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50Motivated creativity and characterForum for European Philosophy Blog. 2016.Matthew Kieran on true creativity, motivation, and character.
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114For the Love of Art: Artistic Values and Appreciative VirtueRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 71 13-31. 2012.It is argued that instrumentalizing the value of art does an injustice to artistic appreciation and provides a hostage to fortune. Whilst aestheticism offers an intellectual bulwark against such an approach, it focuses on what is distinctive of art at the expense of broader artistic values. It is argued that artistic appreciation and creativity involve not just skills but excellences of character. The nature of particular artistic or appreciative virtues and vices are briefly explored, such as s…Read more
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188Why ideal critics are not ideal: Aesthetic character, motivation and valueBritish Journal of Aesthetics 48 (3): 278-294. 2008.On a contemporary Humean-influenced view, the responses of suitably idealized appreciators are presented as tracking, or even determining, facts about artistic value. Focusing on the intra-personal case, this paper argues that (i) facts about the refinement and reconfiguration of aesthetic character together with (ii) the manner in which autobiography and character are implicated in artistic appreciation make it de facto unlikely that we can reliably come to know how our ideal counterpart would …Read more
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438Art, morality and ethics: On the (im)moral character of art works and inter-relations to artistic valuePhilosophy Compass 1 (2). 2006.The (im)moral character of art works often affects how we respond to them. But should it affect our evaluation of them as art? The article surveys the contemporary debate whilst outlining further lines of argument and enquiry. The main arguments in favour of aestheticism, the claim that there is no internal relation between artistic value and moral character, are considered. Nonetheless the connection between art's instructional aspirations and artistic value, as well as the ways in which works …Read more
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478Pornographic artPhilosophy and Literature 25 (1): 31-45. 2001.The received view holds that pornographic representations can only be bad art. Three arguments for this view are examined based on definitional considerations, the purpose of sexual arousal being inimical to the realization of artistic value, the problem of appreciating a work as pornography and as art. It is argued not only that the received view is without warranty but, moreover, that there are works which are only properly appreciable as pornographic art.
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3Emotions, Art, and ImmoralityIn Peter Goldie (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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40Valuing emotions by Michael Stocker with Elizabeth hegeman. Cambridge university press, 1996, pp. XXVIII + 353. £45.00 hb, £15.95 pb (review)Philosophy 73 (2): 305-324. 1998.
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