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269Disability studies, conceptual engineering, and conceptual activismInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 64 (1-2): 46-75. 2021.In this project I am concerned with the extent to which conceptual engineering happens in domains outside of philosophy, and if so, what that might look like. Specifically, I’ll argue that...
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110Appropriation Art, Fair Use, and Metalinguistic NegotiationBritish Journal of Aesthetics 60 (2): 115-129. 2020.Appropriation art involves the use of pre-existing works of art with little to no transformation. Works of AA fail to satisfy established criteria for originality, such as creative labour and transformative use. As such, appropriation artists are often subject to copyright lawsuits and defend their work under the fair use doctrine of US copyright law. In legal cases regarding AA and fair use, judges lack a general principle whereby they can determine whether or not the offending party has ‘trans…Read more
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16A Pragmatist Approach to Aesthetic DisagreementIn Alex King (ed.), Philosophy and Art: New Essays at the Intersection, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.This chapter introduces and defends a pragmatist model of aesthetic disagreement that avoids many of the philosophical puzzles generated by the traditional, semantic, approach. Mainstream philosophical inquiry into aesthetic disagreement begins with a rather innocuous assumption: to understand what’s going on we must first explain what disputants are saying, which involves identifying the meaning of the relevant expressions or determining how aesthetic claims could be true. However, this task br…Read more
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