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17Review: Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (review)Journal of Scottish Philosophy 8 (2): 213-216. 2010.
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15Aesthetic Consolation in an Age of ExtinctionPhilosophical Papers 50 (1-2): 141-162. 2021.In light of the environmental pressure humans are currently placing on the biosphere, there is overwhelming evidence to think that we have entered the early stages of a major extinction event. Inde...
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4Review: The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith (review)Journal of Scottish Philosophy 5 (2): 213-217. 2007.
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53New Essays on Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy, Wade L. Robison, David B. SuitsPolish Journal of Philosophy 7 (2): 145-149. 2013.
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An Anti-Realist Account of Aesthetic AppreciationDissertation, Syracuse University. 2001.The aesthetic appreciation of an object is fundamentally an appreciation of certain of its properties, especially those that have a distinctively aesthetic character. What this means differs, depending on whether one is a realist or anti-realist about aesthetic properties. I argue for aesthetic property anti-realism, according to which aesthetic properties do not exist objectively in themselves, outside of our having certain kinds of experiences, and show how this bears on the issue of aesthetic…Read more
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53A Dialogic Approach to Introducing Informal FallaciesTeaching Philosophy 24 (4): 371-377. 2001.In critical thinking courses, informal fallacies are often best taught through using myriad examples that illustrate the subtle differences between the different fallacies. However, since a heavy reliance can become tedious for students and instructors, one challenge that teaching a critical thinking course involves is striking an appropriate balance between presenting too many and too few examples. This paper presents a way to introduce informal fallacies through an acted-out dialogue, while re…Read more
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39Problems with contextualizing aesthetic propertiesJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 61 (1): 67-70. 2003.
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5Book Review: Environment and the Arts: Perspectives on Environmental Aesthetics (review)Environmental Values 13 (1): 121-123. 2004.
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19MACNEILL, PAUL, ed. Ethics and the Arts. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2014, xiii + 273 pp., 8 b&w illus., $129.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74 (4): 423-425. 2016.
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62The Art Type Theory of ArtPhilosophical Papers 44 (3): 321-343. 2015.The theory I present and defend in this paper—what I term the art type theory— holds that something is a work of art iff it belongs to an established art type. Something is an established art type, in turn, either because its paradigmatic instances standardly satisfy eight art-making conditions, or because the art world has seen fit to enfranchise it as such. It follows that the art status of certain objects is independent of what any individual or culture might say about it, while the art statu…Read more
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69A Vindication of Strong Aesthetic SuperveniencePhilosophical Papers 34 (2): 149-171. 2005.Abstract Disagreement persists concerning whether aesthetic properties supervene on non-aesthetic properties. This issue is complicated by the fact that the notion of an aesthetic property is itself contentious. In this paper, I begin by identifying three conditions that arguably characterize a large number of aesthetic properties. After defending aesthetic supervenience against a number of objections, I argue that a strong version of the supervenience thesis applies to those properties that sat…Read more
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46Imagination and the science-based aesthetic appreciation of unscenic natureJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 59 (3). 2001.
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101Sympathy, Beauty, and Sentiment: Adam Smith's Aesthetic MoralityJournal of Scottish Philosophy 7 (2): 133-146. 2009.One of the more striking aspects of Adam Smith's moral theory is the degree to which it depends on and appeals to aesthetic norms. By considering what Smith says about judgments of propriety – the foundational type of judgment in his system – and by tying what he says in The Theory of Moral Sentiments to certain of his other writings, I argue that Smith ultimately defends an aesthetic morality. Among the challenges that any aesthetic morality faces is that it seems to entail moral relativism. Th…Read more
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