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    Deontic Binding: Imposed, Voluntary, and Autogenic
    Social Epistemology 36 (2): 218-237. 2022.
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    Towards a Sublime State of Consciousness
    Journal of Consciousness Studies 21 (11-12): 19-40. 2014.
    The sublime has long been a key concept in the study of aesthetics. However, it has failed to gain traction in empirical aesthetics. With reference to Longinus, Burke, and Kant, this cross-disciplinary article defines the sublime as a mixture of fascination, exaltation, boundlessness, and fear. These descriptors are then compared with those of peak, ecstatic, and mystical psychological experiences; it is argued that they represent different approaches to the same phenomenon. In order to render s…Read more