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55A Defence of the Coherence Theory of TruthJournal of Philosophical Research 26 89-101. 2001.Recent critics of the coherence theory of truth (notably Ralph Walker) have alleged that the theory is incoherent, since its defence presupposes the correctness of the contrary correspondence theory of truth. Coherentists must specify the system of propositions with which true propositons cohere (the specified system). Generally, coherentists claim that the specified system is a system composed of propositions believed by a community. Critics of coherentism maintain that the coherentist’s assert…Read more
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20Review of noël Carroll, Art in Three Dimensions (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (12). 2010.
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11Aesthetics (edited book)Routledge. 2005.This four volume set brings together both classic and contemporary writings to provide a comprehensive collection of the most important essays on the subject. All of the various artistic genres are addressed, with sections on film, dance and architecture as well as music, literature and the visual arts. With a new introduction by the editor to guide the reader through the volumes, this major new work will provide student and researcher alike with key writings on aesthetics in one convenient, uni…Read more
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23Bonds, mark Evan. Absolute music: The history of an idea. Oxford university press, 2014, XIII + 375 pp., $35.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 73 (2): 207-208. 2015.
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20Semantic Challenges to Realism (review)Dialogue 41 (2): 405-406. 2002.Semantic realism is the view that sentences can be true even if speakers cannot know that they are. Anti-realists believe that sentences cannot be true unless speakers can know that they are. The difference between the two positions can be characterized as a dispute about truth conditions. Realists believe that they are objective, that is, they can obtain even though speakers cannot know that they do. Anti-realists believe that truth conditions are always recognizable. Two major lines of argumen…Read more
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3Jenefer Robinson, Deeper Than Reason: Emotion and its Role in Literature, Music, and Art Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 26 (5): 374-376. 2006.
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188The slingshot argument and the correspondence theory of truthActa Analytica 17 (2): 121-132. 2002.The correspondence theory of truth holds that each true sentence corresponds to a discrete fact. Donald Davidson and others have argued (using an argument that has come to be known as the slingshot) that this theory is mistaken, since all true sentences correspond to the same “Great Fact.” The argument is designed to show that by substituting logically equivalent sentences and coreferring terms for each other in the context of sentences of the form ‘P corresponds to the fact that P’ every true s…Read more
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235Truth, correspondence and deflationismFrontiers of Philosophy in China 4 (4): 563-575. 2009.The central claim of this essay is that many deflationary theories of truth are variants of the correspondence theory of truth. Essential to the correspondence theory of truth is the proposal that objective features of the world are the truthmakers of statements. Many advocates of deflationary theories (including F. P. Ramsay, P. F. Strawson and Paul Horwich) remain committed to this proposal. Although T-sentences (statements of the form “ s is true iff p ”) are presented by advocates of deflati…Read more
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12Charles Batteux: The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2015.The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle by Charles Batteux was arguably the most influential work on aesthetics published in the 18th century. James O. Young presents the first complete English translation of the work, with full annotations and a comprehensive introduction, which illuminate Batteux's continuing philosophical interest.
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2Authenticity in performanceIn Berys Nigel Gaut & Dominic Lopes (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Routledge. 2000.
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20Roger Scruton , Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 31 (1): 67-79. 2011.
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40Inquiry in the Arts and SciencesPhilosophy 71 (276): 255-273. 1996.In his 1836 lectures to the Royal Institute, the great landscape painter John Constable stated that ‘Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.’ Landscape, he went on to say, should ‘be considered a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments.’1Constable makes two claims in this striking passage. The first is that painting is a form of inquiry. This is, by itself, a bold claim, but Constable goes on to state that painters and s…Read more
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64The ‘great divide’ in musicBritish Journal of Aesthetics 45 (2): 175-184. 2005.Several prominent philosophers of music, including Lydia Goehr and Peter Kivy, maintain that the experience of music changed drastically in about 1800. According to the great divide hypothesis, prior to 1800 audiences often scarcely attended to music. At other times, music was appreciated as part of social, civic, or religious ceremonies. After the great divide, audiences began to appreciate music as an exclusive object of aesthetic experience. The great divide hypothesis is false. The musicolog…Read more
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16Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination: The Vibrant Flux of Our Existence (review)Review of Metaphysics 57 (1): 180-181. 2003.
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