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Based on Ryan’s recommendation, I found this: http://www.penguinmagic.com/product.php?ID=14

I’ll get it as soon as I have the time to work on it

I’ve been pretty bad about keeping to my reading schedule, so I’m going to start over again. Here’s the full list (I do not plan to get through it, but a good dent would be nice); I figure I’ll focus on the first two for a start, plus whatever audiobooks I feel like at the time.

Nichols, Sentimental Rules. This is so incredibly relevant to my dissertation that I was initially worried that I would have nothing left to do. Happily, this is not the case. Nobody seems to want to talk about responsibility. Suckers.

Ansolabehere and Iyengar, Going Negative. Something James said made me think of this book, which I haven’t looked at since 1998, and only barely then. In keeping with my having hardly read any of it, I appear to have been using a probation notice as a bookmark.

Fischer and Ravizza, Perspectives on Moral Responsibility. Got it for Christmas last year. Such a good anthology

Hammett, Nightmare Town, or maybe Crime Stories and Other Writings

Lakoff…I keep changing my mind. I don’t know whether to go chronologically, or start with something lighter and backtrack through the details. The latter option seems better, but damned if I haven’t been meaning to get through Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things for like ever.

Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, when it comes out

Solomon, Introducing Philosophy. Filling in all those tiny lacunae.

Prinz, Gut Reactions. More emotions, more Hume. I should revisit Damasio while I’m at it.

Oh yeah, Hume, Two Enquiries and a Treatise. Heck, they’re short.

Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential. I picked this up after someone mentioned it. There’s some pretty good food advice, among the various salacious stories. Whatever; I’m halfway through.

Gladwell, Blink. Pat, of all people, suggested this one, though not especially favorably. I’m curious to see what all the fuss is about.

Wilson, The Moral Sense. I’ve been trying to figure out how hard it is to be a Humean without being a retributivist legal moralist jerkwad.

Camus, The Stranger. In translation, sadly, but I can come back to it if my French is ever decent

Underhill, Why We Buy. “The Science of Shopping”

Peake, Titus Groan. It’s good stuff, but the thing is it’s an audiobook, and damned if the dude doesn’t have some unlistenably byzantine prose. (I’m one to talk)

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics. Man, why have I not read this yet

Caesar, the commentaries. Followed by Suetonius, I’m thinking.

Some of these might be unavoidable. However, there is no reason whatsoever to begin or end a sentence with them. I don’t know why I do this. You already know what you’re going to say, dude, all you have to do is not introduce it with an “uh”

This will be Goal 1: Get out of the habit of sticking that “uh” at the beginning of everything you say.
After getting that out of the way, we can move on to the, uh, more advanced stuff