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24Art Scents: Exploring the Aesthetics of Smell and the Olfactory ArtsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 80 (2): 248-251. 2022.
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23The laboratory creation scene in Branagh’s film is brilliant….Even more frenzied and overwrought than Whale’s, Branagh’s creation scene is filmed with dozens of quick cuts, each shot full of movement across the frame. Victor races along his attic hall, cape flying before he discards it to appear bare-chested and vigorous. While pulleys move, bottles clank, and blue volts of electricity rise in glass Tesla tubes, the naked body on the gurney is raised into a copper vat. Electric eels dispense the…Read more
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20On Being Stereoblind in an Era of 3D MoviesEssays in Philosophy 13 (2): 550-576. 2012.I happen to have a visual impairment known as strabismus, which means that the information from my eyes is not successfully fused in my brain, so I lack stereoscopic vision. Hence I was surprised to find I could see some depth effects of recent 3D films such as Wim Wenders’s Pina. This experience has prompted me to explore both further information about binocular vision and various disputes about the aesthetic merits of 3D films. My paper takes up the following topics: (1) a review of informatio…Read more
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19Commentary on ModrakProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 2 (1): 237-241. 1986.
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19The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film edited by livingston, paisley and carl plantingaJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 68 (3): 301-303. 2010.
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17Eryximachus' Speech and Presocratic Thought: Love as Cosmic HarmonyNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 48 (1): 88-99. 2013.There are some indications within the Symposium that Socrates will learn and describe the real truth about Love from his wise mentor Diotima. This leaves unclear why Plato decided to include the other speeches developed within the dialogue’s elaborate structure. Can we take anything seriously from these other speeches? This paper examines the doctor Eryximachus’ speech with the general hypothesis that we can actually learn from his medical metaphors about love as a healthy harmony.
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14Orientalism Inside/Out: The Art of Soody SharifiIn Peg Brand Weiser (ed.), Beauty Unlimited, Indiana University Press. pp. 347-367. 2013."Orientalism" is a term made prominent by critic Edward Said in his 1978 book of that title. . . . Said specifically used the term to designate a field of self-constituted experts who proposed to explain the Orient to the West. . . . This essay explores the visual artwork of Soody Sharifi who left Iran before the Islamic Revolution of 1979, but returns to photograph women and girls. After a trip back to Iran in 1999, she began a self-portrait series exploring how she felt about being a Muslim wo…Read more
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14Philosophy and Film (edited book)Routledge. 1995._Philosophy and Film_ moves from broad theoretical reflections on film as a medium to concrete examinations of individual films.
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13The Science of Measuring Pleasure and PainIn Olof Pettersson & Vigdis Songe-Møller (eds.), Plato’s Protagoras: Essays on the Confrontation of Philosophy and Sophistry, Springer. 2016.Near the end of the Protagoras there is a famous argument in which Socrates appears to deny the possibility of weakness of will. The passage is part of a longer examination of whether virtue can be taught and of the unity of the virtues. Socrates and Protagoras discuss whether it makes sense to say, as people commonly do, that they sometimes choose to do things they know are not best for them because they are “overcome by pleasure.” Supposedly “the many” hold that the good is pleasure, and that …Read more
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13Film theoryIn Alison M. Jaggar & Iris Marion Young (eds.), A Companion to Feminist Philosophy, Blackwell. 2017.Feminist philosophy of film is a young field that is rapidly growing but that has as yet no distinct disciplinary presence within philosophy. Articles by feminist philosophers on film began appearing in aesthetics journals and anthologies in English only in the late 1980s and 1990s. In film studies, as in aesthetics more generally, disciplinary boundaries are fluid. Writers from many fields – literature, art, communications, cultural studies – make critical contributions on film, addressing phil…Read more
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11Nearer Means Bigger: Artistic imitations anf pleasure- illusions in Republic IX, X and the PhilebusNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 43 (2): 137-147. 2008.
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11Commentary on RosenProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 1 (1): 289-295. 1985.
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10The Role of Cosmology in Plato's PhilosophyIn Hugh H. Benson (ed.), A Companion to Plato, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Pre‐Socratic Cosmologies and the Phaedo The Soul and the Universe in the Phaedrus Timaeus Later Developments Note.
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8Plato’s Philebus: Pleasure, Imagination, and PoetryNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 42 (1-2): 54-62. 2007.
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7Erens, Patricia, Ed. Issues in Feminist Film CriticismJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 50 (4): 347-348. 1992.
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6PhilosophersThe Philosophers' Magazine 55 52-59. 2011.“The contents of a photograph are not facts, nor reality, nor truth. They are a means we have created to extend our way of seeing on a search for truth.”
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5Scientific Explanation and Empirical Data in Aristotle's "Meteorology"Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 8 67. 1990.
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5Share the FantasyIn Fritz Allhoff, Jessica Wolfendale & Jeanette Kennett (eds.), Fashion - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style, Wiley. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Chanel No. 5 and Perfume Fashions Coco Mademoiselle Ads Male Perfume Ads Celebrity Perfumes by Women of Color Perfume Aesthetics, Erotics, and Ethics Resisting the Fantasy: Erotics and Commodity Fetishism.
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5Share the FantasyIn Fritz Allhoff, Jessica Wolfendale & Jeanette Kennett (eds.), Fashion - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style, Wiley. pp. 70--87. 2011.
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University of HoustonDepartment of Philosophy
Houston, Texas, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Aesthetics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |