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74Portraits and persons: a philosophical inquiryOxford University Press. 2010.Featuring more than fifty halftones, this is an exhilarating philosophical exploration of portraiture that highlights its important contribution to the complex ...
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3Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 1998.Aristotle still influences our abstract thinking, our search for principles, and our reflections on virtue, nature, essence, and sexual difference. Feminists here concede that they too philosophize within the tradition founded by the ancient Greeks. The contributors to this volume enter into new, creative, and subtle dimensions of inquiry about Aristotle from a broader feminist perspective.
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14Orientalism Inside/Out: The Art of Soody SharifiIn Peg Brand Weiser (ed.), Beauty Unlimited, Indiana University Press. pp. 347-367. 2013."Orientalism" is a term made prominent by critic Edward Said in his 1978 book of that title. . . . Said specifically used the term to designate a field of self-constituted experts who proposed to explain the Orient to the West. . . . This essay explores the visual artwork of Soody Sharifi who left Iran before the Islamic Revolution of 1979, but returns to photograph women and girls. After a trip back to Iran in 1999, she began a self-portrait series exploring how she felt about being a Muslim wo…Read more
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10The Role of Cosmology in Plato's PhilosophyIn Hugh H. Benson (ed.), A Companion to Plato, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Pre‐Socratic Cosmologies and the Phaedo The Soul and the Universe in the Phaedrus Timaeus Later Developments Note.
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13Film theoryIn Alison M. Jaggar & Iris Marion Young (eds.), A Companion to Feminist Philosophy, Blackwell. 2017.Feminist philosophy of film is a young field that is rapidly growing but that has as yet no distinct disciplinary presence within philosophy. Articles by feminist philosophers on film began appearing in aesthetics journals and anthologies in English only in the late 1980s and 1990s. In film studies, as in aesthetics more generally, disciplinary boundaries are fluid. Writers from many fields – literature, art, communications, cultural studies – make critical contributions on film, addressing phil…Read more
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5Share the FantasyIn Fritz Allhoff, Jessica Wolfendale & Jeanette Kennett (eds.), Fashion - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style, Wiley. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Chanel No. 5 and Perfume Fashions Coco Mademoiselle Ads Male Perfume Ads Celebrity Perfumes by Women of Color Perfume Aesthetics, Erotics, and Ethics Resisting the Fantasy: Erotics and Commodity Fetishism.
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38Film theory and philosophyPhilosophical Review 109 (1): 144-147. 2000.This substantial book presents essays by nineteen authors exploring intersections between film theory and philosophy on topics of representation, authorship, ideology, aesthetics, and emotion. The editors explain that film studies has reached a crisis of method after a growth period founded on structural linguistics, psychoanalysis, and Continental philosophy. They wish to alter this foundation and “give momentum to work in an analytic vein”, which requires them to correct the misconception of a…Read more
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11Commentary on RosenProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 1 (1): 289-295. 1985.
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Horror and natural evil in The plagueIn Peg Brand Weiser (ed.), Camus's _The Plague_: Philosophical Perspectives, Oxford University Press. 2023.
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24Art Scents: Exploring the Aesthetics of Smell and the Olfactory ArtsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 80 (2): 248-251. 2022.
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8Plato’s Philebus: Pleasure, Imagination, and PoetryNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 42 (1-2): 54-62. 2007.
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7Erens, Patricia, Ed. Issues in Feminist Film CriticismJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 50 (4): 347-348. 1992.
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13The Science of Measuring Pleasure and PainIn Olof Pettersson & Vigdis Songe-Møller (eds.), Plato’s Protagoras: Essays on the Confrontation of Philosophy and Sophistry, Springer. 2016.Near the end of the Protagoras there is a famous argument in which Socrates appears to deny the possibility of weakness of will. The passage is part of a longer examination of whether virtue can be taught and of the unity of the virtues. Socrates and Protagoras discuss whether it makes sense to say, as people commonly do, that they sometimes choose to do things they know are not best for them because they are “overcome by pleasure.” Supposedly “the many” hold that the good is pleasure, and that …Read more
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47Aesthetic Criteria: Gombrich and the Philosophies of Science of Popper and Polanyi (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 55 (1): 79-80. 1997.Preface This book, based on my doctoral dissertation, is a study in and of critical philosophy. Critical philosophy is committed to finding the limits of ...
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31Emma's Pensive MeditationsIn Eva Dadlez (ed.), Jane Austen's Emma: Philosophical Perspectives, Oxford University Press. pp. 55-83. 2018.
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38Film Theory and Philosophy (review)Philosophical Review 109 (1): 144-7. 2000.This substantial book presents essays by nineteen authors exploring intersections between film theory and philosophy on topics of representation, authorship, ideology, aesthetics, and emotion. The editors explain that film studies has reached a crisis of method after a growth period founded on structural linguistics, psychoanalysis, and Continental philosophy. They wish to alter this foundation and “give momentum to work in an analytic vein”, which requires them to correct the misconception of a…Read more
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30Comments on Mohan Matthen's ‘The Pleasure of Art’Australasian Philosophical Review 1 (1): 29-39. 2017.ABSTRACTThis paper examines Mohan Matthen's account of aesthetic pleasure. The first part explores implications of Matthen's notion of ‘fit’ between features of art objects and our pleasurable contemplation of them. Through historical comparisons with Plato and Dewey, I challenge his claim not to be offering a theory of aesthetic norms. The second part of my paper sketches how Matthen might address two important problems of contemporary aesthetics: the first concerning interpretation, and the se…Read more
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36Irvin, sherri, ed. Body Aesthetics. Oxford University Press, 2016, xvii + 330 pp., 34 b&w illus., $74.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76 (1): 116-119. 2018.In this new anthology, Sherri Irvin has collected papers addressing a wide range of issues concerning the aesthetics of human bodies. As in the similar fields o.
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17Eryximachus' Speech and Presocratic Thought: Love as Cosmic HarmonyNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 48 (1): 88-99. 2013.There are some indications within the Symposium that Socrates will learn and describe the real truth about Love from his wise mentor Diotima. This leaves unclear why Plato decided to include the other speeches developed within the dialogue’s elaborate structure. Can we take anything seriously from these other speeches? This paper examines the doctor Eryximachus’ speech with the general hypothesis that we can actually learn from his medical metaphors about love as a healthy harmony.
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11Nearer Means Bigger: Artistic imitations anf pleasure- illusions in Republic IX, X and the PhilebusNorsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 43 (2): 137-147. 2008.
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57A New Question about ColorJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 75 (3): 231-248. 2017.Philosophers of art have advanced our understanding of the role of color in realistic representation in painting. This article addresses a new question about how color functions expressively in art. I sketch some ways to answer this question, using examples of paintings by Mark Rothko and light art installation works by James Turrell and Olafur Eliasson.
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32Chapter 3. Aristotle on Perception, Appetition, and Self-MotionIn Mary Louise Gill & James G. Lennox (eds.), Self-Motion: From Aristotle to Newton, Princeton University Press. pp. 35-64. 2017.
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6PhilosophersThe Philosophers' Magazine 55 52-59. 2011.“The contents of a photograph are not facts, nor reality, nor truth. They are a means we have created to extend our way of seeing on a search for truth.”
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University of HoustonDepartment of Philosophy
Houston, Texas, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Aesthetics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |