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277On not expecting too much from narrativeMind and Language 19 (4). 2004.The paper offers a mildly deflationary account of narrative, drawing attention to the minimal, thus easily satisfied, conditions of narrativity and showing that many of the more striking claims about narrative are either poorly supported or refer to distinct classes of narrative—usually literary or fictional—which provide a misleading paradigm for narration in general. An enquiry into structural, referential, pragmatic, and valuebased features of narrative helps circumscribe the limits of narrat…Read more
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41The Puzzle of the Flash Stockman: A Reply to David LewisAnalysis 47 (2). 1987.This is a short note on a problem arising from lewis's account of 'truth in fiction'. In the case of the unreliable narrator, A writer, On lewis's view, Must pretend to pretend. An explanation is offered for this in terms of mimicry or impersonation, And some consequences drawn about fictional ontology
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35The High Price of Evading Boredom: A Reply to Erik Bjerck HagenNordic Journal of Aesthetics 11 (18). 1999.
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21Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of LanguagePergamon Press. 1997.Philosophers have had an interest in language from the earliest times but the twentieth century, with its so-called 'linguistic turn' in philosophy, has seen a huge expansion of work focused specifically on language and its foundations. No branch of philosophy has been unaffected by this shift of emphasis. It is timely at the end of the century to review and assess the vast range of issues that have been developed and debated in this central area. The distinguished international contributors pre…Read more
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17On Keeping Psychology Out of Literary CriticismIn Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann & Peter Goldie (eds.), The Aesthetic Mind: Philosophy and Psychology, Oxford University Press. pp. 299-312. 2011.
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150Tragedy and moral valueAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 73 (2). 1995.This Article does not have an abstract
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FictionIn Jerrold Levinson (ed.), The Oxford handbook of aesthetics, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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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
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14Review of Malcolm Budd, Values of Art (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 37 (1): 84-86. 1997.
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31Object, 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
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113Making sense: A theory of interpretation (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 43 (1): 80-84. 2003.
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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
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"A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms": Edited by Roger Fowler (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 28 (3): 294. 1988.
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131The 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
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Spreading the word groundings in the philosophy of language (review)Philosophy and Literature 9 (2): 212. 1985.
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1"Deconstruction Reframed": Floyd Merrell (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 26 (3): 290. 1986.
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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, ...
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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
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