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18Introduction: Not "Of," "As," or "And," but "In"Philosophy and Literature 41 (1A). 2017.The philosophy of literature, a topic on which we publish numerous articles, concerns what we at the journal take to be engaging and interestingly intricate issues; these include the ontology of fictional characters and the precise nature of our emotional responses to fiction. Philosophy as literature, although we perhaps publish fewer works of this kind, considers philosophical writing from a literary standpoint; issues here include the varying stylistics of philosophical writing over the ages …Read more
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30Art Rethought: The Social Practices of ArtBritish Journal of Aesthetics 57 (3): 331-334. 2017.© British Society of Aesthetics 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society of Aesthetics. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected] exists, according to Nicholas Wolterstorff in this deeply engaging and exemplary study, a Grand Narrative that runs through much of our thinking about art. That narrative, emerging from and solidified since the eighteenth century, is in essence that art is created for, and remains in museum…Read more
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Mind and Meaning in Aesthetics: A Critical Discussion of Theories of Expression and the Analogy Between Art and LanguageDissertation, University of Oregon. 1982.Puzzlement about how feelings can be put into and expressed by objects has generated expression theories of art. These theories rely upon an analogy between art and language; I examine the ways in which this analogy can be spelled out, discussing both theories of art and corresponding theories of language. ;I begin by considering Locke's view of language and Ducasse's parallel theory of art. On Locke's view the meaning of a word is an idea in the mind which gives life to the signs with which we …Read more
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91The Thinker and The Draughtsman: Wittgenstein, Perspicuous Relations, and ‘Working on Oneself’: Garry L. HagbergRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 66 67-81. 2010.In 1931, in the remarks collected as Culture and Value, Wittgenstein writes: ‘A thinker is very much like a draughtsman whose aim it is to represent all the interrelations between things.’ At a glance it is clear that this analogy might contribute significantly to a full description of the autobiographical thinker as well. And this conjunction of relations between things and the work of the draughtsman immediately and strongly suggests that the grasping of relations is in a sense visual, or that…Read more
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18Review of Stephen Davies, Themes in the Philosophy of Music (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (1). 2006.
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15Aristotle's Mimesis and Abstract ArtPhilosophy 59 (229): 365-371. 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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64Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic TheoryJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54 (4): 388-389. 1995.
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2James K. Wright, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 26 (6): 449-452. 2006.
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19Listening to Music By Martyn Evans London: Macmillan, 1990, viii + 160 pp., £35.00 (review)Philosophy 67 (259): 123-. 1992.
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1In a new light: Wittgenstein, aspect-perception, and retrospective change in self-understandingIn William Day & Víctor J. Krebs (eds.), Seeing Wittgenstein Anew, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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41Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor, by Ted Cohen (review)Mind 119 (476): 1145-1151. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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2Listening to Music By Martyn Evans London: Macmillan, 1990, viii + 160 pp., £35.00 (review)Philosophy 67 (259): 123-125. 1992.
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27Introduction: On the Ground of Ethical CriticismPhilosophy and Literature 39 (1A). 2015.One can characterize the relation between philosophy and literature in a number of interestingly different ways: literature provides examples that put flesh on the bones of philosophical ideas; literature shows what philosophy says; literature serves philosophy by displaying the complexity of circumstance that philosophy may oversimplify; literature captures a kind of content that is not amenable to propositional encapsulation; literature offers a portal into an imaginative world and a special k…Read more
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38Wittgenstein, Music and the Philosophy of CultureThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 21 23-40. 2014.Wittgenstein’s scattered remarks on music, when brought together and then related to his similarly scattered remarks on culture, show a deep and abiding concern with music as a repository and conveyer of meaning in human life. Yet the conception of meaning at work in these remarks is not of a kind that is amenable to brief or concise articulation. This paper explores that conception, considering in turn the relational networks within which musical meaning emerges, what he calls a discernible “ki…Read more
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12War of the WorldviewsPhilosophy and Literature 26 (1). 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy and Literature 26.1 (2002) iii-iv [Access article in PDF] Editorial War of the Worldviews With this issue, PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE enters its second quarter century. For many of the past twenty-five years it has enjoyed the sponsorship of Whitman College and the extraordinarily capable coeditorship of Patrick Henry. Bard College now assumes sponsorship, and the journal will be edited jointly by us, with Pat Henry ascendi…Read more
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19Goldman, Alan H. Philosophy and the Novel. Oxford University Press, 2013, 209 pp., $53.40 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 72 (3): 332-335. 2014.
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32Self-ExpressionBritish Journal of Aesthetics 50 (1): 107-109. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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"Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory": Barbara Herrnstein Smith (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 30 (3): 287. 1990.
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1"Metaphor and Art: Interactionism and Reference in the Verbal and Non-verbal Arts": Carl R. Hausman (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 30 (4): 376. 1990.
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74Art and the unsay able: Langer's tractarian aestheticsBritish Journal of Aesthetics 24 (4): 325-340. 1984.
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