Showing posts with label book and movie reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book and movie reviews. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Another review

Review of Surviving Death by Mark Johnston (here).


Monday, January 30, 2012

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Review of the movie Source Code

Here. Pretty good but not anything like the awesome Moon by the same director Duncun Jones.

Monday, September 26, 2011

My review of Philosophers Without Gods

Here. It's an anthology of papers on the philosophy of religion.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Movie suggestion

If you haven't gotten a chance to see Moon, I highly recommend it. Those who are familiar with the literature will see all the references to personal identity. The director was once a grad student in philosophy.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Friday, February 18, 2011

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Monday, February 7, 2011

Here's a quick read: The Semantics of Murder

A murder mystery novel by Aifric Campbell loosely based on the life and death of Richard Montague famed for his Montague grammar. It's probably a weekend read. It isn't very deep but it's entertainment and a distraction if you need one.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Movie: Possible Worlds

If you haven't gotten a chance to see this movie, I highly suggest it. It concerns modal realism and the brain-in-the-vat thought experiment. How unusual is that in a fictional film?

Sunday, October 24, 2010

My review of The Art of the Infinite By Robert Kaplan

Here.

Book review of Boghossian's Fear of Knowledge

This book is arguing against relativism, anti-realism and post modernist conceptions of knowledge. I found it clear but did not go far enough into the contemporary literature on the subjects in question.