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    The Aesthetics of Design
    In Fritz Allhoff, Jessica Wolfendale & Jeanette Kennett (eds.), Fashion - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style, Wiley. pp. 51--69. 2011.
  • Artistic truth
    In Anthony O'Hear (ed.), Philosophy and the Arts, Cambridge University Press. 2013.
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    Art, Beauty and Morality
    In Silvia Caprioglio Panizza & Mark Hopwood (eds.), Murdochian Mind, Routledge. 2022.
    In this chapter, we examine Iris Murdoch’s views about art. We highlight continuities and differences between her views on art and aesthetics, and those of Plato, Kant, and Freud. We argue that Murdoch’s views about art, though traditionally linked to Plato, are more compatible with Kant’s thought than has been acknowledged—though with his ethics rather than his aesthetics. Murdoch shows Plato’s influence in her idea that beauty is the good in a different guise. However, Murdoch shows a more Kan…Read more
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    The aesthetics of imperfection in music and the arts: spontaneity, flaws and the unfinished (edited book)
    with Lara Pearson
    Bloomsbury Academic. 2020.
    The aesthetics of imperfection emphasises spontaneity, disruption, process and energy over formal perfection and is often ignored by many commentators or seen only in improvisation. This comprehensive collection is the first time imperfection has been explored across all kinds of musical performance, whether improvisation or interpretation of compositions. Covering music, visual art, dance, comedy, architecture and design, it addresses the meaning, experience, and value of improvisation and spon…Read more
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein is arguably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century. In _On Certainty_ he discusses central issues in epistemology, including the nature of knowledge and scepticism. _The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and On Certainty_ introduces and assesses: Wittgenstein's career and the background to his later philosophy the central ideas and text of _On Certainty_, including its responses to G.E. Moore and discussion of fundamental issues in the theory of …Read more
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    © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Analysis Trust. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected] this very wide-ranging and absorbing monograph, Nicholas Wolterstorff argues that modern aestheticians ignore the varieties of engagement with art, in an exclusive focus on disinterested attention. This, he argues, is because they assume the ‘grand narrative concerning art in the modern world’. According to Wolterstorff, this …Read more
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    Ludwig Wittgenstein is arguably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century. In On Certainty he discusses central issues in epistemology, including the nature of knowledge and scepticism. The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and On Certainty introduces and assesses: Wittgenstein's career and the background to his later philosophy the central ideas and text of On Certainty , including its responses to G.E. Moore and discussion of fundamental issues in the theory of knowl…Read more
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    Scruton's Aesthetics (edited book)
    with Nick Zangwill
    Palgrave-Macmillan. 2012.
    Scruton's Aesthetics is a comprehensive critical evaluation of one of the major aestheticians of our age. The lead essay by Scruton is followed by fourteen essays by international commentators plus Scruton's reply. All discuss matters of enduring importance.
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    The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics (edited book)
    with Peter Cheyne and Max Paddison
    Oxford University Press, USA. 2019.
    Rhythm is the fundamental pulse that animates poetry, music, and dance across all cultures. And yet the recent explosion of scholarly interest across disciplines in the aural dimensions of aesthetic experience--particularly in sociology, cultural and media theory, and literary studies--has yet to explore this fundamental category. This book furthers the discussion of rhythm beyond the discrete conceptual domains and technical vocabularies of musicology and prosody. With original essays by philos…Read more
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    This article develops a Wittgensteinian treatment of the relationship between art and entertainment, combining universal and historically conditioned features.
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    Mild Cognitive Impairment: Which Kind Is It?
    Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 13 (1): 51-52. 2006.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Mild Cognitive Impairment:Which Kind Is It?Andy Hamilton (bio)Keywordshuman kinds, mild cognitive impairment, multiple personality disorder, practical kinds, social constructionThere is much stimulating material in the Graham and Ritchie's paper (2006), concerning not just disease-classification but also the ethics of diagnosis. My concern is with the way in which they adduce Ian Hacking's views in the philosophy of science in suppor…Read more
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    An analytic retrospect
    Philosophical Books 47 (4): 342-351. 2006.
