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8Aesthetic and Artistic VerdictsCroatian Journal of Philosophy 19 (2): 217-232. 2019.In this article I propose a way of thinking about aesthetic and artistic verdicts that would keep them distinct from one another. The former are reflections of the kinds of things we prefer and take pleasure in; the latter are reflections of other judgments we make about the kinds of achievements that are made in works of art. In part to support this view of verdicts, I also propose a way of keeping distinct the description, the interpretation, and the evaluation of works of art. (And along the …Read more
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7Hobbes's CreativitySpringer Nature Switzerland. 2023.This book approaches Hobbes's philosophy from a completely new perspective: his creativity. Creativity is the production of something which experts consider to be original, valuable and of high quality. James Hamilton explores Hobbes's creativity by focusing on his development, personality, and motivation in the context of his culture and environment, and on the ways in which he thought creatively, as inferred from his writings. Identification of the ideas which Hobbes drew upon is an important …Read more
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17The Routledge Companion to Performance PhilosophyJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. forthcoming.
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39Hobbes on FelicityHobbes Studies 29 (2): 129-147. 2016._ Source: _Volume 29, Issue 2, pp 129 - 147 Thomas Hobbes’s concept of felicity is a re-imagining of the Hellenistic concept of _eudaimonia_, which is based on the doctrine that people by nature are happy with little. His concept is based instead on an alternative view, that people by nature are never satisfied and it directly challenges the Aristotelian and Hellenistic concepts of _eudaimonia_. I also will suggest that Hobbes developed it from ideas he found in Aristotle’s _Rhetoric_ as well as…Read more
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48Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing SelfPhilosophical Quarterly 65 (261): 856-859. 2015.
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17Maoilearca Ó., Cull Laura and Lagaay Alice, eds., The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy (Routledge, 2020), xxv + 463 pp., 36 b&w illus., $236.64 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79 (1): 130-133. 2021.
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17Imagining possible selves across time: Characteristics of self-images and episodic thoughtsConsciousness and Cognition 52 9-20. 2017.
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