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169On Kendall Walton's Mimesis as Make-BelieveMemesis As Make-Believe (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 383. 1991.
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12Real ImaginingsMemesis As Make-BelievePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 389. 1991.
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60Mimesis as Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational ArtsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 49 (2): 161-166. 1990.
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96Aesthetic Properties: Context Dependent and PerceptualJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 78 (1): 79-84. 2020.The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 79-84, Winter 2020.
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29Metaphor and prop oriented make-believeIn Mark Eli Kalderon (ed.), Fictionalism in Metaphysics, Clarendon Press. 2005.Peer Reviewed.
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43Comments on Mimesis as Make-BelieveMemesis As Make-Believe (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 395. 1991.
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43A Note on Mimesis as Make-BelieveMemesis As Make-Believe (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 401. 1991.
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13Restricted Quantification, Negative Existentials, and FictionDialectica 57 (2): 239-242. 2003.Realist theories about fictional entities must explain the fact that, in ordinary contexts people deny, apparently in all seriousness, that there are such things as the Big Bad Wolf and Santa Claus. The usual explanation treats these denials as involving restricted quantification: The speaker is said to be denying only that the Big Bad Wolf and Santa Claus are to be found among real or actual things, not that there are no such things at all. This is unconvincing. The denials may just as naturall…Read more
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397Metaphor and Prop Oriented Make‐BelieveEuropean Journal of Philosophy 1 (1): 39-57. 1993.Peer Reviewed.
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74Comment on Catherine Wilson, 'Grief and the Poet'British Journal of Aesthetics 53 (1): 113-115. 2013.
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416Empathy, Imagination, and Phenomenal ConceptsIn In Other Shoes: Music, Metaphor, Empathy, Existence, Oxford University Press. pp. 1-16. 2015.I propose a way of understanding empathy on which it does not necessarily involve any-thing like thinking oneself into another’s shoes, or any imagining at all. Briefly, the empa-thizer uses an aspect of her own mental state as a sample, expressed by means of a phenomenal concept, to understand the other person. This account does a better job of explaining the connection between empathetic experiences and the objects of empathy than most traditional ones do. And it helps to clarify the relations…Read more
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12On the (so-called) puzzle of imaginative resistanceIn Shaun Nichols (ed.), The Architecture of the Imagination, Oxford University Press. pp. 137-148. 2006.
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4On pictures and photographs: objections answeredIn Richard Allen & Murray Smith (eds.), Film theory and philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 60--75. 1997.
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27In Other Shoes: Music, Metaphor, Empathy, ExistenceOxford University Press. 2015.In fifteen essays-one new, two newly revised and expanded, three with new postscripts-Kendall L. Walton wrestles with philosophical issues concerning music, metaphor, empathy, existence, fiction, and expressiveness in the arts. These subjects are intertwined in striking and surprising ways. By exploring connections among them, appealing sometimes to notions of imagining oneself in shoes different from one's own, Walton creates a wide-ranging mosaic of innovative insights.
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Empathy and Musical TensionIn Dag Prawitz (ed.), Meaning and interpretation: conference held in Stockholm, September 24-26, 1998, Kungl. Vitterhets, Historie Och Antikvitets Akademien. pp. 55--43. 2002.
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3Seeing-In and seeing fictionallyIn J. Hopkins & A. Savile (eds.), Psychoanalysis Mind and Art, Blackwell. pp. 281--291. 1992.
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895Prop oriented make-believe is make-believe utilized for the purpose of understanding what I call “props,” actual objects or states of affairs that make propositions “fictional,” true in the make-believe world. I, David Hills, and others have claimed that prop oriented make-believe lies at the heart of the functioning of many metaphors, and one variety of fictionalism in metaphysics invokes prop oriented make-believe to explain away apparent references to entities some find questionable or probl…Read more
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19Morals in Fiction and Fictional MoralityAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 68 (1): 27-66. 1994.
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1015Transparent pictures: On the nature of photographic realismNoûs 18 (1): 67-72. 1984.That photography is a supremely realistic medium may be the commonsense view, but—as Edward Steichen reminds us—it is by no means universal. Dissenters note how unlike reality a photograph is and how unlikely we are to confuse the one with the other. They point to “distortions” engendered by the photographic process and to the control which the photographer exercises over the finished product, the opportunities he enjoys for interpretation and falsification. Many emphasize the expressive nature …Read more
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