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    The Paradoxes of Art: A Phenomenological Investigation
    British Journal of Aesthetics 45 (4): 452-454. 2005.
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    Review: John Stuart Mill (review)
    Mind 114 (454): 400-402. 2005.
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    Metaphor and Musical Thought
    British Journal of Aesthetics 47 (1): 100-103. 2007.
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    The Aesthetics of Design
    In Fritz Allhoff, Jessica Wolfendale & Jeanette Kennett (eds.), Fashion - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style, Wiley. 2011.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Design as Problem‐Solving or Design as Fashion? The Rise of Design As a Profession: Is Design a Response to Consumerism? Consumerism, Self‐expression, and The “Invention” of Design Consumerism Is Not Essential to Design Were Neolithic Flint Tools Designed? Can We Avoid Designing? – The Idea of “Useless Work” The Function and Value of Fashion.
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    The Aesthetics of Western Art Music (review)
    with Roger Scruton
    Philosophical Books 40 (3): 145-159. 1999.
    Book reviewed in this article:Roger Scruton, The Aesthetics of Music.
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    The Aesthetics of Western Art Music
    Philosophical Books 40 (3): 145-159. 1999.
    Book reviewed in this article: Roger Scruton, The Aesthetics of Music.
  • Proprioception as Basic Knowledge of the Body
    In René Woudenberg, Sabine Roeser & Ron Rood (eds.), Basic Belief and Basic Knowledge: Papers in Epistemology, De Gruyter. pp. 269-292. 2005.
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    Aesthetics
    Philosophical Books 44 (2): 187-192. 2003.
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    The cambridge history of nineteenth-century music
    British Journal of Aesthetics 43 (1): 86-89. 2003.
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    The Cambridge History of Nineteenth‐century Music (review)
    British Journal of Aesthetics 43 (1): 86-89. 2003.
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    The art of recording and the aesthetics of perfection
    British Journal of Aesthetics 43 (4): 345-362. 2003.
    Recording has transformed the nature of music as an art by reconfiguring the opposition between the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. A precursor article, ‘The Art of Improvisation and the Aesthetics of Imperfection’, contrasted the perfectionist aesthetic of the ‘work-concept’ with the imperfectionist aesthetic of improvisation. Imperfectionist approaches to recording are purist in wanting to maintain the diachronic and synchronic integrity of the performance, which perfectionist recor…Read more
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    The Aesthetics of Imperfection Reconceived: Improvisations, Compositions, and Mistakes
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 78 (3): 289-302. 2020.
    ABSTRACT Ted Gioia associated the “aesthetics of imperfection” with improvised music. In an earlier article, I extended it to all musical performance. This article reconceives my discussion, offering more precise analyses: The aesthetics of imperfection is now argued to involve open, spontaneous response to contingencies of performance or production, reacting positively to idiosyncratic instruments; apparent failings in performance, and so on. Perfectionists, in contrast, prefer a planning model…Read more
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    The art of improvisation and the aesthetics of imperfection
    British Journal of Aesthetics 40 (1): 168-185. 2000.
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    The Authority of Avowals and the Concept of Belief
    European Journal of Philosophy 8 (1): 20-39. 2000.
    The pervasive dispositional model of belief is misguided. It fails to acknowledge the authority of first‐person ascriptions or avowals of belief, and the “decision principle”– that having decided the question whether p, there is, for me, no further question whether I believe that p. The dilemma is how one can have immediate knowledge of a state extended in time; its resolution lies in the expressive character of avowals – which does not imply a non‐assertoric thesis – and their non‐cognitive sta…Read more
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    The authority of avowals and the concept of belief
    European Journal of Philosophy 8 (1): 20-39. 2000.
    The pervasive dispositional model of belief is misguided. It fails to acknowledge the authority of first‐person ascriptions or avowals of belief, and the “decision principle”– that having decided the question whether p, there is, for me, no further question whether I believe that p. The dilemma is how one can have immediate knowledge of a state extended in time; its resolution lies in the expressive character of avowals – which does not imply a non‐assertoric thesis – and their non‐cognitive sta…Read more