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109Nature aestheticsPhilosophy Compass 17 (5). 2022.Nature aesthetics is concerned with four core questions: What is a natural environment? What is relevant, psychologically speaking, to the aesthetic appreciation of natural environments? How ought we to aesthetically appreciate natural environments? What is the relationship between nature aesthetics and environmental ethics? In this essay, I first address in Section 2 whether theorizing about nature aesthetics is possible by challenging the non‐aesthetics view, according to which aesthetic appre…Read more
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57Environmental Civil DisobedienceIn David Boonin (ed.), Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 795-807. 2018.Four views concerning environmental disobedience are discussed in this chapter, focusing on the moral justification of lawbreaking on behalf of natural environments. The traditional view suggests that accounts of ordinary civil disobedience understood through the Rawlsian tradition can be extended to capture cases of environmental disobedience. The revisionary view argues that the concept of civil disobedience needs to be revised in order to account for environmental disobedience, ecosabotage in…Read more
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14Dominic mciver Lopes. Aesthetics on the edge: Where philosophy meets the human sciences. Oxford: Oxford university press, 2018, 256 pp., 1 b&w illus., $60.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 78 (2): 254-257. 2020.
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43On the Awareness of Joint Agency: A Pessimistic Account of the Feelings of Acting TogetherJournal of Social Philosophy 49 (1): 161-182. 2018.
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4Phone: 646.942. 2396 EducationIn David Papineau (ed.), Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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68On the Joint Engagement of Persons: Self-Consciousness, the Symmetry Thesis and Person PerceptionPhilosophical Psychology 25 (1): 1-27. 2012.In The Paradox of Self-Consciousness, Jose Luis Bermúdez presents an abductive argument for what he calls ‘the Symmetry Thesis’ about self-ascription: in order to have the ability to self-ascribe psychological predicates to oneself, one must be able to ascribe psychological predicates to other subjects like oneself. Bermúdez discusses joint engagement as a key phenomenon that underwrites his abductive argument for the Symmetry Thesis. He argues that the ability to self-ascribe is “constituted” b…Read more
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48Mindreading, Mindsharing, and the Origins of Self-ConsciousnessPhilosophical Topics 40 (2): 39-70. 2012.Philosophers and psychologists have traditionally understood folk psychology to emerge in one of two ways: either first through the origin of the function of self-consciousness or first through the origin of the function of mindreading. The aim of this paper is to provide reasons to doubt that those options exhaust the possibilities. In particular, I will argue that in the discussion about whether self-consciousness or mindreading evolved first, we have lost sight of a viable third option. I wil…Read more
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186Just doing what I do: on the awareness of fluent agencyPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 16 (1): 155-177. 2017.Hubert Dreyfus has argued that cases of absorbed bodily coping show that there is no room for self-awareness in flow experiences of experts. In this paper, I argue against Dreyfus’ maxim of vanishing self-awareness by suggesting that awareness of agency is present in expert bodily action. First, I discuss the phenomenon of absorbed bodily coping by discussing flow experiences involved in expert bodily action: merging into the flow; immersion in the flow; emergence out of flow. I argue against th…Read more
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