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37The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language (review)Philosophical Quarterly 29 (115): 188-190. 1979.
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70Much Ado about Nonexistence: Fiction and Reference (review)Philosophical Review 118 (3): 406-409. 2009.
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LiteratureIn Berys Nigel Gaut & Dominic Lopes (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Routledge. 2000.
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257Aesthetics and literature: A problematic relation?Philosophical Studies 135 (1). 2007.The paper argues that there is a proper place for literature within aesthetics but that care must be taken in identifying just what the relation is. In characterising aesthetic pleasure associated with literature it is all too easy to fall into reductive accounts, for example, of literature as merely “fine writing”. Belleslettrist or formalistic accounts of literature are rejected, as are two other kinds of reduction, to pure meaning properties and to a kind of narrative realism. The idea is dev…Read more
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11Fictional Narrative and Truth: An Epistemic Analysis (review)Philosophy and Literature 10 (1): 115-117. 1986.
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19Philosophy and fiction: essays in literary aesthetics (edited book)Aberdeen University Press. 1983.
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"Notes on Literary Structure": Daniel Burke (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 23 (2): 186. 1983.
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8The philosophy of literature : Pleasure restoredIn Peter Kivy (ed.), Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics, Wiley-blackwell. 2004.This chapter contains sections titled: Background The Way Forward.
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"Literature and the Question of Philosophy": Edited by Anthony J. Cascardi (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 29 (1): 82. 1989.
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6Truth, Fiction and Literature: a Philosophical PerspectivePhilosophical Quarterly 47 (187): 241-243. 1997.
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11Esquisse d'une théorie nominaliste de la proposition (review)Philosophical Books 14 (1): 16-18. 1973.
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84Précis of the philosophy of literatureBritish Journal of Aesthetics 50 (1): 77-80. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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107Wittgenstein, Literature, and the Idea of a PracticeBritish Journal of Aesthetics 50 (4): 375-388. 2010.The familiar idea that literature is embedded in social practices that help explain both its existence and its value took a distinctive form in analytic philosophy, drawing on speech act theory and a conception of ‘rules’. A major influence was John Rawls's seminal paper ‘Two Concepts of Rules’ (1955) in which he introduced the ‘practice conception of rules’ according to which certain practices are defined by rules that in turn make possible certain kinds of action. The idea underlies the notion…Read more
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60On the Distance between Literary Narratives and Real-Life NarrativesRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 60 117-132. 2007.It is a truth universally acknowledged that great works of literature have an impact on people's lives. Well known literary characters—Oedipus, Hamlet, Faustus, Don Quixote—acquire iconic or mythic status and their stories, in more or less detail, are revered and recalled often in contexts far beyond the strictly literary. At the level of national literatures, familiar characters and plots are assimilated into a wider cultural consciousness and help define national stereotypes and norms of behav…Read more
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"T. S. Eliot and the Philosophy of Criticism": Richard Shusterman (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 29 (4): 384. 1989.
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11Two Introductions: Invitation to Philosophy.What Philosophy Is: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy (review)Philosophical Quarterly 36 (145): 540. 1986.
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132Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: The Analytic Tradition: An Anthology (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2003.This anthology provides comprehensive coverage of the major contributions of analytic philosophy to aesthetics and the philosophy of art, from the earliest beginnings in the 1950’s to the present time. Traces the contributions of the analytic tradition to aesthetics and the philosophy of art, from the 1950’s to the present time. Designed as a comprehensive guide to the field, it presents the most often-cited papers that students and researchers encounter. Addresses a wide range of topics, includ…Read more