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39Wittgenstein’s Artillery: Philosophy as PoetryJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (3): 425-428. 2023.Here’s a question that a great many playwrights, poets, and novelists have thought about: how can an author make present in their writing those features of the
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133Painterly Aspirations in PoetyIn Noël Carroll & Jonathan Gilmore (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture, Routledge. pp. 247-56. 2023.
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190Ordinary Returns in Le notti di CabiriaIn Craig Fox & Britt Harrison (eds.), Philosophy of Film Without Theory, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 99-113. 2023.
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9Wittgenstein and Literary Studies (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2022.Wittgenstein is often regarded as the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, and in recent decades, his work has begun to play a prominent role in literary studies, particularly in debates over language, interpretation, and critical judgment. Wittgenstein and Literary Studies solidifies this critical movement, assembling recent critics and philosophers who understand Wittgenstein as a counterweight to longstanding tendencies in both literary studies and philosophical aesthetics. Th…Read more
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914Lyric Self-ExpressionIn Sonia Sedivy (ed.), Art, Representation, and Make-Believe: Essays on the Philosophy of Kendall L. Walton, Routledge. 2021.Philosophers ask just whose expression, if anyone’s, we hear in lyric poetry. Walton provides a novel possibility: it’s the reader who “uses” the poem (just as a speech giver uses a speech) who makes the language expressive. But worries arise once we consider poems in particular social or political settings, those which require a strong self-other distinction, or those with expressions that should not be disassociated from the subjects whose experience they draw from. One way to meet this challe…Read more
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8Narrative, Emotion, and Insight (edited book)Penn State University Press. 2011.A collection of essays, written for this volume by leaders in the field, that study the emotional and cognitive significance of narrative and its implications for aesthetics and the philosophy of art
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Literature and KnowledgeIn Richard Eldridge (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature, Oxford University Press Usa. 2009.
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6Guay, Robert, ed. Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2019, xi + 230 pp., $24.95 paper (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 78 (1): 120-123. 2020.
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907Really Boring ArtErgo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 8 (30): 190-218. 2022.There is little question as to whether there is good boring art, though its existence raises a number of questions for both the philosophy of art and the philosophy of emotions. How can boredom ever be a desideratum of art? How can our standing commitments concerning the nature of aesthetic experience and artistic value accommodate the existence of boring art? How can being bored constitute an appropriate mode of engagement with a work of art as a work of art? More broadly, how can there be work…Read more
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256An Aesthetics of InsightIn Wolfgang Huemer & Íngrid Vendrell Ferran (eds.), Beauty: New Essays in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Philosophia. pp. 277-306. 2019.
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8Guay, Robert, ed. Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2019, xi + 230 pp., $24.95 paper (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 78 (1): 120-123. 2020.The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 120-123, Winter 2020.
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8Sulla Produzione del SensoIn Guido Ferraro & Antonio Dante Maria Santangelo (eds.), Narrazione e Realtà: Il Senso degli Eventi, . pp. 97-116. 2017.
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329Zombie PhilosophyIn Edward P. Comentale & Aaron Jaffe (eds.), The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center, . pp. 416-436. 2014.
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607On the Ethical Character of LiteratureIn Espen Hammer (ed.), Kafka's The Trial: Philosophical Perspectives, Oxford University Press. pp. 85-110. 2018.
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259On (Not) Making Oneself KnownIn Tzachi Zamir (ed.), Shakespeare's Hamlet: Philosophical Perspectives, . pp. 17-45. 2018.
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27The New PropositionalismPartial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 2 (15): 263-289. 2017.
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Kritischer Pluralismus und Erkenntniszuwachs. Translated in German by Gabrielle BollerIn Alex Burri & Wolfgang Huemer (eds.), Kunst denken, Mentis. pp. 105--116. 2007.
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13Reading For LifeIn John Gibson Wolfgang Huemer (ed.), The Literary Wittgenstein, Routledge. 2004.
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13Interpreting Words, Interpreting WorldsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64 (4): 439-450. 2006.
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77Fiction and the Weave of LifeOxford University Press UK. 2007.Literary fiction is of crucial importance in human life. It is a source of understanding and insight into the nature of the human condition, yet ever since Plato, philosophers have struggled to provide a plausible explanation of how this can be the case. For surely the fictionality - the sheer invented character - of the literary text means that fiction presents not our world, but other worlds? In Fiction and the Weave of Life, John Gibson offers a novel and intriguing account of the relationshi…Read more
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43The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature (edited book)Routledge. 2015._The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature_ is an in-depth examination of literature through a philosophical lens, written by distinguished figures across the major divisions of philosophy. Its 40 newly-commissioned essays are divided into six sections: historical foundations what is literature? aesthetics & appreciation meaning & interpretation metaphysics & epistemology ethics & political theory _The Companion_ opens with a comprehensive historical overview of the philosophy of liter…Read more
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30The Philosophy of Poetry (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2015.The Philosophy of Poetry brings together philosophers of art, language, and mind to expose and address the array of problems poetry raises for philosophy. This volume offers a powerful demonstration of how central poetry should be to philosophy, and sets out the various puzzles and paradoxes that future work in the field will have to address.
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Scepticism and Humanism in the Philosophy of LiteratureDissertation, University of Toronto (Canada). 2001.
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19文人维特根斯坦 (edited book)Sanhui. 2008.Translation of _The Literary Wittgenstein_ (ed. by John Gibson and Wolfgang Huemer, London: Routledge, 2004). Simplified Chinese. ISBN 978-7-80762-896-5
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505Selves on Selves: The Philosophical Significance of AutobiographyJournal of Aesthetic Education 46 (4): 109-119. 2012.Philosophers of literature do not take much of an interest in autobiography.1 In one sense this is not surprising. As a certain prejudice has it, autobiography is, along with biography, the preferred reading of people who do not really like to read. The very words can conjure up images of what one finds on bookshelves in Florida retirement communities and in underfunded public libraries, books with titles like Under the Rainbow: The Real Liza Minnelli or Me: Stories of My Life (Katharine Hepburn…Read more
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6798Cognitivism and the artsPhilosophy Compass 3 (4): 573-589. 2008.Cognitivism in respect to the arts refers to a constellation of positions that share in common the idea that artworks often bear, in addition to aesthetic value, a significant kind of cognitive value. In this paper I concentrate on three things: (i) the challenge of understanding exactly what one must do if one wishes to defend a cognitivist view of the arts; (ii) common anti-cognitivist arguments; and (iii) promising recent attempts to defend cognitivism.
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