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8A History of Modern Aesthetics: Volume 1, the Eighteenth CenturyCambridge University Press. 2018.A History of Modern Aesthetics narrates the history of philosophical aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. Aesthetics began with Aristotle's defense of the cognitive value of tragedy in response to Plato's famous attack on the arts in The Republic, and cognitivist accounts of aesthetic experience have been central to the field ever since. But in the eighteenth century, two new ideas were introduced: that aesthetic experience is important because o…Read more
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18Architecture and PhilosophyKhōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy 1 (1). 2023.What might be meant by the phrase “architecture and philosophy”? I distinguish what it might mean from three other possibilities, “philosophy of architecture,” “philosophy as architecture,” and “architecture as philosophy.” The first refers to a subfield of academic aesthetics, itself a subfield of academic philosophy; the second to the use of architectural metaphors in philosophical writing; the third to the idea that works of architecture should express abstract, philosophical ideas. I discuss…Read more
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111Critique of the Power of JudgmentPhilosophical Review 111 (3): 429. 2002.This new translation is an extremely welcome addition to the continuing Cambridge Edition of Kant’s works. English-speaking readers of the third Critique have long been hampered by the lack of an adequate translation of this important and difficult work. James Creed Meredith’s much-reprinted translation has charm and elegance, but it is often too loose to be useful for scholarly purposes. Moreover it does not include the first version of Kant’s introduction, the so-called “First Introduction,” w…Read more
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17A Complex of Pleasures: Comment on ‘The Pleasure of Art’ by Mohan MatthenAustralasian Philosophical Review 1 (1): 40-49. 2017.ABSTRACTMatthen's functionalist account of art and his activity-centred account of aesthetic pleasure are on the right track, but he should recognize the importance of emotional as well as cognitive engagement with art.
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19Art and Ethics in a Material World: Kant’s Pragmatist LegacyBritish Journal of Aesthetics 56 (2): 212-215. 2016.
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9Arguing for Freedom of ReligionRoczniki Filozoficzne 70 (4): 365-394. 2022.My title is “Arguing for Freedom of Religion,” not for “Toleration,” because I follow the eighteenth-century writer Christoph Martin Wieland in taking “toleration" to connote a gift or indulgence from a majority to a minority, whereas true freedom of religion would put everybody on the same plane to believe and practice religion as they see fit, or not at all. I consider three historically distinct ways of arguing for freedom of religion: from a premise held by one religion that requires freedom…Read more
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25Autonomy and Integrity in Kant’s AestheticsThe Monist 66 (2): 167-188. 1983.“That the imagination should be both free and yet of itself conformable to law, that is, that it should carry autonomy with it, is a contradiction.” So Kant writes to express as a paradox the epistemological problem that the feeling on which an aesthetic judgment is based must be free of the constraint provided by determinate concepts, for otherwise there will be no reason why it should be pleasurable, yet must also be subject to some kind of rule, for otherwise the claim of universal validity w…Read more
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79Review: Kitcher, Kant's Thinker; A Declaration of Interdependence (review)European Journal of Philosophy 21 (3): 495-505. 2013.
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51Kant's Theory of Imagination: Bridging Gaps in Judgement and ExperienceJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 55 (3): 337-340. 1994.
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86Recent Books on Kant: Kant's Theory of Imagination; Kant and the Experience of Freedom; Aesthetic Judgement and the Moral Image of the World; Dignity and Practical Reason; Immanuel Kant; Kant's Compatibilism; Kant's Transcendental Psychology; The Unity of Reason; Kant's Theory of Justice (review)Philosophical Quarterly 46 (183): 226. 1996.
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58Kant's Theory of Freedom by Henry E. Allison (review)Journal of Philosophy 89 (2): 99-110. 1992.
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10Critique of the Power of JudgmentCambridge University Press. 2001.The Critique of the Power of Judgment (a more accurate rendition of what has hitherto been translated as the Critique of Judgment) is the third of Kant's great critiques following the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of Practical Reason. This translation of Kant's masterpiece follows the principles and high standards of all other volumes in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. This volume, first published in 2000, includes: the indispensable first draft of Kant's introduc…Read more
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1Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2011.This volume collects Kant's most important ethical and anthropological writings from the 1760s, before he developed his critical philosophy. The materials presented here range from the Observations, one of Kant's most elegantly written and immediately popular texts, to the accompanying Remarks which Kant wrote in his personal copy of the Observations and which are translated here in their entirety for the first time. This edition also includes little-known essays as well as personal notes and fr…Read more
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Critical Guide to Kant’s Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and the Sublime (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2012.
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46Representational Mind: A Study of Kant's Theory of Freedom (review)Philosophical Review 100 (4): 703-710. 1991.
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43On Paul Guyer’s Kant and the Experience of Freedom (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (2): 361. 1995.
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17Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Critical EssaysRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.The central project of the Critique of Pure Reason is to answer two sets of questions: What can we know and how can we know it? and What can't we know and why can't we know it? The essays in this collection are intended to help students read the Critique of Pure Reason with a greater understanding of its central themes and arguments, and with some awareness of important lines of criticism of those themes and arguments
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14Kant and the Ends of AestheticsMind 111 (442): 363-366. 2002."The importance and significance of Kant's aesthetics have been widely debated. This work presents an original interpretation of Kant's account which is based on rethinking the nature of Critical Philosophy. Gary Banham presents the argument that the Critique of Judgment needs to be read as a whole. Aesthetics is investigated in relation to all three critiques with the recovery of a larger sense of the 'aesthetic' resulting. This broader notion of aesthetics is connected to the recovery of the c…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
History of Western Philosophy |
Value Theory |