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    Art Forgery: The History of a Modern Obsession
    British Journal of Aesthetics 52 (4): 427-430. 2012.
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    Canon and Cultural Negotiation
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. forthcoming.
    By questions of “canon,” we mean questions of what is fictionally true of some character, story, or world. What is canon is treated as authoritative or official, usually by creators and fans alike. But disputes about canon have arisen as storytellers and publishers have sought to capitalize on the popularity of their characters, churning out more and more stories to meet public demand, and at the same time engaging with growing fan bases. As audiences have become more involved, and as fictional …Read more
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    Hell Is Other People's Tastes
    In Kimberly S. Engels (ed.), The Good Place and Philosophy, Wiley. 2020.
    Much ink has been spilled in philosophy over the question of whether morality is an objective or subjective matter. In the world of The Good Place, the answer to the moral question seems fairly firmly determined: right and wrong are objective matters, and there is a fact about whether our actions are good or bad. The ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras believed that beauty was a quantifiable principle of nature, and that we could find the source of beauty in the harmony, order, and regularity o…Read more
  • The Language of Comics1
    In Dominic McIver Lopes, Berys Gaut, Aaron Meskin & Roy T. Cook (eds.), The Art of Comics, Wiley‐blackwell. 2012.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction A Pre‐Emptive Strike How Comics Mean The Unified Comic Conclusion Notes References.