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11Arthur Danto’s Philosophy of Art: EssaysBritish Journal of Aesthetics. forthcoming.This volume brings together seventeen previously published articles by Noel Carroll, exploring all aspects of Arthur Danto’s philosophy of art. They cover Danto.
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55Landscape PerceptionEnvironmental Ethics 27 (3): 245-263. 2005.Our primal ability to see one thing in terms of another shapes our landscape perception. Although modes of appreciation are tied to personal interests and situations, there are many lines of conflict and incompatibility between these modes. A religious point of view is unacceptable to those without religious beliefs. Background knowledge is similarly required for taking an arts or science-based view of landscape, although this knowledge can be acquired. How to cultivate responses grounded in ima…Read more
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17Two Thumbs Up: How Critics Aid AppreciationUniversity of Chicago Press. 2020.Far from an elite practice reserved for the highly educated, criticism is all around us. We turn to the Yelp reviewers to decide what restaurants are best, to Rotten Tomatoes to guide our movie choices, and to a host of voices on social media for critiques of political candidates, beach resorts, and everything in between. Yet even amid this ever-expanding sea of opinions, professional critics still hold considerable power in guiding how we make aesthetic judgements. Philosophers and lovers of ar…Read more
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44The Century of TastePhilosophical Review 107 (3): 459. 1998.George Dickie's The Century of Taste is a readable and informative guide to the family of eighteenth-century aesthetic theories that sought to explain our judgments of taste. Dickie treats the five theories he discusses out of chronological order so that he can give pride of place to his favorite view, that of David Hume. Dickie's grand narrative claims Hume "all but perfected" the theory of taste, while the associationists, on the one hand, and Kant, on the other, led it down a pair of blind al…Read more
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15Aesthetics: a comprehensive anthology (edited book)Wiley. 2020.The study of aesthetics concerns the arts broadly conceived, as well as the nature of aesthetic experience, which includes our responses to beauty, sublimity, ugliness, and other such qualities found in works of art, nature, the built-environment and in the course of everyday life. Although the term "aesthetics" to denote this area of study goes back only to the eighteenth century with the work of Alexander Baumgarten, the field has had a long and distinguished history dating back to classical a…Read more
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6John Dixon Hunt, Gardens and The Picturesque: Studies in The History of Landscape ArchitectureJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 52 (2): 250-251. 1994.
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17Andrews' Malcolm. The Search for The Picturesque: Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism in Britain, L 760-1800Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 (3): 248-249. 1990.
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45Sound and Semblance: Reflections on Musical Representation (review)Philosophical Review 95 (2): 284-288. 1986.
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15Lopes, Dominic mciver. Being for beauty: Aesthetic agency and value. Oxford university press, 2018, 288 pp., $65.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 77 (3): 321-323. 2019.
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36The Languages of LandscapeLandscape and PowerToil and Plenty: Images of the Agricultural Landscape in England 1780-1890The Idea of the English Landscape Painter: Genius as Alibi in the Early Nineteenth CenturyArt and Science in German Landscape Painting 1770-1840The Spectacle of Nature: Landscape and Bourgeois Culture in Nineteenth-Century France (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (4): 407. 2000.
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7Philosopher, Teacher, Musician: Perspectives on Music EducationJournal of Aesthetic Education 29 (4): 113. 1995.
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38Painting the Passions: Charles LeBrun's "Conférence sur l'Expression"Journal of the History of Ideas 45 (1): 25. 1984.
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9How words hurt: Attitude, metaphor, and oppressionIn Mary Vetterling-Braggin (ed.), Sexist language: a modern philosophical analysis, Littlefield, Adams. pp. 194--213. 1981.
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53Women, Morality, and FictionHypatia 5 (2): 76-90. 1990.We apply Carol Gilligan's distinction between a "male" mode of moral reasoning, focussed on justice, and a "female" mode, focussed on caring, to the reading of literature. Martha Nussbaum suggests that certain novels are works of moral philosophy. We argue that what Nussbaum sees as the special ethical contribution of such novels is in fact training in the stereotypically female mode of moral concern. We show this kind of training is appropriate to all readers of these novels, not just to women.…Read more
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55CaricatureThe Monist 58 (2): 285-293. 1974.That caricature succeeds at all seems paradoxical. That its dictum is “less is more” seems more puzzling still. In this paper I hope to investigate how caricature transforms exaggeration, distortion, and falsification into vehicles for succinct comment and easy identification. I shall examine and discard several views of how caricature functions, and conclude by arguing that correctly identifying a caricature is no more, and no less, paradoxical than correctly identifying any of the everyday obj…Read more
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42Comparing and Sharing Taste: Reflections on Critical AdviceJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 70 (4): 363-371. 2012.
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62What Gardens MeanUniversity of Chicago Press. 1998.This examination of gardens--particulary English gardens of the eighteenth century--offers possible links between garden design and the arts
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144Ideal Observer Theories in AestheticsPhilosophy Compass 6 (8): 513-522. 2011.I examine the prospects for an ideal observer theory in aesthetics modelled on Roderick Firth’s 1952 paper ‘Ethical Absolutism and the Ideal Observer’. The first generation of philosophers to consider an Ideal Aesthetic Observer found fault with Firth’s omniscience condition; more recent writers have criticized the affective component of an IAO’s response. In the end, most discussants reject the possibility of an IAO theory. Though the IAO theory gets the model wrong for answering meta‐aesthetic…Read more
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23Review of Glenn Parsons, Allen Carlson, Functional Beauty (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (7). 2009.
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25Chance, Constraint, and Creativity: The Awfulness of Modern MusicThe Journal of Aesthetic Education 19 (3): 21. 1985.
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