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    Show, Don’t Tell: Emotion, Acquaintance and Moral Understanding Through Fiction
    British Journal of Aesthetics 63 (4): 501-522. 2023.
    This paper substantiates a distinction, built out of Gricean resources, between two kinds of communicative act: showing and telling. Where telling that p proceeds by recruiting an addressee’s capacity to recognize trustworthy informants, showing does not. Instead, showing proceeds by presenting an addressee with a consideration that provides reason to believe that p (other than the reason provided by an informant’s credibility), and so recruits their capacity to respond to those reasons. With th…Read more
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    The Aesthetic Value of the World
    British Journal of Aesthetics 64 (1): 139-142. 2023.
    In The Aesthetic Value of the World, Tom Cochrane sets out to defend Aestheticism—the view that aesthetic value, and only aesthetic value, makes the world worth.
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    Epistemic Neglect
    Social Epistemology 34 (5): 490-500. 2020.
    In most testimonial transactions between adults, the hearer’s obligation is to accord the speaker a level of credibility that matches the evidence that what she is saying is true. When the speaker...
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    Identifying Documentary; Against the Trace Account
    Film and Philosophy 24 63-83. 2020.
    This article argues that we ought to reject Gregory Currie’s “Trace Account” of documentary film. According to the Trace Account, a film is a documentary so long the majority of its constitutive images are traces of the film’s subject matter. The argument proceeds by considering how proponents of the Trace Account could respond to Noel Carroll’s charge that their analysis is radically revisionary. I argue that the only responses available are either implausible or show that a fully worked out ve…Read more