-
FictionIn Jerrold Levinson (ed.), The Oxford handbook of aesthetics, Oxford University Press. 2003.
-
61Reflections on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Restoration and ConservationBritish Journal of Aesthetics 56 (3): 281-299. 2016.This paper looks at some of the principles behind restoration and conservation applied to ancient artefacts and architecture. A number of case studies are discussed, from medieval stained glass to buildings that have been damaged by fire. The paper ends with some remarks about the conservation of ruins. Underlying the discussion are questions about the kinds of obligations—both ethical and aesthetic—that might constrain the practices of restoration: what ought and ought not to be done in particu…Read more
-
14Review of Malcolm Budd, Values of Art (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 37 (1): 84-86. 1997.
-
1
-
32Object, Work, and InterpretationPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 12 (1): 1-7. 2005.The paper offers an overview of, and critical comments on, Michael Krausz’s Limits of Rightness. It focuses on three key aspects of the book’s intellectual framework: the ideals of interpretation, the objects of interpretation, and the ontological commitments of interpretation. The paper discusses how exactly these aspects are related Krausz’s views on constructive realism, in particular its relation to objects of interpretation, become crucial. His comments on Paul Thom’s theory of interpretati…Read more
-
32The Opacity of NarrativeRowman & Littlefield International. 2014.What is narrative? What is distinctive about the great literary narratives? In virtue of what is a narrative fictional or non-fictional? In this important new book Peter Lamarque, one of the leading philosophers of literature at work today, explores these and related questions to bring new clarity and insight to debates about narrative in philosophy, critical theory, and narratology
-
"A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms": Edited by Roger Fowler (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 28 (3): 294. 1988.
-
113Making sense: A theory of interpretation (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 43 (1): 80-84. 2003.
-
132The elusiveness of poetic meaningRatio 22 (4): 398-420. 2009.Various aspects of poetic meaning are discussed, centred on the relation of form and content. A C Bradley's thesis of form-content identity, suitably reformulated, is defended against criticisms by Peter Kivy. It is argued that the unity of form-content is not discovered in poetry so much as demanded of it when poetry is read 'as poetry'. A shift of emphasis from talking about 'meaning' in poetry to talking about 'content' is promoted, as is a more prominent role for 'experience' in characterisi…Read more
-
Spreading the word groundings in the philosophy of language (review)Philosophy and Literature 9 (2): 212. 1985.
-
1"Deconstruction Reframed": Floyd Merrell (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 26 (3): 290. 1986.
-
65Work and object: explorations in the metaphysics of artOxford University Press. 2010.Issues about the creation of works, what is essential and inessential to their identity, their distinct kinds of properties, including aesthetic properties, ...
-
99
-
47Objects of InterpretationMetaphilosophy 31 (1-2): 96-124. 2000.The paper examines the relation between interpretation and the objects of interpretation, principally, but not exclusively, in the realm of art. Several theses are defended: that interpretation cannot proceed without prior determination of the kind of thing being interpreted; that the mode of interpretation is determined by the nature of its object; that interpretation, of a meaning‐determining rather than generic kind, focuses at the level of works, not descending to a bedrock of “mere objects”…Read more
-
18Language, Interpretation and Worship—IIRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 31 109-122. 1992.Martin Warner's subtle and far-reaching synthesis of philosophical theology and philosophy of language belongs in a cluster of papers he has written on related topics so it would be helpful to begin by setting out this wider context. His concerns overall cover three interlocking subjects: biblical interpretation, biblical translation, and reform of the liturgy. All pose a central conundrum, which in its briefest formulation is just this: what kind of meaning is involved in each case? Warner's pa…Read more
-
105The british journal of aesthetics: Forty years onBritish Journal of Aesthetics 40 (1): 1-20. 2000.AS THE twentieth century comes to a close and the twenty-first dawns, the British Journal of Aesthetics begins its fortieth volume and enters its fortieth year. This seems an apt moment, or a good excuse, for a special issue, prefaced by a few general reflections, through the lens of the journal, on nearly half a century of aesthetics and on the prospects ahead. Strictly speaking, the fortieth anniversary of the journal does not fall until the autumn of 2000 as it was in the autumn of 1960 that …Read more
-
Fiction and realityIn Philosophy and fiction: essays in literary aesthetics, Aberdeen University Press. 1983.
-
39Replies to Attridge, Blackburn, Feagin, and HarcourtBritish Journal of Aesthetics 50 (1): 99-106. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
-
7Cognitive Values in the Arts: Marking the BoundariesIn Matthew Kieran (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 127--39. 2005.
-
23Work and ObjectProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 102 (1): 141-162. 2002.The paper considers what kinds of things are musical, literary, pictorial and sculptural works, how they relate to physical objects or abstract types, and what their identity and survival conditions are. Works are shown to be cultural objects with essential intentional and relational properties. These essential properties are connected to conditions of production and conditions of reception, of both a generic and work-specific kind. It is argued that work-identity is value-laden, whereby essenti…Read more