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12Real ImaginingsMemesis As Make-BelievePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 389. 1991.
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7What's So Funny? Comic Content in DepictionIn Aaron Meskin & Roy T. Cook (eds.), The Art of Comics, Wiley‐blackwell. 2012-01-27.This chapter contains sections titled: Where are the Funnies? Writing Images, Drawing Words Without Words Just Looking Where's the Fun? “What's That For?” Arts and Artifacts Notes References.
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5Forms of representation: proceedings of the 1972 Philosophy Colloquium of the University of Western Ontario (edited book)American Elsevier Pub. Co.. 1975.
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3FormIn The Grove Dictionary of Art, Macmillan. 1996.'Doing an Aristotle' on Form: a highly compressed attempt to explain what we mean by the ambiguous term "form" in visual arts.
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3PhotographyIn Berys Nigel Gaut & Dominic Lopes (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Routledge. 2000.
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2Review of Richard Bolton (ed.), The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of PhotographyJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 50 (1): 68-71. 1992.Editor's errata: Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52.2 (Spring 1994): 167.
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2Photography and TechnologyIn Michael Kelly (ed.), Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, v. 3, Oxford University Press. 2014.Extensive revision of 1998 entry (for expanded new edition of Encyclopedia of Aesthetics) to include, besides mini-essays on technology, art, depiction and the aesthetic, a development of the last in terms of facture--the materials of a work and their working there, as perceivable in the work.
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2Scales of Space and Time in Photography: Perception Points Two WaysIn Scott Walden (ed.), Philosophy and Photography, . 2008.Combining ideas of perceptual psychologists J.J. Gibson and J.E. Cutting, moving on to answer the arguments of the "Naysayers" against autonomous and artistic meaning in photographs.
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1Review of review of Marianne Hirsch, Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and PostmemoryBiography 22 (1): 118-121. 1999.
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1Can Seeing Be an Art, Really?Source (Belfast) 53 48-51. 2007.Joint interview, with Kendall Walton, by Richard West
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1Pictures of Perspective: Theory or Therapy?In Margaret Atherton Heiko Hecht & Robert Schwartz (eds.), Looking into Pictures, . 2003.From a perceptual psychology and philosophy conference on linear perspective: points out standard fallacies about perspective, then challenges psychology's and philosophy's widespread assumption that a satisfactory understanding of depiction in any medium can be reached via theories of spatial--or any other kind of--visual perception.
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Review of David Rosand, Drawing Acts: Studies in Graphic Expression and Representation (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 63 (1): 81-82. 2005.
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Photo-OpportunityCanadian Review of American Studies 22 (3): 501-528. 1991.Review of literature and independent essay on the 1989 sesquicentennial of photography, winner of Canadian Association for American Studies 1991 award for paper that "best exemplifies the discipline of American Studies".
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A Legacy of Light: Review of Ansel Adams: An Autobiography; and Mark Klett, Travels in the Desert Southwest (review)Canadian Review of American Studies 18 (1): 127-131. 1987.
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"We Can't, eh, Professors?": Photo AporiaIn James Elkins (ed.), The Art Seminar: Photography Theory, Routledge. 2006.
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Drawing, Painting, and Print-MakingIn Robert Hopkins (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Aesthetics, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.A short encyclopedia article focused on drawing, stressing facture, the physicality of three media.
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The Time It TakesIn Jan Baetens (ed.), The Graphic Novel, Leuven University Press. 2001.Concerns photography and time as duration, sequence, equability, past and present (illus.).
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Comments on Whitney Davis, "The Origins of Image-Making"Current Anthropology 27 (3): 206-207. 1986.
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Review of Barbara Savedoff, Transforming Images: How Photography Complicates the Picture (review)Modernism and Modernity 8 (2): 338-340. 2001.
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What's So Funny? Comic Content in DepictionIn Roy Aaron Cook Meskin (ed.), The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach, Wiley-blackwell. 2012.This paper addresses standard questions regarding comics and the arts (comics and fine arts, image and word combinations), then poses and addresses the neglected, but deeper and wider--thus philosophical--question, of how depictions, not just words, can have mental contents at all, including light, funny, scathing, comic ones.
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Photo MensuraIn Nicola Moeßner & Alfred Nordmann (eds.), The Epistemology of Measurement: Representational and Technological Dimensions., Routledge. forthcoming.