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1011Expression And Expressiveness In ArtPostgraduate Journal of Aesthetics 4 (2): 19-41. 2007.The concept of expression in the arts is Janus-faced. On the one hand expression is an author-centered notion: many Romantic poets, painters, and musicians thought of themselves as pouring our or ex-pressing their own emotions in their artworks. And on the other hand, expression is an audience-centered notion, the communication of what is expressed by an author to members of an audience. Typically the word “expression” is used for the author-centered aspect of expression as a whole, and the word…Read more
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494Deeper Than Reason: Emotion and its Role in Literature, Music, and ArtClarendon Press. 2005.Jenefer Robinson takes the insights of modern scientific research on the emotions and uses them to illuminate questions about our emotional involvement with the arts. Laying out a theory of emotion supported by the best evidence from current empirical work, she examines some of the ways in which the emotions function in the arts. Written in a clear and engaging style, her book will make fascinating reading for anyone interested in the emotions and how they work, as well as anyone engaged with th…Read more
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253Music & meaning (edited book)Cornell University Press. 1997.In order to promote new ways of thinking about musical meaning, this volume brings together scholars in music theory, musicology, and the philosophy of music,..
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236Style and significance in art history and art criticismJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 40 (1): 5-14. 1981.
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236Languages of art at the turn of the centuryJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (3): 213-218. 2000.
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189Why the pictorial relation is not referenceBritish Journal of Aesthetics 44 (3): 226-247. 2004.Nelson Goodman argued that the pictorial relation is reducible to reference. After explaining why previous attempts to refute this thesis of reduction have failed, I argue that in order to show that the thesis is indeed wrong we must find an aspect of pictures that is incompatible with it. I proceed to argue that there is indeed such an element to pictures. Ordinarily, a picture depicts its subject as having aesthetic properties. I show that the depiction of these properties requires the picture…Read more
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166The expression and arousal of emotion in musicJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52 (1): 13-22. 1994.
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134Do all musical emotions have the music itself as their intentional object?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (5): 592-593. 2008.Juslin & Vll (J&V) think that all emotions aroused by music have the music itself as their Some of the mechanisms they discuss almost certainly involve both cognitive appraisals and intentional objects. But some of the mechanisms are non-cognitive: they involve neither cognitive appraisals nor intentional objects. Partly for this reason they may produce moods rather than emotions proper
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133Aesthetic EmotionsThe Monist 103 (2): 205-222. 2020.This paper investigates what I call aesthetic emotions in the “traditional” sense going back to Burke and Kant. According to Kant, aesthetic pleasure is disinterested, and so maybe for Kant aesthetic emotions would be too, for Kant, but emotions by their very nature cannot be disinterested. After dismissing the idea that aesthetic emotions are a special kind of distanced emotions or refined emotions, I extract from the writings of Clive Bell, Peter Kivy, and Peter Lamarque the view that aestheti…Read more
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129On Richard WollheimBritish Journal of Aesthetics 44 (3): 213-225. 2004.There was a deep continuity in Wollheim’s thought from his book on F. H. Bradley onward. His notion of the concept of art as deeply interiorized was inextricable from his sense of the psychological unity of the mind and the historical continuity of artistic tradition, seen on analogy with an inherited language. His study of pictorial representation pivoted on the innate psychological capacity of ‘seeing-in’, perceiving the represented subject in a surface from which it was seen as distinct but t…Read more
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125L'éducation sentimentaleAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 73 (2). 1995.This Article does not have an abstract
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117Bob Solomon’s Legacy: IntroductionEmotion Review 2 (1): 3-4. 2010.Bob Solomon used to inveigh against William James’ theory of emotions, but he eventually arrived at a rapprochement with James and James’s recent successors. In particular, James suggested that emotions are initiated by the “automatic, instinctive” appraisals that register important information in the body and are recorded by body-mapping brain areas. In recent work Solomon describes the judgments he thinks constitute emotions as felt bodily appraisals in similar fashion.
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101Review of Charles O. Nussbaum, The Musical Representation: Meaning, Ontology, and Emotion (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (3). 2009.
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93Shostakovich's tenth symphony and the musical expression of cognitively complex emotionsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (4): 401-415. 1995.
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92This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human ObsessionJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66 (1): 91-94. 2008.
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92Aesthetic Disgust?Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 75 51-84. 2014.In paragraph 48 of the Critique of Judgment, Immanuel Kant claimed that ‘only one kind of ugliness cannot be represented in accordance with nature without destroying all aesthetic satisfaction, hence artistic beauty, namely that which arouses disgust.’ However, from Baudelaire to Damien Hirst, there have been artists who delight in arousing disgust through their works, and many of these disgusting works, such as Baudelaire's Une Charogne, have high aesthetic merit. In her splendid new book, Savo…Read more
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90Savoring Disgust: The Foul and Fair in Aesthetics, by Carolyn Korsmeyer (review)Mind 122 (486). 2013.
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77Some remarks on Goodman's language theory of picturesBritish Journal of Aesthetics 19 (1): 63-75. 1979.
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66Book ReviewsPeter. Goldie, The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 272. $55.00 (review)Ethics 114 (2): 346-350. 2004.
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64The art of distancing: How formal devices manage our emotional responses to literatureJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 62 (2). 2004.
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54Yet Again, ‘Between Absolute and Programme Music’British Journal of Aesthetics 55 (1): 19-37. 2015.In this paper, we contest Peter Kivy’s claim that there is a clear opposition between ‘absolute music’ and programme music and between musical form and musical expressiveness. We argue, on the contrary, that much music falls somewhere between absolute and programme music as Kivy conceives the categories, and that such music is often primarily organized not on purely formal principles but by means of the overall ‘expressive trajectory’ or ‘poetic idea’ of the piece. Kivy is dismissive of all ‘nar…Read more
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53Women, Morality, and FictionHypatia 5 (2): 76-90. 1990.We apply Carol Gilligan's distinction between a "male" mode of moral reasoning, focussed on justice, and a "female" mode, focussed on caring, to the reading of literature. Martha Nussbaum suggests that certain novels are works of moral philosophy. We argue that what Nussbaum sees as the special ethical contribution of such novels is in fact training in the stereotypically female mode of moral concern. We show this kind of training is appropriate to all readers of these novels, not just to women.…Read more
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