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In the condition of modernism: philosophy, literature, and the sacred fountIn Zumhagen-Yekplé Karen & LeMahieu Michael (eds.), Wittgenstein and Modernism, University of Chicago Press. 2017.
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8Film and Fine Art: Automatism, Automata and “The Myth of Total Cinema” in The Red Shoes and The Tales of HoffmannIn Noël Carroll, Laura T. Di Summa & Shawn Loht (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures, Springer. pp. 783-800. 2019.The philosophy and theory of film began with the skeptical question of whether film could be an art, given the mechanical way its moving pictures were produced. Theorists such as Noël Carroll and Victor Perkins have persuasively argued that the legacy of its defensive beginnings continues to compromise both philosophy and theory of film. This chapter seeks to contribute to an ongoing collective effort to overcome the effects of this legacy. It focuses on two films that invite comparisons not to …Read more
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11Beyond Petipa and Before the Academy: Plato, Socrates, and Alexei Ratmansky’s Serenade After Plato’s SymposiumMidwest Studies in Philosophy 44 (1): 260-278. 2019.Midwest Studies In Philosophy, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 260-278, December 2019.
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Logic, Ethics, Aesthetics: Wittgenstein and the TranscendentalIn Reshef Agam-Segal & Edmund Dain (eds.), Wittgenstein’s Moral Thought, Routledge. pp. 133-151. 2018.
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23LEAR, JONATHAN. A Case for Irony. Harvard University Press, 2011, 210 pp., $33.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74 (2): 208-210. 2016.
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32Literature, Logic and the Liberating Word: The Elucidation of Confusion in Henry JamesJournal of Philosophical Research 35 43-88. 2010.The literary style of Henry James has attracted the attention of a number of leading analytic philosophers who are drawn to make claims for the philosophical significance of works of literature. Many of these philosophical commentators share a common approach: namely, they locate the philosophical center of gravity of James’s style in a philosophical view that his way of writing is understood to embody or corroborate. The aim of this essay is to argue that such an approach fails to capture what …Read more
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Mississippi State UniversityDepartment of Philosophy & Religion
Shackouls Honors CollegeAssociate Professor
Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States of America