Home Page of Dennis J. Darland's Studies in 2019 djd
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Table of Contents


  1. My Library
  2. Books that I Completed in 2019
  3. Documentaries that I Watched in 2019
  4. Fact Based Movies that I Watched in 2019
  5. News as I Followed it in 2019
  6. Journals and Magazines that I subscribe to
  7. Free Online Courses I am in the Process of Taking

Information

  1. My Library

    I have cataloged my books (updated 1/2/2017). I have an index of almost ALL of my books (Updated January 2019) entered! (the main exception being some software documentation(mostly obsolete, yet retained)). Also many of my e-books (mostly free) have not been entered. It indicates the books that I have read. (to the best of my memory). I have not included as read reference books, or books I have read only part of, although I did include those used as texts in courses, although we may not have covered the entire text. (Also, I have read many books I don't own, but I do, now, mostly buy them, because I read so slowly, and also I like to be able to look thing up again, that I have read in the past. Here is my wish list for books. Now (3/13/2013) I have decided to study the easier books on logic and philosophy of logic first.
    I have a fair idea of what is proven in the metalogical results and how they are proven.
    But the proofs are difficult for me, and complicated enough that I just cannot seem to maintain them in my memory.
    Thus I am going to focus on easier books on philosophy of logic and language first.
    NOTE (10/16/2014) I have discovered that I do better reading and re-reading repeatedly as far as remembering goes -
    rather than trying to remember by concentrating very hard while reading once.
    For my prior reading see:
    1. My Reading in October 2007 through December 2008
    2. My Reading in 2009
    3. My Reading in 2010
    4. My Reading in 2011
    5. My Reading in 2012
    6. My Reading in 2013
    7. My Reading in 2014
    8. My Reading in 2015
    9. My Reading in 2016
    10. My Reading in 2017
    11. My Reading in 2018

  2. Books Completed in 2019

    1. Biden, Joe - Promise me, Dad [2017] (Completed 11/14/2019
    2. Blackwell, Kenneth, ed. - "All the Poems We Have Most Enjoyed Together" [2018] (Completed 4/1/2019)
    3. Bredesen, Dale - The End of Alzheimer's [2017] (Completed 7/17/2019)
    4. Buttigieg, Pete - Shortest Way Home [2019] (Completed 12/15/2019)
    5. Chomsky, Noam - Cartesian Linguistics, 3rd Ed [2009] (Completed 3/9/2019)
    6. Epstein, David - RANGE: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World [2019] (Completed 7/8/2019)
    7. Hager, Paul J. - Continuity and Change in the Development of Russell's Philosophy [1994] (Completed 5/28/2019)
    8. Harris, Kamala - The Truths We Hold [2019] (Completed 11/12/2019
    9. Lebens, Samuel - Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions [2017] (Completed 7/13/2019)
    10. Klobuchar, Amy - The Senator Next Door [2015] (Completed 11/10/2019)
    11. Knowledge Products - Aristotle (Completed 9/2/2019)
    12. Knowledge Products - Friedrich Nietzsche (Completed 9/2/2019)
    13. Knowledge Products - John Dewey (Completed 9/3/2019)
    14. Knowledge Products - Plato (Completed 9/1/2019)
    15. Knowledge Products - Arthur Schopenhauer (Completed 9/2/2019)
    16. Oluo, Ijeoma - So You Want to Talk About Race [2018] (Complet3ed 2/18/2019) [FTQC][HHBC]
    17. Sanders, Bernie - Outsider in the White House [2019] (Completed 11/18/2019)
    18. Snyder, Timothy - On Tyranny [2017] (Completed 9/30/2019
    19. Turcon, Sheila - The Homes of Bertrand Russell [2018] (Complrt3ed 3/2/2019)
    20. Warren, Elizabeth - This Fight is Our Fight [2017] (Completed 11/11/2019)
    21. Werner, Michael - What can you believe in if you don't believe in God? [2017] (Completed 9/13/2019)
    22. Williamson, Marianne - A Politics of Love [2019] (Completed 8/18/2019)
    23. Yang, Andrew - The War on Normal People [2018] (Completed 11/14/2019)

    FTQC - Free Thinkers of the Quad Cities
    HHBC = Happy Human Book Club
    QCPS = Quad Cities Philosophical Society
    SHGQC = Secular Humanists of the Greater Quad Cities

