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20A Companion to Arthur C. Danto (edited book)Wiley. 2021."This outstanding student reference series offers a comprehensive and authoritative survey of philosophy as a whole. Written by today's leading philosophers, each volume provides lucid and engaging coverage of the key figures, terms, topics, and problems of the field. Taken together, the volumes provide the ideal basis for course use, representing an unparalleled work of reference for students and specialists alike"--
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6Introduction: Five Pieces for Arthur Danto (1924–2013) In memoriamIn Lydia Goehr & Jonathan Gilmore (eds.), A Companion to Arthur C. Danto, Wiley. 2021.
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3Pictorial DecorumIn Ana Falcato & Antonio Cardiello (eds.), Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism, Springer Verlag. pp. 355-384. 2018.In this essay I ask what it means to judge a work of art as failing to depict its subject in an appropriate way. I refer to such a judgment, when applied to visual art, as one of pictorial decorum, a notion that draws on ancient and early modern ideas of literary or poetic decorum. At play are two kinds of normativity. One intuition, of ancient vintage, is that a work of art may qua art be appropriately subject to general standards of evaluation that we apply to non-art objects, states of affair…Read more
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19The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of ArtCambridge University Press. 1986.In this acclaimed work, first published in 1986, world-renowned scholar Arthur C. Danto explored the inextricably linked but often misunderstood relationship between art and philosophy. In light of the book's impact -- especially the essay "The End of Art," which dramatically announced that art ended in the 1960s -- this enhanced edition includes a foreword by Jonathan Gilmore that discusses how scholarship has changed in response to it. Complete with a new bibliography of work on and influenced…Read more
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50The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture (edited book)Routledge. 2022.Comprised of 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture is the first handbook of its kind. The editors have organized the chapters helpfully across eight parts: I: Artforms II: History III: Questions of Form, Style, and Address IV: Art and Science V: Comparisons among the Arts VI: Questions of Value VII: Philosophers of Art VIII: Institutional Questions Individual topics includ…Read more
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288Reply to Abell’s and Currie’s comments on Gilmore’s Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the MindBritish Journal of Aesthetics 62 (2): 205-214. 2022.I am grateful to Catharine Abell and Gregory Currie for their incisive and productive commentaries on Apt Imaginings. In what follows, I will try to respond to
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271Commentary on Fiction: A Philosophical Analysis, by Catharine Abell; and Imagining and Knowing: The Shape of Fiction, by Gregory CurrieBritish Journal of Aesthetics 62 (2): 173-183. 2022.Each of these books offers a richly developed and nuanced account of the nature of fiction. And each poses major challenges to a view about which there is a near-consensus. Catharine Abell draws on a theory of the institutions of fiction to advance a systematic re-envisioning of the metaphysics and epistemology of the contents of stories. Gregory Currie argues that fiction’s relationship to the imagination, and the way stories communicate their contents to readers, seriously undermine fiction’s …Read more
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1190Imagination and FilmIn Noël Carroll, Laura T. Di Summa & Shawn Loht (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures, Springer. pp. 845-863. 2019.This chapter addresses the application of contemporary theories of the imagination—largely drawn from cognitive psychology—to our understanding of film. Topics include the role of the imagination in our learning what facts hold within a fictional film, including what characters’ motivations, beliefs, and feelings are; how our perceptual experience of a film explains our imaginative visualizing of its contents; how fictional scenarios in films generate certain affective and evaluative responses; …Read more
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66Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the MindOxford University Press. 2020.How do our engagements with fictions and other products of the imagination compare to our experiences of the real world? Are the feelings we have about a novel's characters modelled on our thoughts about actual people? If it is wrong to feel pleasure over certain situations in real life, can it nonetheless be right to take pleasure in analogous scenarios represented in a fantasy or film? Should the desires we have for what goes on in a make-believe story cohere with what we want to happen in the…Read more
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14Symposium: Arthur Danto, The Abuse of Beauty*: Internal BeautyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 48 (2): 145-154. 2005.This Article does not have an abstract
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Summary of'The Life of a Style, Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative History of Art'History and Theory 41 (1): 88-88. 2002.
