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77Realism of Character and the Value of FictionIn Jerrold Levinson (ed.), Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection, Cambridge University Press. pp. 161--81. 1998.
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10Pretence, Pretending and MetarepresentingMind and Language 13 (1): 35-55. 1998.I assess the claim that metarepresentation is a key notion in understanding the nature and development of our capacity to engage in pretence. I argue that the metarepresentational programme is unhelpful in explaining how pretence operates and, in particular, how agents distinguish pretence from belief. I sketch an alternative approach to the relations between pretending and believing. This depends on a distinction between pretending and pretence, and upon the claim that pretence stands to preten…Read more
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9D. H. Ruben [1985]: The Metaphysics of the Social World. Routledge and Kegan Paul. x + 189 pp. £14.95 (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 38 (1): 127-132. 1987.
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Rationality, decentring, and the evidence for pretence in nonhuman animalsIn Susan Hurley & Matthew Nudds (eds.), Rational Animals?, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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76Pretence, pretending, and metarepresentingMind and Language 13 (1): 35-55. 1998.I assess the claim that metarepresentation is a key notion in understanding the nature and development of our capacity to engage in pretence. I argue that the metarepresentational programme is unhelpful in explaining how pretence operates and, in particular, how agents distinguish pretence from belief. I sketch an alternative approach to the relations between pretending and believing. This depends on a distinction between pretending and pretence, and upon the claim that pretence stands to preten…Read more
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242Photography, painting and perceptionJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 49 (1): 23-29. 1991.
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41Preserving the traces: An answer to noël CarrollJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (3): 306-308. 2000.
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80Narrative and the Psychology of CharacterJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67 (1): 61-71. 2009.
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13Narrative, imitation, and point of viewIn Garry Hagberg & Walter Jost (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature, Wiley-blackwell. 2007.This chapter contains sections titled: Agency and Access to the World Speaking and Seeing Imitation Some Resources of Narration The Varieties of Narrative Imitation.
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43Mimesis as Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational Arts by Kendall Walton (review)Journal of Philosophy 90 (7): 367-370. 1993.
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135Mental simulation and motor imageryPhilosophy of Science 64 (1): 161-80. 1997.Motor imagery typically involves an experience as of moving a body part. Recent studies reveal close parallels between the constraints on motor imagery and those on actual motor performance. How are these parallels to be explained? We advance a simulative theory of motor imagery, modeled on the idea that we predict and explain the decisions of others by simulating their decision-making processes. By proposing that motor imagery is essentially off-line motor action, we explain the tendency of mot…Read more
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26Mimesis: Metaphysics, Cognition, Pragmatics (edited book)College Publications. 2012.The concept of mimesis has been central to philosophical aesthetics from Aristotle to Kendall Walton: in plain terms, it highlights the links between a fictional world or a representational practice on the one hand and the real world on the other. The present collection of essays includes discussions of its general viability and pertinence and of its historical origins, as well as detailed analyses of various relevant issues regarding literature, film, theatre, images and computer games. The ind…Read more
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Interpretation in artIn Jerrold Levinson (ed.), The Oxford handbook of aesthetics, Oxford University Press. pp. 291--306. 2003.
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123Narrative and coherenceMind and Language 19 (4). 2004.We outline a theory of one puzzling aspect of human cognition: a tendency to exaggerate the degree to which agency is manifested in the world. We call this over‐coherent thinking. We use Pylyshyn's idea of cognitive penetrability to help characterize this notion. We argue that this kind of thinking is essentially narrative in form rather than theoretical. We develop a theory of the relation between the degree of narrativity in a representation and its aptness to represent, and to express, mind. …Read more
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Methodological IndividualismIn N. J. Smelser & B. Baltes (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, . pp. 9755--60. 2001.