Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind
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    Jazz Improvisation : A Mimetic Art ?
    Revue Internationale de Philosophie 4 (4): 469-485. 2006.
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    VA Howard, Artistry: The Work of Artists Reviewed by
    Philosophy in Review 4 (3): 113-115. 1984.
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    Review of Ray Monk, How to Read Wittgenstein (review)
    Philosophical Quarterly 57 (228). 2007.
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    This chapter contains sections titled: Possible Selves and Webs of Belief The Textually Cultivated “I”: Making up One's Mind Metaphorical Identification and Self‐Individuation.
  • Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge
    Philosophical Quarterly 47 (186): 106-108. 1997.
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    Artistic Intention and Mental Image
    The Journal of Aesthetic Education 22 (3): 63. 1988.
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    On Rhythm
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 68 (3): 281-284. 2010.
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    Word and Object: Museums and the Matter of Meaning
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 79 261-293. 2016.
    We often think of works of art as possessors of meaning, and we think of museums as places where that meaning can be exhibited and encountered. But it is precisely at this first step of thinking about artistic meaning that we too easily import a conceptually entrenched model or picture of linguistic meaning that then constrains our appreciation of artistic meaning and what museum exhibitions actually do. That model of linguistic meaning is atomism: the notion that the single, self-contained word…Read more
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    Improvisation: Jazz Improvisation
    In Michael Kelly (ed.), Encyclopedia of aesthetics, Oxford University Press. pp. 1--479. 1998.
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    The self, speaking
    Revue Internationale de Philosophie 1 (219): 9-47. 2002.
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    Literature is a complex and multifaceted expression of our humanity, one dimension of which is ethical content. This striking collection of new essays pursues a fuller and richer understanding of five of the central aspects of this ethical content. These aspects are: the question of character, its formation, and its role in moral discernment; poetic vision in the context of ethical understanding; literature's distinctive role in self-identity and self-understanding; patterns of moral growth and …Read more
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  • Metaphor
    In Berys Nigel Gaut & Dominic Lopes (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Routledge. 2000.
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    Wittgenstein underground
    Philosophy and Literature 28 (2): 379-392. 2004.
    : This paper argues that Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground makes a fundamental point that runs directly counter to the received popular image of the work; i.e. the understanding that Notes describes a consciousness reflecting on itself, hermetically sealed within its own Cartesian interior. In truth, a closer reading shows that the mind depicted therein is profoundly relational and situated in a particularized context, and that this discursive mind characterizes what Wittgenstein says about me…Read more
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    Aristotle's Mimesis and Abstract Art
    Philosophy 59 (229). 1984.
    Does non-representational art itself constitute a refutation of any theory of art based upon mimesis or imitation? Our intuitions regarding this question seem to support an affirmative answer: it appears impossible to account for abstract and non-representational art in terms of imitation, because, to put the problem simply, if nothing is copied in a work of art then there can be nothing essentially imitative about it. The very notion of abstract imitative art seems self-contradictory
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    This chapter contains sections titled: Attentiveness Awareness of the Circumstances of Action Acknowledging the Autonomy of Others Respecting Complexity Memory Respecting Individuality Rethinking the Past The Habit of Resourcefulness Kantian Mutual Respect Genuineness and Insight Sensitivity to the Context of Discourse Excessive Attentiveness The Diversity of Intentional Action.
  • V.A. Howard, Artistry: The Work Of Artists (review)
    Philosophy in Review 4 113-115. 1984.
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    How to Read Wittgenstein – Ray Monk
    Philosophical Quarterly 57 (228): 491-495. 2007.
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    The Approach of a Lyricist
    Common Knowledge 20 (2): 214-222. 2014.
    As part of a Common Knowledge colloquium on “lyric philosophy,” this essay considers some of the connections between linguistic and nonlinguistic meaning, the connection between linguistic meaning and what Wittgenstein called aspect perception or imagination-enriched perception, issues in the analysis of meaning down to constituent parts and the problematic legacy of atomistic approaches to word-meaning, the inflection of experience across time and across context and the role of sensibility in b…Read more
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    Davidson, self-knowledge, and autobiographical writing
    Philosophy and Literature 26 (2): 354-368. 2002.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy and Literature 26.2 (2002) 354-368 [Access article in PDF] Davidson, Self-knowledge, and Autobiographical Writing Garry Hagberg AMONG THE NUMEROUS THINGS that make any autobiographical undertaking so interesting is the fact that there exists no one-to-one correlation between a person's belief, intention, preference, desire, hope, fear, expectation, and so forth (through a list including many of the diverse things philosoph…Read more
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    'What is the meaning of a word?' In this thought-provoking book, Hagberg demonstrates how this question—which initiated Wittgenstein's later work in the philosophy of language—is significant for our understanding not only of linguistic meaning but of the meaning of works of art and literature as well.
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    On Representing Jazz: An Art Form in Need of Understanding
    Philosophy and Literature 26 (1): 188-198. 2002.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy and Literature 26.1 (2002) 188-198 [Access article in PDF] Symposium: On Ken Burns's "Jazz" On Representing Jazz: An Art Form in Need of Understanding Garry L. Hagberg ALTHOUGH IT WENT ON in smaller numbers in earlier decades, the fact that there were legions of expatriate jazz musicians fleeing to a far more appreciative Europe in the 1960s and 1970s shows how important a cultural event Ken Burns's documentary on the firs…Read more
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    Jenefer Robinson, ed., Music and Meaning Reviewed by
    Philosophy in Review 19 (1): 52-55. 1999.
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    Seeing Wittgenstein Anew (edited book)
    with Norton Batkin, Sandra Laugier, Timouthy Gould, Stanley Cavell, and Victor J. Krebs
    Cambridge University Press. 2010.
    Seeing Wittgenstein Anew is a collection which examines Ludwig Wittgenstein's remarks on the concept of aspect-seeing, showing that it was not simply one more topic of investigation in Wittgenstein's later writings but rather a pervasive and guiding concept in his efforts to turn philosophy's attention to the actual conditions of our common life in language. The essays in this 2010 volume open up novel paths across familiar fields of thought: the objectivity of interpretation, the fixity of the …Read more