Added this quarter:
- Mercier, Not Born Yesterday (Jan 2020)
- Greene, Until the End of Time (Feb 2020)
- Klein, Why We’re Polarized (Jan 2020)
- Michaels, The Triumph of Doubt (Feb 2020)
- Luca & Bazerman, The Power of Experiments (Mar 2020)
- Hahn, Technology in the Industrial Revolution (Mar 2020)
- Maçães, History Has Begun (Mar 2020)
- Norcross, Morality By Degrees (Apr 2020)
Books
bold = especially excited
- Mercier, Not Born Yesterday (Jan 2020)
- Jones: 10% Less Democracy (Feb 2020)
- Buchanan, The Hacker and the State (Feb 2020)
- Greene, Until the End of Time (Feb 2020)
- MacAskill et al., Moral Uncertainty (Feb 2020)
- Klein, Why We’re Polarized (Jan 2020)
- Michaels, The Triumph of Doubt (Feb 2020)
- Maçães, History Has Begun (Mar 2020)
- Luca & Bazerman, The Power of Experiments (Mar 2020)
- Ord, The Precipice (Mar 2020)
- Hahn, Technology in the Industrial Revolution (Mar 2020)
- Norcross, Morality By Degrees (Apr 2020)
- Rid, Active Measures (Apr 2020)
- Cobb, The Idea of the Brain (Apr 2020)
- Prasad, Malignant (Apr 2020)
- Kriegel, Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness (May 2020)
- Chen et al., Foundations of Prediction Markets (Jun 2020)
- MacAskill, What We Owe the Future (TBD)
- de Lazari-Radek, The Philosophy of Pleasure (TBD)
- Tye, book about vagueness and the evolution of consciousness (TBD)
- Yglesias, One Billion Americans (TBD)
- Flynn, A Book Too Risky to Publish (TBD)
- Frankish, Consciousness: The Basics (TBD)
- Russell, AI: A Modern Approach, 4th edition (TBD)
- Arrhenius et al., Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics (TBD)
- Pummer, Effective Altruism for Everyone (TBD)
- Dubber et al., Oxford Handbook of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (TBD)
- Unknown editors, The Cambridge World History of Slavery, Volume 2 (TBD)
- Caplan, Poverty: Who to Blame (TBD)
- Vincent, Beyond Measure (TBD)
- Pinker, untitled book about common knowledge (TBD)
- Fleischman, untitled forthcoming book (TBD)
- Schlosser, The Great Imprisonment (TBD)
- Clemens, The Walls of Nations (TBD)
- Harden, The Genetic Lottery (TBD)
- Gal, The Power of the Status Quo (TBD)
- Lindsay, Models of the Mind (TBD)
- DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia (TBD)
- Sumner, The Money Illusion (TBD)
- Seth, Presence Chamber (TBD)
- Wellerstein, Restricted Data (TBD)
- Tetlock, untitled book about forecasting tournaments (TBD)
- Aaronson, Speaking Truth to Parallelism (TBD)
- Morris, Fog in the Channel (TBD)
- Arrhenius, Population Ethics (TBD)
- Hernan & Robins, Causal Inference (TBD)
- Chalmers, Reality 2.0 (TBD)
- Portmore, Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism (TBD)
- Kahneman et al., Noise (TBD)
- Easwaran, The Foundations of Bayesian Epistemology (TBD)
- Haidt, Three Stories about Capitalism (TBD)
- Varner, Sustaining Animals (TBD)
- Scheidel, The Demography of the Greco-Roman World (TBD)
- Prinz, The Moral Self (TBD)
- Powell, Contingency and Convergence in the History of Life (TBD)
- Ryder, Models in the Brain (TBD)
- Prinz, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Psychology (TBD)
- Henrich, untitled book on WEIRD societies (TBD)
- Merker, untitled book about consciousness (TBD)
- Guillot & Garcia-Carpintero, The Sense of Mineness (TBD)
- Galef, untitled book on unconscious motivations (TBD)
- Bowles et al., Coordination, Conflict and Competition (TBD)
- White, The Worst Form of Government (TBD)
- Singal, untitled about social psychology, social justice, and the replication crisis (TBD)
- Ahmed, The Value of the Future (TBD)
- Blattman, untitled book (TBD)
- Sandberg, Grand Futures (TBD)
Movies & TV
(only including movies and TV series or miniseries which AFAIK have at least started principal photography)
- Fukanaga, 25th James Bond movie (Apr 2020)
- Docter, Soul (Jun 2020)
- Nolan, Tenet (Jul 2020)
- Villeneuve, Dune (Dec 2020)
- Cameron, Avatar 2 (Dec 2021)
- Kaufman, I’m Thinking Of Ending Things (TBD)
Someone who might appeal to your impressively deep and broad interest in so many things. Howard Pattee & his thoughts on symbol-matter duality which he terms as the “epistemic cut”.