
- White, The Worst Form of Government (TBD)
- Singal, book about social psychology, social justice, and the replication crisis (TBD)
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Ahmed, Newcomb’s Problem (TBD)
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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)
- Blattman, some book (TBD)
- Gioia, a history of subversive music (TBD)
- Oppy, Blackwell Companion to Atheism and Philosophy (TBD)
- Ord, book about existential risk (TBD)
- MacAskill et al., book on moral uncertainty (TBD)
- Sandberg, Grand Futures (TBD)
- Valeriano et al., Cyber Strategy (TBD)
Movies & TV
(only including movies and TV series or miniseries which AFAIK have at least started principal photography)
*added in this update
- Anderson, Isle of Dogs (Mar 2018)
- *Soderbergh, Unsane (Mar 2018)
- *Reitman, Tully (Mar 2018)
- *Linklater, Where’d You Go Bernadette (May 2018)
- Bird, Incredibles 2 (Jun 2018)
- *McQuarrie, Mission Impossible 6 (Jul 2018)
- *Coen brothers, Scarface (Aug 2018)
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*Wyatt, Captive State (Aug 2018)
- McQueen, Widows (Dec 2018)
- Various, The Handmaid’s Tale (TBD 2018)
- Coen brothers, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (TBD 2018)
- *Von Trier, The House That Jack Built (TBD 2018)
- *Liman, Chaos Walking (Mar 2019)
- *Cuarón, Roma (TBD)
- *Leigh, Peterloo (TBD)
- Various, Atlanta, Season 2 (TBD)
- Various, Westworld, Season 2 (TBD)
- Various, Game of Thrones, Season 8 (TBD)