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72‘Philosophy and the Novel’, by Goldman, Alan H.: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. xii + 209, £30.00 (hardback)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (3): 590-593. 2014.(2014). ‘Philosophy and the Novel’, by Goldman, Alan H. Australasian Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 92, No. 3, pp. 590-593. doi: 10.1080/00048402.2014.885069.
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4Literary Fiction and the Philosophical Value of DetailIn Matthew Kieran & Dominic Lopes (eds.), Imagination, Philosophy, and the Arts, Routledge. pp. 142--159. 2003.
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161XI—Literature and DisagreementProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 114 (3pt3): 239-260. 2014.To understand rational response to ethical disagreement, we need to consider how epistemic and ethical factors interact. The notion of an ethical peer is developed, and the roles that epistemic and ethical peers play in disagreement are compared. In the light of some literary examples, the view that conciliation in response to an ethical peer can be called for, even if that peer is an epistemic inferior, is defended
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16Literature and the idea of moralityIn Garry Hagberg & Walter Jost (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature, Wiley-blackwell. 2007.
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139Love and the need for comprehensionPhilosophical Explorations 16 (3): 285-297. 2013.The question of how well we need to be known, to be loved, is considered. A ‘second-person’ model is argued for, on which love requires that the beloved’s demands to be known be respected. This puts pressure on the idea that lovers need to make a beloved’s interests their own, taking that to require comprehension of the beloved’s interests: a lover would have to appreciate the normative intelligibility and motivating force of an interest. The possibility of love with failure of comprehension is …Read more
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23Artistic Value and Opportunistic MoralismIn Matthew Kieran (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Blackwell. pp. 332--41. 2006.
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64Caring about charactersIn Garry Hagberg (ed.), Fictional Characters, Real Problems: The Search for Ethical Content in Literature, Oxford University Press Uk. pp. 31-46. 2016.This chapter considers how and why real people can care about fictional characters.. Caring rests on having interests at stake, and in literary contexts those interests concern the accuracy and content of a representation; we as people, as part of our natural history, are beings for whom representation and being represented are centrally important. This chapter argues for a better integration of the “internal” and “external” perspectives on fictional characters, that is, a better integration of …Read more
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Angela Leighton, On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a WordPhilosophy in Review 29 (5): 355. 2009.
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9Images of community in American popular cultureIn Philip Alperson (ed.), Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader, Blackwell. pp. 265--288. 2002.
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6Art and knowledgeIn Berys Nigel Gaut & Dominic Lopes (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Routledge. 2000.
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19Art, Emotion and Ethics: Book Reviews (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 49 (2): 185-188. 2009.