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604Expression as Realization: Speakers' Interests in Freedom of SpeechLaw and Philosophy 30 (5): 517-539. 2011.I argue for the recognition of a particular kind of interest that one has in freedom of expression: an interest served by expressive activity in forming and discovering one’s own beliefs, desires, and commitments. In articulating that interest, I aim to contribute to a family of theories of freedom of expression that find its justification in the interests that speakers have in their own speech or thought, to be distinguished from whatever interests they may also have as audiences or third parti…Read more
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The Life of a Style: Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative History of ArtJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 60 (4): 360-361. 2002.
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504The Life of a Style: Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative History of ArtCornell University Press. 2000.In The Life of a Style, Jonathan Gilmore claims that such narrative developments inhere in the history of art itself.By exploring such topics as the discovery ...
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641In the title essay of The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art Arthur Danto describes two dominant strains of the philosophy of art in its Platonic beginnings: one that art is dangerous, and thus subject to political censorship or control, and the other that art exists at several removes from the ordinary reality, impotent to effect any meaningful change in the human world.1 These two ways of understanding art, really two charges laid at art’s door, seem contradictory, he writes, until one re…Read more
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37David carrier's art historyJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (1): 39-47. 1995.It is a commonplace now among art historians that to say, with Ruskin, that an artist had an "innocent eye" was to give the artist an empty compliment. It would have been to say that the artist possessed something no one could possess, and that, if we follow E. H. Gombrich, the artist was not part of the history of art. Gombrich's goal was to show that the history of art was constituted by artists "making and matching" as they saw and represented more accurately the objects with which their pred…Read more
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2665Between Philosophy and ArtIn Taylor Carman & Mark B. N. Hansen (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty, Cambridge University Press. 2004.
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673That Obscure Object of Desire: Pleasure in Painful ArtIn Jerrold Levinson (ed.), Suffering Art Gladly: The Paradox of Negative Emotions in Art, Palgrave/macmillan. 2013.
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452Lamarque, Peter. The Opacity of Narrative. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, xv + 213 pp., £19.95 paper (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 73 (3): 349-351. 2015.
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132A functional view of artistic evaluationPhilosophical Studies 155 (2): 289-305. 2011.I develop and defend the following functional view of art: a work of art typically possesses as an essential feature one or more points, purposes, or ends with reference to the satisfaction of which that work can be appropriately evaluated. This way of seeing a work’s artistic value as dependent on its particular artistic ends (whatever they may be) suggests an answer to a longstanding question of what sort of internal relation, if any, exists between the wide variety of values (moral, cognitive…Read more
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248CriticismIn Berys Nigel Gaut & Dominic Lopes (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Routledge. 2000.
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4The recent arrest of Roman Polanski, the film director who fled to France from the United States in 1978 on the eve of sentencing for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl, has caused an international ruckus. The French culture minister, Frédéric Mitterrand, and the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, both issued statements of support for Mr. Polanski. But many others in France have expressed outrage at that support and said he should face justice for the crime
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170Aptness of emotions for fictions and imaginingsPacific Philosophical Quarterly 92 (4): 468-489. 2011.Many philosophical accounts of the emotions conceive of them as susceptible to assessments of rationality, fittingness, or some other notion of aptness. Analogous assumptions apply in cases of emotions directed at what are taken to be only fictional or only imagined. My question is whether the criteria governing the aptness of emotions we have toward what we take to be real things apply invariantly to those emotions we have toward what we take to be only fictional or imagined. I argue that what …Read more
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623The Epistemology of Fiction and the Question of Invariant NormsRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 75 105-126. 2014.A primary dimension of our engagement with fictional works of art – paradigmatically literary, dramatic, and cinematic narratives – is figuring out what is true in such representations, what the facts are in the fictional world. These facts include not only those that ground any genuine understanding of a story – say, that it was his own father whom Oedipus killed – but also those that may be missed in even a largely competent reading, say, that Emma Bovary's desires and dissatisfactions are fed…Read more
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