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2Improvisation: Jazz ImprovisationIn Michael Kelly (ed.), Encyclopedia of aesthetics, Oxford University Press. pp. 1--479. 1998.
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36Word and Object: Museums and the Matter of MeaningRoyal 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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26Fictional Characters, Real Problems: The Search for Ethical Content in Literature (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2016.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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24Book review: Meaning and interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and literary knowledge (review)Philosophy and Literature 19 (2). 1995.
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12Reflections on George Dickie's "The Century of Taste: The Philosophical Odyssey of Taste in the Eighteenth Century"The Journal of Aesthetic Education 33 (3): 93. 1999.
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MetaphorIn Berys Nigel Gaut & Dominic Lopes (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Routledge. 2000.
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62Aristotle's Mimesis and Abstract ArtPhilosophy 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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20Jazz improvisation and ethical interaction : a sketch of the connectionsIn Garry Hagberg (ed.), Art and Ethical Criticism, Blackwell. 2008.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.
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74Wittgenstein undergroundPhilosophy 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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