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Imagination and Aesthetic Judgements in Scientific Thought ExperimentsIn Milena Ivanova & Stephen French (eds.), Aesthetics and Science, Routledge. 2020.
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Suffering Art Gladly: The Paradox of Negative Emotions in ArtIn Jerrold Levinson (ed.), Suffering Art Gladly: The Paradox of Negative Emotions in Art, Palgrave/macmillan. 2013.
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Imagination, Expressiveness, and Expression in the Case of WineIn Andy Hamilton & Nick Zangwill (eds.), Scruton's Aesthetics, Palgrave-macmillan. 2012.
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Imagination, Fantasy, and Sexual DesireIn Hans Maes & Jerrold Levinson (eds.), Art and Pornography: Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press Uk. 2012.
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Attention, Negative Valence, and Tragic EmotionsIn Jerrold Levinson (ed.), Suffering Art Gladly: The Paradox of Negative Emotions in Art, Palgrave/macmillan. 2013.
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36Emotion and Value (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2014.This volume brings together new work by leading philosophers on the topics of emotion and value, and explores issues at their intersection. Recent work in philosophy and psychology has had important implications for topics such as the role that emotions play in practical rationality and moral psychology, the connection between imagination and emotion in the appreciation of fiction, and more generally with the ability of emotions to discern axiological saliences and to ground the objectivity of e…Read more
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19The Philosophy of Wine: A Case of Truth, Beauty and IntoxicationRoutledge. 2010.Does this Bonnes-Mares really have notes of chocolate, truffle, violets, and merde de cheval? Can wines really be feminine, profound, pretentious, or cheeky? Can they express emotion or terroir? Do the judgements of 'experts' have any objective validity? Is a great wine a work of art? Questions like these will have been entertained by anyone who has ever puzzled over the tasting notes of a wine writer, or been baffled by the response of a sommelier to an innocent question. Only recently, however…Read more
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101Imagination, Expressiveness, and Expression in the Case of WineIn Andy Hamilton & Nick Zangwill (eds.), Scruton's Aesthetics, Palgrave-macmillan. 2012.
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73Review: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 45 (2): 192-193. 2005.
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315Imagination, Fantasy, and Sexual DesireIn Hans Maes & Jerrold Levinson (eds.), Art and Pornography: Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press Uk. 2012.
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Style and Authenticity in WineIn Andrea Borghini & Patrik Engisch (eds.), A Philosophy of Recipes: Making, Experiencing, and Valuing, Bloomsbury. 2021.
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168Imagination, Aesthetic Feelings, and Scientific ReasoningIn Milena Ivanova & Stephen French (eds.), Aesthetics and Science, Routledge. 2020.
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93Why we do not perceive aesthetic propertiesIn Anne Reboul (ed.), Mind, Value and Metaphysics, Springer. 2014.
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Nature, Beauty, and TourismIn John Tribe (ed.), Philosophical Issues in Tourism, Channel View. 2009.
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60Tasting in Time: The Affective and Temporal Dimensions of Flavour PerceptionThe Monist 101 (3): 277-293. 2018.This paper explores some connections between flavour perception, emotion, and temporal experience. Focussing on the question, If you like that taste of X and I do not, are we tasting the same thing X?, I will approach it by looking at some differences between how experts and nonexperts ‘taste’. I will eventually answer that if by ‘the same thing’ we mean the overall flavour profile of a complex sensory object, then the answer must be negative. I will argue that there is indeed a relatively trivi…Read more
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128Representation and ephemerality in olfactionIn Thomas Crowther & Clare Mac Cumhaill (eds.), Perceptual Ephemera, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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811Fitting Feelings and Elegant Proofs: On the Psychology of Aesthetic Evaluation in MathematicsPhilosophia Mathematica. 2017.ABSTRACT This paper explores the role of aesthetic judgements in mathematics by focussing on the relationship between the epistemic and aesthetic criteria employed in such judgements, and on the nature of the psychological experiences underpinning them. I claim that aesthetic judgements in mathematics are plausibly understood as expressions of what I will call ‘aesthetic-epistemic feelings’ that serve a genuine cognitive and epistemic function. I will then propose a naturalistic account of these…Read more
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2Relatively Fitting Emotions and Apparently Objective ValuesIn Sabine Roeser & Cain Samuel Todd (eds.), Emotion and Value, Oxford University Press Uk. 2014.
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125Emotion and ValuePhilosophy Compass 9 (10): 702-712. 2014.The nature of the general connection between emotion and value, and of the various connections between specific emotions and values, lies at the heart of philosophical discussion of the emotions. It is also central to some accounts of the nature of value itself, of value in general but also of the specific values studied within particular philosophical domains. These issues all form the subject matter of this article, and they in turn are all connected by two main questions: (i) How do emotions …Read more
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403Attending Emotionally to FictionJournal of Value Inquiry 46 (4): 449-465. 2012.This paper addresses the so-called paradox of fiction, the problem of explaining how we can have emotional responses towards fiction. I claim that no account has yet provided an adequate explanation of how we can respond with genuine emotions when we know that the objects of our responses are fictional. I argue that we should understand the role played by the imagination in our engagement with fiction as functionally equivalent to that which it plays under the guise of acceptance in practical re…Read more
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166Unmasking the truth beneath the beauty: Why the supposed aesthetic judgements made in science may not be aesthetic at allInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 22 (1). 2008.In this article I examine the status of putative aesthetic judgements in science and mathematics. I argue that if the judgements at issue are taken to be genuinely aesthetic they can be divided into two types, positing either a disjunction or connection between aesthetic and epistemic criteria in theory/proof assessment. I show that both types of claim face serious difficulties in explaining the purported role of aesthetic judgements in these areas. I claim that the best current explanation of t…Read more
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323Imagination, Attitude, And Experience Inaesthetic JudgmentPostgraduate Journal of Aesthetics (1). 2004.In this paper I wish to defend a particular form of the traditional, and now almost wholly unfashionable, notion of an aesthetic attitude.
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172Quasi-realism, acquaintance, and the normative claims of aesthetic judgementBritish Journal of Aesthetics 44 (3): 277-296. 2004.My primary aim in this paper is to outline a quasi-realist theory of aesthetic judgement. Robert Hopkins has recently argued against the plausibility of this project because he claims that quasi-realism cannot explain a central component of any expressivist understanding of aesthetic judgements, namely their supposed ‘autonomy’. I argue against Hopkins’s claims by contending that Roger Scruton’s aesthetic attitude theory, centred on his account of the imagination, provides us with the means to d…Read more
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331Imaginability, morality, and fictional truth: Dissolving the puzzle of 'imaginative resistance'Philosophical Studies 143 (2): 187-211. 2009.This paper argues that there is no genuine puzzle of ‘imaginative resistance’. In part 1 of the paper I argue that the imaginability of fictional propositions is relative to a range of different factors including the ‘thickness’ of certain concepts, and certain pre-theoretical and theoretical commitments. I suggest that those holding realist moral commitments may be more susceptible to resistance and inability than those holding non-realist commitments, and that it is such realist commitments th…Read more
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