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172On Kendall Walton's Mimesis as Make-BelieveMemesis As Make-Believe (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 383. 1991.
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15Real ImaginingsMemesis As Make-BelievePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 389. 1991.
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64Mimesis as Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational ArtsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 49 (2): 161-166. 1990.
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103Aesthetic 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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30Metaphor and prop oriented make-believeIn Mark Eli Kalderon (ed.), Fictionalism in Metaphysics, Clarendon Press. 1993.Peer Reviewed.
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45Comments on Mimesis as Make-BelieveMemesis As Make-Believe (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 395. 1991.
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44A Note on Mimesis as Make-BelieveMemesis As Make-Believe (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 401. 1991.
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16Restricted 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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400Metaphor and Prop Oriented Make‐BelieveEuropean Journal of Philosophy 1 (1): 39-57. 1993.Peer Reviewed.
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75Comment on Catherine Wilson, 'Grief and the Poet'British Journal of Aesthetics 53 (1): 113-115. 2013.
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424Empathy, 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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1081Morals in Fiction and Fictional Morality (I)Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 68 27-50. 2015 [1994].
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134Languages of art: An emendationPhilosophical Studies 22 (5-6). 1971.In nelson goodman's "languages of art" a symbol system must be 'finitely differentiated', both syntactically and semantically, to count as a 'notation'. goodman's formulations of these differentiation requirements are seriously defective. it is shown that most of the examples of systems which he claims fail these requirements, do not fail them as they are stated. reformulations of the two requirements are offered, which accord with the examples and seem otherwise acceptable
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1The presentation and portrayal of sound patternsIn J. Dancy, J. M. E. Moravcsik & C. C. W. Taylor (eds.), Human Agency: Language, Duty, and Value : Philosophical Essays in Honor of J.O. Urmson, Stanford University Press. pp. 230-257. 1988.
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97Fearing fictionallyIn Alex Neill & Aaron Ridley (eds.), Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates, Routledge. pp. 257. 2008.
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28Pictures, Titles, Depictive ContentIn David Wagner, Wolfram Pichler, Elisabeth Nemeth & Richard Heinrich (eds.), Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society - N.S. 17, De Gruyter. pp. 395-408. 2011.
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260Aesthetics—what? Why? And wherefore?Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65 (2). 2007.It is a very great honor to address my friends and colleagues as president of the American Society for Aesthetics, an organization that plays a unique role in a field that is, at once, a major traditional branch of philosophy and also central to disciplines often regarded as remote from philosophy, as well as depending crucially on their contributions
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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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165What is abstract about the art of music?Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 46 (3): 351-364. 1988.
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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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3Seeing-In and seeing fictionallyIn J. Hopkins & A. Savile (eds.), Psychoanalysis Mind and Art, Blackwell. pp. 281--291. 1992.
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