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39What's the Story?Substance 22 (2/3): 98. 1993.People often ask each other “what happens” in a novel or film, and they are inclined to think that some answers are better than others. Some claims about what happens in a story are deemed inaccurate or false, while others are the object of a fairly widespread consensus. The fact that a statement about a narrative discourse is deemed accurate does not mean that it will or should be accepted as an adequate statement about the story told in the discourse. If someone asks me what just happened in a…Read more
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85Creativity and Art: Three Roads to Surprise by boden, margaret aJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 69 (4): 423-425. 2011.[Book review article for Creativity and Art: Three Roads to Surprise by Boden, Margaret A, no abstract is available.]
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146The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film (edited book)Routledge. 2008._The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film_ is the first comprehensive volume to explore the main themes, topics, thinkers and issues in philosophy and film. The _Companion_ features sixty specially commissioned chapters from international scholars and is divided into four clear parts: • issues and concepts • authors and trends • genres • film as philosophy. Part one is a comprehensive section examining key concepts, including chapters on acting, censorship, character, depiction, ethics, ge…Read more
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22Authorial intention and the varieties of intentionalismIn Garry L. Hagberg & Walter Jost (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Intention Authorial Intention Varieties of Intentionalism The Utterance Model Hypothetical Intentionalism Hypothetical Intentionalism and Actualist Intentionalism Compared Success Conditions and the Dilemma Argument.
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1NarrativeIn Berys Nigel Gaut & Dominic Lopes (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Routledge. 2000.
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LiteratureIn Jerrold Levinson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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254Philosophical Perspectives on Fictional CharactersNew Literary History 42 (2): 337-360. 2011.This paper takes up a series of basic philosophical questions about the nature and existence of fictional characters. We begin with realist approaches that hinge on the thesis that at least some claims about fictional characters can be right or wrong because they refer to something that exists, such as abstract objects. Irrealist approaches deny such realist postulations and hold instead that fictional characters are a figment of the human imagination. A third family of approaches, based on work…Read more
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95Cinema, philosophy, Bergman: on film as philosophyOxford University Press. 2009.The increasingly popular idea that cinematic fictions can "do" philosophy raises some difficult questions. Who is actually doing the philosophizing? Is it the philosophical commentator who reads general arguments or theories into the stories conveyed by a film? Could it be the film-maker, or a group of collaborating film-makers, who raise and try to answer philosophical questions with a film? Is there something about the experience of films that is especially suited to the stimulation of worthwh…Read more
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18When a Work Is Finished: A Response to Darren Hudson HickJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66 (4): 393-395. 2008.
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40Bolzano on ArtBritish Journal of Aesthetics 56 (4): 333-345. 2016.In his little-known essay published posthumously in 1849, Über die Eintheilung der schönen Künste, Bernard Bolzano proposes an explication of the concept of beautiful art as well as a classification of these arts. Bolzano’s divisions allowed him not only to provide a principled and comprehensive classification of actual, well-established arts, but also to anticipate kinds of beautiful art that would not exist or be widely recognized until decades after his death, such as moving pictures, abstrac…Read more
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10The Critical Imagination, by JamesGrant. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, xii + 192pp. ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐966179‐4 hb £32 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 23 (S2): 13-16. 2015.
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143On Authorship and CollaborationJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 69 (2): 221-225. 2011.[Discussion article]
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29What is authorship? How are answers to that question related to ideas aboutthe understanding, interpretation, or appreciation of literary works? In what follows I provide a selective survey of the voluminous literature on thesedivisive questions, offer criticisms of some influential theories, and present an alternative.
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42Literary knowledge: humanistic inquiry and the philosophy of scienceCornell University Press. 1988.Paisley Livingston here addresses contemporary controversies over the role of "theory" within the humanistic disciplines. In the process, he suggests ways in which significant modern texts in the philosophy of science relate to the study of literature. Livingston first surveys prevalent views of theory, and then proposes an alternative: theory, an indispensable element in the study of literature, should be understood as a Cogently argued and informed in its judgments, this book points the way to…Read more
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310The complete workJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 72 (3): 225-233. 2014.Defense of a psychological account of what it is for an artwork to be complete.
Areas of Specialization
Aesthetics |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
Aesthetics |
Meta-Ethics |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |