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204Appreciating the Acquaintance Principle: A Reply to KonigsbergBritish Journal of Aesthetics 53 (2): 237-245. 2013.What is the relationship between acquaintance and aesthetic judgement? Wollheim’s acquaintance principle (AP) is one answer. Amir Konigsberg—the most recent critic of AP—has produced a number of examples which he claims will require us to restrict AP even further than has previously been suggested. I argue that Konigsberg is mistaken and that his examples do not necessitate any further restrictions on AP. This failure, however, is not the result of some specific flaw in Konigsberg’s argument; ra…Read more
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53Religious fictionalism and the problem of evilReligious Studies 51 (3): 353-360. 2015.The problem of evil is typically presented as a problem – sometimes the problem – facing theistic realists. This article takes no stance on what effect (if any) the existence of evil has on the rationality of theistic belief. Instead, it explores the possibility of using the problem of evil to generate worries for some of those who reject theistic realism. Although this article focuses on the consequences for a particular kind of religious fictionalist, the lessons adduced are intended to have m…Read more
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80Heidegger and Analytic Philosophy: Together at Last?International Journal of Philosophical Studies 22 (3): 482-487. 2014.No abstract
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205A social epistemology of aesthetics: belief polarization, echo chambers and aesthetic judgementSynthese 191 (11): 2513-2528. 2014.How do we form aesthetic judgements? And how should we do so? According to a very prominent tradition in aesthetics it would be wrong to form our aesthetic judgements about a particular object on the basis of anything other than first-hand acquaintance with the object itself (or some very close surrogate) and, in particular, it would be wrong to form such judgements merely on the basis of testimony. Further this tradition presupposes that our actual practice of forming aesthetic judgements typic…Read more
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5Fiction and Fictional Worlds in VideogamesIn J. R. Sageng, T. M. Larsen & H. Fossheim (eds.), The Philosophy of Computer Games, Springer. pp. 201-18. 2012.
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150Aesthetic Testimony and the Norms of Belief FormationEuropean Journal of Philosophy 23 (3): 750-763. 2013.Unusability pessimism has recently emerged as an appealing new option for pessimists about aesthetic testimony—those who deny the legitimacy of forming aesthetic beliefs on the basis of testimony. Unusability pessimists argue that we should reject the traditional pessimistic stance that knowledge of aesthetic matters is unavailable via testimony in favour of the view that while such knowledge is available to us, it is unusable. This unusability stems from the fact that accepting such testimony w…Read more
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722An Absolutist Theory of Faultless Disagreement in AestheticsPacific Philosophical Quarterly 98 (3): 429-448. 2017.Some philosophers writing on the possibility of faultless disagreement have argued that the only way to account for the intuition that there could be disagreements which are faultless in every sense is to accept a relativistic semantics. In this article we demonstrate that this view is mistaken by constructing an absolutist semantics for a particular domain – aesthetic discourse – which allows for the possibility of genuinely faultless disagreements. We argue that this position is an improvement…Read more
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