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In what sense are aesthetic experiences emotional?In Andrea Scarantino (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Emotion Theory, Routledge. 2024.
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37Quasi−Realism, Acquaintance, and The Normative Claims of Aesthetic JudgementBritish Journal of Aesthetics 44 (3): 277-296. 2004.
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13Affective memory, imagined emotion, and bodily imagerySynthese 202 (5): 1-24. 2023.This paper examines two phenomena that are usually treated separately but which resemble each other insofar as they both raise questions concerning the difference, if there is one, between so-called ‘real’ and ‘as if’ emotions: affective memory and imagined emotion. The existence of both states has been explicitly denied, and there are very few positive accounts of either. I will argue that there are no good grounds for scepticism about the existence of ‘as if’ emotions, but also that the existi…Read more
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133Recreative minds: Imagination in philosophy and psychologyBritish Journal of Aesthetics 43 (4): 419-422. 2003.
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47Values of Beauty: Historical Essays in AestheticsPhilosophical Quarterly 57 (227): 313-316. 2007.
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13Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology (edited book, review)Oxford University Press. 2002.
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63Knowing What To Do By Timothy ChappellAnalysis 77 (3): 673-675. 2017.© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Analysis Trust. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected] largely upon a series of previously published papers, this book tackles a diverse range of topics – including the nature of practical reasons, impartiality, personhood, the phenomenal content of moral experience, and the notions of glory and beauty in ethics – that are unified by an overarching commitment to an anti-syste…Read more
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18Literatur, Aufmerksamkeit und epistemische EmotionenIn Ingrid Vendrell Ferran & Christoph Demmerling (eds.), Wahrheit, Wissen Und Erkenntnis in der Literatur: Philosophische Beiträge, De Gruyter. pp. 285-302. 2014.
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16Immaginazione, attenzione e raffigurazioneRivista di Estetica 53 89-108. 2013.Philosophers have long been interested in the various similarities and differences between perception and imagination. One of the most interesting purported differences is the relationship that attention bears to each. Colin McGinn (2004), especially, has provided a comprehensive discussion of these relations, pointing out that imagery, unlike perceptual experiences (percepts), essentially requires attention, presents no equivalent of the visual field for attention to explore, lacks saturation, …Read more
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22Immaginazione, attenzione e raffigurazioneRivista di Estetica 53 89-108. 2013.Philosophers have long been interested in the various similarities and differences between perception and imagination. One of the most interesting purported differences is the relationship that attention bears to each. Colin McGinn (2004), especially, has provided a comprehensive discussion of these relations, pointing out that imagery, unlike perceptual experiences (percepts), essentially requires attention, presents no equivalent of the visual field for attention to explore, lacks saturation, …Read more
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39Art and intention: A philosophical study – Paisley LivingstonPhilosophical Quarterly 57 (226). 2007.Do the artists intentions have anything to do with the making and appreciation of works of art? In Art and Intention, Paisley Livingston develops a broad and balanced perspective on perennial disputes between intentionalists and anti-intentionalists in philosophical aesthetics and critical theory. He surveys and assesses a wide range of rival assumptions about the nature of intentions and the status of intentionalist psychology. With detailed reference to examples from diverse media, art forms, …Read more
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194Aesthetic, ethical, and cognitive valueSouth African Journal of Philosophy 26 (2): 216-227. 2007.This paper addresses two recent debates in aesthetics: the ‘moralist debate’, concerning the relationship between the ethical and aesthetic evaluations of artworks, and the ‘cognitivist debate’, concerning the relationship between the cognitive and aesthetic evaluations of artworks. Although the two debates appear to concern quite different issues, I argue that the various positions in each are marked by the same types of confusions and ambiguities. In particular, they demonstrate a persistent a…Read more
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71Percevoir l’expression émotionnelle dans les objets inanimés : l’exemple du vinDialogue 51 (1): 129-139. 2012.ABSTRACT: Amongst inanimate objects, it is generally accepted that at least some art forms, such as music and painting, are capable of being genuinely expressive of emotion, even though it is difficult to understand exactly how. In contrast, although expressive properties can be attributed to non-artworks, such as natural objects or wine, it has often been claimed that such objects cannot be genuinely expressive. Focussing on wine, I argue that once we understand properly the nature of expressiv…Read more
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19On Emotions: Philosophical Essays, edited by John DeighJournal of Moral Philosophy 13 (4): 487-490. 2016.
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7Literatur, Aufmerksamkeit und epistemische EmotionenIn Ingrid Vendrell Ferran & Christoph Demmerling (eds.), Wahrheit, Wissen Und Erkenntnis in der Literatur. Philosophische Beiträge, De Gruyter. pp. 285-302. 2014.
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56Fiction and the weave of life * by John GibsonAnalysis 69 (3): 594-596. 2009.The cognitivist/non-cognitivist debate about the nature and value of literary fiction has witnessed a lot of spilled ink amongst philosophers over the past decade. Gibson characterizes this debate as a conflict between two apparently incompatible intuitions: the ‘humanist’ intuition that works of literary fiction have some sort of cognitive value in telling us about the world, and the ‘sceptical’ anti-humanist intuition that such works, and their proper appreciation, are not essentially concerne…Read more
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35Fitting Feelings and Elegant Proofs: On the Psychology of Aesthetic Evaluation in Mathematics†Philosophia Mathematica 26 (2): 211-233. 2018.
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76Expression and Objectivity in the Case of Wine: Defending the Aesthetic Terroir of Tastes and SmellsRivista di Estetica 51 95-115. 2012.This paper provides an account of the nature of our appreciation of wine, and a defence of the aesthetic value of tastes and smells. Focusing primarily on Roger Scruton’s recent claims, I argue against him that our appreciation of wine meets his own constraints on aesthetic interest and, moreover, that the cultural significance he grants to wine is in large part grounded in its aesthetic value. I show that Scruton’s claims are thus in tension with each other, not because he has misunderstood the…Read more
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52Quasi-realism, acquaintance, and the normative claims of aesthetic judgementBritish Journal of Aesthetics 44 (3): 277-296. 2004.
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Imagination and Aesthetic Judgements in Scientific Thought ExperimentsIn Milena Ivanova & Stephen French (eds.), Aesthetics and Science, Routledge. 2020.
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Suffering Art Gladly: The Paradox of Negative Emotions in ArtIn Jerrold Levinson & P. Destree (eds.), Suffering Art Gladly: The Paradox of Negative Emotions in Art, Palgrave Macmillan. 2013.
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Imagination, Fantasy, and Sexual DesireIn Hans Maes & Jerrold Levinson (eds.), Art and Pornography, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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Imagination, Expressiveness, and Expression in the Case of WineIn Nick Zangwill & Andrew Hamilton (eds.), Scruton's Aesthetics, Palgrave Macmillan. 2012.
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Attention, Negative Valence, and Tragic EmotionsIn Jerrold Levinson & Paul Destree (eds.), Suffering Art Gladly: The Paradox of Negative Emotions in Art, Palgrave. 2013.
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34Emotion and Value (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2014.This volume brings together new work by leading philosophers on the topics of emotion and value, and explores issues at their intersection. Recent work in philosophy and psychology has had important implications for topics such as the role that emotions play in practical rationality and moral psychology, the connection between imagination and emotion in the appreciation of fiction, and more generally with the ability of emotions to discern axiological saliences and to ground the objectivity of e…Read more
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