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    Cheap Art and Creative Activism
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (2): 269-279. 2023.
    The premise of this article is straightforward: cheap art as a method and movement, though often ignored in the aesthetics literature, is ideally suited for creative activism. To understand this claim, we must have a working definition of the term "cheap art", which I develop in the first section. In doing so, I focus on four features of cheap art, united by the core idea of anti-elitism, that make it well suited to support creative activism: (1) Cheap art is light, quick, sloppy, and easy to do…Read more
  • Brutal identity
    with Ben Caplan
    In Stuart Brock & Anthony Everett (eds.), Fictional Objects, Oxford University Press. 2015.
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    Counting Again
    Grazer Philosophische Studien 94 (1-2): 69-82. 2017.
    The authors consider a recurring objection to fictional realism, the view that fictional characters are objects. The authors call this the counting objection. Russell presses a version of the objection against Meinong’s view. Everett presses a version of the objection against contemporary fictional realist views, as do Nolan and Sandgren. As the authors see it, the objection assumes that the fictional realist must provide criteria of identity for fictional characters, so its force depends on the…Read more
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    Journaling and Pre-Theoretical Discussion as Inclusive Pedagogy
    American Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy 3 72-86. 2017.
    When one thinks about inclusive pedagogy, it is tempting to focus solely on adding more diverse voices to one’s syllabus. While this technique is valuable and important, one can also promote inclusivity by encouraging and supporting the diverse voices of one’s own students. In this paper, I argue that two practices—low-stakes journal assignments and the pre-theoretical discussion of student thoughts about a topic before any readings have been assigned—promote inclusivity by encouraging and suppo…Read more
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    Against a Defense of Fictional Realism
    with B. Caplan
    Philosophical Quarterly 64 (255): 211-224. 2014.
    Anthony Everett has argued that fictional realism entails that some fictional characters are indeterminately identical. Benjamin Schnieder and Tatjana von Solodkoff deny that fictional realism has that entailment. But, we argue in this paper, their view is arbitrary, since there is no reason to prefer their principles to alternative ones. We don’t take this to show that fictional realism should be rejected. But we do take this to show that fictional realists who deny that some fictional characte…Read more