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46Varieties of Ethical Reflection: New Directions for Ethics in a Global Context (edited book)Lexington Books. 2002.Varieties of Ethical Reflection brings together new cultural and religious perspectives—drawn from non-Western, primarily Asian, philosophical sources—to globalize the contemporary discussion of theoretical and applied ethics
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7Time and Temporality in the GardenIn Fritz Allhoff & Dan O'Brien (eds.), Gardening ‐ Philosophy for Everyone, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010-09-24.This chapter contains sections titled: Chronos and Kairos Chronos and Scientific Time Climate and Garden Aesthetics Subjective Time Objective or Shared Time Cyclical Time The Garden's Times Moving Through the Garden Experiences of Time in the Garden Notes.
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7Landscape Appreciation: Theories since the Cultural TurnJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (1): 113-116. 2023.The history of landscape appreciation in the West, and especially in the English-speaking world, has been bound up with the concept of taste. For good reason: t.
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5Thomas P. Kasulis, Engaging Japanese Philosophy: A Short History (review)Journal of Japanese Philosophy 7 105-115. 2021.
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21Thinking the Sculpture Garden: Art, Plant, LandscapeJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. forthcoming.
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426The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human EvolutionJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67 (3): 333-336. 2009.
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16Chandler, Marthe Atwater. Expressing the heart's intent: Explorations in chinese aesthetics. Albany, ny: Suny press, 2017, XV + 284 pp., 31 b&w illus., $90 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 77 (2): 225-229. 2019.
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32Marvin, Stephen E. Heaven Has a Face; So Does Hell: The Art of the Noh Mask. Warren, CT: Floating World Editions, 2010, 663 pp. , 150 color + 220 b&w illus., $300.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 72 (1): 106-109. 2014.
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9A Philosophy of Gardens by cooper, david eJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65 (4): 430-432. 2007.
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8Language and World ViewPhilosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 3 214-218. 1988.
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65Gardens as works of art: The problem of uniquenessBritish Journal of Aesthetics 26 (3): 252-256. 1986.
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1Aesthetics as Investigation of Self, Subject, and Ethical Agency under Trauma in Kawabata's Post-War Novel The Sound of the MountainPhilosophy and Literature. forthcoming.Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel The Sound of the Mountain is widely praised for its aesthetic qualities, from its adaptation of aesthetics from the Tale of Genji, through the beauty of its prose and the patterning of its images, to the references to arts and nature within the text. This article, by contrast, shows that Kawabata uses these features to demonstrate the effects of the mass trauma following the Second World War and the complicated grief it induced, on the psychology of moral/ethical u…Read more
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674Identity, Identification, and Temperament in Emblematic Portraits of in Edo Japanese Literati Artists Taiga & Gyokuran: A Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis of the Ming-Qing LegacyMingQing Yanjiu (MingQing Studies) 65-116. 2007.
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12 Reasons the atomic bombings of Japan should be taughtHonolulu Star Advertiser 8 (08): 2012. 2012.
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Exhibition and Symposium Review of Literati Modern: Bunjinga from Late-Edo to Twentieth-Century JapanCollege Art Association on-Line Reviews. forthcoming.
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409Review of Denis Dutton's The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67 (3): 333-336. 2009.
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6Denis Dutton’s The Art Instinct and the Recovery of Ainu AestheticsPhilosophy and Literature 38 (1A). 2014.Denis Dutton’s The Art Instinct provides a useful framework for analyzing the aesthetics of the Ainu, a small-scale society in northern Japan. In a recent study at Hokkaido University, Ainu artists replicated old, museum-quality Ainu works and reported on their selection, study of the works, replication processes, and discussions with other artists. The replication illustrates the importance of intention in determining the authenticity of works of art, while the artists’ comments demonstrate the…Read more
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2047Japanese Aesthetics - Ch. 23In Jay Garfield, William Edelglass & Koji Tanaka (eds.), Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 317-333. 2010.
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The Garden as a Work of ArtDissertation, Yale University. 1987.This study is an examination of gardens from the perspective of philosophy of art. Since gardens combine natural and constructed elements, utilize both existing and newly created environments, and engage visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory and kinesthetic senses, they provide an opportunity to explore the concept of art and to test the boundaries, usefulness, and general validity of the concept of art. ;In many cultures, gardens are works of art on a par with painting, architecture, and poetry.…Read more
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Japanese Literary Aesthetics Today: Rewriting the Traditional in the Post-Atomic WorldApa Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies 11 (2). 2012.
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Social Studies Education is More Important Than EverHonolulu Star Advertiser, Aug. 1, 2011 22 (22): 22. 2011.