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Howard Wettstein

University of California, Riverside
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Canyon Crest Heights, California, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy, Misc
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy, Misc
Metaphysics and Epistemology
  •  14
    Film and the Emotions (edited book)
    with Peter A. French
    Wiley-Blackwell. 2010.
    Film and the Emotions explores the complicated relationship between filmed entertainment, such as movies and television shows, and our capacity to feel emotions. This volume of The Midwest Studies in Philosophy covers topics such as the role of imagination in our capacity to respond emotionally to films, how emotions felt in response to films relate to emotions felt about real events, and the moral implications of responding emotionally to fictions, among others. This collection includes ninetee…Read more
    Film Media
  • New Directions in Philosophy (edited book)
    with Peter A. French
    Blackwell. 1999.
    17th/18th Century Philosophy
  • Causal theory of proper names
    In Audi Robert (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 109--10. 1995.
    Names
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    Practicing Magic
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (3): 723-729. 2007.
  • Midwest Studies in Philosophy V, 1980: Studies in Epistemology
    with Peter A. French and Theodore E. Uehling
    Synthese 61 (2): 261-272. 1984.
  • Against Justification
    Jerome (Yehudah) Gellman’s paper, “Perceiving God,” presented at the Henle Conference at St. Louis University, April 2008, evaluates a couple of arguments that attempt to establish the existence of God on the basis of individual religious experience. I can send his paper if anyone is interested. The following are my comments on his paper.
    Philosophy of ReligionReligious Experience