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20Practical Form: Abstraction, Technique, and Beauty in Eighteenth-Century AestheticsBritish Journal of Aesthetics 63 (3): 448-451. 2023.Hands are notoriously hard to draw. To compellingly capture their detail, proportion, and movement is generally considered a mark of an artist’s mastery of tech.
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10Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 31 (3): 564-568. 2022.In Uncivil Mirth, Ross Carroll skilfully draws our attention to the Enlightenment debate in Britain on the “politics of ridicule” that questions the virtue or effectiveness of, broadly, laughing, j...
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14Aesthetic Attention: A Proposal to Pay It More AttentionEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 55 (2): 155. 2020.
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18The Sublime for the Living: A DialogueItinera 21. 2021.Following the tradition of the philosophical dialogue, we reimagine our real conversation where we come to understand our respective views on the sublime. We aim to do so in a way that respects both the sublime’s complex philosophical past and its emerging future in empirical research. As in a traditional dialogue, this contrivance is supposed to enact a philosophical exchange. The following conversation reveals the interlocutors’ diverging, converging, and shifting understanding of the sublime …Read more
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42Aesthetic Attention: A Proposal to Pay It More AttentionEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 55 (2): 155-179. 2018.Whether it is consciously focusing on a painting’s intricate layers of pigment or spontaneously being drawn to new layers of voices in a choral performance, attention appears essential to aesthetic experience. It is surprising, then, that the actual nature of attention is little discussed in aesthetic theory. Conversely, attention is currently one of the most vibrantly discussed topics in the philosophy of perception and in cognitive science. My aim is to demonstrate the need for and the value o…Read more
Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy |
17th/18th Century British Philosophy |
The Sublime |
Philosophy of Literature |
Aesthetics |