•  103
    Esthiek: Kunst en morele afstemming
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 115 (4): 409-422. 2023.
    Aesthics: Art and moral attuning. Art can help us understand everyday moral deliberation. Better perhaps than ethics. People don’t just act randomly in moral situations nor do they argue internally about which ethical principle to follow before deciding what to do. We built our moral sensitivity whilst living our lives, adhering to aesthetic norms of interaction. Regular engagement with works of art educates our moral sensitivity.
  •  16
    Grounding Ethics in Aesthetics
    Aesthetic Investigations 4 (2). 2021.
    In this Editor’s column I suggest a more modern aesthetics, in order to fill in some of the promise the current Special Issue on The Birth of the Discipline has in store for us. I base my suggestion more on Kant and Aristotle, though.
  •  16
    Germs: A Memoir of Childhood
    British Journal of Aesthetics 62 (4): 699-702. 2022.
    I.What are the genre characteristics of an autobiography? Is it journalism about anecdotes from the writer’s life? Or is it a personal fiction based on truthful memories that conveys the nature and logic of the writer’s youth? Biographies certainly differ from philosophical texts with their argumentative strategies. How was I to read Germs? If I just read on, like one reads a novel, I might overlook details relevant to the life recounted. Reading intently, in contrast—like you would a philosophy…Read more
  •  115
    Aesthetics as First Philosophy
    Aesthetic Investigations 1 (1). 2015.
    Editorial.
  •  16
    Art and Human Interaction
    Aesthetic Investigations 5 (1). 2021.
    In this Editor’s column I discuss certain fruits and limits of applying the notion of ‘performance’ to works of art. Art works can be viewed as perfor- mances, the public furnishing of works’ final form. Concerts can be viewed as performances of a work scored by someone else, the composer, but not all arts are double in this sense. Moreover, art can be viewed as mirroring the psychological, phenomenological and rhetorical aspects of human interaction, which exemplify the way people scrutinise mo…Read more
  •  115
    Filosofie en subjectiviteit
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 108 (4): 545-549. 2016.
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    Robert Bresson's cinematography allows him to show the affordances that things and situations have for characters in a film. By intimating these affordances, Bresson authentically presents the affordances as well as the characters. The fact that Bresson views and conceives of his `actors' as models, rather than as malleable actors, illustrates, again, an effort to authentically film real persons in real situations. Recognising people authentically is done in real-life through a reciprocal gaze, …Read more
  •  2
    Certain art theorists think of what artists do as artistic research. But research is fact- and theory-driven, whereas when a film is being made what directors do is scrutinise what they see happening before their eyes. This scrutiny is guided by aesthetic judgement, individual style, and subjective intuition. It makes good sense to investigate the research that went on before a work was made, and to look at the theoretical implications of that work. But the most important work to be done is our …Read more
  •  18
    Een politieke rol voor kunst?
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 110 (2): 197-202. 2018.
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  •  138
    Cellular, or mobile phones are great: they allow people to communicate over long distances whenever and wherever they are, and instantaneously at that when the one called is wearing one too. Having said that, though, it must immediately be added that they, also, have a complex disadvantage, and it is one we are hard pushed to understand. In fact, due to its complexity people simply tend to neglect it, even though everyone in his right mind has had experience with it. Now Walter Benjamin defined a…Read more
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    Book reviews (review)
    British Journal of Aesthetics 38 (1): 93-95. 1998.
  • Traktaat over de menselijke natuur (review)
    Nexus 52. 2009.
  •  74
    Kuipers over comparatief realisme
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 100 (3): 203-205. 2008.
  • Een dialoog over David Hume (review)
    Nexus 52. 2009.
  •  17
    Hearing Musicians Making Music: A Critique of Roger Scruton on Acousmatic Experience
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 70 (2): 223-230. 2012.
  •  1
    De ontologische drogreden in de analytische esthetica
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 94 (2): 109-123. 2002.
  • Anthony Savile, Kantian Aesthetics Pursued (review)
    Philosophy in Review 14 130-133. 1994.
  • Wat is er mis met de verschijnselen?
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 104 (1): 62-64. 2012.
  •  77
    It is rather intriguing that we will often try to persuade people of what we find beautiful, even though we do not believe that they may subsequently base their judgement of taste on our testimony. Typically, we think that the experience of beauty is such that we cannot leave it to others to be had. Moreover, we are often aware of the contingency of our own judgements’ foundation in our own experience. Nevertheless, we do think that certain aesthetic, evaluative conceptions do relate to specific…Read more
  •  1
    Esthetische normativiteit. Tegen empirische en evolutionaire verklaringen
    Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 103 (2): 126-138. 2011.
    Aesthetic normativity is the core issue of philosophical aesthetics. It cannot be solved by statistical knowledge or neurophysiology, nor by evolutionary explanation. I argue that aesthetic normativity concerns how we see things. We can see things wrongly and by suitable prompting someone may help us seeing it aright. So aesthetic normativity is to do with human interaction.
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    Richard Wollheim on the Art of Painting: Art as Expression and Representation
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 61 (3): 302-304. 2003.
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    Inertie hoort bij Kunst als de Dood bij het Leven
    In Kabinet: Inertie & Kunst (even pages Russian translation), . pp. 238-263. 2008.
    In this article I propose to understand inertia in art as a “disposition to meaning”. I compare inertia in art with that of a face of a person recently deceased. To acquaintances, i.e. to family and friends, it holds a promise of memories (of the deceased); to all the others the corpse offers the possibility of a projection of meanings. Art is made of plain, or extra-ordinary stuff, which is turned into artistic material. The artist is to bring the inert potency of stuff to artistic life, and to tu…Read more