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    Apt Perception, Aesthetic Engagement, and Curatorial Practices
    Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 61 (1): 38-53. forthcoming.
    This paper applies the account developed by Susanna Siegel in The Rationality of Perception to aesthetic cases and explores the implications of such an account for aesthetic engagement as well as curatorial and exhibitionary practices. It argues that one’s prior outlook – expertise, beliefs, desires, fears, preferences, attitudes – can have both aesthetically good and bad influences on perceptual experiences, just as it can have both epistemically good and bad influences. Analysing these bad inf…Read more
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    Structured Propositions, Unity, and the Sense-Nonsense Distinction
    Croatian Journal of Philosophy 18 (2): 319-334. 2018.
    Back in the Good Old Days of Logical Positivism, theories of meaning were part of a normative project that sought not merely to describe the features of language and its use, but so to speak to separate the wheat from the chaff. In this paper, I side with Herman Cappelen (2013) in thinking that we need to rethink and reintroduce the important distinction between sense and nonsense that was ditched along with other normative aspirations during Logical Positivism’s spectacular demise. Despite this…Read more