University of Pittsburgh
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1989
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics
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    Thick Aesthetic Concepts
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67 (2): 191-199. 2009.
  •  49
    Anti-anti-realism
    Philosophical Studies 68 (2). 1992.
    Realism figures in current debates as the view that knowledge of the meanings of statements concerning a particular subject matter requires knowledge of their truth conditions, regarded as possibly transcending verification. Appealing to Wittgenstein's dictum that meaning is use, Michael Dummett has influentially argued that realistically-conceived truth conditions can play no role in an account of linguistic understanding. The present essay argues that, when such truth conditions are correctly …Read more
  •  1
    Fiction and value
    In Matthew Kieran & Dominic Lopes (eds.), Imagination, Philosophy, and the Arts, Routledge. pp. 160--176. 2003.
  • MARGOLIS, J.-What, After All, Is a Work of Art?
    Philosophical Books 41 (2): 142-144. 2000.
  • Pols, E.-Mind Regained
    Philosophical Books 40 262-263. 1999.