  3. Documentaries Watched in 2019

    1. American Swamp (9/9/2019 episodes 1-2) MSNBC
    2. Big History (3/29/2019 season 1 episode 1) Great Courses Signature
    3. Citizen Koch (11/18/2019) [2014] Amazon Prime
    4. Engel, Richard - On Assignment: Made in China (7/19/2019) MSNBC
    5. Fahrenheit 11/9 (2/16/2019) Amazon Prime
    6. Giant Beast of the Global Economy [2019] (8/17/2019 season 1 episodes 1-8) [That's all for the series] Prime
    7. In Defense of Food (2/1/2019) Netflix
    8. Love, Gilda (1/23/2019) CNN [I had known nothing of her - saw ad]
    9. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 1: Mind, Body, and Questions of Consciousness - (4/?/2019) [2017] Great Courses
    10. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 2: Mind and Body in Greek Philosophy - [2017] (4/?/2019) Great Courses
    11. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 3: Eastern Perspectives on Mind and Body - [2017] (4/?/2019) Great Courses
    12. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 4: Using the Body to Shape the Mind - [2017] (4/?/2019) Great Courses
    13. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 5: History of the Soul - [2017] (4/19/2019) Great Courses
    14. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 6: How Descartes Divided Mental from Physical - [2017] (4/22/2019) Great Courses
    15. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 7: Mistakes about Our Own Consciousness - [2017] (4/22/2019) Great Courses
    16. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 8: Strange Cases of Consciousness - [2017] (4/23/2019) Great Courses
    17. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 9: Altered States of Consciousness - [2017] (4/23/2019) Great Courses
    18. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 5: History of the Soul - [2017] (5/16/2019) Great Courses
    19. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 3: Eastern Perspectives on Mind and Body - [2017] (5/6/2019) Great Courses
    20. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 10: Memory, Mind, and Brain - [2017] (5/6/2019) Great Courses
    21. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 11: Self-Consciousness and the Self - [2017] (5/16/2019) Great Courses
    22. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 12: Rival Psychologies of the Mind - [2017] (5/17/2019) Great Courses
    23. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 13: The Enigma of Free Will - [2017] (5/17/2019) Great Courses
    24. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 14: Emotions: Where Mind and Body Meet - [2017] (5/17/2019) Great Courses
    25. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 15: Could a Machine Be Conscious? - [2017] (5/17/2019) Great Courses
    26. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 16: Computational Approaches to the Mind - [2017] (7/1/2019) Great Courses
    27. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 17: A Guided Tour of the Brain - [2017] (7/25/2019) Great Courses
    28. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 18: Thinking Body and Extended Mind - [2017] (7/25/2019) Great Courses
    29. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 19: Francis Crick and Binding in the Brain - [2017] (7/25/2019) Great Courses
    30. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 20: Clues on Consciousness from Anesthesiology - [2017] (7/25/2019) Great Courses
    31. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 21: Of Mind, Materialism and Zombies - [2017] (7/25/2019) Great Courses
    32. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 22: Thought Experiments against Materialism - [2017] (7/25/2019) Great Courses
    33. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 23: Consciousness and the Explanatory Gap - [2017] (7/25/2019) Great Courses
    34. Grim, Patrick - Mind-Body Philosophy: Part 24: A Philosophical Science of Consciousness? - [2017] (7/25/2019) Great Courses [that's all]
    35. Mythic Journeys (1/3/2019) Gaia
    36. Rotten: Lawyers, & Money (2/2/2019 season 1 episode 1) Netflix
    37. Steven Novella: How to Think Like a Skeptical Neurologist (1/9/2019)
    38. The Apollo Moon Landings (1/14/2019) Curiosity Stream
    39. The Body: Part 1: Kidneys: The Networks within our Bodies (2/15/2019) Curiosity Stream
    40. The Body: Part 2: Fat & Bone: Keys to Overcoming Modern Day Diseases (2/15/2019) Curiosity Stream
    41. The Body: Part 3: Life before Birth: The Miracles Within (2/15/2019) [All for series] Curiosity Stream
    42. The Circus (3/24/2019 season 1 episodes 1-5) SHO
    43. The Family Business: Trump and Taxes (3/8/2019) SHO
    44. The Skeptics Guide to the Universe | Talks at Google (1/9/2019)
    45. Thurman, A. F., Robert - Buddhism (11/20/2019 episodes 1-3) [that's all] Gaia
    46. Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power (1/18/2019) Curiosity Stream
    47. What You Need to Know about the Mueller Report (7/21/2019) MSNBC

  4. Fact Based Movies Watched in 2019

    1. BREXIT [2019] (9/11/2019) HBO
    2. The Post [2017] (2/21/2019) HBO

  5. The News I Watched and Read in 2019 and before

    1. News Sources on the Web
    2. News as I followed it in 2013.
    3. News as I follow it in 2014.
    4. News as I follow it in 2015.
    5. News as I follow it in 2016.
    6. News as I follow it in 2017.
    7. News as I follow it in 2018.
    8. News as I follow it in 2019.

  6. Journals and Magazines that I Subscribe to

    1. Bertrand Russell Society Bulletin (digital)
    2. Communications of the ACM (digital)
    3. Fromm Forum (digital)
    4. process perspectives
    5. process studies
    6. russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies (also digital)
    7. Texture (digital - over 200 magazines through Amazon)
    8. The Nation (digital)
    9. The New York Times (digital)
    10. UU World

  7. Free Online Courses (or Lectures, etc.) in 2019

    1. Crash Course - World History - Part 1 (2/24/2019 episodes 1-6)
    2. The Theoretical Minimum (Leonard Susskind)
      1. Susskind, Leonard - Classical Mechanics (1/28/2019 Lecture 1)